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Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest
Posted on: March 8, 2017
Nancy’s a dancing environmentalist!
Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest
March 8, 2017
In This Issue:
- SLW! Podcast #88 — Nancy Pearlman, Exec. Dir. of Educational Communications
- Lent //
- Banishing “Fake News” #3 + BONUS
- Simpler Living SANITY //
- I Buy Blue //
- Our Simpler Living Daily Nudge // Easy-to-share for MARCH
- What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
- More!
What’s NOW with SLW!
- SLW! Podcast #88 — Nancy Pearlman, Exec. Dir. of Educational Communications, is an award-winning broadcaster, environmentalist, college instructor, anthropologist, editor, producer, on-air personality, and outdoorswoman who has made safeguarding the Earth’s ecosystems a career.
- Lent: SLW! Podcast Episodes #13 & 39; Resources: Who’s Risen from the Dead, Anyway?
- Banishing Fake News: Tip #3. Since purveyors of Fake News thrive on conflict, do not confront them directly. That energizes them. Instead, ignore them. They will not go away, but they will be ‘banished’ from your life. Encourage your friends to do the same. READ MORE
- Banishing Fake News BONUS: The Religious Origins of Fake News and Alternative Facts
- 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: Suggestions in Weekly Nudge. READ MORE
- 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
- January: Life Principles of Voluntary Simplicity
- February: Week 4: What Is ‘Enough’?
- March: Global Justice—Week 1: Language || Week 2:Hunger & Homelessness || Week 3: Peace/Violence || Week 4: Advocacy/Boycotts
- 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 – MARCH, including Women’s History Month
- 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 guests: Hazel Henderson, founder, Ethical Markets Media, and Series Creator and Co-Executive Producer of its TV series
- Northwest Earth Institute‘s newest A Different Way: Living Simply in a Complex World — PREVIEW NOW
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
- Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)
- Center for a New American Dream
- Supporting Refugees: When a group of former strangers decided to band together to sponsor a Syrian refugee family in Canada, they used SoKind Registry as a platform to request all the items needed to outfit a new home. Learn how they did it.
- Zero Waste Living: A zero waste lifestyle might seem hard to implement and complicated to follow. But by taking small steps, you can make it a reality.
- The Gift That Keeps on Giving: We often hear about gifts that “keep on giving,” but in the case of a microloan, it really can. A Colorado mom shares her experience.
- The Common Good Podcast
- Episode 81: Learning Resistance and Alternatives from Zapatistas and Jubilee’s Mexico Partners (3/1)
- Ep. 80: Walter Brueggemann on the Primal Power of Money & Possessions in Our Lives (2/1)
- 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
- Acting on Evidence and Morals (3/10)
- No Palms for Palm Sunday? (3/3)
- Sanctuary and Deportation (2/24)
- No Such Right (2/17)
- Be Angry, but Do Not Sin (2/10)
- Jubilee Economics / Casa Jubileo (new site)
- Central Coast Calif. Marches: 1st hand accounts + pics
- Richard Rohr Brings Us Closer to Nature and to Our “True Selves” by Joining Contemplation with Action (2/13)
- Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways
- Pre-cycling & Packaging – How deceptive advertising and over-packaging can play mind games on us. What parts can you break free of?
- Phone-fast – How long could you go without a cell phone? Do you want to? What to do with the old one?
- Top 10 Simplicity Tips of 2016 – Although I’d like to think you read each bi-weekly blog I post, for the time-crunched among you, here are what I I consider my top 10 from last year.
- Online Shopping & Boxes – In the aftermath of Christmas I consider the pros and cons of online shopping and the plethora of boxes it creates.
- Beyond Virtue – Timeliness – As virtuous as it may be to find the perfect place to donate older, but still serviceable clothes, sometimes the perfect can be the enemy of the good. How much is it worth your time?
- Doing Good Can Be Hard – Related to the the above post (where I took the easy way out) here is the opposite position (where I made the effort to save a 50+ year old appliance. What would you do?
- 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.
- The OneEarth Project (Lee Van Ham) // SLW! Podcast // Patricia St. Onge, “Foreword” Writer for My Book, and I Will Be at the Same Event and YOU ARE INVITED!
- PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough / Full Article Library
- 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
- The Not So Big Way to Have Useful Beauty Every Day (Sarah Susanka)
- For links to earlier entries, check the SLW! Monthly Digest.
- Upcoming Non-Conform-Freely Celebrations: Jan.-April
What’s Happened
- SLW! Podcast #87 — Cecile Andrews, author and community organizer, works with Millennials and Minimalists to build resistance to regressive government.
- 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). He says, “Hope the book stirs you to write a review, to converse with others, and to help me tell better than I currently do a story for OneEarth living. Wanting to show Earth more love!”
- Post-Election Emergency/Disaster Preparedness and Survival Guide
- SLW! Podcast #86 — John de Graaf, producer of the famous “Affluenza” films and author of several books, including links to his recent articles.
- SLW! Podcast #84-85 —Renowned Biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann on Money & Possessions // His book’s Preface, Foreword, Introduction (free online) — essential reading!
- 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.
- Worth Revisiting: Waging Peace at Tax Time // Taxing Negatives
- 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: SLW! #364 People & Sun
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! eNews
Posted on: March 1, 2017
Simple Living Works! eNews
#66, March, 2017
In This Issue:
- SLW! Podcast #88 — Nancy Pearlman, Exec. Dir. of Educational Communications
- Lent //
- Banishing “Fake News” //
- Simpler Living SANITY //
- I Buy Blue //
- Our Simpler Living Daily Nudge // Easy-to-share for MARCH
- What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
- More!
What’s NOW with SLW!
- SLW! Podcast #88 — Nancy Pearlman, Exec. Dir. of Educational Communications, is an award-winning broadcaster, environmentalist, college instructor, anthropologist, editor, producer, on-air personality, and outdoorswoman who has made safeguarding the Earth’s ecosystems a career.
- Lent: SLW! Podcast Episodes #13 & 39; Resources: Who’s Risen from the Dead, Anyway?
- SLW! Podcast #87 — Cecile Andrews, author and community organizer, works with Millennials and Minimalists to build resistance to regressive government.
- Banishing Fake News: Tip #2. Though more people receive their ‘news’ from Facebook than from traditional outlets, it is not a news source. It is social media. It can be fun. It can promote events. It is NOT a news source, except possibly a platform that makes distinguishing ‘fake news’ from ‘real news’ virtually impossible. READ MORE
- 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: Suggestions in Weekly Nudge. READ MORE
- 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
- January: Life Principles of Voluntary Simplicity
- February: Week 4: What Is ‘Enough’?
- March: Global Justice—Weeks 1 & 2: Hunger & Homelessness || Week 3: Peace/Violence || Week 4: Advocacy/Boycotts
- 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 – FEB. // MARCH, including Women’s History Month
- 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 guests: Hazel Henderson, founder, Ethical Markets Media, and Series Creator and Co-Executive Producer of its TV series
- Northwest Earth Institute‘s newest A Different Way: Living Simply in a Complex World
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
- Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)
- Center for a New American Dream
- Supporting Refugees: When a group of former strangers decided to band together to sponsor a Syrian refugee family in Canada, they used SoKind Registry as a platform to request all the items needed to outfit a new home. Learn how they did it.
- Zero Waste Living: A zero waste lifestyle might seem hard to implement and complicated to follow. But by taking small steps, you can make it a reality.
- The Gift That Keeps on Giving: We often hear about gifts that “keep on giving,” but in the case of a microloan, it really can. A Colorado mom shares her experience.
- The Common Good Podcast
- Episode 81: Learning Resistance and Alternatives from Zapatistas and Jubilee’s Mexico Partners (3/1)
- Ep. 80: Walter Brueggemann on the Primal Power of Money & Possessions in Our Lives (2/1)
- 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
- No Palms for Palm Sunday? (3/3)
- Sanctuary and Deportation (2/24)
- No Such Right (2/17)
- Be Angry, but Do Not Sin (2/10)
- Jubilee Economics / Casa Jubileo (new site)
- Central Coast Calif. Marches: 1st hand accounts + pics
- Richard Rohr Brings Us Closer to Nature and to Our “True Selves” by Joining Contemplation with Action (2/13)
- Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways
- Pre-cycling & Packaging – How deceptive advertising and over-packaging can play mind games on us. What parts can you break free of?
