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Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest
Dec. 22, 2016
In This Issue:
- SLW! Podcast #83 —WHOSE Birthday? — Christmas Season-Epiphany //
- Submit to WHOSE Birthday? #28 // How to Produce Your Own Edition
- Our Simpler Living Weekly Daily Nudge // Easy-to-share for Dec.
- Relish These Responsible Celebrating QUOTES // ART //
- What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
- More!
What’s NOW with SLW!
- New Year’s Resolution: I will focus on what I CAN change. I will focus on voluntary simplicity, my choices to challenge consumerism, live justly and celebrate responsibly.
- SLW! Podcast #83 —WHOSE Birthday? annual Advent/Christmas resource for individuals, families, congregations [review #80, #81, #82] // Text from legacy issue #20, featuring Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo, John and Peter Marty and many others.
- Advent // Christmas
- See article about “Whose Birthday?” in fall edition of the national publication for ELCA leaders, Seeds for the Parish, p. 7.
- Want to Contribute to WHOSE Birthday? #28 for 2016: An Advent and Christmas Resource for Families, Individuals and Churches. Submission Guidelines Whose Birthday? is for your personal inspiration, community education and sharing. This online-only edition is a work-in-progress. You can still submit ART or an ARTICLE. Although this resource is not available in print, you may make all the copies you choose. It is covered by Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license. Guidelines for a customized, DIY, electronic or paper edition drawn from articles and art of your choice.
- Alternatives’ Advent/Christmas/Epiphany Resource Index
- Our Daily Simpler Living Nudge
- What Is The NUDGE? / How It Works / How to GET It – Subscribe by sending NUDGE to SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com. / How to SHARE It / More About Holidays
- 2016
- September: Non-conform Freely
- October: Sustenance
- November // Week 1: More Celebrating || Week 2: Preparations || Week 3: Unplug the Christmas Machine ||Week 4: Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?
- December: Responsible Celebrating (Advent) Week 1: Ten Tips for a Simpler, More Meaningful Christmas, #1-6 || Week 2: 10 Tips, #7-8 || Week 3: 10 Tips, #9-10+ || Week 4: Christmas, Kwanzaa, Holy Innocents
- New SLW! Site Search Engine on Home Page Window #4
- Current activities of the Chief Activist
- SLW! Blog Index | SLW! Podcast Index
- SUBSCRIBE to SLW! Podcast for free through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. Subscribe to SLW! Blog. Click “+Follow” at lower right of blog post, enter a name and email address. Welcome!
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – DEC. // JAN.
- 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: Renowned Biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann on his new book Money & Possessions; Hazel Henderson, founder, Ethical Markets Media, and Series Creator and Co-Executive Producer of its TV series, also author and syndicated columnist.
What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
I gladly pass along links from simple living bloggers, podcasters, coaches and others. Some faith-based, some not. You needn’t read them all. Choose FIVE links — including SLW! — to investigate.
- Advent Conspiracy: video, family guide and Advent calendar, Sunday School curriculum, Advent sermon outline // SLW! Podcast
- Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)
- Becoming Minimalist’s Top Posts of 2016 (12/26)
- The Best Gift You Can Give This Christmas (and Where to Find It) (12/22)
- Inspiring Simplicity Reads (12/17)
- 10 Children’s Books to Inspire Simplicity in Kids (12/14)
- Is This Why We’re Doing This? (12/7)
- All the Things You Don’t Need for a Perfect Holiday (11/26)
- Avoid Holiday Clutter. Build Homes for Orphans. (11/21)
- Center for a New American Dream: Kids Unbranded Action Kit
- Why the Elf on the Shelf Is Not Welcome in My House: tips to help parents avoid the “slippery slope” of this popular Christmas tradition.
- Christmas 2016: Not Made in China: After the unexpected loss of a family member, one New Dreamer found meaning in finding and creating presents that reflect the true value of Christmas and family.
- Hope for a New(er) Dream
- Down-to-the Wire Gift Ideas: Skip the stores and check out More Fun, Less Stuff Holiday Gift Catalog, filled with hundreds of meaningful gift ideas designed to strengthen relationships without breaking the bank. Also, use free Printable Coupon Book to give gifts of time, experience, and memories.
- The Common Good Podcast – Check out the new site.
- Ep. 78: Susan Taylor of Just Money Advisors on Relating to Money in a Toxic Culture and Parenting Children About Money
- Ep. 77: Lee Van Ham previews vol. 2 of his “Eden for the 21st Century” trilogy, entitled From Egos to Eden: Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable.
- Ep. 76: Let’s Have an Ugly Food Thanksgiving
- BONUS: 11 practical ways you can reduce food waste and save money
- Community Solutions: Founded in 1940, this non-profit organization advocates for small communities and the benefits of face-to-face relationships. Since 2003, the focus has been to provide resources for low-carbon living and to inspire collective, cooperative solutions in the face of peak energy and climate change.
- Creation Justice: CAPSULES – News and Opportunities for Christians Doing Creation Justice
- E-The Environmental Magazine
- Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) – Website, Songbooks, YouTube videos; Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumb drive, Standing on the Shoulders music video, sheet music offerings // SLW! Podcast
- Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive // SLW! Podcast #18 // SLW! Podcast #66
- Christmas Critters (12/23)
- Political Pain and Grief (12/16)
- Ancient Good Uncouth (12/9)
- Living in Hope (12/2)
- Transitions, Fast and Slow (11/18)
- Facing the Trump Years (11/11)
- GodSpace (Christine Sine) // SLW! Podcast
- The Good Stuff—your dose of what’s working in the world from The Story of Stuff Project!
- Green Child eMagazine: Simplify for Happier, Calmer Kids
- The Homesteading Guide Daily: Exploring life off the grid.
- Jubilee Economics / Casa Jubileo (Lee Van Ham & Dan Swanson) – Back online! Check out the new site.
- There’s a Better Way to Understand Isaiah than to Think He Predicted Jesus (11/27)
- Standing with Standing Rock on Central Coast Calif. (11/23)
- Did the 2016 Election Open an Opportunity for OneEarth Jubilee? (11/17)
- Mexico Blog (English/Spanish): Chiapas Delegation
- A Living Earth Economy (David Korten – Yes! Magazine): How we can make peace with nature, realize the value of living wealth, and return to local, self-organized rule.
- Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways – Finding good homes for no longer needed items rather than just putting them in the trash // SLW! Podcast // SLW! Podcast: Lent
- Letting Go – of money, possessions, and status
- Recycling – the usual and more
- Time vs. Money Formula – Discerning how much is my time worth when pursuing a discount. See my formula. It may not be perfect but it’s a start.
- 0 In – 2 Out: On Being Robbed – Thoughts on having stuff stolen rather than voluntarily giving it away
- Giving Away Credit – Letting go of the urge to look important to others is a step in spiritual growth. Doesn’t come easily to me. You?
- Recycling Plastics – The usual stuff plus the more difficult to recycle plastics. Any experiences to add?
- Recycling – The Multiplier Effect – How walking around the neighborhood led me to think bigger than just my personal recycling practices. How to move from one to many.
- Recycling – Pruning Paper – I know that paper is becoming obsolete as more and more information is going digital. but when should we let go of archived papers and paper memories like photos. Scanning stuff takes time. What’s worked for you?
Susan’s upcoming blog post will consider ways to “precycle” so there is less need to recycle.
- Live Simply (Third Way: Celeste Kennel-Shank)
- Lutheran Peace Fellowship: Simple Living Resources // SLW! Podcast
- The Minimalists podcast (Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus). Getting us past the things so we can make room for life’s most important things — which actually aren’t things at all.
- 035: Dayton
- 034: Utah
- 033: Criticism
- NEW – Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things
- The Art of Letting Go: The Minimalists TEDX Talk (July, 2016)
- Mustard Seed Associates (Andy Wade)
- New Changemakers: Join the Changemaking Celebration! (Tom Sine)
- NorthWest Earth Institute‘s latest discussion course ebook, Sustainability Works: Rethinking Business As Usual // Change Is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions // Voluntary Simplicity // SLW! Podcast
- The OneEarth Project (Lee Van Ham) // SLW! Podcast
- A Holiday Message: May Egos Who Would Rule the World Become “Surprised Egos” (12/19)
- Indians (Standing Rock and Others) Prove an Editor Wrong—and Oh So Many Others (12/7)
- The Heroic Journey That Returns Alt-Right Extremist Thinking to the Margins (11/29)
- Three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals
- Conversation about The OneEarth Project and Lee’s book,
Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us
- The Pastoral Center/Gospel Living (Paul Canavese) // SLW! Podcast
- Advent eResources, included Simply Advent by Paul, incorporating some SLW! resources.
- Other Simple Living and Ecology resources
- Simply Advent handouts, inserts for-a-simpler-more-faith-filled-advent-eresource.
- CatholicCreationCare.com – General resources
- CreationCareKids.com – Children’s resources
- PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough / Full Article Library
- Better Than Black Friday
- Manufactured Trends: A Marketing Arsenal Weapon You Should Watch Out For
- 25 Ways to Help Save the Ocean (Or At Least Stem the Tide)
- Marketing 101 for the Postconsumer: understand how marketers are manipulating us, so we can make informed decisions about how we control our consumerism.
- Simple Enough (Bob Sitze) // SLW! Podcast
- Simple Living: the Good Life (Janet Luhrs)–Time, Finances, Home-Work, Health
- Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity
- Simplicity Collective – Let us be pioneers once more (Samuel Alexander)
- Simplicity Parenting (Kim John Payne): because it is a beautiful world
- Smart and Simple Matters podcast (Joel Zaslofsky of Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time, Money and Talent) // SLW! Podcast
- When “Being” Your Way into Action Is Better Than Thinking (Julie Gray) – Ep.115
- Death Literacy, Enoughness, and Why Life Is Long (Humaira Hamid)–Ep.114
- How to Be Social, Selective & Simple (Ryan Nicodemus)–Ep.113
- Why and How to Run an Offers and Needs Market–Ep.112
- TransitionNetwork.org: Transition Towns–A movement of communities coming together to reimagine and rebuild our world
- TreeHugger: Finding a Greener Future
- For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
- Upcoming Alternate Celebrations: Sept.-Dec. // Jan.-April
What’s Happened
- Post-Election Emergency/Disaster Preparedness and Survival Guide
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // Collaborators & Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
Podcast Reminder
You can access all SLW! podcast audio and the show notes either at SimpleLiving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST or at SimpleLivingWorks.org (then click window #3). Complete Episode Index. Listen through your computer, iPod, iPad, iPhone (or equivalent).
SUBSCRIBE through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. To SUBSCRIBE to email notices, click Comments at the bottom of Show Notes, then check ‘Notify me of new posts by email.’ Please rate us in iTunes and leave a review.
Send us your email address to receive the free monthly SLW! eNews. Remember to like us on Facebook. Urge your friends to do the same. Do your friends a favor. Share our blog and podcast.
Like SLW! on Facebook. | Follow us on Twitter. | Follow us on Pinterest. Share your thoughts on our podcast and blogs. Email SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com, leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
*IMAGE: Spirit of Simplicity #3-A301
For hard copies of Alternatives’ resources at nominal cost, contact ELCA Archives, 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 // (847) 690-9410 // archives@elca.org
We do not solicit or accept donations, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge. We’re an all-volunteer organization. Instead, we urge Alternative Giving. Give away at least 25% of what you spent last year on all celebrations – Christmas, birthdays, etc. — to local, national and international causes.
Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.
*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.
Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011. Simple Living Works! web site home page | Theme/Seasons Index. To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — please listen to our getting-acquainted episodes, especially #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, hopefully educational and inspiring for you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog each week.
Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest
Dec. 15, 2016
In This Issue:
- SLW! Podcast #83 —WHOSE Birthday? — Christmas Season-Epiphany //
- Submit to WHOSE Birthday? #28 // How to Produce Your Own Edition
- Our Simpler Living Weekly Daily Nudge // Easy-to-share for Dec.
- Relish These Responsible Celebrating QUOTES // ART //
- What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
- More!
What’s NOW with SLW!
- New Year’s Resolution: I will focus on what I CAN change. I will focus on voluntary simplicity, my choices to challenge consumerism, live justly and celebrate responsibly.
- SLW! Podcast #83 —WHOSE Birthday? annual Advent/Christmas resource for individuals, families, congregations [review #80, #81, #82] // Text from legacy issue #20, featuring Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo, John and Peter Marty and many others.
- Advent: Since Christmas is on a Sunday this year, Advent started as early as ever, Nov. 27.
- See article about “Whose Birthday?” in fall edition of the national publication for ELCA leaders, Seeds for the Parish, p. 7.
- Want to Contribute to WHOSE Birthday? #28 for 2016: An Advent and Christmas Resource for Families, Individuals and Churches. Submission Guidelines Whose Birthday? is for your personal inspiration, community education and sharing. This online-only edition is a work-in-progress. You can still submit ART or an ARTICLE. Although this resource is not available in print, you may make all the copies you choose. It is covered by Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license. Guidelines for a customized, DIY, electronic or paper edition drawn from articles and art of your choice.
- Alternatives’ Advent/Christmas/Epiphany Resource Index
- Our Daily Simpler Living Nudge
- What Is The NUDGE? / How It Works / How to GET It – Subscribe by sending NUDGE to SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com. / How to SHARE It / More About Holidays
- 2016
- September: Non-conform Freely
- October: Sustenance
- November // Week 1: More Celebrating || Week 2: Preparations || Week 3: Unplug the Christmas Machine ||Week 4: Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?
