Simple Living Works!

Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest

June 22, 2017

In This Issue:

• SLW! Podcast #95 — Peter Sawtell of Eco-Justice Ministries (6/15)  //
• SLW! Podcast #94 — Iowa State Senator Rob Hogg, author of America’s Climate Century (6/1)  //
• Simpler Living SANITY & SURVIVAL 
• Our Simpler Living Daily Nudge // JUNE
• What Others Are Doing – So Much Help – Latest Posts!
• More!

What’s NOW with SLW!

• SLW! Podcast #95 — Peter Sawtell of Eco-Justice Ministries (6/15)
• SLW! Podcast #94: Iowa State Senator Rob Hogg, author of America’s Climate Century. Despite current backwards government, he shares positive vision.
• Banishing Fake News. READ MORE // See more Media Literacy resources.
• We’ve cancelled our vacation to Alaska and plan to see the fall colors in Vermont instead. More information about “I Buy Blue. Won’t You Too?“
• Simpler Living SANITY & SURVIVAL: New Suggestion in each Weekly Nudge. Survival #5. Keep at least three days of food and water on hand, as well as an emergency preparedness kit.
• 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
  • June: NEW (Alternative Giving)

• 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 Daily Calendar – JUNE
• 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 July — Shane Claiborne of TheSimpleWay.org and RedLetterChristians.org, author of the new Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It’s Killing Us

What Others Are Doing – So Much Help! – Latest Posts

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. COMPLETE LIST — Monthly Digest

• Alternative Radio Podcast (David Barsamian)
• Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)
  • Inspiring Simplicity Reads (6/24)
  • What To Do When a Distraction Becomes a Lifestyle (6/22)
  • How Space Influences What We Buy (6/15)
  • Four Lessons on Money I Learned After Making $1 Million (6/12)
  • NEW Simplify Magazine 001 (online quarterly)
• Center for a New American Dream 
  • View all of our Simplify the Holidays resources.
• The Common Good Podcast
  • Episode 84: Patricia St. Onge: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Peoples Coming Together for OneEarth Living (6/1)
  • Episode #83 — Hazel Henderson, founder of Ethical Markets Media, and Series Creator and Co-Executive Producer of its TV series: Reforming Economies to Work for the Wellbeing of All Creatures (5/1)
• Earth Island Journal (Earth Island Institute): Latest News // Current Issue 
• Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) New Song Made for These Times for “Ladies Sewing and Resistance Society” counters the anti-woman, bullying, hate filled policies of the new administration. Lead sheet with melody line, full lyrics, video (1 minute) of singing and sewing, video (6 minute) including wonderful short interviews — all at Monthly Digest (above).
• Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive // SLW! Podcast #18 // SLW! Podcast #66
  • Eco-Justice and Health Care, 2017  (6/23)
  • Pray for the Rain Forest (6/16)
  • Defending Earth Community (6/9)
  • There Is Still an Agreement (6/2)
  • The Pontiff vs. the President (5/26)
• Jubilee Economics / Casa Jubileo
  • Mixed News at Medicare-for-All Rally (5/26)
  • A World Famous Prayer Opposes Superpowers, Urges Jubilee Living
• Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways
  • Going Beyond My Bubble – Why and how I became motivated to reach out to those who voted differently than me.
  • Procrastination Redeemed – 5 lessons learned from continuing last Lent’s effort to declutter my work space and how the first step revealed unintended additional steps but also unexpected finds.
  • Political Conversations – an interruption – or was it
  • Updating My Life: Files  // Paper  //  Books
  • Letting Go of Health – Life interrupted: 9 lessons from a fall.
• 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.
  • 083 | Rob
  • 082 | Hoarding
  • 081 | Bloodchocolate
  • 080 | Family
  • Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things
• Northwest Earth Institute // SLW! Podcast
• The OneEarth Project (Lee Van Ham) // SLW! Podcast //
  • Patricia St. Onge (Haudenosaune) on Standing Together since Standing Rock (6/12)
  • Kiss the Ground and Affectionately Solve the Crisis of Too Much CO2 in Our Air
  • Teaching Important Ecology Choices in Adult Forums at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Episcopal (5/13)
  • The Launch of “Eco-Ministry for Life on Earth” Course (5/6)
• PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough / Full Article Library
  • Environmental article archive, our Save the Planet hub, our Tree Hugging Center for Arbor Day and our favorite Earth Day quotes!
  • Tallying the Environmental Movement’s Wins and Losses in 2016
  • Need vs. Want vs. Impact
  • The Environmental Benefits of a Vegetarian Diet
  • Lessons Learned from Prince
• NEW weekly Prayer & Politiks (Ken Sehested): At the intersection of spiritual formation and prophetic action
  • God and stuff: Lawnmowers, banking boodle, and the Spirit’s traffic in human affairs
  •  Signs of the Times (6/13)–Refugee Sunday: News, views, notes, and quotes
• Simple Living: the Good Life (Janet Luhrs)–Time, Finances, Home-Work, Health.
• Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity
• Smart and Simple Matters podcast (Joel Zaslofsky of Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time, Money and Talent) // SLW! Podcast
• For links to earlier entries, check the SLW! Monthly Digest.
• Non-Conform-Freely Celebrations: May-Aug.

