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Who’s Risen from the Dead, Anyway? is an expanding, free collection of alternative resources for Lent/Holy/Week/Easter. (It gets its name, of course, from Alternatives’ best known annual resource for Advent/Christmas/Epiphany “Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?”)
This year it features ten lenten blogs by author, speaker, workshop leader Susan Vogt. Susan is also our interviewee on both episodes of SLW! Podcast this month. Get to know her in Part One. Part Two, released Feb. 15, focuses on alternative Lenten practices.
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Part of my own lenten discipline this year is to be intentional about highlighting resources from “Who’s Risen?” on a daily basis through social media. If you’d like a gentle reminder, follow me on Twitter and Linked-In. The reminders will, appropriately, center around the Alternatives’ resources based on Liturgical Year B (Mark) — reflections, family activities and a daily calendar/journal.
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- Learning to Live by God’s Truth
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- Sustainable Happiness: Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference — With contributions by writers like Annie Leonard, Matthieu Ricard, and Vandana Shiva, SUSTAINABLE HAPPINESS features some of the most insightful and eloquent thinkers YES! has worked with on the meaning, and pursuit, of happiness. What is true happiness if it doesn’t include the happiness of others and the health of a living planet? // “Somehow a working planet, a thriving society, and a satisfying personal life are hitched together—and this fine volume offers powerful clues on the search for those connections!” — Bill McKibben, author and environmental leader // Sustainable Happiness: Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference Edited by Sarah van Gelder and the staff of YES! Magazine, Paperback, 168 pages // I’ve added Sustainable Happiness to SLW! Recommends. // Why buy from YES! Magazine? YES! offers a 12% discount off the retail price on single copies (41% discount on purchases of five copies at a time (5-pack $49.95). By purchasing in our online store, you will be supporting nonprofit, ad-free independent media. List Price: $16.95. YES! Price: $14.95 (You Save 12%) And eligible for FREE shipping (U.S. only) on orders of $25 or more.
- The Great March for Climate Action // David Zahrt was the oldest member of the team that hiked across America — from Los Angeles to D.C. — in eight months, the Great March for Climate Action. Read his Ruminations. David and Lin live in co-housing with his sister and her spouse. They comment on the new Shared Housing Blog of Jubilee-Economics.org, a collaborating organization of SLW! One of the leaders for the march was Ed Fallon, a progressive radio talk show host of The Fallon Forum and seven-term member of the Iowa Legislature. Another Iowan worth knowing is State Senator Rob Hogg, leader of Iowa Climate Advocates and author of America’s Climate Century. Hear my interview with him. Read his monthly climate actions.
- Home-Stay Clubs — Our Preferred Way to
Travel We get our own room, usually a private bath and a lovely breakfast for $20. The real beauty of home-stay clubs is that we meet some terrific folks and have several hours of stimulating conversation. For us this arrangement embodies one of the Life Standards of Living More with Less — “Nurture People.” Mennonite Your Way || Evergreen || Affordable Travel Club || Home stays are so much more than a bargain! - Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – February
- 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
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What’s Coming
- Feb. SLW! Podcast – Author, speaker and blogger Susan Vogt
- March – Blogger, event organizer Joel Zaslofsky. Joel is the Chief Simplifier, Curator, and Founder at Value of Simple. He also hosts the popular Smart and Simple Matters show, SimpleREV Conference and All Things SimpleREV Podcast.
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What’s Happened
- SLW! Podcast Episodes #36-37 — Duane Elgin // Duane on SLW! Voluntary Simplicity: Lifestyle of the Future? // His professional website: GreatTransitionStories.org // His personal site: DuaneElgin.com: About • Speaking • Great Transition Stories • Articles • Blog • Videos • Audio Files • Books • Contact // His writings there on Sustainability and Simplicity || Champion of Simple Living Today
- Highlights of SLW! 2014 Annual Report // Interviews of Champions of Simple Living Today will intensify in 2015. New Services include ‘SLW! Recommends’ Literacy Service and Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites.
- Authentic Happiness in a Consumer Culture by Annie Leonard, Founder of The Story of Stuff Project, now Executive Director of GreenPeaceUSA, and Sarah van Gelder, Editor of YES! Magazine. Explore the meaning of real happiness rather than the empty happiness produced by a consumer culture that devalues interpersonal relationships in favor of “stuff” and leaves the Earth broken and full of trash. Media and Consumer Capitalism: Justin Lewis’ podcast, book and DVD
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions: THANKS to Duane Elgin for putting me onto some of the above. Don’t miss my recent podcast interview with Duane.
