Archive for October 2016
Simpler Living Weekly Nudge
Posted on: October 26, 2016
Timely! Share Interfaith Power & Light’s free Voter Reflection Guide, Faith in Public Life (below).
Simpler Living Weekly Nudge
Oct. 26, 2016
- SLW! Podcast Ep. 79–Lee Van Ham, author, blogger, speaker, podcaster //
- Want to Contribute to WHOSE Birthday? 2016: An Advent and Christmas Resource for Families, Individuals and Churches. Submission Guidelines Whose Birthday? is for your personal inspiration, community education and sharing. This online-only edition is a work-in-progress. You can still submit ART or an ARTICLE. Although this resource is not available in print, you may make copies through the Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license. Choose from dozens of items for your own customized edition, if you prefer. //
- Worth Revisiting: Halloween // SLW! Podcast: Paul Canavese on Pope Francis
- Our Simpler Living Daily Nudge // Easy-to-share for Nov.
- Relish These Sustenance QUOTES // ART //
- No More.
What’s NOW with SLW!
- Interfaith Power & Light // Participate in the Election // Voter Reflection Guide // SLW! Podcast Ep.47 with IPL
- 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
- October: Sustenance // Week 1: Food || Week 2: Recipes (from Developing Countries) & Food Preparation || Week 3: Sustainable Agriculture, Organic Farming || Week 4: Gardening
- November: More Celebrating || Week 2: Preparations || Week 3:Unplug the Christmas Machine || Week 4: Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?
- SLW! Podcast Ep. 78–James Howard Kunstler, author, blogger, speaker, podcaster, social critic // He is best known for his books The Geography of Nowhere (1994), a history of American suburbia and urban development; The Long Emergency (2005); and most recently, Too Much Magic (2012). In The Long Emergency, he argues that declining oil production is likely to result in the end of industrialized society as we know it and force Americans to live in smaller-scale, localized, agrarian (or semi-agrarian) communities. World Made by Hand, Kunstler’s series of novels about such a culture in the future.
- SLW! Podcast — Ugly Food Project — Part 1: #76 – Celebrating Ugly Food/gleaning and Part 2:#77 – 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 // Making Applesauce – A spiritual experience with ugly food
- New SLW! Site Search Engine on Home Page Window #4
- 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!
- I gladly pass along links from simple living bloggers, podcasters, coaches and others in the SLW! Weekly Digest / blog – free, of course.
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – OCT. || NOV.
- 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
- Upcoming Alternate Celebrations: Sept.-Dec.* || Advent
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // Collaborators & Champions // The OneEarth Project // Jubilee OneEarth Economics & The Common Good Podcast – new site!
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
- What’s Coming: SLW! Podcast Ep. 80-83 — “Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?” for Advent/Christmas
-
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 // Jerry’s current activities
*IMAGE: Interfaith Power & Light logo, courtesy InterfaithPowerAndLight.org
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 humanitarian 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
Oct. 22, 2016
In This Issue:
- SLW! Podcast #79–Lee Van Ham: From Egos to Eden //
- Submit to WHOSE Birthday? #28 //
- Worth Revisiting: Halloween //
- Our Simpler Living Weekly Daily Nudge // Easy-to-share for Oct.
- Relish These Sustenance QUOTES // ART //
- What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
- More!
What’s NOW with SLW!
- SLW! Podcast #79–Lee Van Ham previews vol. 2 of his “Eden for the 21st Century” trilogy, entitled From Egos to Eden: Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable.
- Want to Contribute to WHOSE Birthday? 2016: An Advent and Christmas Resource for Families, Individuals and Churches. Submission Guidelines Whose Birthday? is for your personal inspiration, community education and sharing. This online-only edition is a work-in-progress. You can still submit ART or an ARTICLE. Although this resource is not available in print, you may make all the copies you choose. It is covered by Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.
- Interfaith Power & Light // Participate in the Election // Voter Reflection Guide // SLW! Podcast Ep.47 with IPL
- SLW! Podcast Ep. 78–James Howard Kunstler of KustlerCast, author of The Geography of Nowhere (1994), a history of American suburbia and urban development; The Long Emergency (2005); Too Much Magic (2012); and World Made by Hand series of novels. He argues that declining oil production is likely to result in the end of industrialized society as we know it and force Americans to live in smaller-scale, localized, agrarian (or semi-agrarian) communities.
- 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
- September: Non-conform Freely
- 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 – 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’s Coming
SLW! Podcast #80-83–“Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?” annual series for Advent/Christmas (11/1, 11/15, 12/1, 12/15)
Daily Nudges for Nov.: More Celebrating
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.