- Phone-fast – How long could you go without a cell phone? Do you want to? What to do with the old one?
- Top 10 Simplicity Tips of 2016 – Although I’d like to think you read each bi-weekly blog I post, for the time-crunched among you, here are what I I consider my top 10 from last year.
- Online Shopping & Boxes – In the aftermath of Christmas I consider the pros and cons of online shopping and the plethora of boxes it creates.
- Beyond Virtue – Timeliness – As virtuous as it may be to find the perfect place to donate older, but still serviceable clothes, sometimes the perfect can be the enemy of the good. How much is it worth your time?
- Doing Good Can Be Hard – Related to the the above post (where I took the easy way out) here is the opposite position (where I made the effort to save a 50+ year old appliance. What would you do?
- 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.
- The OneEarth Project (Lee Van Ham) // SLW! Podcast
- PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough / Full Article Library
- 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
- The Not So Big Way to Have Useful Beauty Every Day (Sarah Susanka)
- For links to earlier entries, check the SLW! Monthly Digest.
- Upcoming Non-Conform-Freely Celebrations: Jan.-April
What’s Happened
- 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). He says, “Hope the book stirs you to write a review, to converse with others, and to help me tell better than I currently do a story for OneEarth living. Wanting to show Earth more love!”
- Post-Election Emergency/Disaster Preparedness and Survival Guide
- SLW! Podcast #86 — John de Graaf, producer of the famous “Affluenza” films and author of several books, including links to his recent articles.
- SLW! Podcast #84-85 —Renowned Biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann on Money & Possessions // His book’s Preface, Foreword, Introduction (free online) — essential reading!
- 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.
- Worth Revisiting: Waging Peace at Tax Time // Taxing Negatives
- 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: http://www.ecoprojects.org/nancypearlman.htm
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
Feb. 22, 2017
In This Issue:
- Banishing “Fake News” //
- Simpler Living SANITY //
- SLW! Podcast #87 — Cecile Andrews, author and community organizer, works with Millennials and Minimalists //
- I Buy Blue //
- Our Simpler Living Daily Nudge // Easy-to-share for FEB. // MARCH
- What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
- More!
What’s NOW with SLW!
- SLW! Podcast #87 — Cecile Andrews, author and community organizer, works with Millennials and Minimalists to build resistance to regressive government
- Banishing Fake News: Tip #1. The best sources of news, public affairs and documentaries are Free Speech TV (FreeSpeech.org) and LINKtv (LinkTV.org), both available primarily on satellite tv and the internet. READ MORE
- 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: Weekly Suggestions. READ MORE
- 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
- January: Life Principles of Voluntary Simplicity
- February: Week 4: What Is ‘Enough’?
- March: Global Justice—Weeks 1 & 2: Hunger & Homelessness || Week 3: Peace/Violence || Week 4: Advocacy/Boycotts
- 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 – FEB. // MARCH
- 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
- Early 2017 SLW! Podcast guests: Hazel Henderson, founder, Ethical Markets Media, and Series Creator and Co-Executive Producer of its TV series, also author and syndicated columnist; Nancy Pearlman, producer of EcoNews; Northwest Earth Institute‘s newest “A Different Way: Living Simply in a Complex World.”
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
- Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)
- Center for a New American Dream
- Supporting Refugees: When a group of former strangers decided to band together to sponsor a Syrian refugee family in Canada, they used SoKind Registry as a platform to request all the items needed to outfit a new home. Learn how they did it.
- Zero Waste Living: A zero waste lifestyle might seem hard to implement and complicated to follow. But by taking small steps, you can make it a reality.
- The Gift That Keeps on Giving: We often hear about gifts that “keep on giving,” but in the case of a microloan, it really can. A Colorado mom shares her experience.
- The Common Good Podcast – Check out the new site.
- Ep. 80: Walter Brueggemann on the Primal Power of Money & Possessions in Our Lives (2/1)
- 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
- Sanctuary and Deportation (2/24)
- No Such Right (2/17)
- Be Angry, but Do Not Sin (2/10)
- Jubilee Economics / Casa Jubileo (new site)
- Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways
- Pre-cycling & Packaging – How deceptive advertising and over-packaging can play mind games on us. What parts can you break free of?