What’s Happened

• SLW! Podcast #93: Adrienne Raimo of OneBiteWellness.com, coordinator of The Minimalists, Columbus, OH
• SLW! Podcasts #91, part 1; #92, part 2 — Hazel Henderson, founder of Ethical Markets, and Series Creator and Co-Executive Producer of its TV series
• Review of Lee Van Ham’s new “From Egos to Eden: Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable,” vol. 2 of the “Eden for the 21st Century” Trilogy. Colleague Lee’s new book is now available on Amazon in print and ebook and other locations where you can get the ebook (Nook, iBooks, Kobo).
• Post-Election Emergency/Disaster Preparedness and Survival Guide
• New Simpler Formats for 2017 — The monthly SLW! eNews and Weekly Digest will feature only the latest posts from colleague organizations. The complete Monthly Digest only on the SLW! site will be updated at least once a week. The Weekly Nudge will feature only offering from SLW! Both the Weekly Digest and Weekly Nudge come as part of your free subscription to SLW! Blog. The Daily Nudge comes by email (send NUDGE to SimpleLivingworks@yahoo.com) or by Twitter @GeraldIversen. Choose the options that work for you.
• Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // Collaborators & Champions
• Recent Responses to all SLW! media
  

  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 #5-A1399

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

  Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011.

Eco-Justice Ministries

 Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest

June 15, 2017

In This Issue:

• SLW! Podcast #95 — Peter Sawtell of Eco-Justice Ministries (6/15)  //
• SLW! Podcast #94 — Iowa State Senator Rob Hogg, author of America’s Climate Century (6/1)  //
• Banishing “Fake News” // Simpler Living SANITY & SURVIVAL // I Buy Blue // 
• Our Simpler Living Daily Nudge // JUNE
• What Others Are Doing – So Much Help – Latest Posts!
• More!

What’s NOW with SLW!

• SLW! Podcast #95 — Peter Sawtell of Eco-Justice Ministries (6/15)
• SLW! Podcast #94: Iowa State Senator Rob Hogg, author of America’s Climate Century. Despite current backwards government, he shares positive vision.
• Banishing Fake News. READ MORE // See more Media Literacy resources.
• We’ve cancelled our vacation to Alaska and plan to see the fall colors in Vermont instead. More information about “I Buy Blue. Won’t You Too?“
• Simpler Living SANITY & SURVIVAL: New Suggestion in each Weekly Nudge. Survival #4.  Live simply to lower your income and thereby lower your Federal Income Tax; give as much as you possibly can to the needy through low-overhead charities. This is vital to keep as much money as possible away from the military, which exists primarily to protect the interests of the rich.
• 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
  • June: NEW (Alternative Giving)

• 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 Daily Calendar – JUNE
• 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 July — Shane Claiborne of TheSimpleWay.org and RedLetterChristians.org, author of the new Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It’s Killing Us

What Others Are Doing – So Much Help! – Latest Posts

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. COMPLETE LIST — Monthly Digest

