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Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest

Sept. 22, 2016

In This Issue:

• SLW! Podcast Episodes #77 – Fighting for Clean Water   & #76 – Celebrating Ugly Food //
• Worth Revisiting: Autumn  // 
• Our Simpler Living Weekly Daily Nudge // Easy-to-share for Oct.
• Relish These Media/Non-Conform Freely QUOTES // ART //
• What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
• More!

What’s NOW with SLW!

• SLW! Podcast Ep. 76-77 — The Ugly Food Project

  Exploring the intersection of faith, food and water in a time of drought — speakers, film, music, worship, fun! + Ugly Food Banquet, Bethel Lutheran Church (ELCA), Templeton, CA, Pastor Amy Beveridge and guests

• 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
  • August–Personal Choices, Happiness, Fulfillment
  • September: Non-conform Freely // Week 1 Media Literacy || Week 2: Advertising & Public Relations || Week 3: Alternatives to TV, Video Games, Movies, Gambling || Week 4: Marketing
  • October: Sustenance // Week 1: Food || Week 2: Recipes (from Developing Countries) & Food Preparation || Week 3: Sustainable Agriculture, Organic Farming || Week 4: Gardening

• 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 – SEPT. // OCT.
• 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)
  • You Are Doing a Noble Thing (9/22)
  • Inspiring Simplicity Reads (9/17)
  • 17 Staggering Statistics About Our Shopping Habits (9/14)
  • Four Simple Living Benefits from Spending a Little More Time Outdoors (9/7)
  • One Simple Question to Ask Before Any Purchase  (8/23)
• Center for a New American Dream: Kids Unbranded Action Kit
  • 4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Buying a Product
  • 10 Reasons to Host an Alternative Gift Fair: begin planning early.
  • Going Plastic-free, Faithfully
• The Common Good Podcast – back online! Check out the new site.
  • Ep. 75: Jean Diaz–San Diego Community Land Trust
  • Ep. 74: Paul Taylor–How Much Is Enough?
  • Ep. 73: Hal Brody–An Up-to-the-Minute Report on Solar Energy
• 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
  • Coalitions and Constituencies (9/16)
  • Stand with Standing Rock (9/9)
  • Wages, Justice & Labor (9/2)
  • Repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery (8/26)
• GodSpace (Christine Sine) // SLW! Podcast
• The Good Stuff—your dose of what’s working in the world from The Story of Stuff Project!
• Green Child eMagazine: Simplify for Happier, Calmer Kids
• The Homesteading Guide Daily: Exploring life off the grid.
• Jubilee Economics / Casa Jubileo (Lee Van Ham & Dan Swanson) – Back online! Check out the new site.
  • NEW – Mexico Blog (English/Spanish): Chiapas Delegation
  • Economic Recovery—Why Recovery of Sight Is Core to Economic Recovery ala Jubilee (8/23)
  • Making Applesauce (7/26)
  • Jesus Praises Whistleblowing That Exposes Growth Economics (7/10)
• 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 // SLW! Podcast // SLW! Podcast: Lent
• Live Simply (Third Way: Celeste Kennel-Shank)
• 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.
  • 034: Utah
  • 033: Criticism
  • NEW – Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things
  • The Art of Letting Go: The Minimalists TEDX Talk (July, 2016)
• Mustard Seed Associates (Andy Wade)
• New Changemakers: Join the Changemaking Celebration! (Tom Sine)
• NorthWest Earth Institute‘s Eco-Challenge 2016 // 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)
  • “Seasoned Travelers” on the Heroic Journey (9/14)
  • The Dakota Access Pipeline—Follow It on “Indian Country Today Media Network” (9/9)
  • China Sets Sights on “Building an Ecological Civilization” (9/1)
  • Ego and Civilization: Provisional Efforts, Not Our Best (8/18)
  • 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
  • 25 Ways to Help Save the Ocean (Or At Least Stem the Tide)
  • 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
  • Rewilding, Sovereignty & the Heart of Domestication (Daniel Vitalis)–Ep. 109
  • From Mindless in a Rocker to Rocking Bonsai Business (Shanna Mann)–Ep.108
  • How to Get a “Plan A” Life with Bravery and Bravado  (Warren Talbot)–Ep.107
  • Social Security vs. social security–Ep. 106
• TreeHugger: Finding a Greener Future
• For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
• Upcoming Alternate Celebrations: Sept.-Dec.