- Phone-fast – How long could you go without a cell phone? Do you want to? What to do with the old one?
- Top 10 Simplicity Tips of 2016 – Although I’d like to think you read each bi-weekly blog I post, for the time-crunched among you, here are what I I consider my top 10 from last year.
- Online Shopping & Boxes – In the aftermath of Christmas I consider the pros and cons of online shopping and the plethora of boxes it creates.
- Beyond Virtue – Timeliness – As virtuous as it may be to find the perfect place to donate older, but still serviceable clothes, sometimes the perfect can be the enemy of the good. How much is it worth your time?
- Doing Good Can Be Hard – Related to the the above post (where I took the easy way out) here is the opposite position (where I made the effort to save a 50+ year old appliance. What would you do?
- 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.
- The OneEarth Project (Lee Van Ham) // SLW! Podcast
- PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough / Full Article Library
- 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
- The Not So Big Way to Have Useful Beauty Every Day (Sarah Susanka)
- For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
- Upcoming Non-Conform-Freely Celebrations: Jan.-April
What’s Happened
- 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. Valentine’s Day carried added meaning because colleague Lee’s new book became available on Amazon in print and ebook and other locations where you can get the ebook (Nook, iBooks, Kobo). He says, “Hope the book stirs you to write a review, to converse with others, and to help me tell better than I currently do a story for OneEarth living. Wanting to show Earth more love!”
- Post-Election Emergency/Disaster Preparedness and Survival Guide
- SLW! Podcast #86 — John de Graaf, producer of the famous “Affluenza” films and author of several books, including links to his recent articles.
- SLW! Podcast #84-85 —Renowned Biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann on Money & Possessions // His book’s Preface, Foreword, Introduction (free online) — essential reading!
- 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.
- Worth Revisiting: Taxing Negatives
- 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:
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
Feb. 15, 2017
In This Issue:
- Review of Lee Van Ham’s new “From Egos to Eden” //
- Banishing “Fake News” //
- Simpler Living SANITY //
- SLW! Podcast #87 — Cecile Andrews, author and community organizer, works with Millennials and Minimalists //
- I Buy Blue //
- Our Simpler Living Daily Nudge // Easy-to-share for FEB. //
- What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
- More!
What’s NOW with SLW!
- SLW! Podcast #87 — Cecile Andrews, author and community organizer, works with Millennials and Minimalists to build resistance to regressive government
- 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. Valentine’s Day carried added meaning because colleague Lee’s new book became available on Amazon in print and ebook and other locations where you can get the ebook (Nook, iBooks, Kobo). He says, “Hope the book stirs you to write a review, to converse with others, and to help me tell better than I currently do a story for OneEarth living. Wanting to show Earth more love!”
- Banishing Fake News: I blogged recently that we were changing our long-standing ‘Alternate Celebrations’ to ‘Non-Conform-Freely Celebrations’ because the terms ‘alternate’ and ‘alternative’ had been compromised by the new buzz words ‘alternative facts’ in DC. Larry Trover asked, ‘Do you have any ideas for banishing fake news without abridging freedom of speech and freedom of the press?’ Here’s a dozen. READ MORE
- 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: Weekly Suggestions. READ MORE
- 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
- January: Life Principles of Voluntary Simplicity
- February: Celebrating More Responsibly — Week 1: Music/Worship || Week 2: Preparing for Lent, Easter and Other Spring Festivals || Week 3: Rites of Passage || Week 4: What Is ‘Enough’?
- 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 – FEB.
- 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
- Early 2017 SLW! Podcast guests: Hazel Henderson, founder, Ethical Markets Media, and Series Creator and Co-Executive Producer of its TV series, also author and syndicated columnist; Nancy Pearlman, producer of EcoNews; Northwest Earth Institute‘s new course on voluntary simplicity.
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)
- Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)
- Center for a New American Dream
- The Common Good Podcast – Check out the new site.
