This week, Bristol 247, an innovative local media organisation, is launching the latest strand of an ambitious project – Better Bristol – with the aim of igniting a more collaborative... read more →
Happy City broadcast to 100m people with BBC World Service
Happy City's founding Director Liz Zeidler makes the case for wellbeing as the primary driver of prosperity in advance of the Economics of Happiness conference staged jointly with Local Futures... read more →
Creative community challenges to visual pollution
Continuing our series of guest blogs highlighting themes of the Economic of Happiness conference this weekend, Nicola Round from Adblock Bristol looks at why people in the city are rising up... read more →
The question is how, rather than what
Stewart Wallis, chair of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll) is a keynote speaker at the Economics of Happiness conference in Bristol, UK (19-21 October). Ahead of his presentation at the conference, Stewart... read more →
New challenge to GDP at the heart of Green Party Policy
Today the Green Party has announced it’s first manifesto commitment: to overthrow the idea that GDP growth is the true measure progress. Happy City have been shouting this message from... read more →
Economics of Happiness conference 2018
The Economics of Happiness Conference is all about solutions to the biggest challenges of our times. In October 2018 we hosted the three day conference, and gathered together people with... read more →
What affects people’s wellbeing in local areas?
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) recently published their latest estimates of personal wellbeing in the UK. In addition to providing a picture of personal wellbeing at national level, there... read more →
Can data translate into radical action?
What opportunities lie behind this week’s ONS wellbeing data releases, and why might it profoundly matter to our collective future? Last week 238 leading international academics publically called on the European Union... read more →
Ten years on – the beginning of the end or the birth of the new?
Ahead of a global Economic of Happiness conference in the UK in October, Liz Zeidler, chief executive of Happy City, looks back to the financial crash of 2008 and its... read more →
Getting the measure of the youth experience
World Cup thrills, Wimbledon shocks, Tour de France Welsh wizardry, a crazy heatwave – the summer of 2018 will be one to remember for all sorts of reasons. At Happy... read more →