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The Happy Planet Index 2.0: Why good lives don't have to cost the Earth
Author: Saamah Abdallah, Sam Thompson, Juliet Michaelson, Nic Marks and Nicola Steuer. With a foreword by Herman Daly.
Publisher: nef
ISBN: 978 1 904882 55 8
Price: £10.00
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The Happy Planet Index provides a new compass to set society on the path to real progress by measuring what truly matters to us - living a long and happy life - and what matters to the planet - our rate of resource consumption.

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Localism: Unravelling the supplicant state
Author: David Boyle
Publisher: nef
ISBN: 978-1-904882-54-1
Price: £4.00
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Urgent reforms to re-localise Britain are under threat because politicians don't understand localism. Instead, argues David Boyle, Localism is about how to make things work, and how to escape from the centralisation that is making Britain seize up. He ends the pamphlet with a call for a debate which is less about committee meetings and more about life.

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Tools for You: Approaches to proving and improving for charities, voluntary
Author: Valuing what Matters
Publisher: nef and the Charities Evaluation Service
Price: £4.00
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A free guide to over 20 different quality and social impact frameworks for third sector organisations

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A guide to Social Return on Investment
Author: Jeremy Nicholls, Eilís Lawlor, Eva Nietzert and Tim Goodspeed
Publisher: Cabinet Office, Office of the Third Sector
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This guide aims to show organisations and institutions to make better decisions using Social Return on Investment (SROI) principles, helping them to recognise value beyond what can be easily captured by financial measurement.

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Green Stimulus or Simulus? What is the government doing that is new and additional to stimulate the economy by spending on the environment?
Author: Andrew Simms, Victoria Johnson and Sargon Nissan
Publisher: nef, in association with Greenpeace
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Gordon Brown has claimed that around 10 per cent of the UK package to stimulate the economy was directed towards "environmentally important technologies". But as this nef report commissioned by Greenpeace shows, new funding for greening the economy amounts to just 0.6 per cent of the UK’s total stimulus package.

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The Case for a Post Bank
Author: The Post Bank Coalition
Publisher: The Post Bank Coalition
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A proposal for a publically-owned bank based at the Post Office network which would provide reliable financial products to small businesses and promote financial inclusion.

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I.O.U.K.: Banking failure and how to build a fit financial sector
Author: David Boyle, Stephen Spratt and Sargon Nissan.
Publisher: nef
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A call for a radical new approach to banking and finance beyond 'business as usual'. The report challenges the idea that bigger is always better and makes the case for the supporting community finance institutions.

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Green Well Fair: Three economies for social justice
Author: Anna Coote and Jane Franklin
Publisher: nef
ISBN: 987-1-904882-53-4
Price: £4.00
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We cannot adequately address either the financial crisis or climate change if our society is unequal and divided. In this pamphlet, nef calls for a modern welfare system that can meet the challenges of environmental and economic meltdown.

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Seven principles for measuring what matters: A guide to effective public policy-making
Author: Eilis Lawlor, Jeremy Nicholls and Eva Nietzert
Publisher: nef
ISBN: 978 1 904882 52 7
Price: £10.00
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The seven principles in this report set out nef’s vision of what government decision-making should look like if it is to be focused on bringing about a more just and sustainable society – one that promotes real well-being for all, in the most comprehensive sense, using Social Return on Investment (SROI)

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National Accounts of Well-being: bringing real wealth onto the balance sheet
Author: Juliet Michaelson, Saamah Abdallah, Nicola Steuer, Sam Thompson and Nic Marks, with further contributions from Jody Aked, Corrina Cordon and Ruth Potts
Publisher: nef
ISBN: 978 1 904 882 503
Price: £10.00
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nef presents a radical new way of measuring social progress in modern societies, based on the subjective well-being of the people who live in them. This report presents the most comprehensive international analysis of well-being ever produced.

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