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Nic Marks discusses the Happy Planet Index at TEDGlobal
30 August 2010: nef fellow Nic Marks asks why we measure a nation's success by its productivity -- instead of by the happiness and well-being of its people at TEDGlobal 2010.
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World enters ecological debt on Saturday 21 August 2010
21 August 2010: It has taken humanity less than nine months to blow its ecological budget for the year, according to data from leading independent UK think-tank nef (the new economics foundation) and Global Footprint Network, a California-based environmental research organization.
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4th August: the day the UK starts eating someone else's fish
04 August 2010: Report reveals that the UK is dependent on fish from other countries for 151 days of the year and points to EU fisheries policy reform as a unique opportunity to bring fish back to British waters.
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Co-production needs to go mainstream
20 July 2010: Co-production - where public services are designed and delivered with users rather than ‘to’ and ‘for’ them is the key to transforming public services according to a new report by NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) and nef (New Economics Foundation).
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National Insurance plans will not fill jobs gap, says new research
14 July 2010: Government plans to encourage private enterprise by waiving NI contributions will not work in England’s most deprived areas, says a new report published by independent think-tank nef (new economics foundation).
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Europe blows its annual budget for fish on Friday 9 July
09 July 2010: New research reveals that Europe could not feed itself on fish from EU waters for more than 189 days a year, and from today is dependent on fish caught elsewhere.
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Development target of $1-a-day poverty line seriously flawed, says new report.
05 July 2010: World Bank claims that we are broadly on course to halve the proportion of people living below the $1 a day poverty line by 2015 are based on a seriously flawed measurement system, says a new report published today by nef.
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Local sandwich bars unsustainable, says new report
25 June 2010: Unjust system forces sustainability off the menu
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Budget response: banks, climate change, poverty, jobs and tax
22 June 2010: nef responds to George Osborne's emergency budget.
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Well-being measures to be included in major European survey
21 June 2010: The prestigious European Social Survey (ESS) will include questions on personal and social well-being after a successful bid from a group of experts, including nef (the new economics foundation), paving the way for a new National Accounts of Well-being in 2013.
