[MCN] Footnote to forest conservation: Are we getting happier?

[Lance Olsen]

"home size" happiness    About 232,000 results (0.58 seconds)

Law and Happiness - Page 119 - Google Books Result
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0226676021
Eric A. Posner,  Cass R. Sunstein - 2010 -  Law
2004; Blanchflower and Oswald 2004a, 2004b), we 
predict that people in the short-commute society 
will be happier. The trade-off between home size 
and ...

Ideal home: small, green, paid-for - tribunedigital-orlandosentinel
Jun 14, 2010 - In the housing-happiness chapter, 
she details how to purchase and pay off ... have 
indicators begun pointing to a contraction in 
new-home size.

10 ways a smaller home will make us happier - ThinkSaveRetire.com
Feb 3, 2016 - With an average home size of over 
2600 square feet, our ... and I am convinced that 
a much smaller dwelling will flat out make us 
happier, and ...

Top 10 Benefits of Downsizing into a Smaller Home - Freshome.com
2013/07/16/top-10-benefits-of-downsizing-into-a-smaller-home/
Jul 16, 2013 - ... or other life event, rest 
assured there's a benefit to decreasing your home 
size. ... A smaller home means often leads to a 
happier home.

"Real estate website Trulia.com recently reported 
that slightly more than half of Americans say 
that 1,400 to 2,600 square feet would be their 
ideal home size. According to the NAHB, nine of 
10 builders are planning or constructing smaller 
homes than in the past.

In 2010, the average new home size dropped to 
2,377 square feet and by 2015, the average newly 
built home is predicted to measure just 2,140 
square feet. Even in more affluent areas, 
builders are beginning to construct model homes 
that are one-third smaller than what they were 
building just a few years ago.

" 'Small is beautiful' is back in vogue," remarks 
Andrew Gates, a Sotheby's International Realty 
real estate broker in Salisbury, Connecticut. 
'The simplicity aesthetic is more prevalent after 
what we've been through the past few years.'"

http://www.naturalawakeningsmag.com/Natural-Awakenings/November-2012/House-Happiness/

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mixed and so rapidly recycled through the 
biosphere that the next breath you inhale will 
contain atoms exhaled by Jesus at Gethsemane and 
Adolf Hitler at Munich."

Preston Cloud and Aharon Gibor. "The Oxygen Cycle."
Scientific American, September 1970

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