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Non-conform Freely, the fifth Life Standard of “Living More with Less”

Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest

Some Unsubscribers say they’re unsubscribing to simplify their life. This is a mystery to me. Why cut yourself off from a terrific source of help and inspiration for simplifying? I honor their request and then send an invitation once or twice a year to re-subscribe. Most don’t.

I’m glad to pass along many links from simple living bloggers, podcasters, coaches and others. I’m not suggesting that you read them all. Skim through them. Choose FIVE links — including SLW! — to investigate. You may want to subscribe to those that are helpful to you and yours.

I will continue to share each week what others are doing that is helpful. Some faith-based, some not. As usual, I’ll repeat some items for awhile and add new items from the same source. I’m dating each item with the hope that that bit of info is helpful.

Your feedback is welcome.

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What’s NOW with SLW!

• July 15 — SLW! Podcast #49: Laird Schaub, Exec. Sec., Fellowship for Intentional Community. FIC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting cooperative culture. Intentional communities are pioneers in sustainable living, personal and cultural transformation, and peaceful social evolution, includeing ecovillages, cohousing, residential land trusts, income-sharing communes, student co-ops, spiritual communities, and other projects where people live together on the basis of explicit common values. Since its beginning in 1987, FIC works in a number of ways, including the Communities Directory, Communities magazine, Community Bookstore, community-focused Events, Classifieds, the Blog, and more. FIC’s passion is promoting cooperative culture and sustainable living. That means providing the information and inspiration for those seeking community, forming communities, struggling with the challenges of community, and those who want to develop a greater sense of community where they are. However community touches your life, FIC’ll try to help you find what you’re looking for. In turn, you can help by becoming an FIC member.
• SUBSCRIBE to SLW! Podcast for free through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. Subscribe to SLW! Blog. Click “+Follow” at lower right of blog post, enter a name and email address. Welcome!
• July 1 — SLW! Podcast #48: Mike Mercer, Exec. Dir., Northwest Earth Institute || NWEI on Wikipedia // 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.
• SUBSCRIBE for free through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service.
• Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – AUGUST
• 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 Others Are Doing

• NorthWest Earth Institute‘s newest discussion course ebook,  Change Is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions (see above)
• Center for a New American Dream: Download NEW Kids Unbranded Action Kit – 7/14/15
• The Homesteading Guide Daily: Homesteading adventurer exploring life off the grid. Inviting you to share my journey and the friends I meet as we help you with your homesteading endeavors.
• Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell): Eco-Justice and Jobs (7/24) // A Celebration of Wilderness (7/17) //  Details Matter (7/10)
• Simply Enough (Bob Sitze): “Mansplaining” (7/23), “Distilling” (7/20), “Evoking Profound Memories” (7/17), “Connecting to Your Legacy” (7/14), “Glass” (7/11), “The Simpler Pastor” (7/8), “Finicky” (7/5), “Sale!” (7/1)
• Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways
• Simple Living: the Good Life (Janet Luhrs): Imperfection Is the New Good Life  (7/24) // The Simple Life Perks of Getting out and into Nature (7/15) // Death Is in the Details: How Not to Sweat the Small Stuff (7/2) //  Stay Outside and Play Longer with These 5 Simple Dinner Recipes
• Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker): Elevate the Important (7/23) //
  9 New Simple Living Blogs I Highly Recommend (7/17) // The Pieces We Allow in Our Lives (7/10) // Do Less and Live More (7/6) //  6 Questions to Discover Your Most Meaningful Pursuits
• Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity — July 23 //  July 16 //  July 9 edition //  July 2 edition
• Value of Simple (Joel Zaslofsky): Liberate Your Time, Money and Talent — How to Get Better at Asking for (and Giving) Anything
• 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): Zero-Sum Relationships (7/20) // The Spirituality of Scarcity and Abundance // The Neighborhood Church as Fungus
• GodSpace (Christine Sine)
• The Common Good Podcast – Episode 60 :: Christle Balvin — Extreme Drought Teaches Value of Water for the Common Good // Episode 61 :: Pope and Pando: An Encyclical and a Conference on Reversing Climate Change 
• 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

Coming

Aug. 1–SLW! podcast Joyce Earth Mama Rouse (complete preview)

Upcoming Alternate Celebrations

• NEW – 9/11
• Autumn begins, Sept. 21, 22 or 23

What’s Happened

• SLW! Podcast #47: Exec. Dir. Susan Stephenson, Interfaith Power and Light
• 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.
• Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
• Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links

Podcast Reminder

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Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist

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