- Having an Epiphany for New Years — Epiphany season: Jan. 6 till the beginning of Lent on Ash Wed., Feb. 18 this year || New Year New Daily Inspiration Calendar
- NEXT Fall Festival Resources: Fall Plans blog
- Send a Message! Be the Message! | Free stickers and fliers to use at Christmas or year ’round through the mail and email. Also, read Seeds of Influence, part 1 | part 2.
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
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What Others Are Doing
- The Common Good Podcast
Episode 56: Carol Watkins on Shared Housing - NEW three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals
Conversation about The OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham. | TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 | Lee’s new Slide Show
- The Common Good Podcast
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).
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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 Feedback AT SimpleLivingWorks DOT org [or SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com or SimpleLivingWorks2@gmail.com], leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
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 several times a week.
Our daughter Elysha’s favorite magazine is YES! The Yes! founders, Fran and David Korten, and editor Sarah van Gelder, have been colleagues of Alternatives/SLW! for over a decade.
A board member of colleague organization Jubilee Economics recently sent this recommendation:
My friend gave me this book for Christmas. I am always happy to read a non-consumerism message, especially when it is geared toward how we can be happier without too much stuff. –Patricia ‘Trish’ Goedecke
I’ve added Sustainable Happiness to SLW! Recommends.
Sustainable Happiness: Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference
Edited by Sarah van Gelder and the staff of YES! Magazine
Paperback, 168 pages
With contributions by writers like Annie Leonard, Matthieu Ricard, and Vandana Shiva, SUSTAINABLE HAPPINESS features some of the most insightful and eloquent thinkers YES! has worked with on the meaning, and pursuit, of happiness. What is true happiness if it doesn’t include the happiness of others and the health of a living planet?
“Somehow a working planet, a thriving society, and a satisfying personal life are hitched together—and this fine volume offers powerful clues on the search for those connections!” — Bill McKibben, author and environmental leader
Why buy from YES! Magazine?
- YES! offers a 12% discount off the retail price on single copies (41% discount on purchases of five copies at a time (5-packs)
- By purchasing in our online store, you will be supporting nonprofit, ad-free independent media
- List Price: $16.95. Price: $14.95 (You Save 12%)
And eligible for FREE Shipping (U.S. Only) on orders of $25 or more. Or, click here to buy 5 copies at a time (5-Packs) and save 41% Special 5-Packs for $49.95
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- The Great March for Climate Action // David Zahrt was the oldest member of the team that hiked across America — from Los Angeles to D.C. — in eight months, the Great March for Climate Action. At the end of the trip he filed his Ruminations, which I urge you to read. David and Lin live in co-housing with his sister and her spouse. They comment on the new Shared Housing Blog of Jubilee-Economics.org, a collaborating organization of SLW! One of the leaders for the march was Ed Fallon, a progressive radio talk show host of The Fallon Forum and seven-term member of the Iowa Legislature. Another Iowan worth knowing is State Senator Rob Hogg, leader of Iowa Climate Advocates and author of America’s Climate Century. Hear my interview with him here. Read his monthly climate actions here.
- SLW! Podcast Episodes #36-37 — Duane Elgin // Duane on SLW! Voluntary Simplicity: Lifestyle of the Future? // His professional website: GreatTransitionStories.org // His personal site: DuaneElgin.com: About • Speaking • Great Transition Stories • Articles • Blog • Videos • Audio Files • Books • Contact // His writings there on Sustainability and Simplicity || Champion of Simple Living Today
- Home-Stay Clubs — Our Preferred Way to
Travel We get our own room, usually a private bath and a lovely breakfast for $20. The real beauty of home-stay clubs is that we meet some terrific folks and have several hours of stimulating conversation. For us this arrangement embodies one of the Life Standards of Living More with Less — “Nurture People.”Mennonite Your Way || Evergreen || Affordable Travel Club || Home stays are so much more than a bargain! - Contribute to 2015 Whose Risen from the Dead, Anyway? for Lent and Easter season published online. | Submission Guidelines
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – February
- 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
- Feb. SLW! Podcast – Author, speaker and blogger Susan Vogt
-
What’s Happened
- Highlights of SLW! 2014 Annual Report // Interviews of Champions of Simple Living Today will intensify in 2015. New Services include ‘SLW! Recommends’ Literacy Service and Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites.
