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Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest

What’s NOW with SLW!

• So Much Help!  I’m glad to pass along links from simple living bloggers, podcasters, coaches and others. Some faith-based, some not. I’m not suggesting that you read them all. Skim through them. Choose FIVE links — including SLW! — to investigate.
• SLW! Podcast #50 Joyce “Earth Mama” Rouse — Read her bio, philosophy and resources at her NEW Website. Also, Songbooks, Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumbdrive, Standing on the Shoulders music video, sheet music offerings — all NEW
• EarthDay.fm is a 24 hour internet station that plays Eco or Earth music—and has listeners in over 120 countries.  Joyce was one of the founding members of the board of MUSE (Musicians United to Sustain the Environment).
• Her music is streamed in many places—Spotify, Amazon Cloud Drive, iTunes Radio and iTunes Match, XBox, Rhapsody, EarthDay.fm and more streaming and internet radio. Listen to some full cuts here.
• Her “Enough Is as Good as a Feast” is in Alternatives’ Stories and Songs of Simple Living — introduction, audio and lyrics.
  

  Fall Festival Resources

• Submit Now to Whose Birthday? 2015

• UNPLUG the Christmas Machine Workshop

• How to Host an Alternative Gift Fair
• Planning an Alternative Christmas Workshop
• How to Organize an Alternative Christmas Community Festival
• Resource Index: Advent/Christmas
• Feeling Bullied by Consumo? Ask Slim.
• 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 – AUGUST
• Check out a few of SLW! thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE. Visit Seasonal/Thematic Resource Index

• What Others Are Doing

• Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)

• Greater Riches Than Wealth (8/5)
• Inspiring Simplicity. Weekend Reads (8/1)
• How Giving Away 1,000 Books Made Me Love Reading Again (7/31)
• The Example We Set (7/28) 
• Elevate the Important (7/23) 
• 9 New Simple Living Blogs I Highly Recommend (7/17) 
• The Pieces We Allow in Our Lives (7/10)
• Do Less and Live More (7/6) 
• 6 Questions to Discover Your Most Meaningful Pursuits
• Center for a New American Dream: Download NEW Kids Unbranded Action Kit (7/14)
• The Common Good Podcast 
• Episode 62 :: Jeff Lincer: Heroic Efforts to Manage Habitats of Endangered Species—Are They Succeeding?
• Episode 61 :: Pope and Pando: An Encyclical and a Conference on Reversing Climate Change 
• Episode 60 :: Christle Balvin — Extreme Drought Teaches Value of Water for the Common Good
• Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) — Website, Songbooks, Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumbdrive, Standing on the Shoulders music video, sheet music offerings — all NEW
• Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell)
  • Rejecting Global Devastation (8/7)
  • Wow! 15 Years! (7/31)
  • Eco-Justice and Jobs (7/24)
  • A Celebration of Wilderness (7/17)
  • Details Matter (7/10)

  GodSpace (Christine Sine)
  The Homesteading Guide Daily: Homesteading adventurer exploring life off the grid. Inviting you to share my journey and the friends I meet as we help you with your homesteading endeavors.
  Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways // TMI-Too Much Information:

  1. Paper– newspapers, magazines, catalogs, junk mail, books
  2. Audio/Visual Media– radio, TV, movies, videos,
  3. Electronic Communication– email, social media
  4. Phone– solicitations, cell phone limits, smart phones
  5. Being Weighed Down by Too Much Bad News – wars, natural disasters, tragedies

  Mustard Seed Associates (Andy Wade)

• Zero-Sum Relationships (7/20)
• The Spirituality of Scarcity and Abundance
• The Neighborhood Church as Fungus

NorthWest Earth Institute‘s newest discussion course ebook,  Change Is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions

The OneEarth Project (Lee Van Ham)

• Three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals
• Conversation about The OneEarth Project and Lee’s book,
  Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us
• The Common Good Podcast, episode 42
• Lee’s new Slide Show
• PostConsumers: NEW Eco-Travel and Eco-Tourism
• Simple Living: the Good Life (Janet Luhrs)
  • The Truth Cost of Fashion (8/5)
  • Why We Love Community (8/4)
  • Imperfection Is the New Good Life (7/24)
  • The Simple Life Perks of Getting out and into Nature (7/15)
  • Death Is in the Details: How Not to Sweat the Small Stuff (7/2)
• Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity
• Aug. 7 edition
• July 30
• July 23
• July 16
• Simply Enough (Bob Sitze)
  “Simple Things: Garden Tools (8/10)
• “Simple Upgrades? (8/7)
  “The No-Program Church” (8/6)
  “Quoditian” (8/4)
  “Talking with Jesus” (8/1)
  “A Redeeming Life” (7/29)
  “Simplicity’s Children: The Unstructured Summer” (7/26)
  “Mansplaining” (7/23)
  “Distilling” (7/20)
  “Evoking Profound Memories” (7/17)
  “Connecting to Your Legacy” (7/14)
  “The Simpler Pastor” (7/8)
• Value of Simple / Smart and Simple Matters podcast (Joel Zaslofsky): Liberate Your Time, Money and Talent — How to Get Better at Asking for (and Giving) Anything
• For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.