- NEW – Advent Conspiracy: video, family guide and Advent calendar, Sunday School curriculum, Advent sermon outline // SLW! Podcast
- Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)
- 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
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NEW – “So What Can I Get You for Your Wedding?” Two sets of dishware, two sets of camping gear, two toasters? If you don’t need more “stuff,” register to celebrate love and family instead.
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NEW – How to Hook Kids into Civic Engagement. Looking for a way to get your kids more involved in the community? Here’s an easy place to start.
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NEW – Opt for a Greener, Simpler Halloween. Halloween is big business.This year, why not direct your spending and creativity toward a greener, simpler holiday?
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NEW – 7 Ways to Build Sane and Sustainable Money Habits. Help your kids stay on track managing their money by having a clear, values-based plan.
- The Common Good Podcast – back online! Check out the new site.
- Ep. 76: Let’s Have an Ugly Food Thanksgiving
- BONUS: 11 practical ways you can reduce food waste and save money
- Ep. 75: Jean Diaz–San Diego Community Land Trust
- Ep. 74: Paul Taylor–How Much Is Enough?
- 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 Thumb drive, 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
- Empowerment, not Suppression (10/21)
- Celebrating 25 Years of Environmental Justice (10/14)
- The Prodigal Goes Home (10/7)
- Stop Digging (9/30)
- Reclaiming an Abundant Life (9/23)
- 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
- Making Applesauce (7/26)
- 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.
- 035: Dayton
- 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)
- How Eden Is a Name for the Archetype of “The Garden” and Energizes Earth-size Living(10/18)
- Was Eden Ever an Ecologically Balanced Historical Place? (10/12)
- I’m Hoping You’ll Help Distribute My Next Book (Here’s What It’s About) (10/7)
- 10 Experiences That Change Our Consciousness—How We See and Act to Keep Earth Habitable (9/24)
- 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
- NEW–Manufactured Trends: A Marketing Arsenal Weapon You Should Watch Out For
- 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
- The Role of Slow in “No,” Letting Go, and Laziness (Brooke McAlary)–Ep. 111
- Dear Mindless, Busy Consumer and Buyer of Fleeting Joy–Ep. 110
- 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
- TreeHugger: Finding a Greener Future
- For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
- Upcoming Alternate Celebrations: Sept.-Dec.
What’s Happened
- The Ugly Food Project — SLW! Podcast Episodes #77 – Fighting for Clean Water & #76 – Celebrating Ugly Food — 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 guest speakers
- 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: “From Egos to Eden” book cover, courtesy of Jubilee OneEarth Economics
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.
Simpler Living Weekly Nudge
Posted on: October 19, 2016
Simpler Living Weekly Nudge
Oct. 19, 2016
- SLW! Podcast Ep. 79–Lee Van Ham, author, blogger, speaker, podcaster //
- Want to Contribute to WHOSE Birthday? 2016: An Advent and Christmas Resource for Families, Individuals and Churches. Submission Guidelines Whose Birthday? is for your personal inspiration, community education and sharing. This online-only edition is a work-in-progress. You can still submit ART or an ARTICLE. Although this resource is not available in print, you may make copies through the Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license. Choose from dozens of items for your own customized edition, if you prefer. //
- Worth Revisiting: Halloween //
- Our Simpler Living Weekly Daily Nudge // Easy-to-share for Oct.
- Relish These Sustenance QUOTES // ART //
- No More.
What’s NOW with SLW!
- 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
- October: Sustenance // Week 1: Food || Week 2: Recipes (from Developing Countries) & Food Preparation || Week 3: Sustainable Agriculture, Organic Farming || Week 4: Gardening
- SLW! Podcast Ep. 78–James Howard Kunstler, author, blogger, speaker, podcaster, social critic // He is best known for his books The Geography of Nowhere (1994), a history of American suburbia and urban development; The Long Emergency (2005); and most recently, Too Much Magic (2012). In The Long Emergency, he argues that declining oil production is likely to result in the end of industrialized society as we know it and force Americans to live in smaller-scale, localized, agrarian (or semi-agrarian) communities. World Made by Hand, Kunstler’s series of novels about such a culture in the future.
- SLW! Podcast — Ugly Food Project — Part 1: #76 – Celebrating Ugly Food/gleaning and Part 2:#77 – 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 // Making Applesauce – A spiritual experience with ugly food
- Interfaith Power & Light // Participate in the Election // Voter Reflection Guide // SLW! Podcast Ep.47 with IPL
- New SLW! Site Search Engine on Home Page Window #4
- 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!
- I gladly pass along links from simple living bloggers, podcasters, coaches and others in the SLW! Weekly Digest / blog – free, of course.