- Authentic Happiness in a Consumer Culture by Annie Leonard, Founder of The Story of Stuff Project, now Executive Director of GreenPeaceUSA, and Sarah van Gelder, Editor of YES! Magazine. Explore the meaning of real happiness rather than the empty happiness produced by a consumer culture that devalues interpersonal relationships in favor of “stuff” and leaves the Earth broken and full of trash. Media and Consumer Capitalism: Justin Lewis’ podcast, book and DVD
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions: THANKS to Duane Elgin for putting me onto some of the above. Don’t miss my recent podcast interview with Duane.
- Having an Epiphany for New Years — Epiphany season: Jan. 6 till the beginning of Lent on Ash Wed., Feb. 18 this year || New Year New Daily Inspiration Calendar
-
NEXT Fall Festival Resources: Fall Plans blog
- Send a Message! Be the Message! | Free stickers and fliers to use at Christmas or year ’round through the mail and email. Also, read Seeds of Influence, part 1 | part 2.
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media with links
-
What Others Are Doing
- The Common Good Podcast
Episode 55: Larry Kurschner: Fixing the Electronic Waste Problem - Seeing Systems: Peace, Justice and Sustainability – New Course from Northwest Earth Institute
- NEW three minute film:
Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals
Conversation about The OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham. | TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 | Lee’s new Slide Show
- The Common Good Podcast
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).
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 Feedback AT SimpleLivingWorks DOT org [or SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com or SimpleLivingWorks2@gmail.com], leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
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 several times a week.
David and Lin Zahrt
David Zahrt was the oldest member of the team that hiked across America — from Los Angeles to D.C. — in eight months, the Great March for Climate Action.
David filed almost daily journals. At the end of the trip he filed his Ruminations, which I urge you to read.
One of the leaders for the march was Ed Fallon, a progressive radio talk show host of The Fallon Forum and seven-term member of the Iowa Legislature. Another Iowan worth knowing is State Senator Rob Hogg, leader of Iowa Climate Advocates and author of America’s Climate Century. Hear my interview with him here. Read his monthly climate actions here.
We met our friends David and Lin through the Sierra Club in Iowa. Now we meet them face-to-face at least once a year in Auburn, Calif. They moved to Carson City, NV, about five years ago; we moved to Paso Robles about four years ago.
They live in co-housing with his sister and her spouse. They comment on the new Shared Housing Blog of Jubilee-Economics.org, a collaborating organization of SLW!
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Subscribe to SLW! Blog
Click “+Follow” at lower right of blog post, enter a name and email address. Welcome!
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What’s NOW with SLW!
- SLW! Podcast Episodes #36-37 — Duane Elgin // Duane on SLW! Voluntary Simplicity: Lifestyle of the Future? // His professional website: GreatTransitionStories.org // His personal site: DuaneElgin.com: About • Speaking • Great Transition Stories • Articles • Blog • Videos • Audio Files • Books • ContactHis writings there on Sustainability and Simplicity: Voluntary Simplicity: Cool Lifestyle for a Hot Planet • The Garden Of Simplicity • Peril and Promise • Upshifters: Pioneers of an Awakening Culture • Voluntary Simplicity • The Value Of Voluntary Simplicity (seminal 1936 article by Richard Gregg) || Champion of Simple Living Today
- Home-Stay Clubs — Our Preferred Way to
Travel We get our own room, usually a private bath and a lovely breakfast for $20. The real beauty of home-stay clubs is that we meet some terrific folks and have several hours of stimulating conversation. For us this arrangement embodies one of the Life Standards of Living More with Less — “Nurture People.”Mennonite Your Way || Evergreen || Affordable Travel Club || Home stays are so much more than a bargain! - Highlights of SLW! 2014 Annual Report // SLW! blogs are up to 195+; podcast to 35+ episodes. Interviews of Champions of Simple Living Today will intensify in 2015. New Services include ‘SLW! Recommends’ Literacy Service and Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites.