- December: Responsible Celebrating (Advent) Week 1: Ten Tips for a Simpler, More Meaningful Christmas, #1-6 || Week 2: 10 Tips, #7-8 || Week 3: 10 Tips, #9-10+ || Week 4: Christmas, Kwanzaa, Holy Innocents
- New SLW! Site Search Engine on Home Page Window #4
- Current activities of the Chief Activist
- SLW! Blog Index | SLW! Podcast Index
- SUBSCRIBE to SLW! Podcast for free through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. Subscribe to SLW! Blog. Click “+Follow” at lower right of blog post, enter a name and email address. Welcome!
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – DEC. // JAN.
- 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: Renowned Biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann on his new book Money & Possessions; Hazel Henderson, founder, Ethical Markets Media, and Series Creator and Co-Executive Producer of its TV series, also author and syndicated columnist.
What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
I gladly pass along links from simple living bloggers, podcasters, coaches and others. Some faith-based, some not. You needn’t read them all. Choose FIVE links — including SLW! — to investigate.
- Advent Conspiracy: video, family guide and Advent calendar, Sunday School curriculum, Advent sermon outline // SLW! Podcast
- Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)
- Center for a New American Dream: Kids Unbranded Action Kit
- Why the Elf on the Shelf Is Not Welcome in My House: tips to help parents avoid the “slippery slope” of this popular Christmas tradition.
- Christmas 2016: Not Made in China: After the unexpected loss of a family member, one New Dreamer found meaning in finding and creating presents that reflect the true value of Christmas and family.
- Hope for a New(er) Dream
- Down-to-the Wire Gift Ideas: Skip the stores and check out More Fun, Less Stuff Holiday Gift Catalog, filled with hundreds of meaningful gift ideas designed to strengthen relationships without breaking the bank. Also, use free Printable Coupon Book to give gifts of time, experience, and memories.
- The Common Good Podcast – Check out the new site.
- Ep. 78: Susan Taylor of Just Money Advisors on Relating to Money in a Toxic Culture and Parenting Children About Money
- Ep. 77: Lee Van Ham previews vol. 2 of his “Eden for the 21st Century” trilogy, entitled From Egos to Eden: Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable.
- Ep. 76: Let’s Have an Ugly Food Thanksgiving
- BONUS: 11 practical ways you can reduce food waste and save money
- Community Solutions: Founded in 1940, this non-profit organization advocates for small communities and the benefits of face-to-face relationships. Since 2003, the focus has been to provide resources for low-carbon living and to inspire collective, cooperative solutions in the face of peak energy and climate change.
- Creation Justice: CAPSULES – News and Opportunities for Christians Doing Creation Justice
- E-The Environmental Magazine
- Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) – Website, Songbooks, YouTube videos; Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumb drive, Standing on the Shoulders music video, sheet music offerings // SLW! Podcast
- Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive // SLW! Podcast #18 // SLW! Podcast #66
- Political Pain and Grief (12/16)
- Ancient Good Uncouth (12/9)
- Living in Hope (12/2)
- Transitions, Fast and Slow (11/18)
- Facing the Trump Years (11/11)
- GodSpace (Christine Sine) // SLW! Podcast
- The Good Stuff—your dose of what’s working in the world from The Story of Stuff Project!
- Green Child eMagazine: Simplify for Happier, Calmer Kids
- The Homesteading Guide Daily: Exploring life off the grid.
- Jubilee Economics / Casa Jubileo (Lee Van Ham & Dan Swanson) – Back online! Check out the new site.
- There’s a Better Way to Understand Isaiah than to Think He Predicted Jesus (11/27)
- Standing with Standing Rock on Central Coast Calif. (11/23)
- Did the 2016 Election Open an Opportunity for OneEarth Jubilee? (11/17)
- Mexico Blog (English/Spanish): Chiapas Delegation
- A Living Earth Economy (David Korten – Yes! Magazine): How we can make peace with nature, realize the value of living wealth, and return to local, self-organized rule.
- Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways – Finding good homes for no longer needed items rather than just putting them in the trash // SLW! Podcast // SLW! Podcast: Lent
- Letting Go – of money, possessions, and status
- Recycling – the usual and more
- Time vs. Money Formula – Discerning how much is my time worth when pursuing a discount. See my formula. It may not be perfect but it’s a start.
- 0 In – 2 Out: On Being Robbed – Thoughts on having stuff stolen rather than voluntarily giving it away
- Giving Away Credit – Letting go of the urge to look important to others is a step in spiritual growth. Doesn’t come easily to me. You?
- Recycling Plastics – The usual stuff plus the more difficult to recycle plastics. Any experiences to add?
- Recycling – The Multiplier Effect – How walking around the neighborhood led me to think bigger than just my personal recycling practices. How to move from one to many.
- Recycling – Pruning Paper – I know that paper is becoming obsolete as more and more information is going digital. but when should we let go of archived papers and paper memories like photos. Scanning stuff takes time. What’s worked for you?
Susan’s upcoming blog post will consider ways to “precycle” so there is less need to recycle.
- Live Simply (Third Way: Celeste Kennel-Shank)
- Lutheran Peace Fellowship: Simple Living Resources // SLW! Podcast
- The Minimalists podcast (Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus). Getting us past the things so we can make room for life’s most important things — which actually aren’t things at all.
- 035: Dayton
- 034: Utah
- 033: Criticism
- NEW – Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things
- The Art of Letting Go: The Minimalists TEDX Talk (July, 2016)
- Mustard Seed Associates (Andy Wade)
- New Changemakers: Join the Changemaking Celebration! (Tom Sine)
- NorthWest Earth Institute‘s latest discussion course ebook, Sustainability Works: Rethinking Business As Usual // Change Is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions // Voluntary Simplicity // SLW! Podcast
- The OneEarth Project (Lee Van Ham) // SLW! Podcast
- Indians (Standing Rock and Others) Prove an Editor Wrong—and Oh So Many Others (12/7)
- The Heroic Journey That Returns Alt-Right Extremist Thinking to the Margins (11/29)
- The Haudenosaune People Impart a Saving Message (11/23)
- Three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals
- Conversation about The OneEarth Project and Lee’s book,
Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us
- The Pastoral Center/Gospel Living (Paul Canavese) // SLW! Podcast
- Advent eResources, included Simply Advent by Paul, incorporating some SLW! resources.
- Other Simple Living and Ecology resources
- Simply Advent handouts, inserts for-a-simpler-more-faith-filled-advent-eresource.
- CatholicCreationCare.com – General resources
- CreationCareKids.com – Children’s resources
- PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough / Full Article Library
- Better Than Black Friday
- Manufactured Trends: A Marketing Arsenal Weapon You Should Watch Out For
- 25 Ways to Help Save the Ocean (Or At Least Stem the Tide)
- Marketing 101 for the Postconsumer: understand how marketers are manipulating us, so we can make informed decisions about how we control our consumerism.
- Simple Enough (Bob Sitze) // SLW! Podcast
- Simple Living: the Good Life (Janet Luhrs)–Time, Finances, Home-Work, Health
- Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity
- Simplicity Collective – Let us be pioneers once more (Samuel Alexander)
- Simplicity Parenting (Kim John Payne): because it is a beautiful world
- Smart and Simple Matters podcast (Joel Zaslofsky of Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time, Money and Talent) // SLW! Podcast
- When “Being” Your Way into Action Is Better Than Thinking (Julie Gray) – Ep.115
- Death Literacy, Enoughness, and Why Life Is Long (Humaira Hamid)–Ep.114
- How to Be Social, Selective & Simple (Ryan Nicodemus)–Ep.113
- Why and How to Run an Offers and Needs Market–Ep.112
- TransitionNetwork.org: Transition Towns–A movement of communities coming together to reimagine and rebuild our world
- TreeHugger: Finding a Greener Future
- For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
- Upcoming Alternate Celebrations: Sept.-Dec. // Jan.-April
What’s Happened
- Post-Election Emergency/Disaster Preparedness and Survival Guide
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // Collaborators & Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
Podcast Reminder
You can access all SLW! podcast audio and the show notes either at SimpleLiving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST or at SimpleLivingWorks.org (then click window #3). Complete Episode Index. Listen through your computer, iPod, iPad, iPhone (or equivalent).
SUBSCRIBE through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. To SUBSCRIBE to email notices, click Comments at the bottom of Show Notes, then check ‘Notify me of new posts by email.’ Please rate us in iTunes and leave a review.
Send us your email address to receive the free monthly SLW! eNews. Remember to like us on Facebook. Urge your friends to do the same. Do your friends a favor. Share our blog and podcast.
Like SLW! on Facebook. | Follow us on Twitter. | Follow us on Pinterest. Share your thoughts on our podcast and blogs. Email SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com, leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
*IMAGE: Spirit of Simplicity #3-A316
For hard copies of Alternatives’ resources at nominal cost, contact ELCA Archives, 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 // (847) 690-9410 // archives@elca.org
We do not solicit or accept donations, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge. We’re an all-volunteer organization. Instead, we urge Alternative Giving. Give away at least 25% of what you spent last year on all celebrations – Christmas, birthdays, etc. — to local, national and international causes.
Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.
*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.
Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011. Simple Living Works! web site home page | Theme/Seasons Index. To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — please listen to our getting-acquainted episodes, especially #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, hopefully educational and inspiring for you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog each week.
Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest
Dec. 8, 2016
In This Issue:
- SLW! Podcast #82 —WHOSE Birthday? — Christmas Eve/Day //
- Submit to WHOSE Birthday? #28 // How to Produce Your Own Edition
- Our Simpler Living Weekly Daily Nudge // Easy-to-share for Dec.
- Relish These Responsible Celebrating QUOTES // ART //
- What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
- More!
What’s NOW with SLW!
- SLW! Podcast #82 —WHOSE Birthday? annual Advent/Christmas resource for individuals, families, congregations [review/preview #80, #81, #83] // Text from legacy issue #20, featuring Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo, John and Peter Marty and many others.
- Advent: Since Christmas is on a Sunday this year, Advent started as early as ever, Nov. 27.
- See article about “Whose Birthday?” in fall edition of the national publication for ELCA leaders, Seeds for the Parish, p. 7.
- Want to Contribute to WHOSE Birthday? #28 for 2016: An Advent and Christmas Resource for Families, Individuals and Churches. Submission Guidelines Whose Birthday? is for your personal inspiration, community education and sharing. This online-only edition is a work-in-progress. You can still submit ART or an ARTICLE. Although this resource is not available in print, you may make all the copies you choose. It is covered by Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license. Guidelines for a customized, DIY, electronic or paper edition drawn from articles and art of your choice.
- Alternatives’ Advent/Christmas/Epiphany Resource Index
- Our Daily Simpler Living Nudge
- What Is The NUDGE? / How It Works / How to GET It – Subscribe by sending NUDGE to SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com. / How to SHARE It / More About Holidays
- 2016
- September: Non-conform Freely
- October: Sustenance
- November // Week 1: More Celebrating || Week 2: Preparations || Week 3: Unplug the Christmas Machine ||Week 4: Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?
- December: Responsible Celebrating (Advent) Week 1: Ten Tips for a Simpler, More Meaningful Christmas, #1-6 || Week 2: 10 Tips, #7-8 || Week 3: 10 Tips, #9-10+ || Week 4: Christmas, Kwanzaa, Holy Innocents
- New SLW! Site Search Engine on Home Page Window #4
- Current activities of the Chief Activist
- SLW! Blog Index | SLW! Podcast Index
- SUBSCRIBE to SLW! Podcast for free through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. Subscribe to SLW! Blog. Click “+Follow” at lower right of blog post, enter a name and email address. Welcome!
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – DEC.
- 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 #83: WHOSE Birthday? — Christmas Season-Epiphany (annual Advent/Christmas resource for individuals, families, congregations) [preview #83] // Text from legacy issue #20, featuring Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo, John and Peter Marty and many others.
What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
I gladly pass along links from simple living bloggers, podcasters, coaches and others. Some faith-based, some not. You needn’t read them all. Choose FIVE links — including SLW! — to investigate.
- Advent Conspiracy: video, family guide and Advent calendar, Sunday School curriculum, Advent sermon outline // SLW! Podcast
- Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)
- Center for a New American Dream: Kids Unbranded Action Kit
- 4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Buying a Product
- 10 Reasons to Host an Alternative Gift Fair: begin planning early.
- Going Plastic-free, Faithfully
- “So What Can I Get You for Your Wedding?” Two sets of dishware, two sets of camping gear, two toasters? If you don’t need more “stuff,” register to celebrate love and family instead.
- How to Hook Kids into Civic Engagement. Looking for a way to get your kids more involved in the community? Here’s an easy place to start.
- 7 Ways to Build Sane and Sustainable Money Habits. Help your kids stay on track managing their money by having a clear, values-based plan.
- The Common Good Podcast – Check out the new site.
- Ep. 78: Susan Taylor of Just Money Advisors on Relating to Money in a Toxic Culture and Parenting Children About Money
- Ep. 77: Lee Van Ham previews vol. 2 of his “Eden for the 21st Century” trilogy, entitled From Egos to Eden: Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable.
