This morning on NPR’s Morning Edition I heard a report that the June numbers for consumer spending were low from a decline in spending on automobiles and gasoline. The reporter’s tone of voice indicated concern about this and implied that it was bad. The myth of “bigger is better” and growth is what we want are well entrenched in our discourse and our ideas of how the world should be. We need to educate the media, the legislatures, the policy people, the farmers, citizens and especially youth to see things through another lens. Seen from a perspective of sustainability and a Happy Planet, decrease in spending on cars and gasoline are a good thing, the way of the future. So we have our work cut out for us. I took a vow to talk to 10 friends about this problem of changing to a well-being way of looking at the world instead of just “bigger is better”.  Join me?