• Alternative Radio Podcast (David Barsamian)
• Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)
  • How Space Influences What We Buy (6/15)
  • Four Lessons on Money I Learned After Making $1 Million (6/12)
  • NEW Simplify Magazine 001 (online quarterly)
  • Inspiring Simplicity Reads  (6/10)
  • All The Things I Want to Say About Money But Never Do (6/6)
  • Minimalism Means Adventure (5/29)
• Center for a New American Dream 
  • View all of our Simplify the Holidays resources.
• The Common Good Podcast
  • Episode 84: Patricia St. Onge: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Peoples Coming Together for OneEarth Living (6/1)
  • Episode #83 — Hazel Henderson, founder of Ethical Markets Media, and Series Creator and Co-Executive Producer of its TV series: Reforming Economies to Work for the Wellbeing of All Creatures (5/1)
• Earth Island Journal (Earth Island Institute): Latest News // Current Issue 
• Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) New Song Made for These Times for “Ladies Sewing and Resistance Society” counters the anti-woman, bullying, hate filled policies of the new administration. Lead sheet with melody line, full lyrics, video (1 minute) of singing and sewing, video (6 minute) including wonderful short interviews — all at Monthly Digest (above).
• Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive // SLW! Podcast #18 // SLW! Podcast #66
  • Defending Earth Community (6/9)
  • There Is Still an Agreement (6/2)
  • The Pontiff vs. the President (5/26)
  • The Island of Plastic Junk (5/19)
• Jubilee Economics / Casa Jubileo
  • Mixed News at Medicare-for-All Rally (5/26)
  • A Bit of Encouragement from the Red Mid-West (4/18)
  • Centro Cultural Daniel Swanson (3/16)
  • A World Famous Prayer Opposes Superpowers, Urges Jubilee Living (3/11)
• Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways
  • Going Beyond My Bubble – Why and how I became motivated to reach out to those who voted differently than me
  • Procrastination Redeemed – 5 lessons learned from continuing last Lent’s effort to declutter my work space and how the first step revealed unintended additional steps but also unexpected finds.
  • Political Conversations – an interruption – or was it
  • Updating My Life #1 – Files –  How to evaluate what work files are worth keeping
  • Updating My Life #2 – Paper – Applying similar criteria to even more paper
  • Updating My Life #3 – Books – The mystery of how getting rid of some books required a bigger bookcase.
  • Letting Go of Health – Life interrupted: 9 lessons from a fall.

  Although I haven’t written it yet, my mind has been working on the idea of “Letting Go of Hate.” It’s a follow up to my “Political Conversations” post. Stay tuned.

• 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.
  • 082 | Hoarding
  • 081 | Bloodchocolate
  • 080 | Family
  • 079 | Collisions
  • Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things
• Northwest Earth Institute // SLW! Podcast
• The OneEarth Project (Lee Van Ham) // SLW! Podcast //
  • Kiss the Ground and Affectionately Solve the Crisis of Too Much CO2 in Our Air
  • Teaching Important Ecology Choices in Adult Forums at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Episcopal (5/13)
  • The Launch of “Eco-Ministry for Life on Earth” Course (5/6)
• PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough / Full Article Library
  • Environmental article archive, our Save the Planet hub, our Tree Hugging Center for Arbor Day and our favorite Earth Day quotes!
  • Tallying the Environmental Movement’s Wins and Losses in 2016
  • Need vs. Want vs. Impact
  • The Environmental Benefits of a Vegetarian Diet
  • Lessons Learned from Prince
• NEW weekly Prayer & Politiks (Ken Sehested): At the intersection of spiritual formation and prophetic action
  • God and stuff: Lawnmowers, banking boodle, and the Spirit’s traffic in human affairs
  •  Signs of the Times (6/13)–Refugee Sunday: News, views, notes, and quotes
• Simple Living: the Good Life (Janet Luhrs)–Time, Finances, Home-Work, Health.
• Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity
• Smart and Simple Matters podcast (Joel Zaslofsky of Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time, Money and Talent) // SLW! Podcast
• For links to earlier entries, check the SLW! Monthly Digest.
• Non-Conform-Freely Celebrations: May-Aug.