- Ep. 76: Let’s Have an Ugly Food Thanksgiving
- BONUS: 11 practical ways you can reduce food waste and save money
- Community Solutions: Founded in 1940, this non-profit organization advocates for small communities and the benefits of face-to-face relationships. Since 2003, the focus has been to provide resources for low-carbon living and to inspire collective, cooperative solutions in the face of peak energy and climate change.
- Creation Justice: CAPSULES – News and Opportunities for Christians Doing Creation Justice
- E-The Environmental Magazine
- Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) – Website, Songbooks, YouTube videos; Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumb drive, Standing on the Shoulders music video, sheet music offerings // SLW! Podcast
- Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive // SLW! Podcast #18 // SLW! Podcast #66
- Living in Hope (12/2)
- Transitions, Fast and Slow (11/18)
- Facing the Trump Years (11/11)
- Accepting the Election Results (11/4)
- GodSpace (Christine Sine) // SLW! Podcast
- The Good Stuff—your dose of what’s working in the world from The Story of Stuff Project!
- Green Child eMagazine: Simplify for Happier, Calmer Kids
- The Homesteading Guide Daily: Exploring life off the grid.
- Jubilee Economics / Casa Jubileo (Lee Van Ham & Dan Swanson) – Back online! Check out the new site.
- There’s a Better Way to Understand Isaiah than to Think He Predicted Jesus (11/27)
- Standing with Standing Rock on Central Coast Calif. (11/23)
- Did the 2016 Election Open an Opportunity for OneEarth Jubilee? (11/17)
- Mexico Blog (English/Spanish): Chiapas Delegation
- A Living Earth Economy (David Korten – Yes! Magazine): How we can make peace with nature, realize the value of living wealth, and return to local, self-organized rule.
- Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways – Finding good homes for no longer needed items rather than just putting them in the trash // SLW! Podcast // SLW! Podcast: Lent
- Letting Go – of money, possessions, and status
- Recycling – the usual and more
These may pale in comparison with the major issue of our day – the presidential election – but sometimes we have to get on with life and keep working on the part of the world we can impact which is our own lives. If you haven’t read them already, following are some lessons I’ve learned about Letting Go and Recycling:
- Time vs. Money Formula – Discerning how much is my time worth when pursuing a discount. See my formula. It may not be perfect but it’s a start.
- 0 In – 2 Out: On Being Robbed – Thoughts on having stuff stolen rather than voluntarily giving it away
- Giving Away Credit – Letting go of the urge to look important to others is a step in spiritual growth. It doesn’t come easily to me. What about you?
- Recycling Plastics – Most of us probably recycle the usual stuff. This post includes that and goes on to the more difficult to recycle plastics. Do you have any experiences to add?
- Recycling – The Multiplier Effect – How walking around the neighborhood led me to think bigger than just my personal recycling practices. How to move from one to many.
- Recycling – Pruning Paper – I know that paper is becoming obsolete as more and more information is going digital. but when should we let go of archived papers and paper memories like photos. Scanning stuff takes time. What’s worked for you?
Susan’s upcoming blog post will continue the recycling theme by considering ways to “precycle” so there is less need to recycle.
- Live Simply (Third Way: Celeste Kennel-Shank)
- Lutheran Peace Fellowship: Simple Living Resources // SLW! Podcast
- The Minimalists podcast (Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus). Getting us past the things so we can make room for life’s most important things — which actually aren’t things at all.
- 035: Dayton
- 034: Utah
- 033: Criticism
- NEW – Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things
- The Art of Letting Go: The Minimalists TEDX Talk (July, 2016)
- Mustard Seed Associates (Andy Wade)
- New Changemakers: Join the Changemaking Celebration! (Tom Sine)
- NorthWest Earth Institute‘s latest discussion course ebook, Sustainability Works: Rethinking Business As Usual // Change Is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions // Voluntary Simplicity // SLW! Podcast
- The OneEarth Project (Lee Van Ham) // SLW! Podcast
- The Heroic Journey That Returns Alt-Right Extremist Thinking to the Margins (11/29)
- The Haudenosaune People Impart a Saving Message (11/23)
- Is Regaining the Power of the Eden Story Important for Today? (11/6)
- Three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals
- Conversation about The OneEarth Project and Lee’s book,
Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us
- The Pastoral Center/Gospel Living (Paul Canavese) // SLW! Podcast
- Advent eResources, included Simply Advent by Paul, incorporating some SLW! resources.
- Other Simple Living and Ecology resources
- Simply Advent handouts, inserts for-a-simpler-more-faith-filled-advent-eresource.
- CatholicCreationCare.com – General resources
- CreationCareKids.com – Children’s resources
- PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough / Full Article Library
- Better Than Black Friday
- Manufactured Trends: A Marketing Arsenal Weapon You Should Watch Out For
- 25 Ways to Help Save the Ocean (Or At Least Stem the Tide)
- Marketing 101 for the Postconsumer: understand how marketers are manipulating us, so we can make informed decisions about how we control our consumerism.
- Simple Enough (Bob Sitze) // SLW! Podcast
- Simple Living: the Good Life (Janet Luhrs)–Time, Finances, Home-Work, Health
- Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity
- Simplicity Collective – Let us be pioneers once more (Samuel Alexander)
- Simplicity Parenting (Kim John Payne): because it is a beautiful world
- Smart and Simple Matters podcast (Joel Zaslofsky of Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time, Money and Talent) // SLW! Podcast
- TransitionNetwork.org: Transition Towns–A movement of communities coming together to reimagine and rebuild our world
- TreeHugger: Finding a Greener Future
- For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
- Upcoming Alternate Celebrations: Sept.-Dec.
What’s Happened
- Post-Election Emergency/Disaster Preparedness and Survival Guide
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // Collaborators & Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
Podcast Reminder
You can access all SLW! podcast audio and the show notes either at SimpleLiving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST or at SimpleLivingWorks.org (then click window #3). Complete Episode Index. Listen through your computer, iPod, iPad, iPhone (or equivalent).
SUBSCRIBE through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. To SUBSCRIBE to email notices, click Comments at the bottom of Show Notes, then check ‘Notify me of new posts by email.’ Please rate us in iTunes and leave a review.
Send us your email address to receive the free monthly SLW! eNews. Remember to like us on Facebook. Urge your friends to do the same. Do your friends a favor. Share our blog and podcast.
Like SLW! on Facebook. | Follow us on Twitter. | Follow us on Pinterest. Share your thoughts on our podcast and blogs. Email SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com, leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
*IMAGE: Spirit of Simplicity #3-A315
For hard copies of Alternatives’ resources at nominal cost, contact ELCA Archives, 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 // (847) 690-9410 // archives@elca.org
We do not solicit or accept donations, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge. We’re an all-volunteer organization. Instead, we urge Alternative Giving. Give away at least 25% of what you spent last year on all celebrations – Christmas, birthdays, etc. — to local, national and international causes.
Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.
*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.
Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011. Simple Living Works! web site home page | Theme/Seasons Index. To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — please listen to our getting-acquainted episodes, especially #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, hopefully educational and inspiring for you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog each week.
Simple Living Works! eNews
Posted December 1, 2016
on:Simple Living Works! eNews
#63 — Dec., 2016
In This Issue:
- SLW! Podcast #82 —WHOSE Birthday? — Christmas Eve/Day //
- Submit to WHOSE Birthday? #28 // How to Produce Your Own Edition
- Our Simpler Living Weekly Daily Nudge // Easy-to-share for Dec.
- Relish These Responsible Celebrating QUOTES // ART //
- What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
- More!
What’s NOW with SLW!
- SLW! Podcast #82 —WHOSE Birthday? annual Advent/Christmas resource for individuals, families, congregations [review/preview #80, #81, #83] // Text from legacy issue #20, featuring Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo, John and Peter Marty and many others.
- Advent: Since Christmas is on a Sunday this year, Advent started as early as ever, Nov. 27.
- See article about “Whose Birthday?” in fall edition of the national publication for ELCA leaders, Seeds for the Parish, p. 7.
- Want to Contribute to WHOSE Birthday? #28 for 2016: An Advent and Christmas Resource for Families, Individuals and Churches. Submission Guidelines Whose Birthday? is for your personal inspiration, community education and sharing. This online-only edition is a work-in-progress. You can still submit ART or an ARTICLE. Although this resource is not available in print, you may make all the copies you choose. It is covered by Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license. Guidelines for a customized, DIY, electronic or paper edition drawn from articles and art of your choice.
- Alternatives’ Advent/Christmas/Epiphany Resource Index
- Our Daily Simpler Living Nudge
- What Is The NUDGE? / How It Works / How to GET It – Subscribe by sending NUDGE to SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com. / How to SHARE It / More About Holidays
- 2016
- September: Non-conform Freely
- October: Sustenance
- November // Week 1: More Celebrating || Week 2: Preparations || Week 3: Unplug the Christmas Machine ||Week 4: Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?
- December: Responsible Celebrating (Advent) Week 1: Ten Tips for a Simpler, More Meaningful Christmas, #1-6 || Week 2: 10 Tips, #7-8 || Week 3: 10 Tips, #9-10+ || Week 4: Christmas, Kwanzaa, Holy Innocents
- New SLW! Site Search Engine on Home Page Window #4
- Current activities of the Chief Activist
- SLW! Blog Index | SLW! Podcast Index
- SUBSCRIBE to SLW! Podcast for free through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. Subscribe to SLW! Blog. Click “+Follow” at lower right of blog post, enter a name and email address. Welcome!
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – DEC.
- 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 #83 —WHOSE Birthday? annual Advent/Christmas resource for individuals, families, congregations [preview #83] // Text from legacy issue #20, featuring Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo, John and Peter Marty and many others.
What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
I gladly pass along links from simple living bloggers, podcasters, coaches and others. Some faith-based, some not. You needn’t read them all. Choose FIVE links — including SLW! — to investigate.
- NEW – Advent Conspiracy: video, family guide and Advent calendar, Sunday School curriculum, Advent sermon outline // SLW! Podcast
- Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)
- Center for a New American Dream: Kids Unbranded Action Kit
- 4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Buying a Product
- 10 Reasons to Host an Alternative Gift Fair: begin planning early.
- Going Plastic-free, Faithfully
- “So What Can I Get You for Your Wedding?” Two sets of dishware, two sets of camping gear, two toasters? If you don’t need more “stuff,” register to celebrate love and family instead.
- How to Hook Kids into Civic Engagement. Looking for a way to get your kids more involved in the community? Here’s an easy place to start.
- 7 Ways to Build Sane and Sustainable Money Habits. Help your kids stay on track managing their money by having a clear, values-based plan.
- The Common Good Podcast – Check out the new site.
- Ep. 78: Susan Taylor of Just Money Advisors on Relating to Money in a Toxic Culture and Parenting Children About Money
- Ep. 77: Lee Van Ham previews vol. 2 of his “Eden for the 21st Century” trilogy, entitled From Egos to Eden: Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable.
- Ep. 76: Let’s Have an Ugly Food Thanksgiving
- BONUS: 11 practical ways you can reduce food waste and save money
- Community Solutions: Founded in 1940, this non-profit organization advocates for small communities and the benefits of face-to-face relationships. Since 2003, the focus has been to provide resources for low-carbon living and to inspire collective, cooperative solutions in the face of peak energy and climate change.
- Creation Justice: CAPSULES – News and Opportunities for Christians Doing Creation Justice
- E-The Environmental Magazine
- Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) – Website, Songbooks, YouTube videos; Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumb drive, Standing on the Shoulders music video, sheet music offerings // SLW! Podcast
- Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive // SLW! Podcast #18 // SLW! Podcast #66
- Living in Hope (12/2)
- Transitions, Fast and Slow (11/18)
- Facing the Trump Years (11/11)
- Accepting the Election Results (11/4)
- GodSpace (Christine Sine) // SLW! Podcast
- The Good Stuff—your dose of what’s working in the world from The Story of Stuff Project!
- Green Child eMagazine: Simplify for Happier, Calmer Kids
- The Homesteading Guide Daily: Exploring life off the grid.
- Jubilee Economics / Casa Jubileo (Lee Van Ham & Dan Swanson) – Back online! Check out the new site.
- There’s a Better Way to Understand Isaiah than to Think He Predicted Jesus (11/27)
- Standing with Standing Rock on Central Coast Calif. (11/23)
- Did the 2016 Election Open an Opportunity for OneEarth Jubilee? (11/17)
- Mexico Blog (English/Spanish): Chiapas Delegation
- A Living Earth Economy (David Korten – Yes! Magazine): How we can make peace with nature, realize the value of living wealth, and return to local, self-organized rule.
- Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways – Finding good homes for no longer needed items rather than just putting them in the trash // SLW! Podcast // SLW! Podcast: Lent
- Letting Go – of money, possessions, and status
- Recycling – the usual and more
These may pale in comparison with the major issue of our day – the presidential election – but sometimes we have to get on with life and keep working on the part of the world we can impact which is our own lives. If you haven’t read them already, following are some lessons I’ve learned about Letting Go and Recycling:
- Time vs. Money Formula – Discerning how much is my time worth when pursuing a discount. See my formula. It may not be perfect but it’s a start.
- 0 In – 2 Out: On Being Robbed – Thoughts on having stuff stolen rather than voluntarily giving it away
- Giving Away Credit – Letting go of the urge to look important to others is a step in spiritual growth. It doesn’t come easily to me. What about you?
- Recycling Plastics – Most of us probably recycle the usual stuff. This post includes that and goes on to the more difficult to recycle plastics. Do you have any experiences to add?
