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Posted on: March 24, 2015
SLW! Podcast Episode 41 – Sarah van Gelder, co-founder and editor-in-chief of YES! Magazine, and author of Sustainable Happiness: Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference.
Sarah and author David Korten founded YES! 18 years ago. Now in addition to an excellent, award-winning quarterly Magazine, YES! has a dynamic web site, and reaches out through social media. Under the banner “Powerful Ideas, Practical Actions,” YES! Magazine reframes the biggest problems of our time in terms of their solutions. Online and in print, YES! outlines a path forward with in-depth analysis, tools for citizen engagement, and stories about real people working for a better world.
YES! focuses on Peace and Justice, People power, the planet, happiness, a new economy, commonomics, climate in our hands. YES! produces resources for teachers and runs an online store. YES! is non-profit, independent, reader supported without advertising, produced by the Positive Futures Network.
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- Lent Week 5 – Online I offer free resources for the 40 days of Lent that center around Alternatives’ legacy resources based on Liturgical Year B (Mark). For a gentle daily reminder, follow me on Twitter or Linked-In.Two 40-day calendars:
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Episode 40 – Joel Zaslofsky || Joel’s one of my first guests not of my generation, one of the young adult champions of simple living today. Joel is the Chief Simplifier, Curator, and Founder at Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time Money and Talent. He also hosts the popular Smart and Simple Matters show. His recent book is Experience Curating: How to Gain Focus, Increase Influence and Simply Your Life. He organizes the annual SimpleREV Movement & Conference — Revive and Rev It Up! + All Things SimpleREV Podcast. - Who’s Risen from the Dead, Anyway? is an expanding, free collection of alternative resources for Lent/Holy/Week/Easter. This year it features ten lenten blogs by author, speaker, workshop leader Susan Vogt. Susan is also our interviewee on two recent episodes of SLW! Podcast. Part One || Part Two || Susan’s Site: marriage, parenting, spirituality, leadership, workshops, books, about Susan. || Contribute to Who’s Risen from the Dead, Anyway? online. | Submission Guidelines
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What’s Coming
- SLW! Podcast April 1 -Clyde Griffith of NewCelebrations.com (preview episode 42 now)
- SLW! Podcast April 15-Jeff Yeager, the Ultimate Cheapskate
- Waging Peace at Tax Time
What’s Happened
- Lent Preview – Week FOUR
- Lent Preview – Week THREE
- Lent Preview – Week TWO
- Lent Preview – Week ONE
- Lent Preview – Week ZERO
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
What Others Are Doing
- NEW Easter Resource for parents from colleague Paul Canavese at The Pastoral Center
- The Common Good Podcast
Episode 57: Marco Tavanti on Sustainable Development - Three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals || Conversation about The OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham. | TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 | Lee’s new Slide Show
- Godspace for Lent 2015: Seven Tips for Creating Sacred Space for Lent || 5 Ways to Foster Creativity in Kids During Lent || Get Creative and Play Games in Lent
- Colleague Kevin Tupper’s new Christian Simplicity site is starting a new discussion using Mark Scandrette’s book, “FREE: Spending Your Time and Money on What Matters Most.” He welcomes anyone to join in.
- Lenten Reflection: Thinking about food in a time of fasting
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