Steve, given your interest in the news item below, I hope you have taken time to visit the papers presented at the conference on The State of Living Standards and Quality of Life in Canada, which I had come from directly when we met at the Chateau Laurier on October 31. You may find the papers at www.csls.ca . Also, there is now a regular centre for gathering, analyzing and reporting on environmental indicators, at Statistics Canada. -----Original Message----- From: Steve Kurtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ECOL-ECON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; futurework <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; gaiapc-list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; GAIA-LIST <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, November 24, 1998 7:08 PM Subject: alt. indicator 'talk' in UK >This was fwd to me from a friend in England. I recall a website was started >by the UK gov't earlier this year accepting input from the public on these >sorts of issues. The list responses were skeptical at best at that time. >Still, I like the 'talk'; it provides some criteria by which to measure the >'walk'. News coverage should provide details which I look fwd to studying. > >Steve >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >The Labour government in the UK has just initiated a "quality of life >barometer." > >This is a set of indicators as to quality of life, not based on >conventional indicators such as GDP or economic growth, but on things like >air pollution levels, quality of the built environment, housing standards, >the state of the countryside, numbers of songbirds (as an indicator of the >environment) etc. > >A big step in the right direction I think. > > >Kenn
