Less is More (eBook)

Cecile Andrews is a community educator, author of Circle of Simplicity, and contributor to several books on living more simply and taking back our time. She has a doctorate from Stanford and teaches at Seattle University. She and her husband are founders of Seattle's Phinney Ecovillage, a neighborhood-based sustainable community. Wanda Urbanska is a Harvard graduate whose life's work has involved living simply. She is the President of Simple Living Company, www.simplelivingtv.net , the producer/host of Simple Living with Wanda Urbanska, and the author of three books on the subject. She lives in Mount Airy, North Carolina.

Acknowledgments
Preface

Part One: Simplicity Defined
Introduction
Cecile Andrews
Simple Living: Lessons from the World of Television
Wanda Urbanska
Voluntary Simplicity: Cool Lifestyle for a Hot Planet
Duane Elgin
Graceful Living
Jerome Segal
A Scientific Approach to Voluntary Simplicity
Tim Kasser and Kirk Warren Brown
Finding Real Wealth: Twice the Value for Half the Resources
Dave Wann
Religion and the Earth
Rev. Canon Sally Bingham
The Circle of Simplicity
Cecile Andrews
Like Corn in the Night: Reclaiming a Sense of Time
Rebecca Kneale Gould
Simplicity, Simply Put
Tom Turnipseed
Enroute to Eldertown: Where Fast Lanes Turn into Pastures and Meadows
Theodore Roszak

Part Two: Solutions
Introduction
Cecile Andrews
Simplicity Isn't "Voluntary" Any More
Ernest Callenbach
The Lagom Solution
Alan AtKisson
Creating a Life You Love
Wanda Muszynski
Taking Back Family Life from Overscheduling
William J. Doherty
Why I Farm
Bryan Welch
Why People of Faith Must Care for the Planet
Matthew Sleeth
Nearing Enough
Linnea Johnson
Culture as a Guidepost for a Balanced Life
Cathy O'Keefe
"...and All the Trees of the Field Will Clap Their Hands"
Michael Schut
Decluttering
Sarah Susanka
Wabi-Sabi Time
Robyn Griggs Lawrence
Changing the World One Block at a Time
Jay Walljasper
The Real Wealth of Neighborhoods
Dave Wann
The Speed Trap
Jay Walljasper
Creating the Educational Foundations for Change
John E. Wear, Jr.

Part Three: Policies
Introduction
Cecile Andrews
A Mature Economy
Bill McKibben
Why Isn't This Empire Sustainable
Dave Wann
Radical Sustainability
Jim Merkel
Downshifting to a Carbon-friendly Economy
Juliet Schor
What's the Economy for, Anyway?
John de Graaf
We Are Hard-wired to Care and Connect
David Korten

Afterword
Time to Talk! Creating Simplicity Conversation Circles
Cecile Andrews

Notes
Index
About the Editors