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Stories from 2021 Edition

2021 edition

USA: investing in human infrastructure

2021 edition

USA: making our wellbeing more sustainable

2021 edition

Vanuatu: community and participation

2021 edition

USA: marking progress toward a happy planet

2021 edition

All change for the UK: A tale of two trends

2021 edition

Uganda: a commitment to food security

2021 edition

Trinidad and Tobago: how are we in the HPI’s bottom 10?

2021 edition

Switzerland: ranking highly despite lost eco votes and striking women

2021 edition

Russia: an ambivalent ecological strategy

2021 edition

New Zealand: an important opportunity

2021 edition

New Zealand: sustainability and resistance

2021 edition

Mexico: from outside, from inside, dialectic of the gaze

2021 edition

Luxembourg: progress in peculiar circumstances

2021 edition

Japan: rising “efficiency”

2021 edition

Indonesia: cooperation to achieve wellbeing

2021 edition

Germany: a declining ecological footprint

2021 edition

UK: making the top fifteen

2021 edition

Costa Rica: showing the way forward

2021 edition

Colombia: Optimism and setbacks

2021 edition

Colombia: a paradox and its progress

2021 edition

Brazil: new narratives of progress

2021 edition

Australia: the lucky country’s eco-deficit

2021 edition

Italy: turning things around

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