What’s Happened

• SLW! Podcast Ep. 75 – Jim Goetsch of Friends of the Third World
• SLW! Podcast Ep. 74 – Glen Gersmehl of Lutheran Peace Fellowship
• Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // Collaborators & Champions
• Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
  

  Podcast Reminder

  You can access all SLW! podcast audio and the show notes either at SimpleLiving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST or at SimpleLivingWorks.org (then click window #3). Complete Episode Index. Listen through your computer, iPod, iPad, iPhone (or equivalent).

  SUBSCRIBE through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. To SUBSCRIBE to email notices, click Comments at the bottom of Show Notes, then check ‘Notify me of new posts by email.’ Please rate us in iTunes and leave a review.

  Send us your email address to receive the free monthly SLW! eNews. Remember to like us on Facebook. Urge your friends to do the same. Do your friends a favor. Share our blog and podcast.

  Like SLW! on Facebook. | Follow us on Twitter. | Follow us on Pinterest. Share your thoughts on our podcast and blogs. Email SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com, leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.

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

  *IMAGE: Spirit of Simplicity ART #4-A303

  For hard copies of Alternatives’ resources at nominal cost, contact ELCA Archives, 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 // (847) 690-9410 // archives@elca.org

  We do not solicit or accept donations, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge. We’re an all-volunteer organization. Instead, we urge Alternative Giving. Give away at least 25% of what you spent last year on all celebrations – Christmas, birthdays, etc. — to local, national and international causes.

  Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.

  *Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.

  Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011. Simple Living Works! web site home page | Theme/Seasons Index. To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — please listen to our getting-acquainted episodes, especially #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, hopefully educational and inspiring for you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog each week.

Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest

Sept. 15, 2016

In This Issue:

• SLW! Podcast Episodes #77 – Fighting for Clean Water   & #76 – Celebrating Ugly Food //
• Worth Revisiting: Autumn  // 
• Our Simpler Living Weekly Daily Nudge // 
• Relish These Media/Non-Conform Freely QUOTES // ART //
• What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
• More!

What’s NOW with SLW!

• SLW! Podcast Ep. 76-77 — The Ugly Food Project

  Exploring the intersection of faith, food and water in a time of drought — speakers, film, music, worship, fun! + Ugly Food Banquet, Bethel Lutheran Church (ELCA), Templeton, CA, Pastor Amy Beveridge and guests

• 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
  • August–Personal Choices, Happiness, Fulfillment
  • September: Non-conform Freely // Week 1 Media Literacy || Week 2: Advertising & Public Relations || Week 3: Alternatives to TV, Video Games, Movies, Gambling || Week 4: Marketing

• 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 – SEPTEMBER
• 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 (9/17)

