a well-being survey as a tool to understand and reduce consumption
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- 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]
- These slides can be downloaded fromhttp://www.slideshare.net/sustainableseattle