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Choosing Simplicity - Linda Breen Pierce

Real People Finding Peace and Fulfillment in a Complex World
Linda Breen Pierce
2000
Interview
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Pierce describes how living in a poor bush village in Senegal when she was 20 planted the seeds of the idea of simplicity. She experienced first-hand how people who lived difficult lives without even the material necessities still laughed more, felt more, expressed more spontaneity and energy than most Americans. After returning to the US and buying into the prescribed professional lifestyle for 25 years, she stumbled on the idea of voluntary simplicity in an article. She says...

Simplicity Lessons - Linda Breen Pierce

A 12-Step Guide to Living Simply
Linda Breen Pierce
2003
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“Normal” is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you're still paying for, in order to get to the job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car, and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it. -- Ellen Goodman

Building on in her earlier book, Choosing Simplicity, Pierce continues with a workbook aimed at facilitating the discovery of what simplicity would look like for you. Designed to be used in a study group or by individuals, she covers, one step at a time, the major issues involved in planning a simpler lifestyle.

Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence
Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin
1992, new ed.
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SimpleLiving.net The website has lots of information and resources including free Online Study Groups to work through the material in the book.

This is a good book if you are even slightly Green or feel attracted to the Simple Living movement. Dominguez and Robin concentrate deeply on subjects that are addressed more generally by other writers: discovering your values, getting your spending into alignment with your values, and focusing on achieving financial independence. The goal is to achieve the point where your earnings will support you without working at all, or working at the level and kind of work you want to do. . .

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James and Tyra Arraj--A Guide to Valuable Resources, Important Information and Exotic Tidbits

Intentional Communities website-- Intentional Community is an inclusive term for ecovillages, cohousing, residential land trusts, communes, student co-ops, urban housing cooperatives and other related projects and dreams.

How much do you know about the environmental impact of your choices?

The Great Green Web Game

Northwest Earth Institute
series of discussion courses, developed in Portland, but available to groups anywhere in the United States:

LocalHarvest -
Founded in 1998, LocalHarvest is now the number one informational resource for the Buy Local movement and the top place on the Internet where people find information on direct marketing family farms.

Community Supported Agriculture -
CSA, Community Supported Agriculture, is a relationship of mutual support and commitment between local farmers and community members who pay the farmer an annual membership fee to cover the production cost of the farm. In turn, members receive a weekly share of the harvest during the local growing season.

Slow Food U.S.A. -
Slow Food U.S.A. is an educational organization dedicated to stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production, to the revival of the table as centers of pleasure, culture, and community.

Earthsave -
Educates people about the powerful effects our food choices have on the environment, our health and all life on Earth, and encourages a shift toward a healthy, plant-based diet

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