Upcoming Alternate Celebrations

NEW – 9/11
Autumn begins, Sept. 21, 22 or 23

What’s Happened

• SLW! Podcast #49: Laird Schaub, Exec. Sec., Fellowship for Intentional Community, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting cooperative culture. Intentional communities are pioneers in sustainable living, personal and cultural transformation, and peaceful social evolution, including ecovillages, cohousing, residential land trusts, income-sharing communes, student co-ops, spiritual communities, and other projects where people live together on the basis of explicit common values. Since its beginning in 1987, FIC works in a number of ways, including the Communities Directory, Communities magazine, Community Bookstore, community-focused Events, Classifieds, the Blog, and more. FIC’s passion is promoting cooperative culture and sustainable living. That means providing the information and inspiration for those seeking community, forming communities, struggling with the challenges of community, and those who want to develop a greater sense of community where they are.
• SLW! Podcast #48: Mike Mercer, Exec. Dir., Northwest Earth Institute || NWEI on Wikipedia // NorthWest Earth Institute‘s newest discussion course ebook,  Change Is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions, is a brand new five-session discussion course on climate action that will help your community or organization to do just that – take action to increase resilience and mitigate the impacts of climate change. Presented in an interactive ebook, this new discussion course experience integrates video, audio and printed content with action plans.
• SLW! Podcast #47: Exec. Dir. Susan Stephenson, Interfaith Power and Light
• SLW! Podcast #46: Jared Brock is the author of A Year of Living Prayerfully, and the co-founder of Hope for the Sold, an abolitionist charity that fights human trafficking. He and Michelle directed and produced the film Red Light Green Light. He writes regularly at JaredBrock.com.
• Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
• Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
  

  Podcast Reminder

  You can access all SLW! podcast audio and the show notes either at SimpleLiving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST or at SimpleLivingWorks.org (then click window #3). Complete Episode Index Listen through your computer, iPod, iPad, iPhone (or equivalent). SUBSCRIBE through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. To SUBSCRIBE to email notices, click Comments at the bottom of Show Notes, then check ‘Notify me of new posts by email.’ Please rate us in iTunes and leave a review. Send us your email address to receive the free monthly SLW! eNews. Remember to like us on Facebook. Urge your friends to do the same. Do your friends a favor. Share our blog and podcast. Like SLW! on Facebook. | Follow us on Twitter. | Follow us on Pinterest. Share your thoughts on our podcast and blogs. Email Feedback@SimpleLivingWorks.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

  *IMAGE: Spirit of Simplicity #2-A2471: Look and see what others can’t see. Hear what others aren’t able to hear. Tell what you have seen and heard.

  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.

Simple Living Works! eNews #47 – August, 2015

SLW! Podcast #50 Joyce “Earth Mama” Rouse — Read her bio, philosophy and resources at her NEW Website. Also, NEW Songbooks! NEW Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumbdrive! NEW Standing on the Shoulders music video! NEW sheet music offerings!

EarthDay.fm is a 24 hour internet station that plays Eco or Earth music—and has listeners in over 120 countries.  Joyce was one of the founding members of the board of MUSE (Musicians United to Sustain the Environment).

* * *

What’s NOW with SLW!

• So Much Help!  I’m glad to pass along many links from simple living bloggers, podcasters, coaches and others. Some faith-based, some not. I’m not suggesting that you read them all. Skim through them. Choose FIVE links — including SLW! — to investigate.
• July 15 — SLW! Podcast #49: Laird Schaub, Exec. Sec., Fellowship for Intentional Community, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting cooperative culture. Intentional communities are pioneers in sustainable living, personal and cultural transformation, and peaceful social evolution, including ecovillages, cohousing, residential land trusts, income-sharing communes, student co-ops, spiritual communities, and other projects where people live together on the basis of explicit common values. Since its beginning in 1987, FIC works in a number of ways, including the Communities Directory, Communities magazine, Community Bookstore, community-focused Events, Classifieds, the Blog, and more. FIC’s passion is promoting cooperative culture and sustainable living. That means providing the information and inspiration for those seeking community, forming communities, struggling with the challenges of community, and those who want to develop a greater sense of community where they are.
• 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 – AUGUST
• Check out a few of SLW! thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE. Visit Seasonal/Thematic Resource Index