- Recycling – The Multiplier Effect – How walking around the neighborhood led me to think bigger than just my personal recycling practices. How to move from one to many.
- Recycling – Pruning Paper – I know that paper is becoming obsolete as more and more information is going digital. but when should we let go of archived papers and paper memories like photos. Scanning stuff takes time. What’s worked for you?
Susan’s upcoming blog post will continue the recycling theme by considering ways to “precycle” so there is less need to recycle.
- Live Simply (Third Way: Celeste Kennel-Shank)
- Lutheran Peace Fellowship: Simple Living Resources
- The Minimalists podcast (Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus). Getting us past the things so we can make room for life’s most important things — which actually aren’t things at all.
- 035: Dayton
- 034: Utah
- 033: Criticism
- NEW – Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things
- The Art of Letting Go: The Minimalists TEDX Talk (July, 2016)
- Mustard Seed Associates (Andy Wade)
- New Changemakers: Join the Changemaking Celebration! (Tom Sine)
- NorthWest Earth Institute‘s latest discussion course ebook, Sustainability Works: Rethinking Business As Usual // Change Is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions // Voluntary Simplicity // SLW! Podcast
- The OneEarth Project (Lee Van Ham)
- The Heroic Journey That Returns Alt-Right Extremist Thinking to the Margins (11/29)
- The Haudenosaune People Impart a Saving Message (11/23)
- Is Regaining the Power of the Eden Story Important for Today? (11/6)
- Three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals
- Conversation about The OneEarth Project and Lee’s book,
Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us
- The Pastoral Center/Gospel Living (Paul Canavese) // SLW! Podcast
- Advent eResources, included Simply Advent by Paul, incorporating some SLW! resources.
- Other Simple Living and Ecology resources
- Simply Advent handouts, inserts for-a-simpler-more-faith-filled-advent-eresource.
- CatholicCreationCare.com – General resources
- CreationCareKids.com – Children’s resources
- PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough / Full Article Library
- Better Than Black Friday
- Manufactured Trends: A Marketing Arsenal Weapon You Should Watch Out For
- 25 Ways to Help Save the Ocean (Or At Least Stem the Tide)
- Marketing 101 for the Postconsumer: understand how marketers are manipulating us, so we can make informed decisions about how we control our consumerism.
- Simple Enough (Bob Sitze) // SLW! Podcast
- Simple Living: the Good Life (Janet Luhrs)–Time, Finances, Home-Work, Health
- Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity
- Simplicity Collective – Let us be pioneers once more (Samuel Alexander)
- Simplicity Parenting (Kim John Payne): because it is a beautiful world
- Smart and Simple Matters podcast (Joel Zaslofsky of Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time, Money and Talent) // SLW! Podcast
- Why and How to Run an Offers and Needs Market–Ep. 112
- The Role of Slow in “No,” Letting Go, and Laziness (Brooke McAlary)–Ep. 111
- Dear Mindless, Busy Consumer and Buyer of Fleeting Joy–Ep. 110
- Rewilding, Sovereignty & the Heart of Domestication (Daniel Vitalis)–Ep. 109
- TransitionNetwork.org: Transition Towns–A movement of communities coming together to reimagine and rebuild our world
- TreeHugger: Finding a Greener Future
- For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
- Upcoming Alternate Celebrations: Sept.-Dec.
What’s Happened
- Post-Election Emergency/Disaster Preparedness and Survival Guide
- Interfaith Power & Light // Voter Reflection Guide // SLW! Podcast Ep.47 with IPL
- SLW! Podcast #79–Lee Van Ham previews vol. 2 of his “Eden for the 21st Century” trilogy, entitled From Egos to Eden: Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable.
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // Collaborators & Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
Podcast Reminder
You can access all SLW! podcast audio and the show notes either at SimpleLiving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST or at SimpleLivingWorks.org (then click window #3). Complete Episode Index. Listen through your computer, iPod, iPad, iPhone (or equivalent).
SUBSCRIBE through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. To SUBSCRIBE to email notices, click Comments at the bottom of Show Notes, then check ‘Notify me of new posts by email.’ Please rate us in iTunes and leave a review.
Send us your email address to receive the free monthly SLW! eNews. Remember to like us on Facebook. Urge your friends to do the same. Do your friends a favor. Share our blog and podcast.
Like SLW! on Facebook. | Follow us on Twitter. | Follow us on Pinterest. Share your thoughts on our podcast and blogs. Email SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com, leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
*IMAGE: Spirit of Simplicity #3-A313
For hard copies of Alternatives’ resources at nominal cost, contact ELCA Archives, 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 // (847) 690-9410 // archives@elca.org
We do not solicit or accept donations, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge. We’re an all-volunteer organization. Instead, we urge Alternative Giving. Give away at least 25% of what you spent last year on all celebrations – Christmas, birthdays, etc. — to local, national and international causes.
Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.
*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.
Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011. Simple Living Works! web site home page | Theme/Seasons Index. To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — please listen to our getting-acquainted episodes, especially #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, hopefully educational and inspiring for you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog each week.
Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest
Nov. 22, 2016
In This Issue:
-
Post-Election Emergency/Disaster Preparedness and Survival Guide
- SLW! Podcast #81 —WHOSE Birthday? — Advent //
- Submit to WHOSE Birthday? #28 // How to Produce Your Own Edition
- Worth Revisiting: Thanksgiving // Buy Nothing Day // Advent
- Our Simpler Living Weekly Daily Nudge // Easy-to-share for Nov.
- Relish These Responsible Celebrating QUOTES // ART //
- What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
- More!
What’s NOW with SLW!
- , Friday, Nov. 25 — Participate by Not Participating
-
Post-Election Emergency/Disaster Preparedness and Survival Guide
- SLW! Podcast #81 —WHOSE Birthday? annual Advent/Christmas resource for individuals, families, congregations [review/preview #80, #82, #83] // Text from legacy issue #20, featuring Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo, John and Peter Marty and many others.
- See article about “Whose Birthday?” in fall edition of the national publication for ELCA leaders, Seeds for the Parish, p. 7.
- Want to Contribute to WHOSE Birthday? #28 for 2016: An Advent and Christmas Resource for Families, Individuals and Churches. Submission Guidelines Whose Birthday? is for your personal inspiration, community education and sharing. This online-only edition is a work-in-progress. You can still submit ART or an ARTICLE. Although this resource is not available in print, you may make all the copies you choose. It is covered by Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license. Guidelines for a customized, DIY, electronic or paper edition drawn from articles and art of your choice.
- Alternatives’ Advent/Christmas/Epiphany Resource Index
- SLW! Podcast #79–Lee Van Ham previews vol. 2 of his “Eden for the 21st Century” trilogy, entitled From Egos to Eden: Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable.
- Our Daily Simpler Living Nudge
- What Is The NUDGE? / How It Works / How to GET It – Subscribe by sending NUDGE to SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com. / How to SHARE It / More About Holidays
- 2016
- September: Non-conform Freely
- October: Sustenance
- November // Week 1: More Celebrating || Week 2: Preparations || Week 3: Unplug the Christmas Machine ||Week 4: Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?
- New SLW! Site Search Engine on Home Page Window #4
- Current activities of the Chief Activist
- SLW! Blog Index | SLW! Podcast Index
- SUBSCRIBE to SLW! Podcast for free through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. Subscribe to SLW! Blog. Click “+Follow” at lower right of blog post, enter a name and email address. Welcome!
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – NOV.
- Check out a few of SLW! thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE. Visit Seasonal/Thematic Resource Index
What’s Coming
Advent: Since Christmas is on a Sunday this year, Advent starts as early as ever, Nov. 27.
What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
I gladly pass along links from simple living bloggers, podcasters, coaches and others. Some faith-based, some not. You needn’t read them all. Choose FIVE links — including SLW! — to investigate.
- NEW – Advent Conspiracy: video, family guide and Advent calendar, Sunday School curriculum, Advent sermon outline // SLW! Podcast
- Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)
- Avoid Holiday Clutter. Build Homes for Orphans. (11/21)
- Maybe Success Just Feels Like This (11/15)
- Inspiring Simplicity Reads (11/12)
- Inspiring Simplicity Reads (10/29)
- In Life’s Most Important Pursuits, Your Only Competition is Yourself (10/25)
- 11 Household Chores Made Easier In a Smaller Home (10/23)
- Center for a New American Dream: Kids Unbranded Action Kit
- 4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Buying a Product
- 10 Reasons to Host an Alternative Gift Fair: begin planning early.
- Going Plastic-free, Faithfully
- “So What Can I Get You for Your Wedding?” Two sets of dishware, two sets of camping gear, two toasters? If you don’t need more “stuff,” register to celebrate love and family instead.
- How to Hook Kids into Civic Engagement. Looking for a way to get your kids more involved in the community? Here’s an easy place to start.
- 7 Ways to Build Sane and Sustainable Money Habits. Help your kids stay on track managing their money by having a clear, values-based plan.
- The Common Good Podcast – Check out the new site.
- Ep. 77: Lee Van Ham previews vol. 2 of his “Eden for the 21st Century” trilogy, entitled From Egos to Eden: Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable.
- Ep. 76: Let’s Have an Ugly Food Thanksgiving
- BONUS: 11 practical ways you can reduce food waste and save money
- Community Solutions: Founded in 1940, this non-profit organization advocates for small communities and the benefits of face-to-face relationships. Since 2003, the focus has been to provide resources for low-carbon living and to inspire collective, cooperative solutions in the face of peak energy and climate change.
- Creation Justice: CAPSULES – News and Opportunities for Christians Doing Creation Justice
- E-The Environmental Magazine
- Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) – Website, Songbooks, Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumb drive, Standing on the Shoulders music video, sheet music offerings // SLW! Podcast
- Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive // SLW! Podcast #18 // SLW! Podcast #66
- Transitions, Fast and Slow (11/18)
- Facing the Trump Years (11/11)
- Accepting the Election Results (11/4)
- Noisy and Noxious (10/28)
- GodSpace (Christine Sine) // SLW! Podcast
- The Good Stuff—your dose of what’s working in the world from The Story of Stuff Project!
- Green Child eMagazine: Simplify for Happier, Calmer Kids
- The Homesteading Guide Daily: Exploring life off the grid.
- Jubilee Economics / Casa Jubileo (Lee Van Ham & Dan Swanson) – Back online! Check out the new site.
- Did the 2016 Election Open an Opportunity for OneEarth Jubilee? (11/17)
- Mexico Blog (English/Spanish): Chiapas Delegation
- A Living Earth Economy (David Korten – Yes! Magazine): How we can make peace with nature, realize the value of living wealth, and return to local, self-organized rule.
- Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways – Finding good homes for no longer needed items rather than just putting them in the trash // SLW! Podcast // SLW! Podcast: Lent
- Letting Go – of money, possessions, and status
- Recycling – the usual and more
These may pale in comparison with the major issue of our day – the presidential election – but sometimes we have to get on with life and keep working on the part of the world we can impact which is our own lives. If you haven’t read them already, following are some lessons I’ve learned about Letting Go and Recycling:
- Time vs. Money Formula – Discerning how much is my time worth when pursuing a discount. See my formula. It may not be perfect but it’s a start.
- 0 In – 2 Out: On Being Robbed – Thoughts on having stuff stolen rather than voluntarily giving it away
- Giving Away Credit – Letting go of the urge to look important to others is a step in spiritual growth. It doesn’t come easily to me. What about you?
- Recycling Plastics – Most of us probably recycle the usual stuff. This post includes that and goes on to the more difficult to recycle plastics. Do you have any experiences to add?
- Recycling – The Multiplier Effect – How walking around the neighborhood led me to think bigger than just my personal recycling practices. How to move from one to many.
- Recycling – Pruning Paper – I know that paper is becoming obsolete as more and more information is going digital. but when should we let go of archived papers and paper memories like photos. Scanning stuff takes time. What’s worked for you?
Susan’s upcoming blog post will continue the recycling theme by considering ways to “precycle” so there is less need to recycle.
- Live Simply (Third Way: Celeste Kennel-Shank)
- Lutheran Peace Fellowship: Simple Living Resources
- The Minimalists podcast (Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus). Getting us past the things so we can make room for life’s most important things — which actually aren’t things at all.
- 035: Dayton
- 034: Utah
- 033: Criticism
- NEW – Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things
- The Art of Letting Go: The Minimalists TEDX Talk (July, 2016)
- Mustard Seed Associates (Andy Wade)
- New Changemakers: Join the Changemaking Celebration! (Tom Sine)
- NorthWest Earth Institute‘s latest discussion course ebook, Sustainability Works: Rethinking Business As Usual // Change Is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions // Voluntary Simplicity // SLW! Podcast
- The OneEarth Project (Lee Van Ham)
- Is Regaining the Power of the Eden Story Important for Today? (11/6)
- Words that Describe This OneEarth Website! Which Do You Use? (11/2)
- How Eden Is a Name for the Archetype of “The Garden” and Energizes Earth-size Living (10/18)
- Three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals
- Conversation about The OneEarth Project and Lee’s book,
Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us
- The Pastoral Center/Gospel Living (Paul Canavese) // SLW! Podcast
- Advent eResources, included Simply Advent by Paul, incorporating some SLW! resources.
- Other Simple Living and Ecology resources
- Simply Advent handouts, inserts for-a-simpler-more-faith-filled-advent-eresource.
