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July 2, 2009, Nova Scotia needs a new deal , The Coast

May 11, 2009, The Business News, The Business News Network

Media Coverage from the release of The Cost of Tobacco report

September 19, 2007, Moving beyond green PR, The Chronicle-Herald

July 21, 2007, Money is easy, but is cost too high?, The Daily News

June 17 , 2007, We depend on GDP, but it has its flaws, The Chronicle-Herald

June 15 , 2007, Go global and lose control, The Chronicle-Herald

June 4, 2007, Atlantic Canada Sustainability Initiative Kicks Off, Energy Evolution

June 4, 2007, N.S. Government Committing To Energy Reform, Energy Evolution

Also check our Press Releases for newly posted releases.

Citations

GPIAtlantic gave a presentation to the Law Amendments Committee on Bill No. 146, An Act Respecting Environmental Goals and Sustainable Prosperity on Wednesday, April 4, 2007. We are happy to report that the committee accepted one of our key recommendations, changing the phrases "economic growth" to "economic development" throughout the bill.

Although it may seem small, this is actually a very significant step forward. As John Ralston Saul spoke about at the Rethinking Development conference, changing the language is the first step to a paradigm shift in the way our society functions. Most importantly, this sets a precedent - every time the economic growth language creeps into economic strategies and other legislation we can remind legislators that - in their wisdom - they had previously removed this language. This is very exciting for GPI Atlantic, and a sign that our message is having an effect in government.

GPIAtlantic's written submission (280K PDF)

 

GPIAtlantic’s work is referenced in the Nova Scotia Department of Economic Development’s economic development strategy, entitled Opportunities for Sustainable Prosperity 2006. 40 page, 1.9MB PDF

“Becoming the “best place to live” means scoring well on quality of life indicators like those produced by Genuine Progress Index Atlantic (GPI Atlantic).” – page 12

The 2005/06 NovaKnowledge Knowledge Economy Report Card, entitled “The Environmental Economy: Seizing Opportunities” uses GPIAtlantic’s work. 24 page, 1.7MB PDF

“We are indebted to organizations such as GPI Atlantic who have been actively engaged in researching and developing the environmental indicators upon which we have relied throughout this report. One of the greatest challenges we faced was the paucity of regularly updated indicators (both international and national) for environmental-economic well-being. We believe more measures for the environmental economy are needed.”

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