- Contribute to 2015 Whose Risen from the Dead, Anyway? for Lent and Easter season published online. | Submission Guidelines
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – January
- 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
- Feb. – Author, speaker and blogger Susan Vogt
-
What’s Happened
- Authentic Happiness in a Consumer Culture by Annie Leonard, Founder of The Story of Stuff Project, now Executive Director of GreenPeaceUSA, and Sarah van Gelder, Editor of YES! Magazine. Explore the meaning of real happiness rather than the empty happiness produced by a consumer culture that devalues interpersonal relationships in favor of “stuff” and leaves the Earth broken and full of trash. Media and Consumer Capitalism: Justin Lewis’ podcast, book and DVD
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions:
- Christian Simplicity: God, trust, and money
- Dave and Sheryl Balthrop: Simple Life Reboot — Making Room for That Which Matters Most: Transformational, healthy minimalism. 2-3 minute episodes
- Simple Life Together podcast: leading a simple life in the modern world by Dan and Vanessa Hayes
- SimpleREV Conference — Revive and Rev It Up! + All Things SimpleREV Podcast. Joel Zaslofsky: Value of Simple + Smart and Simple Matters show
- Joshua Becker: Becoming Minimalist website. Find more life by owning less. Motto: Caring for Your Whole Self. Rational minimalism with passion and purpose.
- Sarah Wehkamp helps families find balance and simplicity in their home life. Parents Who website equips parents to create and maintain a simpler, more meaningful family life.
THANKS to Duane Elgin for putting me onto some of the above. Don’t miss my recent podcast interview with Duane.
- Having an Epiphany for New Years — Epiphany season: Jan. 6 till the beginning of Lent on Ash Wed., Feb. 18 this year || New Year New Daily Inspiration Calendar
-
NEXT Fall Festival Resources: Fall Plans blog
Send a Message! Be the Message! | Free stickers and fliers to use at Christmas or year ’round through the mail and email. Also, read Seeds of Influence, part 1 | part 2.
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media with links
-
What Others Are Doing
- The Common Good Podcast
Episode 55: Larry Kurschner: Fixing the Electronic Waste Problem - Seeing Systems: Peace, Justice and Sustainability – New Course from Northwest Earth Institute
- NEW three minute film:
Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals
Conversation about The OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham. | TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 | Lee’s new Slide Show
- The Common Good Podcast
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).
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 Feedback AT SimpleLivingWorks DOT org [or SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com or SimpleLivingWorks2@gmail.com], leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
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 several times a week.
SLW! Podcast Episodes #36-37 — Duane Elgin // Duane on SLW! Voluntary Simplicity: Lifestyle of the Future? // His professional website: GreatTransitionStories.org // His personal site: DuaneElgin.com: About • Speaking • Great Transition Stories • Articles • Blog • Videos • Audio Files • Books • Contact
His writings there on Sustainability and Simplicity: Voluntary Simplicity: Cool Lifestyle for a Hot Planet • The Garden Of Simplicity • Peril and Promise • Upshifters: Pioneers of an Awakening Culture • Voluntary Simplicity • The Value Of Voluntary Simplicity (seminal 1936 article by Richard Gregg)
Champion of Simple Living Today
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Subscribe to SLW! Blog
Click “+Follow” at lower right of blog post, enter a name and email address. Welcome!
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What’s NOW with SLW!
- Home-Stay Clubs — Our Preferred Way to
Travel We get our own room, usually a private bath and a lovely breakfast for $20. The real beauty of home-stay clubs is that we meet some terrific folks and have several hours of stimulating conversation. For us this arrangement embodies one of the Life Standards of Living More with Less — “Nurture People.”Mennonite Your Way || Evergreen || Affordable Travel Club || Home stays are so much more than a bargain! - Authentic Happiness in a Consumer Culture by Annie Leonard, Founder of The Story of Stuff Project, now Executive Director of GreenPeaceUSA, and Sarah van Gelder, Editor of YES! Magazine Explore the meaning of real happiness rather than the empty happiness produced by a consumer culture that devalues interpersonal relationships in favor of “stuff” and leaves the Earth broken and full of trash. Media and Consumer Capitalism: Justin Lewis’ podcast, book and DVD
- Highlights of SLW! 2014 Annual Report // SLW! blogs are up to 195+; podcast to 35+ episodes. Interviews of Champions of Simple Living Today will intensify in 2015. New Services include ‘SLW! Recommends’ Literacy Service and Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites.
- Contribute to 2015 Whose Risen from the Dead, Anyway? for Lent and Easter season published online. | Submission Guidelines
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – January
- 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
- Feb. – Author, speaker and blogger Susan Vogt
-
What’s Happened
- New Collaborators and Champions
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // NEW Collaborators
- Christian Simplicity: God, trust, and money
- Dave and Sheryl Balthrop: Simple Life Reboot — Making Room for That Which Matters Most: Transformational, healthy minimalism. 2-3 minute episodes
- Simple Life Together podcast: leading a simple life in the modern world by Dan and Vanessa Hayes
- SimpleREV Conference — Revive and Rev It Up! + All Things SimpleREV Podcast. Joel Zaslofsky: Value of Simple + Smart and Simple Matters show
- Joshua Becker: Becoming Minimalist website. Find more life by owning less. Motto: Caring for Your Whole Self. Rational minimalism with passion and purpose.
