The only source of gain is that when one person does better than a peer, that person feels better. So getting more money and stuff than whomever you compare yourself to does bring a level of satisfaction because it increases your self-worth. But the net gain for society remains at zero, with all of us just switching places around inside the system

Launch a government- and community-led “shop less, live more” campaign

So what do we know? What roads are mapped and which ones are unexplored? The underpinning drivers of change here are unusually clear, compared with, say, business strategy for a

Too much and for too long, we seem to have surrendered personal excellence and community value in the mere accumulation of material things. Our Gross National Product … counts air pollution and cigarette advertising and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for the people who break them. It

The full plan, available from the Journal for Global Responsibility Web site,16

It turns out that the greatest predictor of social ills, across an incredible range of phenomena, is not the absolute level of poverty or disadvantage. It is instead the degree of

I’ve chosen four to consider as examples as we think about the future: consumerism and shopping; poverty and inequity; business and investment; and, finally, work and communities. So let’s dive into our future and see what it feels like.

The studies consistently show that greater equality improves wellbeing even for those in the top 25 percent.

Retrofit one thousand coal power plants with carbon capture and storage