1. A well-being survey as a tool to understand and reduce
consumption Eldan Goldenberg, EPA presentation,August 2, 2011
2. Why a survey?
We can learn from the data
Taking the survey makes people think about what it s asking and
why
3. What it looks like
http://sustainableseattle.org/survey/GNH/en/ 4. Survey sections
Satisfaction With Life
Psychological Well-Being
Physical Health
Work /Time Balance
Community Vitality & Social Connection
Education & Capacity Building
Cultural Vitality & Access to Arts & Culture
Environmental Quality & Access to Nature
Governance
Material Well-Being
5. Data coverage 6. Partners: Decorah, IA Photo credit: Stefanie
Seskin 7. Partners: Vermont Photo credit: Matt Shalvatis 8. A
caution about the data
Geographic coverage is still uneven
Everything isself-reported data
The sample is self-selected
9. What we re doing about this
Recruiting more local partners
Backing up the survey with additional metrics
Representative surveys
10. Overall US scores Satisfaction With Life 70 Psychological
well-being 78 Physical health 67 Time balance (*) 43 Community
vitality & social connection 65 Access to education (*) 55
Cultural vitality 64 Environmental quality & access to nature
46 Governance 57 Material well-being 73 11. What matters to people?
12. Materialdeficiencydoes matter 13. Why is this important? 14.
Seattle is unevenly healthy 15. Satisfaction with the environment
16. Health vs Environmental Quality
Health scores
Environmental Quality scores
17. Young people tend to be time-poor 18. Young people are less
satisfied with their communities 19. Conclusions
Our survey shows some paths away from the treadmill of economic
growth for its own sake
Taking the survey encourages people to think about how they are
doing, in a deeper way thanhow much stuff do we have?
20. For more information
Read about the project:http://sustainableseattle.org/sahi own
website coming soon tohttp://happycounts.org/
Take the
survey:http://sustainableseattle.org/survey/GNH/en/
Email me with questions:[email_address]
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