- Ep. 80: Walter Brueggemann on the Primal Power of Money & Possessions in Our Lives (2/1)
- NEW — Earth Island Journal (Earth Island Institute): Latest News // Current Issue
- Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) Made for These Times — “Ladies Sewing and Resistance Society” counters the anti-woman, bullying, hate filled policies of the new administration. I was inspired to write a song, simple to learn, repeat and march to, for our sewing session. It caught on. Here is:
- Lead sheet with melody line (downloadable PDF @ http://www.earthmama.org/)
- Full lyrics (downloadable PDF @ http://www.earthmama.org/)
- video (1 minute) of singing and sewing https://youtu.be/NQjZ4eeVTWs
- video (6 minute) including wonderful short interviews with sewers explaining WHY they will be marching, some for the first time ever in this kind of activism. Song plays the last minute. https://youtu.be/IJiNZcYc428
- Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive // SLW! Podcast #18 // SLW! Podcast #66
- No Such Right (2/17)
- Be Angry, but Do Not Sin (2/10)
- Morality and Politics (2/3)
- Jubilee Economics / Casa Jubileo (new site) — Women’s Central Coast Calif. Marches: 1st hand accounts + pics
- Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways
- 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.
- The OneEarth Project (Lee Van Ham) // SLW! Podcast
- PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough / Full Article Library
- 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
- The Not So Big Way to Have Useful Beauty Every Day (Sarah Susanka)
- For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
- Upcoming Alternate Celebrations: Jan.-April
What’s Happened
- Post-Election Emergency/Disaster Preparedness and Survival Guide
- SLW! Podcast #86 — John de Graaf, producer of the famous “Affluenza” films and author of several books, including links to his recent articles.
- SLW! Podcast #84-85 —Renowned Biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann on Money & Possessions // His book’s Preface, Foreword, Introduction (free online) — essential reading!
- 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.
- Worth Revisiting: Taxing Negatives
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // Collaborators & Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media
Podcast Reminder
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Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest
Feb. 8, 2017
In This Issue:
- Banishing “Fake News”//
- Simple Living SANITY //
- SLW! Podcast #86 –John “Affluenza” de Graaf on Threats to Our National Parks //
- I Buy Blue //
- Our Simpler Living Daily Nudge // Easy-to-share for FEB. //
- What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
- More!
What’s NOW with SLW!
- Banishing Fake News: I editorialized recently that we were changing our long-standing ‘Alternate Celebrations’ to ‘Non-Conform-Freely Celebrations’ because the terms ‘alternate’ and ‘alternative’ had been compromised by the new buzz words ‘alternative facts’ in DC. Larry Trover asked, ‘Do you have any ideas for banishing fake news without abridging freedom of speech and freedom of the press?’ Here’s a dozen. READ MORE
- 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?“
- Simple Living Sanity: Weekly Suggestions. READ MORE
- SLW! Podcast #86 — John de Graaf, producer of the famous “Affluenza” films and author of several books, including links to his recent articles.
- SLW! Podcast #84-85 —Renowned Biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann on Money & Possessions // His book’s Preface, Foreword, Introduction (free online) — essential reading!
- 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
- January: Life Principles of Voluntary Simplicity
- February: Celebrating More Responsibly — Week 1: Music/Worship || Week 2: Preparing for Lent, Easter and Other Spring Festivals || Week 3: Rites of Passage || Week 4: What Is ‘Enough’?
- 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 – FEB.
- 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
- Early 2017 SLW! Podcast guests: Hazel Henderson, founder, Ethical Markets Media, and Series Creator and Co-Executive Producer of its TV series, also author and syndicated columnist; Cecile Andrews, author and community organizer; and Nancy Pearlman, producer of EcoNews.
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
- Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)
- Center for a New American Dream
- The Common Good Podcast – Check out the new site.
