Protect the Earth. Live Simply… Our Future Depends On It.
In November and December of 2015, I visited a couple of places in India that inspired some questions and thoughts about what is involved in protecting the earth.
voluntary simplicity
A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity
A Simpler Way is a documentary about simple living, permaculture, and local economy as a response to global crises.
Pulling the plug, part 2
The only way for us to win is not to play.
Defining the Simple Life
The simple life is almost as hard to define as it is to live.
The Simple Path to Empowerment
I believe it was Oscar Wilde who said: “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
Review: Autumn Night and Other Tales of the Future by Randall S. Ellis
In the century and a half since transcendentalist thinker Henry David Thoreau first coined the term “voluntary poverty,” it has been variously a buzzword, a meme within environmental circles and a dreaded epithet smelling of sacrifice and deprivation.
Voluntary Simplicity and the Steady-State Economy
Voluntary simplicity is most basically characterized by the practices of mindfulness and material sufficiency. Through bringing mindfulness to our daily lives, we seek the maximum of well-being achievable through the minimum of material consumption. Well-being applies to all life forms on Earth, not just people.
The Hidden Door
In my imagination, the confining wall is the whole of consumer culture.
Happiness and the New Simplicity: The Living Room Revolution of Community
For years I’ve talked to people about voluntary simplicity, and for years people have responded with: “What’s that thing you’re involved in—that self-deprivation movement?”