- CatholicCreationCare.com – General resources
- CreationCareKids.com – Children’s resources
- PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough / Full Article Library
- NEW — Better Than Black Friday
- Manufactured Trends: A Marketing Arsenal Weapon You Should Watch Out For
- 25 Ways to Help Save the Ocean (Or At Least Stem the Tide)
- Marketing 101 for the Postconsumer: understand how marketers are manipulating us, so we can make informed decisions about how we control our consumerism.
- Simple Enough (Bob Sitze) // SLW! Podcast
- Simple Living: the Good Life (Janet Luhrs)–Time, Finances, Home-Work, Health
- Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity
- Simplicity Collective – Let us be pioneers once more (Samuel Alexander)
- Simplicity Parenting (Kim John Payne): because it is a beautiful world
- Smart and Simple Matters podcast (Joel Zaslofsky of Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time, Money and Talent) // SLW! Podcast
- Why and How to Run an Offers and Needs Market–Ep. 112
- The Role of Slow in “No,” Letting Go, and Laziness (Brooke McAlary)–Ep. 111
- Dear Mindless, Busy Consumer and Buyer of Fleeting Joy–Ep. 110
- Rewilding, Sovereignty & the Heart of Domestication (Daniel Vitalis)–Ep. 109
- TreeHugger: Finding a Greener Future
- For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
- Upcoming Alternate Celebrations: Sept.-Dec.
What’s Happened
- Interfaith Power & Light // Voter Reflection Guide // SLW! Podcast Ep.47 with IPL
- SLW! Podcast Ep. 78–James Howard Kunstler of KustlerCast, author of The Geography of Nowhere (1994), a history of American suburbia and urban development; The Long Emergency (2005); Too Much Magic (2012); and World Made by Hand series of novels. He argues that declining oil production is likely to result in the end of industrialized society as we know it and force Americans to live in smaller-scale, localized, agrarian (or semi-agrarian) communities.
- The Ugly Food Project — SLW! Podcast Episodes #77 – Fighting for Clean Water & #76 – Celebrating Ugly Food — Exploring the intersection of faith, food and water in a time of drought — speakers, film, music, worship, fun! + Ugly Food Banquet, Bethel Lutheran Church (ELCA), Templeton, CA, Pastor Amy Beveridge and guest speakers
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // Collaborators & Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
Podcast Reminder
You can access all SLW! podcast audio and the show notes either at SimpleLiving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST or at SimpleLivingWorks.org (then click window #3). Complete Episode Index. Listen through your computer, iPod, iPad, iPhone (or equivalent).
SUBSCRIBE through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. To SUBSCRIBE to email notices, click Comments at the bottom of Show Notes, then check ‘Notify me of new posts by email.’ Please rate us in iTunes and leave a review.
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Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
*IMAGE: Buy Nothing Day, courtesy of Adbusters
For hard copies of Alternatives’ resources at nominal cost, contact ELCA Archives, 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 // (847) 690-9410 // archives@elca.org
We do not solicit or accept donations, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge. We’re an all-volunteer organization. Instead, we urge Alternative Giving. Give away at least 25% of what you spent last year on all celebrations – Christmas, birthdays, etc. — to local, national and international causes.
Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.
*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.
Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011. Simple Living Works! web site home page | Theme/Seasons Index. To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — please listen to our getting-acquainted episodes, especially #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, hopefully educational and inspiring for you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog each week.
Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest
Nov. 15, 2016
In This Issue:
-
Post-Election Emergency/Disaster Preparedness and Survival Guide
- SLW! Podcast #81 —WHOSE Birthday? — Advent //
- Submit to WHOSE Birthday? #28 // How to Produce Your Own Edition
- Worth Revisiting: Thanksgiving // Buy Nothing Day // Advent
- Our Simpler Living Weekly Daily Nudge // Easy-to-share for Nov.
- Relish These Responsible Celebrating QUOTES // ART //
- What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
- More!
What’s NOW with SLW!
-
Post-Election Emergency/Disaster Preparedness and Survival Guide
- SLW! Podcast #81 —WHOSE Birthday? annual Advent/Christmas resource for individuals, families, congregations [review/preview #80, #82, #83] // Text from legacy issue #20, featuring Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo, John and Peter Marty and many others.
- See article about Whose Birthday? in Fall edition of the national publication for ELCA leaders, Seeds for the Parish
- Want to Contribute to WHOSE Birthday? #28 for 2016: An Advent and Christmas Resource for Families, Individuals and Churches. Submission Guidelines Whose Birthday? is for your personal inspiration, community education and sharing. This online-only edition is a work-in-progress. You can still submit ART or an ARTICLE. Although this resource is not available in print, you may make all the copies you choose. It is covered by Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license. Guidelines for a customized, DIY, electronic or paper edition drawn from articles and art of your choice.
- Alternatives’ Advent/Christmas/Epiphany Resource Index
- SLW! Podcast #79–Lee Van Ham previews vol. 2 of his “Eden for the 21st Century” trilogy, entitled From Egos to Eden: Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable.
- Our Daily Simpler Living Nudge
- What Is The NUDGE? / How It Works / How to GET It – Subscribe by sending NUDGE to SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com. / How to SHARE It / More About Holidays
- 2016
- September: Non-conform Freely
- October: Sustenance
- November // Week 1: More Celebrating || Week 2: Preparations || Week 3: Unplug the Christmas Machine ||Week 4: Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?
- New SLW! Site Search Engine on Home Page Window #4
- Current activities of the Chief Activist
- SLW! Blog Index | SLW! Podcast Index
- SUBSCRIBE to SLW! Podcast for free through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. Subscribe to SLW! Blog. Click “+Follow” at lower right of blog post, enter a name and email address. Welcome!
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – NOV.
- Check out a few of SLW! thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE. Visit Seasonal/Thematic Resource Index
What’s Coming
Advent: Since Christmas is on a Sunday this year, Advent starts as early as ever, Nov. 27.
What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
I gladly pass along links from simple living bloggers, podcasters, coaches and others. Some faith-based, some not. You needn’t read them all. Choose FIVE links — including SLW! — to investigate.
- NEW – Advent Conspiracy: video, family guide and Advent calendar, Sunday School curriculum, Advent sermon outline // SLW! Podcast
- Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)
- Center for a New American Dream: Kids Unbranded Action Kit
- 4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Buying a Product
- 10 Reasons to Host an Alternative Gift Fair: begin planning early.
- Going Plastic-free, Faithfully
- “So What Can I Get You for Your Wedding?” Two sets of dishware, two sets of camping gear, two toasters? If you don’t need more “stuff,” register to celebrate love and family instead.
- How to Hook Kids into Civic Engagement. Looking for a way to get your kids more involved in the community? Here’s an easy place to start.
- 7 Ways to Build Sane and Sustainable Money Habits. Help your kids stay on track managing their money by having a clear, values-based plan.
- The Common Good Podcast – Check out the new site.
- Ep. 77: Lee Van Ham previews vol. 2 of his “Eden for the 21st Century” trilogy, entitled From Egos to Eden: Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable.
- Ep. 76: Let’s Have an Ugly Food Thanksgiving
- BONUS: 11 practical ways you can reduce food waste and save money
- Community Solutions: Founded in 1940, this non-profit organization advocates for small communities and the benefits of face-to-face relationships. Since 2003, the focus has been to provide resources for low-carbon living and to inspire collective, cooperative solutions in the face of peak energy and climate change.
- Creation Justice: CAPSULES – News and Opportunities for Christians Doing Creation Justice
- E-The Environmental Magazine
- Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) – Website, Songbooks, Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumb drive, Standing on the Shoulders music video, sheet music offerings // SLW! Podcast
- Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive // SLW! Podcast #18 // SLW! Podcast #66
- Facing the Trump Years (11/11)
- Accepting the Election Results (11/4)
- Noisy and Noxious (10/28)
- Empowerment, not Suppression (10/21)
- GodSpace (Christine Sine) // SLW! Podcast
- The Good Stuff—your dose of what’s working in the world from The Story of Stuff Project!
- Green Child eMagazine: Simplify for Happier, Calmer Kids
- The Homesteading Guide Daily: Exploring life off the grid.
- Jubilee Economics / Casa Jubileo (Lee Van Ham & Dan Swanson) – Back online! Check out the new site.
- Mexico Blog (English/Spanish): Chiapas Delegation
- A Living Earth Economy (David Korten – Yes! Magazine): How we can make peace with nature, realize the value of living wealth, and return to local, self-organized rule.
- Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways – Finding good homes for no longer needed items rather than just putting them in the trash // SLW! Podcast // SLW! Podcast: Lent
- Letting Go – of money, possessions, and status
- Recycling – the usual and more
These may pale in comparison with the major issue of our day – the presidential election – but sometimes we have to get on with life and keep working on the part of the world we can impact which is our own lives. If you haven’t read them already, following are some lessons I’ve learned about Letting Go and Recycling:
- Time vs. Money Formula – Discerning how much is my time worth when pursuing a discount. See my formula. It may not be perfect but it’s a start.
- 0 In – 2 Out: On Being Robbed – Thoughts on having stuff stolen rather than voluntarily giving it away
- Giving Away Credit – Letting go of the urge to look important to others is a step in spiritual growth. It doesn’t come easily to me. What about you?
- Recycling Plastics – Most of us probably recycle the usual stuff. This post includes that and goes on to the more difficult to recycle plastics. Do you have any experiences to add?
- Recycling – The Multiplier Effect – How walking around the neighborhood led me to think bigger than just my personal recycling practices. How to move from one to many.
- Recycling – Pruning Paper – I know that paper is becoming obsolete as more and more information is going digital. but when should we let go of archived papers and paper memories like photos. Scanning stuff takes time. What’s worked for you?
My upcoming blog post will continue the recycling theme by considering ways to “precycle” so there is less need to recycle.
- Live Simply (Third Way: Celeste Kennel-Shank)
- Lutheran Peace Fellowship: Simple Living Resources
- The Minimalists podcast (Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus). Getting us past the things so we can make room for life’s most important things — which actually aren’t things at all.
- 035: Dayton
- 034: Utah
- 033: Criticism
- NEW – Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things
- The Art of Letting Go: The Minimalists TEDX Talk (July, 2016)
- Mustard Seed Associates (Andy Wade)
- New Changemakers: Join the Changemaking Celebration! (Tom Sine)
- NorthWest Earth Institute‘s Eco-Challenge 2016 // latest discussion course ebook, Sustainability Works: Rethinking Business As Usual // Change Is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions // Voluntary Simplicity // SLW! Podcast
- The OneEarth Project (Lee Van Ham)
- Is Regaining the Power of the Eden Story Important for Today? (11/6)
- Words that Describe This OneEarth Website! Which Do You Use? (11/2)
- How Eden Is a Name for the Archetype of “The Garden” and Energizes Earth-size Living (10/18)
- Three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals
- Conversation about The OneEarth Project and Lee’s book,
Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us
- The Pastoral Center/Gospel Living (Paul Canavese) // SLW! Podcast
- Advent eResources, included Simply Advent by Paul, incorporating some SLW! resources.
- Other Simple Living and Ecology resources
- Simply Advent handouts, inserts for-a-simpler-more-faith-filled-advent-eresource.
- CatholicCreationCare.com – General resources
- CreationCareKids.com – Children’s resources
- PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough / Full Article Library
- NEW–Manufactured Trends: A Marketing Arsenal Weapon You Should Watch Out For
- 25 Ways to Help Save the Ocean (Or At Least Stem the Tide)
- Marketing 101 for the Postconsumer: understand how marketers are manipulating us, so we can make informed decisions about how we control our consumerism.
- Simple Enough (Bob Sitze) // SLW! Podcast
- Simple Living: the Good Life (Janet Luhrs)–Time, Finances, Home-Work, Health
- Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity
- Simplicity Collective – Let us be pioneers once more (Samuel Alexander)
- Simplicity Parenting (Kim John Payne): because it is a beautiful world
- Smart and Simple Matters podcast (Joel Zaslofsky of Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time, Money and Talent) // SLW! Podcast
- Why and How to Run an Offers and Needs Market–Ep. 112
- The Role of Slow in “No,” Letting Go, and Laziness (Brooke McAlary)–Ep. 111
- Dear Mindless, Busy Consumer and Buyer of Fleeting Joy–Ep. 110
- Rewilding, Sovereignty & the Heart of Domestication (Daniel Vitalis)–Ep. 109
- TreeHugger: Finding a Greener Future
- For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
- Upcoming Alternate Celebrations: Sept.-Dec.
What’s Happened
- Interfaith Power & Light // Voter Reflection Guide // SLW! Podcast Ep.47 with IPL
- SLW! Podcast Ep. 78–James Howard Kunstler of KustlerCast, author of The Geography of Nowhere (1994), a history of American suburbia and urban development; The Long Emergency (2005); Too Much Magic (2012); and World Made by Hand series of novels. He argues that declining oil production is likely to result in the end of industrialized society as we know it and force Americans to live in smaller-scale, localized, agrarian (or semi-agrarian) communities.
- The Ugly Food Project — SLW! Podcast Episodes #77 – Fighting for Clean Water & #76 – Celebrating Ugly Food — Exploring the intersection of faith, food and water in a time of drought — speakers, film, music, worship, fun! + Ugly Food Banquet, Bethel Lutheran Church (ELCA), Templeton, CA, Pastor Amy Beveridge and guest speakers
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // Collaborators & Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
Podcast Reminder
You can access all SLW! podcast audio and the show notes either at SimpleLiving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST or at SimpleLivingWorks.org (then click window #3). Complete Episode Index. Listen through your computer, iPod, iPad, iPhone (or equivalent).
