Colman, Ronald. The true measures of progress

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Colman, Ronald. The true measures of progress

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Colman, Ronald. The true measures of progress
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Colman, Ronald. The true measures of progress

Date:

August 2009

Reference:

R16853-23-8-E, Volume number: 1, File number: 4

File no. (creator):

4

Type of material:

Moving images, Textual material, Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

5858713

Date(s):

August 2009

Place of creation:

Bhutan

Extent:

2 video files (.mov, .mp4).
1 sound file (.mp3).
1 closed caption file (.vtt).
1 textual document (.pdf).
1 folder of textual records.

Language of material:

English

Scope and content:

File consists of an interview with Ronald Colman titled "The true measures of progress." The interview was conducted by Silver Donald Cameron as part of The Green Interview. File includes video of the interview, printed transcript, sound recording, and closed captioning file.

This interview was the first of two interviews conducted with Ron Colman for The Green Interview. (The second interview is "Measuring Gross National Happiness in Bhutan." See: Mikan no. 5858712.)

From the interview: "[The Genuine Progress Index is] one way of assessing the value of our wealth as a society. That wealth includes what the economy churns out, but it also includes a lot more, which is generally not considered in conventional measures. Our wealth includes our natural wealth, our forests, our soils, our marine resources, our energy sources, our water, the quality of the atmosphere. So all of those are also part of our wealth and like any other wealth it's subject to depreciation if it's not properly cared for, just like factory machinery can fall into disrepair. Similarly, if our natural wealth is not cared for, it can depreciate and there's a value in conserving it and enhancing it."

Additional name(s):

Colman, Ronald

Additional information:

General note:

From The Green Interview website: "Topic: Counting what counts; Economics."

From The Green Interview website: Dr. Ron Colman, head of GPI Atlantic, which created Nova Scotia's Genuine Progress Index. He is currently an adviser to the Royal Government of Bhutan on maximizing the country's Gross National Happiness.

Dr. Ronald Colman is founder and executive director of GPI Atlantic, a non-profit research group that has constructed an index of wellbeing and sustainable development called the Genuine Progress Index, using Nova Scotia as its test-bed. The GPI is a response to narrow measures like Gross Domestic Product, which record ecological destruction as economically positive. As Ron has put it, under such measures "we may appear to be richer, but our natural world is poorer."

Related material:

For audio-visual recordings of this interview, see IDCISN 607673, 607674.

For other interviews in The Green Interview fonds on this subject, see: Colman, Ronald. Measuring Gross National Happiness in Bhutan (January 2011, Mikan no. 5858712); Kim, Julia. Happiness: reconnecting to self, others, and nature (Mikan no. 5858739); Yoser Thinley, Hon Jigme. Governing for Gross National Happiness (December 2019, Mikan no. 5858798); Bhutan: The pursuit of Gross National Happiness (2011, Mikan no. 5858799).

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