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The Happy Planet Index 2024 is out! Using data on wellbeing, life expectancy and carbon footprints, it measures something truly important – how good are countries at helping people to live happy, long lives with little impact on the planet?
Summer’s here and where better to be than in the Devon countryside? There’s a host of opportunities to stay at Eden Rise this summer, including on our very own Wellbeing for Changemakers Creative Retreat from 8-10th July. Here, Roger Higman
Alan Heeks is the author of Natural Happiness: use organic gardening skills to cultivate yourself, which explores lessons from his twenty years’ experience of helping people learn from nature, and from creating gardens and an organic farm. On Tuesday, 4th
The Wellbeing for Changemakers’ Creative Retreat runs from Monday, 8th to Wednesday 10th July at Eden Rise, our haven for wellbeing in the Devon countryside. Led by Melissa Noble from the Academy of Wide-hearted Living, it promises to be a
India Miles is the Marketing and Communications Officer at the Reslience Project – a youth-led community which is empowering a new generation of climate leaders. Here, she writes about how pointless joy can enable and sustain activism to address big
Have you ever wondered what it takes to truly empower and engage communities for positive change? Two weeks ago, NOW’s Mirella Ferraz went to Birmingham to learn more about the Active Communities Learning Festival, and the innovative ways the Active
Kate Barranco is the Network & Storytelling Coordinator for Ecological Belonging at The Wellbeing Project – a global initiative to catalyse inner wellbeing for all changemakers. Here, she explains what ecological belonging is, why it matters and how you can
Last week, NOW’s team members Mirella Ferraz and Sylvia Mohabir had the privilege of attending the 10th anniversary celebration of BUD Leaders in London. The event was a dynamic gathering aimed at addressing the power imbalance in leadership and entrepreneurship,
Kim Polman is the co-founder and Chair of Reboot the Future, a foundation whose mission is to foster a new world where we treat others and the planet as we would wish to be treated. Here she reflects on this