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| Simpler Living: In Pursuit of a Good Life Join the major researchers, activists, and leaders in the multidisciplinary field of simplicity in an exploration of the many paths to living a more sane, balanced, and fulfilling life. |
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articles related to simplicity
 | A Declaration of Independence from Overconsumption ~ | |
| This is an excerpt of an address given by Vicki Robin to the United Nations in 1994. |
| A Deeper Shade of Green (Non) Consuming ~ This | |
| article by Vicki Robin, author with Joe Dominguez of Your Money or Your Life suggests that buying LESS stuff is a sure way to be MORE sustainable. |
| Extreme Jobs, Extreme Hours ~ This ABC News video | |
| talks about American's obsession with work and features a brief interview with Rebecca Kneale Gould, author of At Home in Nature, speaking about work-life balance. |
| Fabric of America is Fraying ~ This article by Dave Wann | |
| published in the Denver Post challenges our perspectives on success and wealth, and compares the wellbeing of residents in the US with that of the EU. |
| Garden of Simplicity ~ This essay by Duane Elgin | |
| provides an eloquent overview of simplicity and its various incarnations. |
| How Limits Make Life Simpler ~ This article by Vicki | |
| Robin, one of the Founders of the Forum, suggests that the self-imposed limits of simplicity provide us with the "freedom to be blissfully real, authentic, balanced, relaxed and healthy." |
| Is It Simple Living - Or Common Sense ~ Written by Vicki | |
| Robin this article provides the means for asking ourselves how much we really need. |
| Living Well, Living Deeply ~ Written by Bruce Elkin and | |
| published in Natural Life Magazine "Living Well" suggests we organize our values and actions so they support what we truly want. |
| Short on Time? Take Yours Back! ~ This article written by | |
| John deGraaf shows how addressing overwork, over- scheduling and overconsumption can support the health of ourselves, our families and the environment. |
| Simple Living America News ~ This online Newsletter | |
| published by one of our partner organizations, Simple Living America, features articles by Carol Host, Cecile Andrews, Wanda Urbanska, Frank Levering and more. |
| Take Back Your Time ~ This Corporate Watchdog Media | |
| radio interview discusses the implications of overwork and features Rebecca Kneale Gould, Take Back Your Time Board Member and author of At Home in Nature. |
| The Diderot Effect: Staying Simple in the City ~ This article | |
| by Bruce Elkin offered by Natural Life Magazine helps us explore the push and pull of simplicity and consumption. |
| The Latest Word from Dartmouth's Sustainability | |
| Coordinator ~ Jim Merkel, author of Radical Simplicity and Sustainability Coordinator for Dartmouth College, outline's his university's progress towards "greener" pastures. |
| The Secret of Fulfillment ~ This article written by Joe | |
| Dominguez and Vicki Robin, authors of Your Money or Your Life, explores simplicity as a means to fulfillment. |
| Wallet Wisdom ~ This is an interview in Down East | |
| Magazine with Lu Bauer, a Forum member and financial advisor withe The Balancing Act who helps people "right- size" their lives to make their money match their lifestyle. |
| What is Sustainability and What Does It Have to Do with | |
| Me? ~ This article, published in the Green Heart Guide and Living Green Magazine, and written by ConservED Project Co-Founder Jennifer White, invites us to take a whole-systems approach to defining and embodying sustainably. |
| What's the Economy for, Anyway? ~ This article written by | |
| John de Graaf, and published by one of our partner organizations the Center for a New American Dream, asks us to reconsider the role of the economy in our society. Here's an excerpt: "...economic success cannot be measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) or stock prices alone. It must take into account the other values that constitute the greatest good — health, happiness, knowledge, kindness — for the greatest number — equality, access to opportunity — over the long run — in a healthy democracy and sustainable environment." |
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The articles below are written by Simplicity Forum Members and offer
insight into the many facets of simplicity and how we might begin to
pursue "a simple, just and sustainable way of life."
insight into the many facets of simplicity and how we might begin to
pursue "a simple, just and sustainable way of life."
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