Happy City and the OECD: Q&A
Liz Zeidler reveals how Happy City has been collaborating with the OECD and EU to push alternative measures to GDP By Laura Collacott You may have heard of the conference... read more →
Where local is a blend of the global
Happy City’s been involved in a radio programme about Bristol’s cultural diversity and the City of Sanctuary movement By Maxie Jost Sometimes, an outside perspective yields not only new insights... read more →
Happy City – the fastest growing visionary habitat in the world
Excitement and vigour are high - and so is the will to grow and expand. By Maxie Jost. Alongside the ongoing buzz of local activities and events, with hardly any... read more →
Business support for Happy City
One of the most heartening experiences for a charity like Happy City, which succeeds in doing much from very scant resources, is a robust demonstration of support from the local... read more →
Collaboration vs Competition
Competition is bad for us says Margaret Heffernan Margaret Heffernan offered some startling observations as she talked about her book 'A Bigger Prize' at Bristol's Festival of Ideas this week. She stopped... read more →
Running the Ways
How an ultramarathon brought one volunteer happiness Two weeks ago I lined up at the start line of the Marathon des Sables, a 250km race across the Sahara billed as... read more →
Tuning the Economy for Wellbeing
Today, the Legatum Institute has added its weight to the growing body of evidence that measures of wellbeing should be placed at the heart of policy-making and economy. The Wellbeing and... read more →
Happiness in 3D
Happiness is not as abstract as it seems... From the outset of our Happy City journey, people have asked how we define happiness. As a result, we've had a great... read more →
Changing your brain in 2014
Two weeks into January and maybe it's already unpopular to be mentioning the R word. Even if we reject the idea of making firm resolutions, the New Year is often... read more →
Banking, but not as you know it
On a sunny Saturday afternoon in Bristol, where would you find an energy management charity, social housing company whose customers have learning disabilities, Boris’ ‘food tzar’ and a charity campaigning... read more →