    17 Staggering Statistics About Our Shopping Habits (9/14)
  • Four Simple Living Benefits from Spending A Little More Time Outdoors (9/7)
  • One Simple Question to Ask Before Any Purchase  (8/23)
• Center for a New American Dream: Kids Unbranded Action Kit
  • 4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Buying a Product
  • 10 Reasons to Host an Alternative Gift Fair: begin planning early.
  • Going Plastic-free, Faithfully
• The Common Good Podcast – back online! Check out the new site.
  • Ep. 75: Jean Diaz–San Diego Community Land Trust
  • Ep. 74: Paul Taylor–How Much Is Enough?
  • Ep. 73: Hal Brody–An Up-to-the-Minute Report on Solar Energy
• 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
  • Coalitions and Constituencies (9/16)
  • Stand with Standing Rock (9/9)
  • Wages, Justice & Labor (9/2)
  • Repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery (8/26)
  • Avocados vs. Monarch Butterflies (8/19)
• GodSpace (Christine Sine) // SLW! Podcast
• The Good Stuff—your dose of what’s working in the world from The Story of Stuff Project!
• Green Child eMagazine: Simplify for Happier, Calmer Kids
• The Homesteading Guide Daily: Exploring life off the grid.
• Jubilee Economics / Casa Jubileo (Lee Van Ham & Dan Swanson) – Back online! Check out the new site.
  • NEW – Mexico Blog (English/Spanish): Chiapas Delegation
  • Economic Recovery—Why Recovery of Sight Is Core to Economic Recovery ala Jubilee (8/23)
  • Making Applesauce (7/26)
  • Jesus Praises Whistleblowing That Exposes Growth Economics (7/10)
• 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 // SLW! Podcast // SLW! Podcast: Lent
  • • 1 in-1 out: Tools – Finding good homes for duplicate tools and appliances.
    • 1 in-1 out: Windows – New windows are more energy efficient. Old windows can be turned into jobs and renovated housing.
    • 3 in-71 out: Miscellaneous – When numbers can be misleading plus, how compulsive are you?
    • 11 in-1 out: Other’s stuff – Policies and exceptions about storing adult children’s stuff
    • TIME: Deal or no Deal – Determining when it’s better to save time and when it’s better to save money.
• Live Simply (Third Way: Celeste Kennel-Shank)
• 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.
  • 034: Utah
  • 033: Criticism
  • NEW – Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things
  • The Art of Letting Go: The Minimalists TEDX Talk (July, 2016)
• Mustard Seed Associates (Andy Wade)
• New Changemakers: Join the Changemaking Celebration! (Tom Sine)
• NorthWest Earth Institute‘s Eco-Challenge 2016 // 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)
  • “Seasoned Travelers” on the Heroic Journey (9/14)
  • The Dakota Access Pipeline—Follow It on “Indian Country Today Media Network” (9/9)
  • China Sets Sights on “Building an Ecological Civilization” (9/1)
  • Ego and Civilization: Provisional Efforts, Not Our Best (8/18)
  • 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
  • 25 Ways to Help Save the Ocean (Or At Least Stem the Tide)
  • 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
  • From Mindless in a Rocker to Rocking Bonsai Business (Shanna Mann)–Ep.108
  • How to Get a “Plan A” Life with Bravery and Bravado  (Warren Talbot)–Ep.107
  • Social Security vs. social security–Ep. 106
  • How to Discuss Identity, Race, and Prejudice (Charlie Gilkey)–Ep.105
• TreeHugger: Finding a Greener Future
• For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
• Upcoming Alternate Celebrations: Sept.-Dec.

What’s Happened

• SLW! Podcast Ep. 75 – Jim Goetsch of Friends of the Third World
• SLW! Podcast Ep. 74 – Glen Gersmehl of Lutheran Peace Fellowship
• Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
• Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
  

  Podcast Reminder

  You can access all SLW! podcast audio and the show notes either at SimpleLiving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST or at SimpleLivingWorks.org (then click window #3). Complete Episode Index. Listen through your computer, iPod, iPad, iPhone (or equivalent).

  SUBSCRIBE through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. To SUBSCRIBE to email notices, click Comments at the bottom of Show Notes, then check ‘Notify me of new posts by email.’ Please rate us in iTunes and leave a review.

  Send us your email address to receive the free monthly SLW! eNews. Remember to like us on Facebook. Urge your friends to do the same. Do your friends a favor. Share our blog and podcast.

  Like SLW! on Facebook. | Follow us on Twitter. | Follow us on Pinterest. Share your thoughts on our podcast and blogs. Email SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com, leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.

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

  *IMAGE: Pastor Amy Beveridge, courtesy Bethel Lutheran Church (ELCA), Templeton, CA

  For hard copies of Alternatives’ resources at nominal cost, contact ELCA Archives, 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 // (847) 690-9410 // archives@elca.org

  We do not solicit or accept donations, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge. We’re an all-volunteer organization. Instead, we urge Alternative Giving. Give away at least 25% of what you spent last year on all celebrations – Christmas, birthdays, etc. — to local, national and international causes.

  Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.

  *Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.

  Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011. Simple Living Works! web site home page | Theme/Seasons Index. To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — please listen to our getting-acquainted episodes, especially #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, hopefully educational and inspiring for you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog each week.

Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest

Sept. 8, 2016

In This Issue:

• SLW! Podcast Episodes #76 – Celebrating Ugly Food & #77-Fighting for Clean Water //
• Worth Revisiting: Labor Day // 9/11 // Autumn
• Our Simpler Living Weekly Daily Nudge // 
• Relish These Media/Non-Conform Freely QUOTES // ART //
• What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
• More!

What’s NOW with SLW!