What’s Happened

• SLW! Podcast #93: Adrienne Raimo of OneBiteWellness.com, coordinator of The Minimalists, Columbus, OH
• SLW! Podcasts #91, part 1; #92, part 2 — Hazel Henderson, founder of Ethical Markets, and Series Creator and Co-Executive Producer of its TV series
• Mixed News at Medicare-for-All Rally
• Review of Lee Van Ham’s new “From Egos to Eden: Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable,” vol. 2 of the “Eden for the 21st Century” Trilogy. Colleague Lee’s new book is now available on Amazon in print and ebook and other locations where you can get the ebook (Nook, iBooks, Kobo).
• Post-Election Emergency/Disaster Preparedness and Survival Guide
• New Simpler Formats for 2017 — The monthly SLW! eNews and Weekly Digest will feature only the latest posts from colleague organizations. The complete Monthly Digest only on the SLW! site will be updated at least once a week. The Weekly Nudge will feature only offering from SLW! Both the Weekly Digest and Weekly Nudge come as part of your free subscription to SLW! Blog. The Daily Nudge comes by email (send NUDGE to SimpleLivingworks@yahoo.com) or by Twitter @GeraldIversen. Choose the options that work for you.
• Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // Collaborators & Champions
• Recent Responses to all SLW! media
  

  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: Eco-Justice Ministries logo

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

  Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011.

Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest

June 8, 2017

In This Issue:

• SLW! Podcast #94 — Iowa State Senator Rob Hogg, author of America’s Climate Century (6/1)  //
• Mixed News at Medicare-for-All Rally //
• Banishing “Fake News” // Simpler Living SANITY & SURVIVAL // I Buy Blue // 
• Our Simpler Living Daily Nudge // JUNE
• What Others Are Doing – So Much Help – Latest Posts!
• More!

What’s NOW with SLW!

• SLW! Podcast #94: Iowa State Senator Rob Hogg, author of America’s Climate Century. Despite current backwards government, he shares positive vision.
• SLW! Podcast #93: Adrienne Raimo of OneBiteWellness.com, coordinator of The Minimalists, Columbus, OH
• Banishing Fake News. READ MORE // See more Media Literacy resources.
• We’ve cancelled our vacation to Alaska and plan to see the fall colors in Vermont instead. More information about “I Buy Blue. Won’t You Too?“
• Simpler Living SANITY & SURVIVAL: Suggestions in Weekly Nudge.
• 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
  • June: NEW (Alternative Giving)

• 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 Daily Calendar – JUNE
• 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 #95 — Peter Sawtell, Eco-Justice Ministries (6/15) [PREVIEW]

SLW! Podcast July — Shane Claiborne of The Simple Way and RedLetterChristians.org

What Others Are Doing – So Much Help! – Latest Posts

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. COMPLETE LIST — Monthly Digest

• Alternative Radio Podcast (David Barsamian)
• Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)
  • Four Lessons on Money I Learned After Making $1 Million (6/12)
  • NEW Simplify Magazine 001 (online quarterly)
  • Inspiring Simplicity Reads  (6/10)
  • All The Things I Want to Say About Money But Never Do (6/6)
  • Minimalism Means Adventure (5/29)
  • Inspiring Simplicity Reads (5/27)
  • 5 Signs You Need a Technology Detox (5/22)
  • Five Better Ways to Measure Your Life (5/15)
  • Inspiring Simplicity Reads (5/13)
  • The Joy of Living Within Your Means (5/9)
• Center for a New American Dream 
  • View all of our Simplify the Holidays resources.
• The Common Good Podcast
  • Episode 84: Patricia St. Onge: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Peoples Coming Together for OneEarth Living (6/1)
  • Episode #83 — Hazel Henderson, founder of Ethical Markets Media, and Series Creator and Co-Executive Producer of its TV series: Reforming Economies to Work for the Wellbeing of All Creatures (5/1)
• Earth Island Journal (Earth Island Institute): Latest News // Current Issue 
• Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) New Song Made for These Times for “Ladies Sewing and Resistance Society” counters the anti-woman, bullying, hate filled policies of the new administration. Lead sheet with melody line, full lyrics, video (1 minute) of singing and sewing, video (6 minute) including wonderful short interviews — all at Monthly Digest (above).
• Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive // SLW! Podcast #18 // SLW! Podcast #66
  • Defending Earth Community (6/9)
  • There Is Still an Agreement (6/2)
  • The Pontiff vs. the President (5/26)
  • The Island of Plastic Junk (5/19)
  • God, Mammon and Methane (5/12)
  • Churches and Political Speech (5/05)
  • Four Sentences for Climate Justice (4/28)
• Jubilee Economics / Casa Jubileo
  • Mixed News at King Rally (5/26)
  • A Bit of Encouragement from the Red Mid-West (4/18)
  • Centro Cultural Daniel Swanson (3/16)
  • A World Famous Prayer Opposes Superpowers, Urges Jubilee Living (3/11)
• Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways
  • Going Beyond My Bubble – Why and how I became motivated to reach out to those who voted differently than me
  • Procrastination Redeemed – 5 lessons learned from continuing last Lent’s effort to declutter my work space and how the first step revealed unintended additional steps but also unexpected finds.
  • Political Conversations – an interruption – or was it
  • Updating My Life #1 – Files –  How to evaluate what work files are worth keeping
  • Updating My Life #2 – Paper – Applying similar criteria to even more paper
  • Updating My Life #3 – Books – The mystery of how getting rid of some books required a bigger bookcase.
  • Letting Go of Health – Life interrupted: 9 lessons from a fall.

