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a wellbeing society
How Suicide Quietly Morphed Into a Public Health Crisis
From an article by Benedict Carey in The New York Times: “The deaths of the designer Kate Spade and the chef Anthony Bourdain, both of whom committed suicide this week, were not simply pop culture tragedies. They were the latest markers of an intractable public health crisis that has been unfolding in slow motion for a generation . Treatment…
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Regular exercise ‘best for mental health’
The BBC reports that: “Regular physical activity lasting 45 minutes three to five times a week can reduce poor mental health – but doing more than that is not always beneficial, a large US study suggests. A total of 1.2 million people…
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Cities as Ecosystems of Well-being
From the Institute for the Future (and with relevance to the creation of a wellbeing society in which emotional and mental good health is fostered): “In 2011, the Health Horizons team’s research focused on ecosystems of well-being. We’ve come to understand that it is…
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Team Human
Written by Douglas Rushkoff, this book (appearing February 2019) has relevance to the creation of a wellbeing society in which emotional and mental health is fostered. The publishers say: “Though created by humans, our technologies, markets, and institutions often contain…
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International Forum for Wellbeing: Beyond GDP What Comes Next?
Florence Scialom, writing on the Network of Wellbeing’s website : “The International Forum for Wellbeing in Grenoble, France, in June 2018, brought together hundreds of researchers, activists, policy makers and citizens. The Forum aimed to provide a space to question the dominant narrative of economic growth at all…
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Green neighbourhoods linked to improved mental health, says study
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
Written by Michael Pollan (May 2018), the full sub-title of this book is “What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression and Transcendence. The publishers say: “When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it…
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The Inner Level
Sonic doom: how noise pollution kills thousands each year
Richard Godwin, writing in The Guardian : “Shortly after I sat down to read up on the auditory and non-auditory effects of noise on health in the Lancet , the drilling began – an angry, jagged, intermittent frenzy of metal on plaster. Our downstairs neighbours…
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