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Free Movie: "The Economics of Happiness"

The Community Wellness Center, a non-profit, affordable healthcare clinic in Fairfax, is showing The Economics of Happiness.

The Economics of Happiness describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. On the one hand, government and big business continue to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power. At the same time, all around the world people are resisting those policies, demanding a re-regulation of trade and finance—and, far from the old institutions of power, they’re starting to forge a very different future. Communities are coming together to re-build more human scale, ecological economies based on a new paradigm – an economics of localization. The second half provides not only inspiration, but practical solutions.

 

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"...it is a great honor for me to endorse such an historic work."

Samdhong Rinpoche, Prime Minister of Tibet's government in exile

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"The Economics of Happiness takes hold of the baton dropped by former Vice-President Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and runs it all the way to the finish."

Andrew Dash Gillman, Local First Utah

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