- Sarah Wehkamp helps families find balance and simplicity in their home life. Parents Who website equips parents to create and maintain a simpler, more meaningful family life.
THANKS to Duane Elgin for putting me onto some of the above. Don’t miss my recent podcast interview with Duane.
- Having an Epiphany for New Years — Epiphany season: Jan. 6 till the beginning of Lent on Ash Wed., Feb. 18 this year || New Year New Daily Inspiration Calendar
-
NEXT Fall Festival Resources: Fall Plans blog
Send a Message! Be the Message! | Free stickers and fliers to use at Christmas or year ’round through the mail and email. Also, read Seeds of Influence, part 1 | part 2.
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media with links
-
What Others Are Doing
- The Common Good Podcast
Episode 55: Larry Kurschner: Fixing the Electronic Waste Problem - Seeing Systems: Peace, Justice and Sustainability – New Course from Northwest Earth Institute
- Conversation about The OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham. | TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 | Lee’s new Slide Show
- The Common Good Podcast
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).
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 Feedback AT SimpleLivingWorks DOT org [or SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com or SimpleLivingWorks2@gmail.com], leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
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 several times a week.
Today we’re hosting a couple of bikers from Washington state. Tomorrow we’re staying with folks near Sacramento. We get our own room, usually a private bath and a lovely breakfast for $20.
The real beauty of home-stay clubs is that we meet some terrific folks and have several hours of stimulating conversation. For us this arrangement embodies one of the Life Standards of Living More with Less — “Nurture People.”
We grew comfortable with the idea of staying in homes instead of motels on our speaking tours for Alternatives a decade ago. We were introduced to Mennonite Your Way when our car was totaled in Pennsylvania! (Read about it at Post #193.) That club is only for Christians but it’s for all ages. It welcomes families. We’ve hosted a family of six from Switzerland, for example. MYW now has its host directory online.
Two other clubs we’ve joined are only for “seniors,” 50+ — Evergreen and Affordable Travel Club (ATC). Both of their directories are online. We both joined Evergreen and found a place to stay in San Francisco in 20 minutes!
Although some hosts will make “last minute” arrangements, most guests ask for a room at least a week in advance. So, traveling with home stays takes a bit of planning.
Here’s how they work. Pay an annual membership fee, usually about $75. Then as you plan your itinerary, contact hosts along the way by phone or email. Some clubs require you to be a host if you want to be a guest, others don’t. You can always decline a request.
We’ve also been members of Educators’ Bed and Breakfast. In that case you make reservations through the home office, which can cause delays.
Of the dozens of hosts, we’ve only had one whom we would not recommend or choose to stay with again.
ATC also has many international hosts. In all cases you can stay several nights if the host agrees.
If you need the privacy of a motel room and want to “crash” in front of the TV, home stays may not work for you. Home stays are so much more than a bargain!
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- Authentic Happiness in a Consumer Culture by Annie Leonard, Founder of The Story of Stuff Project and now Executive Director of GreenPeaceUSA, and Sarah Van Gelder, Editor of YES! MagazineExplore the meaning of real happiness rather than the empty happiness produced by a consumer culture that devalues interpersonal relationships in favor of “stuff” and leaves the Earth broken and full of trash.Media and Consumer Capitalism: Justin Lewis’ podcast, book and DVD
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- Simple Life Together podcast: leading a simple life in the modern world by Dan and Vanessa Hayes
- SimpleREV Conference — Revive and Rev It Up! + All Things SimpleREV Podcast. Joel Zaslofsky: Value of Simple + Smart and Simple Matters show
- Joshua Becker: Becoming Minimalist website. Find more life by owning less. Motto: Caring for Your Whole Self. Rational minimalism with passion and purpose.
- Sarah Wehkamp helps families find balance and simplicity in their home life. Parents Who website equips parents to create and maintain a simpler, more meaningful family life.
THANKS to Duane Elgin for putting me onto some of the above. Don’t miss my recent podcast interview with Duane.
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Episode 55: Larry Kurschner: Fixing the Electronic Waste Problem - Seeing Systems: Peace, Justice and Sustainability – New Course from Northwest Earth Institute
- Conversation about The OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham. | TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 | Lee’s new Slide Show
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