- Ep. 80: Walter Brueggemann on the Primal Power of Money & Possessions in Our Lives (2/1)
- NEW — Earth Island Journal (Earth Island Institute): Latest News // Current Issue
-
- video (6 minute) including wonderful short interviews with sewers explaining WHY they will be marching, some for the first time ever in this kind of activism. Song plays the last minute. https://youtu.be/IJiNZcYc428Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) Made for These Times — “Ladies Sewing and Resistance Society” counters the anti-woman, bullying, hate filled policies of the new administration. I was inspired to write a song, simple to learn, repeat and march to, for our sewing session. It caught on. Here is:
- Lead sheet with melody line (downloadable PDF @ http://www.earthmama.org/)
- Full lyrics (downloadable PDF @ http://www.earthmama.org/)
- video (1 minute) of singing and sewing https://youtu.be/NQjZ4eeVTWs
- video (6 minute) including wonderful short interviews with sewers explaining WHY they will be marching, some for the first time ever in this kind of activism. Song plays the last minute. https://youtu.be/IJiNZcYc428Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) Made for These Times — “Ladies Sewing and Resistance Society” counters the anti-woman, bullying, hate filled policies of the new administration. I was inspired to write a song, simple to learn, repeat and march to, for our sewing session. It caught on. Here is:
- Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive // SLW! Podcast #18 // SLW! Podcast #66
- Be Angry, but Do Not Sin (2/10)
- Morality and Politics (2/3)
- Jubilee Economics / Casa Jubileo (new site) — Women’s Central Coast Calif. Marches: 1st hand accounts + pics
- Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways
- 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.
- The OneEarth Project (Lee Van Ham) // SLW! Podcast
- PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough / Full Article Library
- 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
- The Not So Big Way to Have Useful Beauty Every Day (Sarah Susanka)
- For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
- Upcoming Alternate Celebrations: Jan.-April
What’s Happened
- 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.
- Worth Revisiting: Taxing Negatives
- 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.
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Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
*IMAGE: Spirit of Simplicity #5-A3231
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Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011.
Simple Living Works! eNews
Posted on: February 1, 2017
John de Graaf
Simple Living Works! eNews
#65, Feb., 2017
In This Issue:
- I Buy Blue //
- Bye-bye “Alternate Celebrations” //
- Simple Living SANITY //
- SLW! Podcast #86 –John “Affluenza” de Graaf on Threats to Our National Parks //
- Our Simpler Living Daily Nudge // Easy-to-share for FEB. //
- What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
- More!
What’s NOW with SLW!
- 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?“
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Bye-bye “Alternate Celebrations.” Simple Living Works! was originally called Alternatives. Since 1973, Alternatives has produced resources to help people of faith “challenge consumerism, live justly and celebrate responsibly.” To celebrate responsibly, we provided “alternate celebrations,” ways to celebrate holidays (Christmas, Easter, etc.) and rites of passage (birthday, anniversaries, etc.) that are much less commercial and build relationships.
Now that the new regressive administration in DC is using “alternative facts” to distinguish themselves from the real facts, we may have to change “alternate celebrations” to something else to keep from being associated with a web of lies and deception. Using the Fifth Life Standard of “Living More with Less,” we will use “Non-Conform-Freely-Celebrations” for the time being. We hope that we can return to Alternate Celebrations when the cult of fake news is banished.
- Simple Living Sanity: Although much of American culture already stands in opposition to a simpler lifestyle, the prospects of the new national administration and the predominance of regressive state administrations promise to put any progress on the Five Life Standards into reverse. We offer weekly Suggestions. READ MORE
- SLW! Podcast #86 — John de Graaf, producer of the famous “Affluenza” films and author of several books, including links to his recent articles.
- SLW! Podcast #84-85 —Renowned Biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann on Money & Possessions // His book’s Preface, Foreword, Introduction (free online) — essential reading!
- 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
- January: Life Principles of Voluntary Simplicity
- February: Celebrating More Responsibly — Week 1: Music/Worship || Week 2: Preparing for Lent, Easter and Other Spring Festivals || Week 3: Rites of Passage || Week 4: What Is ‘Enough’?
- 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.
- 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 – FEB.
- 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
- Early 2017 SLW! Podcast guests: Hazel Henderson, founder, Ethical Markets Media, and Series Creator and Co-Executive Producer of its TV series, also author and syndicated columnist; Cecile Andrews, author and community organizer; and Nancy Pearlman, producer of EcoNews.
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
- Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)
- Center for a New American Dream
- The Common Good Podcast – Check out the new site.