SUBSCRIBE through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. To SUBSCRIBE to email notices, click Comments at the bottom of Show Notes, then check ‘Notify me of new posts by email.’ Please rate us in iTunes and leave a review.
Send us your email address to receive the free monthly SLW! eNews. Remember to like us on Facebook. Urge your friends to do the same. Do your friends a favor. Share our blog and podcast.
Like SLW! on Facebook. | Follow us on Twitter. | Follow us on Pinterest. Share your thoughts on our podcast and blogs. Email SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com, leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
*IMAGE: Spirit of Simplicity #3-A0147
For hard copies of Alternatives’ resources at nominal cost, contact ELCA Archives, 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 // (847) 690-9410 // archives@elca.org
We do not solicit or accept donations, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge. We’re an all-volunteer organization. Instead, we urge Alternative Giving. Give away at least 25% of what you spent last year on all celebrations – Christmas, birthdays, etc. — to local, national and international causes.
Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.
*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.
Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011. Simple Living Works! web site home page | Theme/Seasons Index. To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — please listen to our getting-acquainted episodes, especially #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, hopefully educational and inspiring for you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog each week.
Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest
Nov. 8, 2016
In This Issue:
- SLW! Podcast #80 —WHOSE Birthday? //
- Submit to WHOSE Birthday? #28 // How to Produce Your Own Edition
- Worth Revisiting: Veterans’ Day // Thanksgiving // Buy Nothing Day // Advent
- Our Simpler Living Weekly Daily Nudge // Easy-to-share for Nov.
- Relish These Responsible Celebrating QUOTES // ART //
- What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
- More!
What’s NOW with SLW!
- SLW! Podcast #80 —WHOSE Birthday? annual Advent/Christmas resource for individuals, families, congregations [preview #81, #82, #83] // Text from legacy issue #20, featuring Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo, John and Peter Marty and many others.
- Want to Contribute to WHOSE Birthday? #28 for 2016: An Advent and Christmas Resource for Families, Individuals and Churches. Submission Guidelines Whose Birthday? is for your personal inspiration, community education and sharing. This online-only edition is a work-in-progress. You can still submit ART or an ARTICLE. Although this resource is not available in print, you may make all the copies you choose. It is covered by Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license. Guidelines for a customized, DIY, electronic or paper edition drawn from articles and art of your choice.
- Alternatives’ Advent/Christmas/Epiphany Resource Index
- SLW! Podcast #79–Lee Van Ham previews vol. 2 of his “Eden for the 21st Century” trilogy, entitled From Egos to Eden: Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable.
- Interfaith Power & Light // Participate in the Election // Voter Reflection Guide // SLW! Podcast Ep.47 with IPL
- Our Daily Simpler Living Nudge
- What Is The NUDGE? / How It Works / How to GET It – Subscribe by sending NUDGE to SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com. / How to SHARE It / More About Holidays
- 2016
- September: Non-conform Freely
- October: Sustenance
- November // Week 1: More Celebrating || Week 2: Preparations || Week 3: Unplug the Christmas Machine ||Week 4: Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?
- New SLW! Site Search Engine on Home Page Window #4
- Current activities of the Chief Activist
- SLW! Blog Index | SLW! Podcast Index
- SUBSCRIBE to SLW! Podcast for free through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. Subscribe to SLW! Blog. Click “+Follow” at lower right of blog post, enter a name and email address. Welcome!
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – NOV.
- Check out a few of SLW! thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE. Visit Seasonal/Thematic Resource Index
What’s Coming
Advent: Since Christmas is on a Sunday this year, Advent starts as early as ever, Nov. 27.
What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
I gladly pass along links from simple living bloggers, podcasters, coaches and others. Some faith-based, some not. You needn’t read them all. Choose FIVE links — including SLW! — to investigate.
- NEW – Advent Conspiracy: video, family guide and Advent calendar, Sunday School curriculum, Advent sermon outline // SLW! Podcast
- Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)
- Center for a New American Dream: Kids Unbranded Action Kit
- 4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Buying a Product
- 10 Reasons to Host an Alternative Gift Fair: begin planning early.
- Going Plastic-free, Faithfully
- “So What Can I Get You for Your Wedding?” Two sets of dishware, two sets of camping gear, two toasters? If you don’t need more “stuff,” register to celebrate love and family instead.
- How to Hook Kids into Civic Engagement. Looking for a way to get your kids more involved in the community? Here’s an easy place to start.
- 7 Ways to Build Sane and Sustainable Money Habits. Help your kids stay on track managing their money by having a clear, values-based plan.
- The Common Good Podcast – Check out the new site.
- Ep. 77: Lee Van Ham previews vol. 2 of his “Eden for the 21st Century” trilogy, entitled From Egos to Eden: Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable.
- Ep. 76: Let’s Have an Ugly Food Thanksgiving
- BONUS: 11 practical ways you can reduce food waste and save money
- Ep. 75: Jean Diaz–San Diego Community Land Trust
- Ep. 74: Paul Taylor–How Much Is Enough?
- Community Solutions: Founded in 1940, this non-profit organization advocates for small communities and the benefits of face-to-face relationships. Since 2003, the focus has been to provide resources for low-carbon living and to inspire collective, cooperative solutions in the face of peak energy and climate change.
- Creation Justice: CAPSULES – News and Opportunities for Christians Doing Creation Justice
- E-The Environmental Magazine
- Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) – Website, Songbooks, Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumb drive, Standing on the Shoulders music video, sheet music offerings // SLW! Podcast
- Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive // SLW! Podcast #18 // SLW! Podcast #66
- Accepting the Election Results (11/4)
- Noisy and Noxious (10/28)
- Empowerment, not Suppression (10/21)
- Celebrating 25 Years of Environmental Justice (10/14)
- GodSpace (Christine Sine) // SLW! Podcast
- The Good Stuff—your dose of what’s working in the world from The Story of Stuff Project!
- Green Child eMagazine: Simplify for Happier, Calmer Kids
- The Homesteading Guide Daily: Exploring life off the grid.
- Jubilee Economics / Casa Jubileo (Lee Van Ham & Dan Swanson) – Back online! Check out the new site.
- Mexico Blog (English/Spanish): Chiapas Delegation
- A Living Earth Economy (David Korten – Yes! Magazine): How we can make peace with nature, realize the value of living wealth, and return to local, self-organized rule.
- Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways – Finding good homes for no longer needed items rather than just putting them in the trash // SLW! Podcast // SLW! Podcast: Lent
- Live Simply (Third Way: Celeste Kennel-Shank)
- Lutheran Peace Fellowship: Simple Living Resources
- The Minimalists podcast (Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus). Getting us past the things so we can make room for life’s most important things — which actually aren’t things at all.
- 035: Dayton
- 034: Utah
- 033: Criticism
- NEW – Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things
- The Art of Letting Go: The Minimalists TEDX Talk (July, 2016)
- Mustard Seed Associates (Andy Wade)
- New Changemakers: Join the Changemaking Celebration! (Tom Sine)
- NorthWest Earth Institute‘s Eco-Challenge 2016 // latest discussion course ebook, Sustainability Works: Rethinking Business As Usual // Change Is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions // Voluntary Simplicity // SLW! Podcast
- The OneEarth Project (Lee Van Ham)
- Words that Describe This OneEarth Website! Which Do You Use? (11/2)
- How Eden Is a Name for the Archetype of “The Garden” and Energizes Earth-size Living (10/18)
- Was Eden Ever an Ecologically Balanced Historical Place? (10/12)
- I’m Hoping You’ll Help Distribute My Next Book (Here’s What It’s About) (10/7)
- Three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals
- Conversation about The OneEarth Project and Lee’s book,
Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us
- The Pastoral Center/Gospel Living (Paul Canavese) // SLW! Podcast
- Advent eResources, included Simply Advent by Paul, incorporating some SLW! resources.
- Other Simple Living and Ecology resources
- Simply Advent handouts, inserts for-a-simpler-more-faith-filled-advent-eresource.
- CatholicCreationCare.com – General resources
- CreationCareKids.com – Children’s resources
- PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough / Full Article Library
- NEW–Manufactured Trends: A Marketing Arsenal Weapon You Should Watch Out For
- 25 Ways to Help Save the Ocean (Or At Least Stem the Tide)
- Marketing 101 for the Postconsumer: understand how marketers are manipulating us, so we can make informed decisions about how we control our consumerism.
- Simple Enough (Bob Sitze) // SLW! Podcast
- Simple Living: the Good Life (Janet Luhrs)–Time, Finances, Home-Work, Health
- Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity
- Simplicity Collective – Let us be pioneers once more (Samuel Alexander)
- Simplicity Parenting (Kim John Payne): because it is a beautiful world
- Smart and Simple Matters podcast (Joel Zaslofsky of Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time, Money and Talent) // SLW! Podcast
- Why and How to Run an Offers and Needs Market–Ep. 112
- The Role of Slow in “No,” Letting Go, and Laziness (Brooke McAlary)–Ep. 111
- Dear Mindless, Busy Consumer and Buyer of Fleeting Joy–Ep. 110
- Rewilding, Sovereignty & the Heart of Domestication (Daniel Vitalis)–Ep. 109
- From Mindless in a Rocker to Rocking Bonsai Business (Shanna Mann)–Ep.108
- TreeHugger: Finding a Greener Future
- For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
- Upcoming Alternate Celebrations: Sept.-Dec.
What’s Happened
- SLW! Podcast Ep. 78–James Howard Kunstler of KustlerCast, author of The Geography of Nowhere (1994), a history of American suburbia and urban development; The Long Emergency (2005); Too Much Magic (2012); and World Made by Hand series of novels. He argues that declining oil production is likely to result in the end of industrialized society as we know it and force Americans to live in smaller-scale, localized, agrarian (or semi-agrarian) communities.
- The Ugly Food Project — SLW! Podcast Episodes #77 – Fighting for Clean Water & #76 – Celebrating Ugly Food — Exploring the intersection of faith, food and water in a time of drought — speakers, film, music, worship, fun! + Ugly Food Banquet, Bethel Lutheran Church (ELCA), Templeton, CA, Pastor Amy Beveridge and guest speakers
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // Collaborators & Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
Podcast Reminder
You can access all SLW! podcast audio and the show notes either at SimpleLiving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST or at SimpleLivingWorks.org (then click window #3). Complete Episode Index. Listen through your computer, iPod, iPad, iPhone (or equivalent).
SUBSCRIBE through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. To SUBSCRIBE to email notices, click Comments at the bottom of Show Notes, then check ‘Notify me of new posts by email.’ Please rate us in iTunes and leave a review.
Send us your email address to receive the free monthly SLW! eNews. Remember to like us on Facebook. Urge your friends to do the same. Do your friends a favor. Share our blog and podcast.
Like SLW! on Facebook. | Follow us on Twitter. | Follow us on Pinterest. Share your thoughts on our podcast and blogs. Email SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com, leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
*IMAGE: Spirit of Simplicity #3-A078
For hard copies of Alternatives’ resources at nominal cost, contact ELCA Archives, 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 // (847) 690-9410 // archives@elca.org
We do not solicit or accept donations, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge. We’re an all-volunteer organization. Instead, we urge Alternative Giving. Give away at least 25% of what you spent last year on all celebrations – Christmas, birthdays, etc. — to local, national and international causes.
Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.
*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.
Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011. Simple Living Works! web site home page | Theme/Seasons Index. To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — please listen to our getting-acquainted episodes, especially #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, hopefully educational and inspiring for you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog each week.
Simple Living Works! eNews
Posted November 1, 2016
on:Simple Living Works! eNews
# 62 – Nov., 2016
In This Issue:
- SLW! Podcast #80 —WHOSE Birthday? //
- Submit to WHOSE Birthday? #28 // How to Produce Your Own Edition
- Worth Revisiting: Veterans’ Day // Thanksgiving // Buy Nothing Day // Advent
- Our Simpler Living Weekly Daily Nudge // Easy-to-share for Nov.
- Relish These Responsible Celebrating QUOTES // ART //
- What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
- More!
What’s NOW with SLW!
- SLW! Podcast #80 —WHOSE Birthday? annual Advent/Christmas resource for individuals, families, congregations [preview #81, #82, #83] // Text from legacy issue #20, featuring Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo, John and Peter Marty and many others.
- Want to Contribute to WHOSE Birthday? #28 for 2016: An Advent and Christmas Resource for Families, Individuals and Churches. Submission Guidelines Whose Birthday? is for your personal inspiration, community education and sharing. This online-only edition is a work-in-progress. You can still submit ART or an ARTICLE. Although this resource is not available in print, you may make all the copies you choose. It is covered by Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license. Guidelines for a customized, DIY, electronic or paper edition drawn from articles and art of your choice.
- Alternatives’ Advent/Christmas/Epiphany Resource Index
- SLW! Podcast #79–Lee Van Ham previews vol. 2 of his “Eden for the 21st Century” trilogy, entitled From Egos to Eden: Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable.