What Others Are Doing

• Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker): Greater Riches Than Wealth (8/5) // Inspiring Simplicity. Weekend Reads. (8/1) // How Giving Away 1,000 Books Made Me Love Reading Again (7/31) // The Example We Set (7/28) // Elevate the Important (7/23) // 9 New Simple Living Blogs I Highly Recommend (7/17) // The Pieces We Allow in Our Lives (7/10) // Do Less and Live More (7/6) //  6 Questions to Discover Your Most Meaningful Pursuits
• Center for a New American Dream: Download NEW Kids Unbranded Action Kit – 7/14/15
• The Common Good Podcast – Episode 60 :: Christle Balvin — Extreme Drought Teaches Value of Water for the Common Good // Episode 61 :: Pope and Pando: An Encyclical and a Conference on Reversing Climate Change 
• Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) — NEW Website! NEW Songbooks! NEW Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumbdrive! NEW Standing on the Shoulders music video! NEW sheet music offerings!
• Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell): Wow! 15 Years! (7/31) // Eco-Justice and Jobs (7/24) // A Celebration of Wilderness (7/17) //  Details Matter (7/10)
• GodSpace (Christine Sine)
• The Homesteading Guide Daily: Homesteading adventurer exploring life off the grid. Inviting you to share my journey and the friends I meet as we help you with your homesteading endeavors.
• Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): TMI-Too Much Information:
  1. Paper– newspapers, magazines, catalogs, junk mail, books
  2. Audio/Visual Media– radio, TV, movies, videos,
  3. Electronic Communication– email, social media
  4. Phone– solicitations, cell phone limits, smart phones
  5. Being Weighed Down by Too Much Bad News – wars, natural disasters, tragedies

  // 365+ Days of Give-Aways

• Mustard Seed Associates (Andy Wade): Zero-Sum Relationships (7/20) // The Spirituality of Scarcity and Abundance // The Neighborhood Church as Fungus
• NorthWest Earth Institute‘s newest discussion course ebook,  Change Is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions (see above)
• The OneEarth Project (Lee Van Ham) — 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
• PostConsumers: NEW Eco-Travel and Eco-Tourism
• Simple Living: the Good Life (Janet Luhrs): Why We Love Community (8/4) // Imperfection Is the New Good Life  (7/24) // The Simple Life Perks of Getting out and into Nature (7/15) // Death Is in the Details: How Not to Sweat the Small Stuff (7/2)
• Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity —Aug. 7 edition // July 30 // July 23 //  July 16 //  July 9 //  July 2
• Simply Enough (Bob Sitze): “Simple Upgrades? (8/7), “The No-Program Church” (8/6),
  “Quoditian” (8/4), “Talking with Jesus” (8/1), “A Redeeming Life” (7/29), “Simplicity’s Children: The Unstructured Summer” (7/26), “Mansplaining” (7/23), “Distilling” (7/20), “Evoking Profound Memories” (7/17), “Connecting to Your Legacy” (7/14), “Glass” (7/11), “The Simpler Pastor” (7/8), “Finicky” (7/5), “Sale!” (7/1)
• Value of Simple / Smart and Simple Matters podcast (Joel Zaslofsky): Liberate Your Time, Money and Talent — How to Get Better at Asking for (and Giving) Anything

Upcoming Alternate Celebrations

• NEW – 9/11
• Autumn begins, Sept. 21, 22 or 23

What’s Happened

• SLW! Podcast #48: Mike Mercer, Exec. Dir., Northwest Earth Institute || NWEI on Wikipedia // NorthWest Earth Institute‘s newest discussion course ebook,  Change Is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions, is a brand new five-session discussion course on climate action that will help your community or organization to do just that – take action to increase resilience and mitigate the impacts of climate change. Presented in an interactive ebook, this new discussion course experience integrates video, audio and printed content with action plans.
• SLW! Podcast #47: Exec. Dir. Susan Stephenson, Interfaith Power and Light
• SLW! Podcast #46: Jared Brock is the author of A Year of Living Prayerfully, and the co-founder of Hope for the Sold, an abolitionist charity that fights human trafficking. He and Michelle directed and produced the film Red Light Green Light. He writes regularly at JaredBrock.com.
• Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
• Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links

Podcast Reminder

You can access all SLW! podcast audio and the show notes either at SimpleLiving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST or at SimpleLivingWorks.org (then click window #3). Complete Episode Index Listen through your computer, iPod, iPad, iPhone (or equivalent). SUBSCRIBE through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. To SUBSCRIBE to email notices, click Comments at the bottom of Show Notes, then check ‘Notify me of new posts by email.’ Please rate us in iTunes and leave a review. Send us your email address to receive the free monthly SLW! eNews. Remember to like us on Facebook. Urge your friends to do the same. Do your friends a favor. Share our blog and podcast. Like SLW! on Facebook. | Follow us on Twitter. | Follow us on Pinterest. Share your thoughts on our podcast and blogs. Email Feedback@SimpleLivingWorks.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

IMAGE: EarthMama.org

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

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