- Ep. 80: Walter Brueggemann on the Primal Power of Money & Possessions in Our Lives (2/1)
- Ep. 79: Candace Vanderhof on Water Conservation/Reclamation
- NEW — Earth Island Journal (Earth Island Institute): Latest News // Current Issue
- Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) Made for These Times — I am part of a group of women here in VA loosely calling themselves “Ladies Sewing and Resistance Society.” About 25 of us gathered, with 5 sewing machines, a videographer and an organizer to make over 50 hats for the Women’s March on Washington, or Million Woman March (same thing, many names.) All to resist and counter the anti-woman, bullying, hate filled policies of the new administration. Many of our women will be in DC for the march. I was inspired to write a song, simple to learn, repeat and march to, for our sewing session. It caught on. Here is:
- Lead sheet with melody line (downloadable PDF @ http://www.earthmama.org/)
- Full lyrics (downloadable PDF @ http://www.earthmama.org/)
- video (1 minute) of singing and sewing https://youtu.be/NQjZ4eeVTWs
- video (6 minute) including wonderful short interviews with sewers explaining WHY they will be marching, some for the first time ever in this kind of activism. Song plays the last minute. https://youtu.be/IJiNZcYc428
Feel free to share any of these if you know folks going to marches or would just be interested! We know of several groups who will be singing this, with hopes that it will inspire, co-ordinate and propel the marchers forward!
- Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive // SLW! Podcast #18 // SLW! Podcast #66
- Morality and Politics (2/3)
- A Week of Good News (1/27)
- Jubilee Economics / Casa Jubileo (new site) — Women’s March Central Coast Calif.: 1st hand account + pics
- Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways
- 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.
- The OneEarth Project (Lee Van Ham) // SLW! Podcast
- PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough / Full Article Library
- 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
- The Not So Big Way to Have Useful Beauty Every Day (Sarah Susanka), Ep. 117
- For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
- Upcoming Alternate Celebrations: Jan.-April
What’s Happened
- Post-Election Emergency/Disaster Preparedness and Survival Guide
- Worth Revisiting: Taxing Negatives
- 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.
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Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
*IMAGE: John de Graaf
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.
Feeling Bullied by Consumo? Ask Slim.
Slim made his first appearance in the skit Consumo Must Go! There Slim was the common sense character, the antidote to the anti-superhero Consumo, the Overlord of Overconsumption.
A recent question from college classmate John Herrmann prompts me to start the hopefully interactive blog “Ask Slim.” I’ll give my reply to questions that are broadly about simpler living and invite you to add your responses.
John wrote:
Gerald, Does Simple Living have any accumulated wisdom on necessity of Cable/Satellite TV and Internet/Smart Phone — where to stop etc.? Seems like it takes a chunk of change, and increasingly so, to keep all this stuff. A lot of it seems to be habit that one has gotten used to and now “can’t live without.” But surely there is an alternative . . . John
Slim says:
Several simple living propositions apply here.
- Needs trump wants. If you really need Cable/Satellite TV, Internet and/or a Smart Phone, get one. If you just want them, don’t get them. Simple living is not about deprivation. It is about conscious living, being aware of our real needs and their consequences for us and the Earth.
- If you decide to get it, consult Clark Howard. He has a daily radio show, also available as a podcast. Clark’s motto is “save more, spend less and avoid rip-offs.” He’s goal is thrift, not the large view of voluntary simplicity. ClarkHoward.com has many cost guides – travel, for example – which his staff keeps updated. In this case, I’d consult his site about recent cell phone plans.
- Life Standard #5 of Living More with Less is “Non-conform Freely.” This pertains to many things, such as fashion fads. I use it primarily to avoid the lure of advertising on commercial media, especially TV (and the internet, which has become so targeted).
Now it’s your turn. Post comments, ideas, questions and confessions on this blog or email SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com. Yes, my blogs are moderated by me.
Yes, Slim is an acronym for “Simple Living Is More.”