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – 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
- Upcoming Alternate Celebrations: Sept.-Dec.*
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // Collaborators & Champions // The OneEarth Project // Jubilee OneEarth Economics & The Common Good Podcast – new site!
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
- What’s Coming: SLW! Ep. 80-83 — “Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?” for Advent/Christmas
-
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 // Jerry’s current activities
*IMAGE: Spirit of Simplicity: Quotes & Art #1-A2152
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 humanitarian 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
Oct. 15, 2016
In This Issue:
- SLW! Podcast #79–Lee Van Ham: From Egos to Eden //
- Submit to WHOSE Birthday? #28 //
- Worth Revisiting: World Food Day/Frank Cordaro-Occupy World Food Prize; Halloween //
- Our Simpler Living Weekly Daily Nudge // Easy-to-share for Oct.
- Relish These Sustenance QUOTES // ART //
- What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
- More!
What’s NOW with SLW!
- SLW! Podcast #79–Lee Van Ham previews vol. 2 of his “Eden for the 21st Century” trilogy, entitled From Egos to Eden
- Want to Contribute to WHOSE Birthday? 2016: An Advent and Christmas Resource for Families, Individuals and Churches. Submission Guidelines Whose Birthday? is for your personal inspiration, community education and sharing. This online-only edition is a work-in-progress. You can still submit ART or an ARTICLE. Although this resource is not available in print, you may make all the copies you choose. It is covered by Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.
- Interfaith Power & Light // Participate in the Election // Voter Reflection Guide // SLW! Podcast Ep.47 with IPL
- World Food Day, Oct. 16 (UN): Climate Is Changing. Food and Agriculture Must Too.
- SLW! Podcast Ep. 78–James Howard Kunstler of KustlerCast, author of The Geography of Nowhere (1994), a history of American suburbia and urban development; The Long Emergency (2005); Too Much Magic (2012); and World Made by Hand series of novels. He argues that declining oil production is likely to result in the end of industrialized society as we know it and force Americans to live in smaller-scale, localized, agrarian (or semi-agrarian) communities.
- 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
- September: Non-conform Freely
- 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 – 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’s Coming
SLW! Podcast #80-83–“Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?” annual series for Advent/Christmas (11/1, 11/15, 12/1, 12/15)
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.
- NEW – Advent Conspiracy: video, family guide and Advent calendar, Sunday School curriculum, Advent sermon outline // SLW! Podcast
- Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)
- Inspiring Simplicity Reads (10/15)
- The Profound Joy of Completion (10/4)
- Inspiring Simplicity Reads (10/1)
- The 7 Internet Tools I Use for Blogging (9/28)
- You Are Doing a Noble Thing (9/22)
- Center for a New American Dream: Kids Unbranded Action Kit
- The Common Good Podcast – back online! Check out the new site.
- Ep. 76: Let’s Have an Ugly Food Thanksgiving
- Ep. 75: Jean Diaz–San Diego Community Land Trust
- Ep. 74: Paul Taylor–How Much Is Enough?
- 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 Thumb drive, 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
- Celebrating 25 Years of Environmental Justice (10/14)
- The Prodigal Goes Home (10/7)
- Stop Digging (9/30)
- Reclaiming an Abundant Life (9/23)
- Coalitions and Constituencies (9/16)
- 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
- Making Applesauce (7/26)
- 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.
- 035: Dayton
- 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)
- Was Eden Ever an Ecologically Balanced Historical Place? (10/12)
- I’m Hoping You’ll Help Distribute My Next Book (Here’s What It’s About) (10/7)
- 10 Experiences That Change Our Consciousness—How We See and Act to Keep Earth Habitable (9/24)
- “Seasoned Travelers” on the Heroic Journey (9/14)
- 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 / Full Article Library
- NEW–Manufactured Trends: A Marketing Arsenal Weapon You Should Watch Out For
- 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
- Dear Mindless, Busy Consumer and Buyer of Fleeting Joy–Ep. 110
- 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
- TreeHugger: Finding a Greener Future
- For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
- Upcoming Alternate Celebrations: Sept.-Dec.
What’s Happened
- The Ugly Food Project — SLW! Podcast Episodes #77 – Fighting for Clean Water & #76 – Celebrating Ugly Food — 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 guest speakers
- 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: Lee Van Ham, courtesy of Jubilee OneEarth Economics
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.
