current speakers
Bruce Anderson ~ Waking Up From the American Dream:
How to Live a Happy, Satisfying Life in Our Unhealthy
Consumer Culture

Cecile Andrews ~ The Circle of Simplicity: Return to the
Good Life & Slow is Beautiful: New Visions of Community,
Leisure, and Joie de Vivre

Lu Bauer ~ Financial Coach and Owner of Maine-based
CPA practice called "The Balancing Act"

John de Graaf ~ Affluenza: Fighting Overwork and Time
Poverty in America, Take Back Your Time Day & What's the
Economy For, Anyway?

Nathan Dungan ~ Share-Save-Spend, LLC & Prodigal
Sons and Material Girls: How Not to Be Your Child's ATM

Rebecca Kneale Gould ~ At Home in Nature: Modern
Homesteading and Spiritual Practice in America &
Associate Professor at Middlebury College

Stan King ~ Simplicity Forum Chair & Bay Area Voluntary
Simplicity Conference Organizer

Jim Merkel ~ Radical Simplicity: Small Footprints on a
Finite Earth, Dartmouth College Sustainability Director

Vicki Robin ~ Your Money or Your Life & Co-Founder of The
Center for a New American Dream

Shay Salomon ~ Little House on a Small Planet & Co-
Founder Small House Society

Jeanine Schreurs ~ Chief Editor of Genoeg (Enough)
Magazine and Initiator of European Simplicity Network

Jerome Segal ~ Graceful Simplicity: Toward a Philosophy
and Politics of Simple Living & Institute for Philosophy &
Public Policy at the University of Maryland

Sean Sheehan ~ Center for a New American Dream
National Outreach Manager

Dave Wann ~ Sustainable Futures Society President &
Author of Affluenza, Log Rhythms, Biologic, Deep Design,
The Zen of Gardening, Reinventing Community, Superbia
and Simple Prosperity

Jennifer White ~ Green Heart Institute Co-Founder, Eco-
Tones Co-Founder & Simplicity Forum Executive Director
working to secure a higher quality of life for all people now and in the future
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Time
Affluenza
Commercializing childhood
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Justice lifestyles
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What is the economy for?
Simplicity & a good life
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