New SLW! Weekly: Interfaith Power and Light
Posted on: June 24, 2015
Interfaith Power and Light: A Religious Response to Global Warming
Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest
SLW! Podcast #47: Exec. Dir. Susan Stephenson of Interfaith Power and Light
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Change of Focus for SLW! Blog
I’m somewhat proud of my reputation as a ‘dealmaker.’ I bring people together. Likewise, I like to collaborate with colleagues and like-minded people. I’ve served more as a consolidator and editor than writer. I’ve compiled and published numerous collections, such as Worship Alternatives and Spirit of Simplicity: Quotes and Art.
In this light, the SLW! blog will begin to focus more on others’ efforts for simple living. The blog will be posted at least once a week — the first week on the monthly SLW! eNewsletter, which is e-mailed separately to some 8000 subscribers. Since SLW! podcast is released on the 1st and 15th of each month, the weekly will highlight each episode. Other blogs will highlight the work of others, including links and brief summaries, not reposts of articles.
Since part of the mission of SLW! is to “encourage people of faith. . . to celebrate responsibly,” the new format will include a brief list of “Upcoming Alternate Celebrations,” drawn primarily from SLW! site and blogs. Those added to SLW! Treasury of Celebrations since its publication are marked NEW.
Your feedback on this plan is welcome.
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What’s NOW with SLW!
- Simple Living Works! eNews — SLW! Podcast Episode #46: Jared Brock is the author of A Year of Living Prayerfully, and the co-founder of Hope for the Sold, an abolitionist charity that fights human trafficking. He and Michelle directed and produced the film Red Light Green Light. He writes regularly at JaredBrock.com.
- Alternatives’ legacy audio recording Living Simply and Loving It! was made to accompany Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists Shy or Bold. | Similar TEXT Version | PART 1 – Episode 44 | PART 2 – Episode 45
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- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – JUNE
- Check out a few of SLW! thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE. Visit Seasonal/Thematic Resource Index
What’s Coming
July 1 SLW! Podcast: Northwest Earth Institute [complete preview] || NWEI on Wikipedia
Upcoming Alternate Celebrations
What’s Happened
- In the Steps of St. Paul — Rita and I had the pleasure of traveling to Greece (and a bit of Turkey) this spring. We visited the sites where St. Paul planted early Christian churches, and for which epistles in the New Testament are named – Thessaloniki, Philippi, Corinth, Ephesus.
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
What Others Are Doing
- NorthWest Earth Institute‘s newest discussion course ebook, Change Is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions, is a brand new five-session discussion course on climate action that will help your community or organization to do just that – take action to increase resilience and mitigate the impacts of climate change. Presented in an interactive ebook, this new discussion course experience integrates video, audio and printed content with action plans.
- Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways
- Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker): Inspiring Simplicity. Weekend Reads.
- Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity– June 19 Edition
- Value of Simple (Joel Zaslofsky): Liberate Your Time, Money and Talent
- Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) — NEW Website! NEW Songbooks! NEW Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumbdrive! NEW Standing on the Shoulders music video! NEW sheet music offerings!
- Mustard Seed Associates (Andy Wade)
- GodSpace (Christine Sine)
- The Common Good Podcast – Episode 60 :: Christle Balvin — Extreme Drought Teaches Value of Water for the Common Good
- The OneEarth Project (Lee Van Ham) — 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
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Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
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