Sustainable Happiness: Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference

Posted by: Simple Living Works! on: January 29, 2015

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Our daughter Elysha’s favorite magazine is YES! The Yes! founders, Fran and David Korten, and editor Sarah van Gelder, have been colleagues of Alternatives/SLW! for over a decade.

A board member of colleague organization Jubilee Economics recently sent this recommendation:

My friend gave me this book for Christmas. I am always happy to read a non-consumerism message, especially when it is geared toward how we can be happier without too much stuff. –Patricia ‘Trish’ Goedecke

I’ve added Sustainable Happiness to SLW! Recommends.

Sustainable Happiness: Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference

Edited by Sarah van Gelder and the staff of YES! Magazine
Paperback, 168 pages

With contributions by writers like Annie Leonard, Matthieu Ricard, and Vandana Shiva, SUSTAINABLE HAPPINESS features some of the most insightful and eloquent thinkers YES! has worked with on the meaning, and pursuit, of happiness. What is true happiness if it doesn’t include the happiness of others and the health of a living planet?

“Somehow a working planet, a thriving society, and a satisfying personal life are hitched together—and this fine volume offers powerful clues on the search for those connections!” — Bill McKibben, author and environmental leader

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• The Great March for Climate Action // David Zahrt was the oldest member of the team that hiked across America — from Los Angeles to D.C. — in eight months, the Great March for Climate Action. At the end of the trip he filed his Ruminations, which I urge you to read. David and Lin live in co-housing with his sister and her spouse. They comment on the new Shared Housing Blog of Jubilee-Economics.org, a collaborating organization of SLW! One of the leaders for the march was Ed Fallon, a progressive radio talk show host of The Fallon Forum and seven-term member of the Iowa Legislature. Another Iowan worth knowing is State Senator Rob Hogg, leader of Iowa Climate Advocates and author of America’s Climate Century. Hear my interview with him here. Read his monthly climate actions here.
• SLW! Podcast Episodes #36-37 — Duane Elgin // Duane on SLW! Voluntary Simplicity: Lifestyle of the Future? // His professional website: GreatTransitionStories.org // His personal site: DuaneElgin.com: About • Speaking • Great Transition Stories • Articles • Blog • Videos • Audio Files • Books • Contact // His writings there on Sustainability and Simplicity || Champion of Simple Living Today
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• Authentic Happiness in a Consumer Culture by Annie Leonard, Founder of The Story of Stuff Project, now Executive Director of GreenPeaceUSA, and Sarah van Gelder, Editor of YES! Magazine. Explore the meaning of real happiness rather than the empty happiness produced by a consumer culture that devalues interpersonal relationships in favor of “stuff” and leaves the Earth broken and full of trash. Media and Consumer Capitalism: Justin Lewis’ podcast, book and DVD
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