Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest
Posted on: July 22, 2016
Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest
July 22, 2016
In This Issue:
- SLW! Podcast #73 – John Seager, Population Connection, Part 2 // World Population Day //
- Our Simpler Living Weekly Daily Nudge //
- Relish These Alternate Economics QUOTES // ART //
- Worth Revisiting: Celebrating Summer // Simplicity Day //
- What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
- More!
What’s NOW with SLW!
- SLW! Podcast #72 – John Seager (Part 1 of 2), Pres./CEO, Population Connection
- Simplicity Day on July 12th celebrates the birthday of Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) who encouraged us to simplify our lives.
- World Population Day, July 11 // 2016 Theme: Investing in Teenage Girls
- Our Daily Simpler Living Nudge
- What Is The NUDGE?
- How It Works
- How to GET It – Subscribe by sending NUDGE to SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com.
- How to SHARE It
- More About Holidays
- 2016:
- July–Money & Goods // Week 1: Green Business // Week 2: Green Investing // Week 3: Green Products // Week 4: Personal Finance, Credit & Debt
- August–Personal Choices, Happiness, Fulfillment ||Week 1: Work, Stress & Health || Week 2: Support || Week 3: Transportation & Travel || Week 4: Homes & Buildings: Construction, Energy Generating, Appliances
- 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 – JULY // 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’s Coming with SLW!
SLW! Podcast #74: Glen Gersmehl, Lutheran Peace Fellowship (8/1) – Seeking Peace in a Time of Violence
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)
- Center for a New American Dream: Kids Unbranded Action Kit
- The Common Good Podcast
- Ep. 73: Hal Brody: An Up-to-the-Minute Report on Solar Energy
- Ep. 72: Walter Brueggemann on Sabbath as Resistance to a Nano-Second, Hurry-up World (6/1)
- 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
- GodSpace (Christine Sine) // SLW! Podcast
- NEW — The Good Stuff—your dose of what’s working in the world from The Story of Stuff Project!
- NEW — Green Child eMagazine: Simplify for Happier, Calmer Kids
- The Homesteading Guide Daily: Exploring life off the grid.
- Jubilee Economics (Lee Van Ham)
- 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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Family Enrichment: Life/Work Balance.
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- Live Simply (Third Way: Celeste Kennel-Shank)
- NEW–Lutheran Peace Fellowship: Simple Living Resources
- 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.
- 030: Away (7/15)
- 029: L.A. (7/5)
- 028: Debt (6/29)
- 027: Passion (6/22)
- Mustard Seed Associates (Andy Wade)
- 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)
- Was There a Wild West That Needed Taming? Luther Standing Bear (Sioux) Answers (7/22)
- Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable (to be released Fall, 2016)
- Eden for the 21st Century (7/10)
- 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 / Full Article Library
- Eco-Travel Picks for 2016
- 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
- Simplicity as Your Path Back to Love (Courtney Carver)-Ep.104
- Practice Dying to Live Better-Ep.103
- How to Escape the Crash/Recover Cycle (Christine Walker)-Ep.102
- How to Mix Ingredients to Make the Minimalism Documentary (Joshua Fields Millburn)-Ep.101
- TreeHugger: Finding a Greener Future
- Various Publications
- “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)
- For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
- Upcoming Alternate Celebrations: May-Aug.
What’s Happened
- SLW! Podcast #71 – Jessie Schiele of Jerusalem Farm, an intentional community in Kansas City, MO // Worth Revisiting: Eps.20-27, Tony & Shane Uncut || Ep.49, Fellowship for Interntional Community
- SLW! Podcast #70: Tom Sine — 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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