- Interfaith Power & Light // Participate in the Election // Voter Reflection Guide // SLW! Podcast Ep.47 with IPL
- Our Daily Simpler Living Nudge
- What Is The NUDGE? / How It Works / How to GET It – Subscribe by sending NUDGE to SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com. / How to SHARE It / More About Holidays
- 2016
- September: Non-conform Freely
- October: Sustenance
- November // Week 1: More Celebrating || Week 2: Preparations || Week 3: Unplug the Christmas Machine ||Week 4: Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?
- New SLW! Site Search Engine on Home Page Window #4
- Current activities of the Chief Activist
- SLW! Blog Index | SLW! Podcast Index
- SUBSCRIBE to SLW! Podcast for free through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. Subscribe to SLW! Blog. Click “+Follow” at lower right of blog post, enter a name and email address. Welcome!
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – NOV.
- Check out a few of SLW! thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE. Visit Seasonal/Thematic Resource Index
What’s Coming
Advent: Since Christmas is on a Sunday this year, Advent starts as early as ever, Nov. 27.
What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
I gladly pass along links from simple living bloggers, podcasters, coaches and others. Some faith-based, some not. You needn’t read them all. Choose FIVE links — including SLW! — to investigate.
- NEW – Advent Conspiracy: video, family guide and Advent calendar, Sunday School curriculum, Advent sermon outline // SLW! Podcast
- Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)
- Center for a New American Dream: Kids Unbranded Action Kit
- 4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Buying a Product
- 10 Reasons to Host an Alternative Gift Fair: begin planning early.
- Going Plastic-free, Faithfully
-
NEW – “So What Can I Get You for Your Wedding?” Two sets of dishware, two sets of camping gear, two toasters? If you don’t need more “stuff,” register to celebrate love and family instead.
-
NEW – How to Hook Kids into Civic Engagement. Looking for a way to get your kids more involved in the community? Here’s an easy place to start.
-
NEW – Opt for a Greener, Simpler Halloween. Halloween is big business.This year, why not direct your spending and creativity toward a greener, simpler holiday?
-
NEW – 7 Ways to Build Sane and Sustainable Money Habits. Help your kids stay on track managing their money by having a clear, values-based plan.
- The Common Good Podcast – back online! Check out the new site.
- Ep. 77: Lee Van Ham previews vol. 2 of his “Eden for the 21st Century” trilogy, entitled From Egos to Eden: Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable.
- Ep. 76: Let’s Have an Ugly Food Thanksgiving
- BONUS: 11 practical ways you can reduce food waste and save money
- Ep. 75: Jean Diaz–San Diego Community Land Trust
- Ep. 74: Paul Taylor–How Much Is Enough?
- Community Solutions: Founded in 1940, this non-profit organization advocates for small communities and the benefits of face-to-face relationships. Since 2003, the focus has been to provide resources for low-carbon living and to inspire collective, cooperative solutions in the face of peak energy and climate change.
- Creation Justice: CAPSULES – News and Opportunities for Christians Doing Creation Justice
- E-The Environmental Magazine
- Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) – Website, Songbooks, Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumb drive, Standing on the Shoulders music video, sheet music offerings // SLW! Podcast
- Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive // SLW! Podcast #18 // SLW! Podcast #66
- Accepting the Election Results (11/4)
- Noisy and Noxious (10/28)
- Empowerment, not Suppression (10/21)
- Celebrating 25 Years of Environmental Justice (10/14)
- The Prodigal Goes Home (10/7)
- GodSpace (Christine Sine) // SLW! Podcast
- The Good Stuff—your dose of what’s working in the world from The Story of Stuff Project!
- Green Child eMagazine: Simplify for Happier, Calmer Kids
- The Homesteading Guide Daily: Exploring life off the grid.
- Jubilee Economics / Casa Jubileo (Lee Van Ham & Dan Swanson) – Back online! Check out the new site.
- Mexico Blog (English/Spanish): Chiapas Delegation
- A Living Earth Economy (David Korten – Yes! Magazine): How we can make peace with nature, realize the value of living wealth, and return to local, self-organized rule.
- Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways – Finding good homes for no longer needed items rather than just putting them in the trash // SLW! Podcast // SLW! Podcast: Lent
- Live Simply (Third Way: Celeste Kennel-Shank)
- Lutheran Peace Fellowship: Simple Living Resources
- The Minimalists podcast (Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus). Getting us past the things so we can make room for life’s most important things — which actually aren’t things at all.
- 035: Dayton
- 034: Utah
- 033: Criticism
- NEW – Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things
- The Art of Letting Go: The Minimalists TEDX Talk (July, 2016)
- Mustard Seed Associates (Andy Wade)
- New Changemakers: Join the Changemaking Celebration! (Tom Sine)
- NorthWest Earth Institute‘s Eco-Challenge 2016 // latest discussion course ebook, Sustainability Works: Rethinking Business As Usual // Change Is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions // Voluntary Simplicity // SLW! Podcast
- The OneEarth Project (Lee Van Ham)
- How Eden Is a Name for the Archetype of “The Garden” and Energizes Earth-size Living(10/18)
- Was Eden Ever an Ecologically Balanced Historical Place? (10/12)
- I’m Hoping You’ll Help Distribute My Next Book (Here’s What It’s About) (10/7)
- Three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals
- Conversation about The OneEarth Project and Lee’s book,
Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us
- The Pastoral Center/Gospel Living (Paul Canavese) // SLW! Podcast
- CatholicCreationCare.com – General resources
- CreationCareKids.com – Children’s resources
- PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough / Full Article Library
- NEW–Manufactured Trends: A Marketing Arsenal Weapon You Should Watch Out For
- 25 Ways to Help Save the Ocean (Or At Least Stem the Tide)
- Marketing 101 for the Postconsumer: understand how marketers are manipulating us, so we can make informed decisions about how we control our consumerism.
- Simple Enough (Bob Sitze) // SLW! Podcast
- Simple Living: the Good Life (Janet Luhrs)–Time, Finances, Home-Work, Health
- Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity
- Simplicity Collective – Let us be pioneers once more (Samuel Alexander)
- Simplicity Parenting (Kim John Payne): because it is a beautiful world
- Smart and Simple Matters podcast (Joel Zaslofsky of Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time, Money and Talent) // SLW! Podcast
- The Role of Slow in “No,” Letting Go, and Laziness (Brooke McAlary)–Ep. 111
- Dear Mindless, Busy Consumer and Buyer of Fleeting Joy–Ep. 110
- Rewilding, Sovereignty & the Heart of Domestication (Daniel Vitalis)–Ep. 109
- From Mindless in a Rocker to Rocking Bonsai Business (Shanna Mann)–Ep.108
- TreeHugger: Finding a Greener Future
- For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
- Upcoming Alternate Celebrations: Sept.-Dec.
What’s Happened
- SLW! Podcast Ep. 78–James Howard Kunstler of KustlerCast, author of The Geography of Nowhere (1994), a history of American suburbia and urban development; The Long Emergency (2005); Too Much Magic (2012); and World Made by Hand series of novels. He argues that declining oil production is likely to result in the end of industrialized society as we know it and force Americans to live in smaller-scale, localized, agrarian (or semi-agrarian) communities.
- The Ugly Food Project — SLW! Podcast Episodes #77 – Fighting for Clean Water & #76 – Celebrating Ugly Food — Exploring the intersection of faith, food and water in a time of drought — speakers, film, music, worship, fun! + Ugly Food Banquet, Bethel Lutheran Church (ELCA), Templeton, CA, Pastor Amy Beveridge and guest speakers
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // Collaborators & Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
Podcast Reminder
You can access all SLW! podcast audio and the show notes either at SimpleLiving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST or at SimpleLivingWorks.org (then click window #3). Complete Episode Index. Listen through your computer, iPod, iPad, iPhone (or equivalent).
SUBSCRIBE through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. To SUBSCRIBE to email notices, click Comments at the bottom of Show Notes, then check ‘Notify me of new posts by email.’ Please rate us in iTunes and leave a review.
Send us your email address to receive the free monthly SLW! eNews. Remember to like us on Facebook. Urge your friends to do the same. Do your friends a favor. Share our blog and podcast.
Like SLW! on Facebook. | Follow us on Twitter. | Follow us on Pinterest. Share your thoughts on our podcast and blogs. Email SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com, leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
*IMAGE: “Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?” #20 cover for “WHOSE Birthday?” episodes 80-83 of Simple Living Works! Podcast
For hard copies of Alternatives’ resources at nominal cost, contact ELCA Archives, 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 // (847) 690-9410 // archives@elca.org
We do not solicit or accept donations, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge. We’re an all-volunteer organization. Instead, we urge Alternative Giving. Give away at least 25% of what you spent last year on all celebrations – Christmas, birthdays, etc. — to local, national and international causes.
Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.
*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.
Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011. Simple Living Works! web site home page | Theme/Seasons Index. To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — please listen to our getting-acquainted episodes, especially #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, hopefully educational and inspiring for you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog each week.
Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest
Oct. 22, 2016
In This Issue:
- SLW! Podcast #79–Lee Van Ham: From Egos to Eden //
- Submit to WHOSE Birthday? #28 //
- Worth Revisiting: Halloween //
- Our Simpler Living Weekly Daily Nudge // Easy-to-share for Oct.
- Relish These Sustenance QUOTES // ART //
- What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
- More!
What’s NOW with SLW!
- SLW! Podcast #79–Lee Van Ham previews vol. 2 of his “Eden for the 21st Century” trilogy, entitled From Egos to Eden: Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable.
- Want to Contribute to WHOSE Birthday? 2016: An Advent and Christmas Resource for Families, Individuals and Churches. Submission Guidelines Whose Birthday? is for your personal inspiration, community education and sharing. This online-only edition is a work-in-progress. You can still submit ART or an ARTICLE. Although this resource is not available in print, you may make all the copies you choose. It is covered by Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.
- Interfaith Power & Light // Participate in the Election // Voter Reflection Guide // SLW! Podcast Ep.47 with IPL
- SLW! Podcast Ep. 78–James Howard Kunstler of KustlerCast, author of The Geography of Nowhere (1994), a history of American suburbia and urban development; The Long Emergency (2005); Too Much Magic (2012); and World Made by Hand series of novels. He argues that declining oil production is likely to result in the end of industrialized society as we know it and force Americans to live in smaller-scale, localized, agrarian (or semi-agrarian) communities.
- Our Daily Simpler Living Nudge
- What Is The NUDGE? / How It Works / How to GET It – Subscribe by sending NUDGE to SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com. / How to SHARE It / More About Holidays
- 2016
- September: Non-conform Freely
- October: Sustenance // Week 1: Food || Week 2: Recipes (from Developing Countries) & Food Preparation || Week 3: Sustainable Agriculture, Organic Farming || Week 4: Gardening
- New SLW! Site Search Engine on Home Page Window #4
- Current activities of the Chief Activist
- SLW! Blog Index | SLW! Podcast Index
- SUBSCRIBE to SLW! Podcast for free through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. Subscribe to SLW! Blog. Click “+Follow” at lower right of blog post, enter a name and email address. Welcome!
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – OCT.
- Check out a few of SLW! thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE. Visit Seasonal/Thematic Resource Index
What’s Coming
SLW! Podcast #80-83–“Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?” annual series for Advent/Christmas (11/1, 11/15, 12/1, 12/15)
Daily Nudges for Nov.: More Celebrating
What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
I gladly pass along links from simple living bloggers, podcasters, coaches and others. Some faith-based, some not. You needn’t read them all. Choose FIVE links — including SLW! — to investigate.
- NEW – Advent Conspiracy: video, family guide and Advent calendar, Sunday School curriculum, Advent sermon outline // SLW! Podcast
- Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)
- Center for a New American Dream: Kids Unbranded Action Kit
- 4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Buying a Product
- 10 Reasons to Host an Alternative Gift Fair: begin planning early.
- Going Plastic-free, Faithfully
-
NEW – “So What Can I Get You for Your Wedding?” Two sets of dishware, two sets of camping gear, two toasters? If you don’t need more “stuff,” register to celebrate love and family instead.
-
NEW – How to Hook Kids into Civic Engagement. Looking for a way to get your kids more involved in the community? Here’s an easy place to start.
-
NEW – Opt for a Greener, Simpler Halloween. Halloween is big business.This year, why not direct your spending and creativity toward a greener, simpler holiday?
-
NEW – 7 Ways to Build Sane and Sustainable Money Habits. Help your kids stay on track managing their money by having a clear, values-based plan.
- The Common Good Podcast – back online! Check out the new site.
- Ep. 76: Let’s Have an Ugly Food Thanksgiving
- BONUS: 11 practical ways you can reduce food waste and save money
- Ep. 75: Jean Diaz–San Diego Community Land Trust
- Ep. 74: Paul Taylor–How Much Is Enough?
- Community Solutions: Founded in 1940, this non-profit organization advocates for small communities and the benefits of face-to-face relationships. Since 2003, the focus has been to provide resources for low-carbon living and to inspire collective, cooperative solutions in the face of peak energy and climate change.
- Creation Justice: CAPSULES – News and Opportunities for Christians Doing Creation Justice
- E-The Environmental Magazine
- Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) – Website, Songbooks, Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumb drive, Standing on the Shoulders music video, sheet music offerings // SLW! Podcast
- Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive // SLW! Podcast #18 // SLW! Podcast #66
- Empowerment, not Suppression (10/21)
- Celebrating 25 Years of Environmental Justice (10/14)
- The Prodigal Goes Home (10/7)
- Stop Digging (9/30)
- Reclaiming an Abundant Life (9/23)
- GodSpace (Christine Sine) // SLW! Podcast
- The Good Stuff—your dose of what’s working in the world from The Story of Stuff Project!