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What’s NOW with SLW
- Simple Living MUSIC. Earth Mama’s music is fun and enjoyed by all ages, while teaching important messages about sustainable living, recycling, and eco-activism. Perfect for teachers and Cultural Creatives, Earth Mama music spreads the word about sacred ecology and simple living. NEW – songbook for her new Blessings of the Universe CD! My blog about her recent CD: A Sense of Place.Earth Mama provides the opening theme music for SLW! Podcast. For her version of “Simple Gifts: ‘Tis a Gift to Be Simple,” listen to episode 2. John Pitney’s complete “Live Simply So Others May Simply Live” (closing podcast theme) | website.MUSIC Collections: Sing Justice! Do Justice! | Carols with Justice | more
- I interviewed Tom and Christine Sine at Mustard Seed House for SLW! podcast #28. I’ve published my notes of our group discussion (Post #293) at Mustard Seed Associates, as I did with the notes from my speaking tours through 40+ states (including my first visit to MSA, post #168).Tom is the author of the best-seller Mustard Seed Conspiracy. He gave me a copy of his recent The New Conspirators: Creating the Future One Mustard Seed at a Time. He blogs. He also wrote a series of Advent/Christmas reflections for Alternatives. Christine wrote The Search for Meaning: Beyond a Commercialized World (available in text or podcast). She has written several books about faith formation and gardening.They are building the Mustard Seed Associates educational eco-village on an island on the coast of Washington state.
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – September
- Check out a few of these thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE.
- Treasury of Celebrations*: Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don’t Cost the Earth Earth – Sept.-Dec.
- Worship Alternatives: Pentecost/Ordinary Time
- Spirit of Simplicity: ART | QUOTES
- 10 Tips for Simpler, More Meaningful Celebrations | Spanish: 10 puntas
- Alternatives’ Seasonal/Thematic Index
What’s Coming
- Sept. 15 SLW! podcast — Brian “Wolt” Wolters and the Overflow Project | 50-Day Challenge | my blog SIMPLIFY + GIVE + CHANGE = WATER
- Oct. 1 SLW! podcast — Paul Canavese, head of GospelLiving.org. Paul and spouse Ann contributed to the Wedding Alternatives Supplement. They hosted Rita and I on a speaking tour. Read the notes of that visit at Post #58.
- Oct. 15 podcast — Bob Sitze, author, blogger
What’s Happened
- New “Simply Advent” eResources. It’s so encouraging when someone uses or re-issues some of Alternatives’ resources. World Vision Canada has repackaged our Simply Enough DVD of Tony Campolo and Shane Claiborne as Choose Justice with an extensive Conversation Guide. Wood Lake Books — publisher of The Alternative Wedding Book and Treasury of Celebrations — has included The Christmas Game in their popular curriculum Seasons of the Spirit. Now Paul Canavese of The Pastoral Center has incorporated some of Alternatives’ Advent/Christmas resources in its new Simply Advent eResource series. (Or see all of their Advent eResources.) Although their market is primarily Catholic, their four inserts for the Sundays in Advent are quite ecumenical. Their goal is to continue including Simple Living into future resources. So, you have the choice — if you have the time and inclination — to design your own resources using Alternatives’ elements, or to pay someone else a bit to use their Alternatives-inspired eResources.
- Tony and Shane Uncut Finale — Tony Campolo & Shane Claiborne’s complete dialog on simpler living and global justice, in eight parts. To LISTEN visit the Episode Index. Complete Endorsements by Jim Wallis, Author of God’s Politics & President of Sojourners; Aiden Enns, Geez magazine, BuyNothingChristmas.org; Walter Brueggemann, author/scholar; Justo L. Gonzalez, Author of The Story of Christianity; Tom Sine, Author of The Mustard Seed Conspiracy; John de Graaf, Co-Producer and Co-Author of Affluenza: the All-Consuming Epidemic
- Simple Living Humor? What’s That?
- Alternative Pentecost & Ordinary Time
What Others Are Doing
- Memorial 911 Prayers – A Resource List
- The Common Good Podcast episodes 50-51 – Colin Richard on Permaculture
- Seeing Systems: Peace, Justice and Sustainability – New Course from Northwest Earth Institute
- Interviews, Book Groups, etc. – Spreading the 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
- Summer of Peace: Transforming Conflict in Your Heart, Your Relationships and the World, a free online event, June 13-September 21 | Spring of Sustainability: Turning Crises into Creative Solutions [Since this series is over, you can only access it by subscribing. Or hear two free samples.] — both series from The Shift Network and Sustainable World Coalition
Podcast Reminder
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Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
*GRAPHIC – Consumo: Spirit of Simplicity Quotes and Art #1-A501
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*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.
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