Simpler Living Weekly Nudge
Posted on: October 12, 2016
Simpler Living Weekly Nudge
Oct. 12, 2016
- SLW! Podcast Ep. 78–James Howard Kunstler, author, blogger, speaker, podcaster, social critic //
- Worth Revisiting: Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur; Columbus/Indigenous Peoples Day; Halloween //
- Our Simpler Living Weekly Daily Nudge // Easy-to-share for Oct.
- Relish These Sustenance QUOTES // ART //
- No More.
What’s NOW with SLW!
- 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
- October: Sustenance // Week 1: Food || Week 2: Recipes (from Developing Countries) & Food Preparation || Week 3: Sustainable Agriculture, Organic Farming || Week 4: Gardening
- SLW! Podcast Ep. 78–James Howard Kunstler, author, blogger, speaker, podcaster, social critic // He is best known for his books The Geography of Nowhere (1994), a history of American suburbia and urban development; The Long Emergency (2005); and most recently, Too Much Magic (2012). In The Long Emergency, he argues that declining oil production is likely to result in the end of industrialized society as we know it and force Americans to live in smaller-scale, localized, agrarian (or semi-agrarian) communities. World Made by Hand, Kunstler’s series of novels about such a culture in the future.
- SLW! Podcast — Ugly Food Project — Part 1: #76 – Celebrating Ugly Food/gleaning and Part 2:#77 – 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 // Making Applesauce – A spiritual experience with ugly food
- Interfaith Power & Light // Participate in the Election // Voter Reflection Guide // SLW! Podcast Ep.47 with IPL
- New SLW! Site Search Engine on Home Page Window #4
- 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!
- I gladly pass along links from simple living bloggers, podcasters, coaches and others in the SLW! Weekly Digest / blog – free, of course.
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – 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
- Upcoming Alternate Celebrations: Sept.-Dec.*
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // Collaborators & Champions // The OneEarth Project // Jubilee OneEarth Economics & The Common Good Podcast – new site!
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
- What’s Coming: SLW! Ep. 79–Lee Van Ham previews the forthcoming vol.2 of his “Eden for the 21st Century” trilogy, entitled “from Egos to Eden” (10/15) [Preview now]
-
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 // Jerry’s current activities
*IMAGE: The Harrows of Spring, latest “World Made by Hand” novel by James Howard Kunstler
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 humanitarian 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
Oct. 8, 2016
In This Issue:
- SLW! Podcast Ep. 78–James Howard Kunstler, author, blogger, speaker, podcaster, social critic //
- Worth Revisiting: Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur; Columbus/Indigenous Peoples Day; Halloween //
- Our Simpler Living Weekly Daily Nudge // Easy-to-share for Oct.
- Relish These Sustenance QUOTES // ART //
- What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
- More!
What’s NOW with SLW!
- SLW! Podcast Ep. 78–James Howard Kunstler of KustlerCast, author of The Geography of Nowhere (1994), a history of American suburbia and urban development; The Long Emergency (2005); Too Much Magic (2012); and World Made by Hand series of novels. He argues that declining oil production is likely to result in the end of industrialized society as we know it and force Americans to live in smaller-scale, localized, agrarian (or semi-agrarian) communities.
- 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
- September: Non-conform Freely
- 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 – 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’s Coming
SLW! Podcast #79–“From Egos to Eden,” a preview of vol. 2 of Lee Van Ham’s “Eden for the 21st Century” trilogy. (10/15)
SLW! Podcast #80-83–“Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?” annual series for Advent/Christmas
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 – back online! Check out the new site.
- Ep. 76: Let’s Have an Ugly Food Thanksgiving
- Ep. 75: Jean Diaz–San Diego Community Land Trust
- Ep. 74: Paul Taylor–How Much Is Enough?
- 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 Thumb drive, 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
- The Prodigal Goes Home (10/7)
- Stop Digging (9/30)
- Reclaiming an Abundant Life (9/23)
- Coalitions and Constituencies (9/16)
- Stand with Standing Rock (9/9)
- 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
- Making Applesauce (7/26)
- 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.
- 035: Dayton
- 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)
- I’m Hoping You’ll Help Distribute My Next Book (Here’s What It’s About) (10/7)
- 10 Experiences That Change Our Consciousness—How We See and Act to Keep Earth Habitable (9/24)
- “Seasoned Travelers” on the Heroic Journey (9/14)
- The Dakota Access Pipeline—Follow It on “Indian Country Today Media Network” (9/9)
- 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
- NEW–Manufactured Trends: A Marketing Arsenal Weapon You Should Watch Out For
- 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
- Dear Mindless, Busy Consumer and Buyer of Fleeting Joy–Ep. 110
- 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
- TreeHugger: Finding a Greener Future
- For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
- Upcoming Alternate Celebrations: Sept.-Dec.
