The speaker for January’s CreativeMornings/Edmonton on Happiness was Mark Anielski, an expert in measuring the sustainable well-being of communities. Having developed the Genuine Wealth model and Genuine Progress Indicators (GPI) as new well-being evaluation tools, Mark is also recognized as one of the world’s experts in valuing nature’s capital in national income accounts and greening the GDP of nations.

In this talk, Mark asks: “What the economy is for, why does it need to keep growing, what is happiness anyways, and what is this thing called money?” His talk forces the audience to ask these questions of themselves, and, hopefully, leads you to some conclusions of your own.