• SLW! Podcast Ep. 76-77 — Celebrating Ugly Food & Fighting for Clean Water

  Exploring the intersection of faith, food and water in a time of drought — speakers, film, music, worship, fun! + Ugly Food Banquet, Bethel Lutheran Church (ELCA), Templeton, CA, Pastor Amy Beveridge and guests

• 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
  • August–Personal Choices, Happiness, Fulfillment
  • September: Non-conform Freely // Week 1 Media Literacy || Week 2: Advertising & Public Relations || Week 3: Alternatives to TV, Video Games, Movies, Gambling || Week 4: Marketing

• 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 – SEPTEMBER
• 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)
  • Four Simple Living Benefits from Spending A Little More Time Outdoors (9/7)
  • Inspiring Simplicity Reads (9/3)
  • One Simple Question to Ask Before Any Purchase  (8/23)
  • 7 Powerful Ways To Maintain Momentum After Decluttering (7/26)
• Center for a New American Dream: Kids Unbranded Action Kit
  • 4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Buying a Product
  • 10 Reasons to Host an Alternative Gift Fair: begin planning early.
  • Going Plastic-free, Faithfully
• The Common Good Podcast – back online! Check out the new site.
  • Ep. 75: Jean Diaz–San Diego Community Land Trust
  • Ep. 74: Paul Taylor–How Much Is Enough?
  • Ep. 73: Hal Brody–An Up-to-the-Minute Report on Solar Energy
• 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
  • Wages, Justice & Labor (9/2)
  • Repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery (8/26)
  • Avocados vs. Monarch Butterflies (8/19)
  • A Tiny Taste of Wilderness (8/12)
• GodSpace (Christine Sine) // SLW! Podcast
• The Good Stuff—your dose of what’s working in the world from The Story of Stuff Project!
• Green Child eMagazine: Simplify for Happier, Calmer Kids
• The Homesteading Guide Daily: Exploring life off the grid.
• Jubilee Economics / Casa Jubileo (Lee Van Ham & Dan Swanson) – Back online! Check out the new site.
  • NEW – Mexico Blog (English/Spanish): Chiapas Delegation
  • Economic Recovery—Why Recovery of Sight Is Core to Economic Recovery ala Jubilee (8/23)
  • Making Applesauce (7/26)
  • Jesus Praises Whistleblowing That Exposes Growth Economics (7/10)
• 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 // SLW! Podcast // SLW! Podcast: Lent
  • • 1 in-1 out: Tools – Finding good homes for duplicate tools and appliances.
    • 1 in-1 out: Windows – New windows are more energy efficient. Old windows can be turned into jobs and renovated housing.
    • 3 in-71 out: Miscellaneous – When numbers can be misleading plus, how compulsive are you?
    • 11 in-1 out: Other’s stuff – Policies and exceptions about storing adult children’s stuff
    • TIME: Deal or no Deal – Determining when it’s better to save time and when it’s better to save money.
• Live Simply (Third Way: Celeste Kennel-Shank)
• 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.
  • NEW – Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things
  • The Art of Letting Go: The Minimalists TEDX Talk (July, 2016)
  • 032: Chicago (8/15)
    031: Documentaries (8/1)
  • 030: Away (7/15)
• 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)
  • China Sets Sights on “Building an Ecological Civilization” (9/1)
  • Ego and Civilization: Provisional Efforts, Not Our Best (8/18)
  • Are National Parks OneEarth or MultiEarth? (8/10)
  • Predation by “Civilized” Humans More Ruthless than Killing in the Wild? (8/7)
  • 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
  • 25 Ways to Help Save the Ocean (Or At Least Stem the Tide)
  • 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
  • How to Get a “Plan A” Life with Bravery and Bravado  (Warren Talbot)–Ep.107
  • Social Security vs. social security–Ep. 106
  • How to Discuss Identity, Race, and Prejudice (Charlie Gilkey)–Ep.105
  • Simplicity as Your Path Back to Love (Courtney Carver)-Ep.104
• TreeHugger: Finding a Greener Future
• For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
• Upcoming Alternate Celebrations: Sept.-Dec.

What’s Happened

• SLW! Podcast Ep. 75 – Jim Goetsch of Friends of the Third World
• SLW! Podcast Ep. 74 – Glen Gersmehl of Lutheran Peace Fellowship
• Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
• Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
  

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