Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest
Posted on: June 9, 2016
Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest
June 8, 2016
In This Issue:
- SLW! Podcast #70 – Author/futurologist Tom Sine //
- Our Simple Living Daily Nudge — Weekly Edition //
- Worth Revisiting: Alternate Father’s Day // First Day of Summer // Ramadan
- What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
- More!
What’s NOW with SLW!
- SLW! Podcast #70 – Tom Sine, author of the classic Mustard Seed Conspiracy, now Live Like You Give a Damn! Join the ChangeMaking Celebration and his New Changemakers blog. [See more below under What’s Happened.]
- Our Daily Simple Living Nudge
- What Is The NUDGE?
- How It Works
- How to GET It
- How to SHARE It
- More About Holidays
- 2016
- June — various aspects of Alternative Giving
- May — Theme of the Month: Earth Care
- New SLW! Site Search Engine on Home Page Window #4
- Current activities of the Chief Activist
- SLW! Blog Index | SLW! Podcast Index
- 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!
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – JUNE: Alternative Giving
- 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 – So Much Help!
I gladly pass along links from simple living bloggers, podcasters, coaches and others. Some faith-based, some not. You needn’t read them all. Choose FIVE links — including SLW! — to investigate.
- Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)
- Inspiring Simplicity Reads (6/11)
- The Art of Being Easily Fascinated (6/7)
- 8 Ways Minimalism has Changed My Perspective (5/31)
- Inspiring Simplicity Reads (5/28)
- A Simple Guide to Start Saving Money (5/27)
- 3 Keys to Finding More Happiness at Work (5/20)
- Accomplish More with a 3-Item To Do List (5/12)
- Center for a New American Dream: Kids Unbranded Action Kit
- Update: A Year of Buying Nothing New
- Stop McTeacher’s Nights! At these branded events, teachers “work” behind the counter at McDonald’s selling burgers, fries, and soda to students and their families. Let’s put an end to this marketing ploy disguised as a school fundraiser.
- Your Stuff, Their Stuff, Our Stuff Is the weight of your “stuff” bogging you down? What about inherited items or stuff that belongs to others? Decluttering expert Pam Holland believes that tackling the excess stuff in our lives is key to improving well-being.
- 10 Reasons to Host an Alternative Gift Fair: It’s not too early to begin planning.
- Going Plastic-free, Faithfully: Retired pediatrician Carol Janus found renewed purpose in helping others when she partnered with the faith-based community—and beyond—to raise awareness about plastic pollution in her community.
- How to Start Your Own Toy Library (recorded webinar)
- The Common Good Podcast
- Ep. 72: Walter Brueggemann on Sabbath as Resistance to a Nano-Second, Hurry-up World (6/1)
- Ep. 71: Jim Redmond, Mr. Missouri River, on Acting Ecologically Wherever You Live (5/1)
- Ep. 70: William Ostrander: I Want to Reverse Climate Change by How I Farm. Why Am I Also Running for U.S. Congress? (4/1)
- Community Solutions: Founded in 1940, this non-profit organization advocates for small communities and the benefits of face-to-face relationships. Since 2003, the focus has been to provide resources for low-carbon living and to inspire collective, cooperative solutions in the face of peak energy and climate change.
- Creation Justice: CAPSULES – News and Opportunities for Christians Doing Creation Justice
- E-The Environmental Magazine
- Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) – Website, Songbooks, Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumbdrive, Standing on the Shoulders music video, sheet music offerings // SLW! Podcast
- Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive // SLW! Podcast #18 // SLW! Podcast #66
- Kill All the Mosquitos? (6/10)
- The Good Life (6/3)
- Fish Are Using Tools (5/27)
- Stop Being an Individual (5/20)
- Confused Languages, Scattered People (5/13)
- The Auction Action (5/6)
- GodSpace (Christine Sine) // SLW! Podcast
- The Homesteading Guide Daily: Exploring life off the grid.
- Jubilee Economics (Lee Van Ham, Dan Swanson, Gerald Iversen)
- A Living Earth Economy (David Korten – Yes! Magazine): How we can make peace with nature, realize the value of living wealth, and return to local, self-organized rule.
- Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways – Finding good homes for no longer needed items rather than just putting them in the trash // TMI-Too Much Information // SLW! Podcast // SLW! Podcast: Lent
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Listen up – What I learned from not being about to hear well. Listening More Closely to OthersNEW – Family Enrichment article: Life/Work Balance.
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- Live Simply (Third Way: Celeste Kennel-Shank)
- The Minimalists podcast (Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus). Getting us past the things so we can make room for life’s most important things — which actually aren’t things at all.
- 025: Dallas (6/7)
- 024: Mindpalace (5/31)
- 023: Minimalism (5/24)
- 022: Miami (5/20)
- 021: Travel (5/12)
- Mustard Seed Associates (Andy Wade)
- NEW- New Changemakers: Join the Changemaking Celebration! (Tom Sine)
- NorthWest Earth Institute‘s latest discussion course ebook, Sustainability Works: Rethinking Business As Usual // Change Is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions // Voluntary Simplicity // SLW! Podcast
- The OneEarth Project (Lee Van Ham)
- Sizing Up Our Great Work (4/21)
- The Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable (4/14)
- Three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals
- Conversation about The OneEarth Project and Lee’s book,
Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us
- The Pastoral Center/Gospel Living (Paul Canavese) // SLW! Podcast
- CatholicCreationCare.com – General resources
- CreationCareKids.com – Children’s resources
- PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough
- 25 Fun and Purposeful Summer Projects to Help Save the Planet
- Marketing 101 for the Postconsumer: understand how marketers are manipulating us, so we can make informed decisions about how we control our consumerism.
- Simple Enough (Bob Sitze) // SLW! Podcast
- Simple Living: the Good Life (Janet Luhrs)–Time, Finances, Home-Work, Health
- Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity
- Simplicity Collective – Let us be pioneers once more (Samuel Alexander)
- Simplicity Parenting (Kim John Payne): because it is a beautiful world
- Smart and Simple Matters podcast (Joel Zaslofsky of Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time, Money and Talent) // SLW! Podcast
- FREE TRAINING “The 5 Step Plan to Finally (and Fully) Declutter Your Home” Here’s your invite to join us live on June 6 at 9 a.m. PDT / 12 noon EDT.
- 6 Key Community Conversations and the Questions That Transform Them-Ep.100
- Feeling Paralyzed? Find a New “P” and Change Your Reality with Kelly Exeter-Ep.99
- The More of Less and Generosity as an Act of Bravery (Joshua Becker)-Ep.98
- TreeHugger: Finding a Greener Future
- Various Publications
- Pynpinie: ideas for the inside of your home that are simple to use, functional and attractive: 16 Actions to Take Today to Live a Simple Life
- “Organize His Way: A Christ-Centered Approach to Organizing Your Life,” Bible study workbook and support network. EileenKoffMinistries.com Blessings, not stuff, Eileen Koff CPO (Certified Professional Organizer)
- Cutting Clutter with Compassion, Utne Reader
- Time to Stop Worshipping Economic Growth, Daly News (CASSE)
- Enoughness Instead of Never Enough (2/19) Center for Action and Contemplation (Richard Rohr)
- Social Innovation Solutions: Voluntary Simplicity (Dr. Thomas Jefferson Hoban, IV)
- Pirate Television: Kima Cargill: The Psychology of Overeating
- For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
- Upcoming Alternate Celebrations: May-Aug.
What’s Happened
- SLW! Podcast #69 – Renowned Biblical scholar and author Walter Brueggemann (May 15)–Sabbath as Resistance: Saying NO to the Culture of NOW
- SLW! Podcast #68: Ed Fallon, lawmaker turned talk show host of Fallon Forum, climate crisis activist
- Live Like You Give a Damn! Join the Changemaking Celebration! Get Tom Sine’s new book (also, text and video testimonials). Videos: The Future of the Church (27 min.); Tom Sine Interviews Mark Scandrette, author of FREE: Spending Your Time and Money on What Matters Most (15 min.); An Invitation to Join the Changemaking Celebration (2:33); The Future of the Church (1:42); Tom’s writings for Alternatives: Reflections for Advent and Christmas
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
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