What’s Happened
- The Ugly Food Project — SLW! Podcast Episodes #77 – Fighting for Clean Water & #76 – Celebrating Ugly Food — 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 guest speakers
- SLW! Podcast Ep. 75 – Jim Goetsch of Friends of the Third World
- 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: James Howard Kunstler, courtesy Kunstler.com
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.
Simpler Living Weekly Nudge
Posted on: October 5, 2016
Simpler Living Weekly Nudge
Oct. 5, 2016
- SLW! Podcast Ep. 78–James Howard Kunstler, author, blogger, speaker, podcaster, social critic //
- Worth Revisiting: Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur; Columbus/Indigenous Peoples Day; Halloween //
- Our Simpler Living Weekly Daily Nudge // Easy-to-share for Oct.
- Relish These Sustenance QUOTES // ART //
- No More.
What’s NOW with SLW!
- 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
- October: Sustenance // Week 1: Food || Week 2: Recipes (from Developing Countries) & Food Preparation || Week 3: Sustainable Agriculture, Organic Farming || Week 4: Gardening
- SLW! Podcast Ep. 78–James Howard Kunstler, author, blogger, speaker, podcaster, social critic // He is best known for his books The Geography of Nowhere (1994), a history of American suburbia and urban development; The Long Emergency (2005); and most recently, Too Much Magic (2012). In The Long Emergency, he argues that declining oil production is likely to result in the end of industrialized society as we know it and force Americans to live in smaller-scale, localized, agrarian (or semi-agrarian) communities. World Made by Hand, Kunstler’s series of novels about such a culture in the future.
- SLW! Podcast — Ugly Food Project — Part 1: #76 – Celebrating Ugly Food/gleaning and Part 2:#77 – 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 // Making Applesauce – A spiritual experience with ugly food
- Interfaith Power & Light // Participate in the Election // Voter Reflection Guide // SLW! Podcast Ep.47 with IPL
- New SLW! Site Search Engine on Home Page Window #4
- 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!
- I gladly pass along links from simple living bloggers, podcasters, coaches and others in the SLW! Weekly Digest / blog – free, of course.
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – 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
- Upcoming Alternate Celebrations: Sept.-Dec.*
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // Collaborators & Champions // The OneEarth Project // Jubilee OneEarth Economics & The Common Good Podcast – new site!
- 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 // Jerry’s current activities
*IMAGE: Spirit of Simplicity ART #1-A505-1: Cherish the Natural Order (Care for Creation)
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 humanitarian 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! eNews
Posted on: October 2, 2016
Simple Living Works! eNews
Oct. 1, 2016
In This Issue:
- SLW! Podcast Ep. 78–James Howard Kunstler, author, blogger, speaker, podcaster, social critic //
- Worth Revisiting: Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur; Columbus/Indigenous Peoples Day; Halloween //
- Our Simpler Living Weekly Daily Nudge // Easy-to-share for Oct.
- Relish These Sustenance QUOTES // ART //
- What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
- More!
What’s NOW with SLW!
- SLW! Podcast Ep. 78–James Howard Kunstler of KustlerCast, author of The Geography of Nowhere (1994), a history of American suburbia and urban development; The Long Emergency (2005); Too Much Magic (2012); and World Made by Hand series of novels. He argues that declining oil production is likely to result in the end of industrialized society as we know it and force Americans to live in smaller-scale, localized, agrarian (or semi-agrarian) communities.
- The Ugly Food Project — SLW! Podcast Episodes #77 – Fighting for Clean Water & #76 – Celebrating Ugly Food
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 – 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)
- The Profound Joy of Completion (10/4)
- Inspiring Simplicity Reads (10/1)
- The 7 Internet Tools I Use for Blogging (9/28)
- 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)
- Center for a New American Dream: Kids Unbranded Action Kit
- The Common Good Podcast – back online! Check out the new site.
- Ep. 76: Let’s Have an Ugly Food Thanksgiving
- Ep. 75: Jean Diaz–San Diego Community Land Trust
- Ep. 74: Paul Taylor–How Much Is Enough?
- 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
- Stop Digging (9/30)
- Reclaiming an Abundant Life (9/23)
- Coalitions and Constituencies (9/16)
- Stand with Standing Rock (9/9)
- Wages, Justice & Labor (9/2)
- 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
- Making Applesauce (7/26)
- 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)
- 10 Experiences That Change Our Consciousness—How We See and Act to Keep Earth Habitable (9/24)
- “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)
- 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
- NEW–Manufactured Trends: A Marketing Arsenal Weapon You Should Watch Out For
- 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
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // Collaborators & Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
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