- Green Child eMagazine: Simplify for Happier, Calmer Kids
- The Homesteading Guide Daily: Exploring life off the grid.
- Jubilee Economics / Casa Jubileo (Lee Van Ham & Dan Swanson) – Back online! Check out the new site.
- NEW – Mexico Blog (English/Spanish): Chiapas Delegation
- Making Applesauce (7/26)
- A Living Earth Economy (David Korten – Yes! Magazine): How we can make peace with nature, realize the value of living wealth, and return to local, self-organized rule.
- Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways – Finding good homes for no longer needed items rather than just putting them in the trash // SLW! Podcast // SLW! Podcast: Lent
- Live Simply (Third Way: Celeste Kennel-Shank)
- Lutheran Peace Fellowship: Simple Living Resources
- The Minimalists podcast (Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus). Getting us past the things so we can make room for life’s most important things — which actually aren’t things at all.
- 035: Dayton
- 034: Utah
- 033: Criticism
- NEW – Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things
- The Art of Letting Go: The Minimalists TEDX Talk (July, 2016)
- Mustard Seed Associates (Andy Wade)
- New Changemakers: Join the Changemaking Celebration! (Tom Sine)
- NorthWest Earth Institute‘s Eco-Challenge 2016 // latest discussion course ebook, Sustainability Works: Rethinking Business As Usual // Change Is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions // Voluntary Simplicity // SLW! Podcast
- The OneEarth Project (Lee Van Ham)
- How Eden Is a Name for the Archetype of “The Garden” and Energizes Earth-size Living(10/18)
- Was Eden Ever an Ecologically Balanced Historical Place? (10/12)
- I’m Hoping You’ll Help Distribute My Next Book (Here’s What It’s About) (10/7)
- 10 Experiences That Change Our Consciousness—How We See and Act to Keep Earth Habitable (9/24)
- Three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals
- Conversation about The OneEarth Project and Lee’s book,
Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us
- The Pastoral Center/Gospel Living (Paul Canavese) // SLW! Podcast
- CatholicCreationCare.com – General resources
- CreationCareKids.com – Children’s resources
- PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough / Full Article Library
- NEW–Manufactured Trends: A Marketing Arsenal Weapon You Should Watch Out For
- 25 Ways to Help Save the Ocean (Or At Least Stem the Tide)
- Marketing 101 for the Postconsumer: understand how marketers are manipulating us, so we can make informed decisions about how we control our consumerism.
- Simple Enough (Bob Sitze) // SLW! Podcast
- Simple Living: the Good Life (Janet Luhrs)–Time, Finances, Home-Work, Health
- Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity
- Simplicity Collective – Let us be pioneers once more (Samuel Alexander)
- Simplicity Parenting (Kim John Payne): because it is a beautiful world
- Smart and Simple Matters podcast (Joel Zaslofsky of Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time, Money and Talent) // SLW! Podcast
- The Role of Slow in “No,” Letting Go, and Laziness (Brooke McAlary)–Ep. 111
- Dear Mindless, Busy Consumer and Buyer of Fleeting Joy–Ep. 110
- Rewilding, Sovereignty & the Heart of Domestication (Daniel Vitalis)–Ep. 109
- From Mindless in a Rocker to Rocking Bonsai Business (Shanna Mann)–Ep.108
- How to Get a “Plan A” Life with Bravery and Bravado (Warren Talbot)–Ep.107
- TreeHugger: Finding a Greener Future
- For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
- Upcoming Alternate Celebrations: Sept.-Dec.
What’s Happened
- The Ugly Food Project — SLW! Podcast Episodes #77 – Fighting for Clean Water & #76 – Celebrating Ugly Food — Exploring the intersection of faith, food and water in a time of drought — speakers, film, music, worship, fun! + Ugly Food Banquet, Bethel Lutheran Church (ELCA), Templeton, CA, Pastor Amy Beveridge and guest speakers
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // Collaborators & Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
Podcast Reminder
You can access all SLW! podcast audio and the show notes either at SimpleLiving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST or at SimpleLivingWorks.org (then click window #3). Complete Episode Index. Listen through your computer, iPod, iPad, iPhone (or equivalent).
SUBSCRIBE through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. To SUBSCRIBE to email notices, click Comments at the bottom of Show Notes, then check ‘Notify me of new posts by email.’ Please rate us in iTunes and leave a review.
Send us your email address to receive the free monthly SLW! eNews. Remember to like us on Facebook. Urge your friends to do the same. Do your friends a favor. Share our blog and podcast.
Like SLW! on Facebook. | Follow us on Twitter. | Follow us on Pinterest. Share your thoughts on our podcast and blogs. Email SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com, leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
*IMAGE: “From Egos to Eden” book cover, courtesy of Jubilee OneEarth Economics
For hard copies of Alternatives’ resources at nominal cost, contact ELCA Archives, 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 // (847) 690-9410 // archives@elca.org
We do not solicit or accept donations, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge. We’re an all-volunteer organization. Instead, we urge Alternative Giving. Give away at least 25% of what you spent last year on all celebrations – Christmas, birthdays, etc. — to local, national and international causes.
Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.
*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.
Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011. Simple Living Works! web site home page | Theme/Seasons Index. To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — please listen to our getting-acquainted episodes, especially #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, hopefully educational and inspiring for you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog each week.
Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest
Oct. 15, 2016
In This Issue:
- SLW! Podcast #79–Lee Van Ham: From Egos to Eden //
- Submit to WHOSE Birthday? #28 //
- Worth Revisiting: World Food Day/Frank Cordaro-Occupy World Food Prize; Halloween //
- Our Simpler Living Weekly Daily Nudge // Easy-to-share for Oct.
- Relish These Sustenance QUOTES // ART //
- What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
- More!
What’s NOW with SLW!
- SLW! Podcast #79–Lee Van Ham previews vol. 2 of his “Eden for the 21st Century” trilogy, entitled From Egos to Eden
- Want to Contribute to WHOSE Birthday? 2016: An Advent and Christmas Resource for Families, Individuals and Churches. Submission Guidelines Whose Birthday? is for your personal inspiration, community education and sharing. This online-only edition is a work-in-progress. You can still submit ART or an ARTICLE. Although this resource is not available in print, you may make all the copies you choose. It is covered by Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.
- Interfaith Power & Light // Participate in the Election // Voter Reflection Guide // SLW! Podcast Ep.47 with IPL
- World Food Day, Oct. 16 (UN): Climate Is Changing. Food and Agriculture Must Too.
- SLW! Podcast Ep. 78–James Howard Kunstler of KustlerCast, author of The Geography of Nowhere (1994), a history of American suburbia and urban development; The Long Emergency (2005); Too Much Magic (2012); and World Made by Hand series of novels. He argues that declining oil production is likely to result in the end of industrialized society as we know it and force Americans to live in smaller-scale, localized, agrarian (or semi-agrarian) communities.
- Our Daily Simpler Living Nudge
- What Is The NUDGE? / How It Works / How to GET It – Subscribe by sending NUDGE to SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com. / How to SHARE It / More About Holidays
- 2016
- September: Non-conform Freely
- October: Sustenance // Week 1: Food || Week 2: Recipes (from Developing Countries) & Food Preparation || Week 3: Sustainable Agriculture, Organic Farming || Week 4: Gardening
- New SLW! Site Search Engine on Home Page Window #4
- Current activities of the Chief Activist
- SLW! Blog Index | SLW! Podcast Index
- SUBSCRIBE to SLW! Podcast for free through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. Subscribe to SLW! Blog. Click “+Follow” at lower right of blog post, enter a name and email address. Welcome!
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – OCT.
- Check out a few of SLW! thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE. Visit Seasonal/Thematic Resource Index
What’s Coming
SLW! Podcast #80-83–“Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?” annual series for Advent/Christmas (11/1, 11/15, 12/1, 12/15)
What Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
I gladly pass along links from simple living bloggers, podcasters, coaches and others. Some faith-based, some not. You needn’t read them all. Choose FIVE links — including SLW! — to investigate.
- NEW – Advent Conspiracy: video, family guide and Advent calendar, Sunday School curriculum, Advent sermon outline // SLW! Podcast
- Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)
- Inspiring Simplicity Reads (10/15)
- The Profound Joy of Completion (10/4)
- Inspiring Simplicity Reads (10/1)
- The 7 Internet Tools I Use for Blogging (9/28)
- You Are Doing a Noble Thing (9/22)
- Center for a New American Dream: Kids Unbranded Action Kit
- The Common Good Podcast – back online! Check out the new site.
- Ep. 76: Let’s Have an Ugly Food Thanksgiving
- Ep. 75: Jean Diaz–San Diego Community Land Trust
- Ep. 74: Paul Taylor–How Much Is Enough?
- Community Solutions: Founded in 1940, this non-profit organization advocates for small communities and the benefits of face-to-face relationships. Since 2003, the focus has been to provide resources for low-carbon living and to inspire collective, cooperative solutions in the face of peak energy and climate change.
- Creation Justice: CAPSULES – News and Opportunities for Christians Doing Creation Justice
- E-The Environmental Magazine
- Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) – Website, Songbooks, Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumb drive, Standing on the Shoulders music video, sheet music offerings // SLW! Podcast
- Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive // SLW! Podcast #18 // SLW! Podcast #66
- Celebrating 25 Years of Environmental Justice (10/14)
- The Prodigal Goes Home (10/7)
- Stop Digging (9/30)
- Reclaiming an Abundant Life (9/23)
- Coalitions and Constituencies (9/16)
- GodSpace (Christine Sine) // SLW! Podcast
- The Good Stuff—your dose of what’s working in the world from The Story of Stuff Project!
- Green Child eMagazine: Simplify for Happier, Calmer Kids
- The Homesteading Guide Daily: Exploring life off the grid.
- Jubilee Economics / Casa Jubileo (Lee Van Ham & Dan Swanson) – Back online! Check out the new site.
- NEW – Mexico Blog (English/Spanish): Chiapas Delegation
- Making Applesauce (7/26)
- A Living Earth Economy (David Korten – Yes! Magazine): How we can make peace with nature, realize the value of living wealth, and return to local, self-organized rule.
- Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways – Finding good homes for no longer needed items rather than just putting them in the trash // SLW! Podcast // SLW! Podcast: Lent
- Live Simply (Third Way: Celeste Kennel-Shank)
- Lutheran Peace Fellowship: Simple Living Resources
- The Minimalists podcast (Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus). Getting us past the things so we can make room for life’s most important things — which actually aren’t things at all.
- 035: Dayton
- 034: Utah
- 033: Criticism
- NEW – Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things
- The Art of Letting Go: The Minimalists TEDX Talk (July, 2016)
- Mustard Seed Associates (Andy Wade)
- New Changemakers: Join the Changemaking Celebration! (Tom Sine)
- NorthWest Earth Institute‘s Eco-Challenge 2016 // latest discussion course ebook, Sustainability Works: Rethinking Business As Usual // Change Is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions // Voluntary Simplicity // SLW! Podcast
- The OneEarth Project (Lee Van Ham)
- Was Eden Ever an Ecologically Balanced Historical Place? (10/12)
- I’m Hoping You’ll Help Distribute My Next Book (Here’s What It’s About) (10/7)
- 10 Experiences That Change Our Consciousness—How We See and Act to Keep Earth Habitable (9/24)
- “Seasoned Travelers” on the Heroic Journey (9/14)
- Three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals
- Conversation about The OneEarth Project and Lee’s book,
Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us
- The Pastoral Center/Gospel Living (Paul Canavese) // SLW! Podcast
- CatholicCreationCare.com – General resources
- CreationCareKids.com – Children’s resources
- PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough / Full Article Library
- NEW–Manufactured Trends: A Marketing Arsenal Weapon You Should Watch Out For
- 25 Ways to Help Save the Ocean (Or At Least Stem the Tide)
- Marketing 101 for the Postconsumer: understand how marketers are manipulating us, so we can make informed decisions about how we control our consumerism.
- Simple Enough (Bob Sitze) // SLW! Podcast
- Simple Living: the Good Life (Janet Luhrs)–Time, Finances, Home-Work, Health
- Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity
- Simplicity Collective – Let us be pioneers once more (Samuel Alexander)
- Simplicity Parenting (Kim John Payne): because it is a beautiful world
- Smart and Simple Matters podcast (Joel Zaslofsky of Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time, Money and Talent) // SLW! Podcast
- Dear Mindless, Busy Consumer and Buyer of Fleeting Joy–Ep. 110
- Rewilding, Sovereignty & the Heart of Domestication (Daniel Vitalis)–Ep. 109
- From Mindless in a Rocker to Rocking Bonsai Business (Shanna Mann)–Ep.108
- How to Get a “Plan A” Life with Bravery and Bravado (Warren Talbot)–Ep.107
- TreeHugger: Finding a Greener Future
- For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
- Upcoming Alternate Celebrations: Sept.-Dec.
What’s Happened
- The Ugly Food Project — SLW! Podcast Episodes #77 – Fighting for Clean Water & #76 – Celebrating Ugly Food — Exploring the intersection of faith, food and water in a time of drought — speakers, film, music, worship, fun! + Ugly Food Banquet, Bethel Lutheran Church (ELCA), Templeton, CA, Pastor Amy Beveridge and guest speakers
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // Collaborators & Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
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