  Although I haven’t written it yet, my mind has been working on the idea of “Letting Go of Hate.” It’s a follow up to my “Political Conversations” post. Stay tuned.

• 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.
  • 080 | Family
  • 079 | Collisions
  • 078 | Q&A
  • 077 | Seattle
  • 076 | LiveWire
  • Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things
• NEW–Northwest Earth Institute // SLW! Podcast
• The OneEarth Project (Lee Van Ham) // SLW! Podcast //
  • Kiss the Ground and Affectionately Solve the Crisis of Too Much CO2 in Our Air
  • Teaching Important Ecology Choices in Adult Forums at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Episcopal (5/13)
  • The Launch of “Eco-Ministry for Life on Earth” Course (5/6)
• PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough / Full Article Library
  • Environmental article archive, our Save the Planet hub, our Tree Hugging Center for Arbor Day and our favorite Earth Day quotes!
  • Tallying the Environmental Movement’s Wins and Losses in 2016
  • Need vs. Want vs. Impact
  • The Environmental Benefits of a Vegetarian Diet
  • Lessons Learned from Prince
• NEW weekly Prayer & Politiks (Ken Sehested): At the intersection of spiritual formation and prophetic action
  • “God and stuff: Lawnmowers, banking boodle, and the Spirit’s traffic in human affairs”
  •  Signs of the Times (6/13)–Refugee Sunday: News, views, notes, and quotes
• Simple Living: the Good Life (Janet Luhrs)–Time, Finances, Home-Work, Health.
• Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity
• Smart and Simple Matters podcast (Joel Zaslofsky of Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time, Money and Talent) // SLW! Podcast
• For links to earlier entries, check the SLW! Monthly Digest.
• Non-Conform-Freely Celebrations: May-Aug.

What’s Happened

• SLW! Podcasts #91, part 1; #92, part 2 — Hazel Henderson, founder of Ethical Markets, and Series Creator and Co-Executive Producer of its TV series
• SLW! Podcast #90 —Author, blogger, speaker, coach Susan Vogt‘s timely Lenten discipline “Love your enemy” in the highly charged political scene.
• Review of Lee Van Ham’s new “From Egos to Eden: Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable,” vol. 2 of the “Eden for the 21st Century” Trilogy. Colleague Lee’s new book is now available on Amazon in print and ebook and other locations where you can get the ebook (Nook, iBooks, Kobo).
• Post-Election Emergency/Disaster Preparedness and Survival Guide
• New Simpler Formats for 2017 — The monthly SLW! eNews and Weekly Digest will feature only the latest posts from colleague organizations. The complete Monthly Digest only on the SLW! site will be updated at least once a week. The Weekly Nudge will feature only offering from SLW! Both the Weekly Digest and Weekly Nudge come as part of your free subscription to SLW! Blog. The Daily Nudge comes by email (send NUDGE to SimpleLivingworks@yahoo.com) or by Twitter @GeraldIversen. Choose the options that work for you.
• Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // Collaborators & Champions
• Recent Responses to all SLW! media
  

  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 #3-A545

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

  Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011.