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Cecile Andrews

Champion of Simplicity Circles and Community Conversation

A community educator, Cecile is active in the transition movement in the United States. Cecile and her husband are founders of Seattle’s Phinney Ecovillage, a neighborhood-based sustainable community, which has morphed into Sustainable Greenwood-Phinney.

She’s the author of. . .

The Circle of Simplicity: Return to the Good Life (1998)

Slow is Beautiful: New Visions of Community, Leisure and Joie de Vivre(2006)

Less is More: Embracing Simplicity for a Healthy Planet, a Caring Economy and Lasting Happiness (2009)

NEW! Living Room Revolution: A Handbook for Conversation, Community and the Common Good (2013)

Cecile’s site is CecileAndrews.com, NOT SimplicityCircles.com, which says it’s about simplifying your financial life. It looks pretty suspicious to me.

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Mentions in This Episode

NorthWest Earth Institute

Shareable.net about a sharing economy | New Dream Community Action Kit: Guide to Sharing

Simplicity-Matters.org | My Travel Journal to D.C./Maryland. Scroll down to Post #198 to see their happy faces and comments.

Vicki Robin, co-author of the classic Your Money or Your Life, has a new book, Blessing the Hands That Feed Us: What Eating Closer to Home Can Teach Us About Food, Community, and Our Place on Earth.  Also, http://www.jubilee-economics.org/journal/

Champions of Simple Living Today | I interview John De Graaf, producer and author of Affluenza, on TheCommonGoodPodcast.com.

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Reimagining America: An Evening with Gus Speth & Juliet Schor | Watch these videos to hear Speth and Schor discuss innovations in collaborative consumption, ways the sharing economy is changing our country, and opportunities to define a new American Dream.

Living Room Conversations – Open your ears. Open your mind. Open your home. (from Joan Blades, founder of MoveOn.org)

Helpful Articles on SPRING Festivals

(We talked about Lent and Easter – 4/20 – in Episode #13.)

• International Women’s Day (March 8)
  • “What time of night it is”
  • Celebrate women!
  • Host a Women’s Day dinner
  • “Take Back the Night” march
  • Ecumenical Decade of Churches in Solidarity with Women
  • Celebrating the unnamed ones
  • Litany of Solidarity with Women
  • Knowledge is the first step to change
  • Tabletalk for International Women’s Day

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• St. Patrick’s Day (March 17)
  • The wearing of the green
  • Tabletalk on St. Patrick’s Day
• First Day of Spring (March 20 or 21)
  • Tabletalk for the First Day of Spring
  • Celebrate Spring by Celebrating Life
  • Celebrate Earth
  • A Rite for Spring: Begin to Recycle
  • Let Earth breathe!
  • All-night vigil
• Central America Week (week of March 24)
  • The spirit of Archbishop Oscar Romero
  • At home

• Passover – Tue., April 15, 2014 – 7 days – Mon., April 21. In the USA, Passover ends one day later, Tues., April 22. In the Jewish calendar, a holiday begins on the sunset of the previous day, so observing Jews will celebrate Passover on the sunset of Mon., April 14. | Freedom from slavery | What links are in place in your community?

Mentions Last Episode
Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists (shy or bold) | Share the Joy of a Simpler Lifestyle Through Speeches, Workshops, Events, Study/Action Groups, Simplicity Circles and Social Media + BONUS: Social Media Supplement – Jerry’s Adventures in Social Media

Mentions in Recent Episodes

• Lenten sermon series
• Free coaching for groups on the internet
• Blinded by Progress by colleague Lee Van Ham at Jubilee-Economics.org — interviews, conversation
• Let’s Get Ready for a Simpler, More Meaningful Lent and Easter

Themes/Seasons: Alternatives’ Collections Index: Advent/Christmas/Epiphany | Lent/Easter | Other Seasons | Anytime/Non-Seasonal | Music | Art | Audio | Video | Spanish | Living More with Less

Lent/Easter: 10 Tips for a Simpler, More Meaningful Easter | Article/ART Index: Easter | Bulletin Inserts are indexed in Articles by season. | En Español (all) | Lenten Calendars and 40-Day Guides - For the current liturgical cycle (A), use #6, 9, 12, 15, or 18. Some are not based on a cycle and can be used any year. | Sing Justice! Do Justice! New Songs & Hymns to Familiar & New Tunes: Lent/Easter, e.g. #19 | Spirit of Simplicity: Quotes and Art for Simpler Living and Global Justice ( Foreword by Cecile Andrews | Introduction | How to Use This Collection | QUOTES | ART )

• Treasury of Celebrations: Part 1: Making Choices — Simple Living, Gift Giving, Food and Celebration, Getting Started | Part 2: Gifts | Part 3: Celebrations — Jan-Apr (LENT | EASTER), May-Aug, Sep-Dec, Advent, Christmas | Part 4: Rites of Passage

• Who’s Risen from the Dead, Anyway? A. Reflection/Activity Guides (two guides for each cycle – total of six); B. Passover and Easter Seders; C. Posters and 40-Day Calendars; D. Bulletin Inserts & Covers (#551-559) | Those Who Speak for God: Household Studies on the Minor Prophets

•  Worship Alternatives: Worship Items (Litanies, Hymns, Prayers, etc.)| Sermons | ART for Lent/Holy Week/Easter
• Guides for Sharing These Resources: School of Layout | Reaching Out Through the Media
• Overflow Project 50-Day Challenge | my blog SIMPLIFY + GIVE + CHANGE = WATER
• Bring Simpler Living to Your Group!
  
• Testimonials/Feedback/Comments/Response
• Hard copies of Alternatives’ resources — paper, CD, DVD — will be available soon at nominal cost from ELCA Archives (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America), 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 • (847) 690-9410 • archives@elca.org • 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., M-F. An appointment in advance of visit is advised. NOTE: This is not the ELCA headquarters bldg.
• Simple Living Works! web site home page | Themes/Seasons Index
• 10 Tips for Simpler, More Meaningful Easter | Celebrations | SPANISH: 10 puntas
• For Lent/Easter SEASONAL HELPS, including links to AV and Text resources, see episode 13.
• SEASONAL HELPS from *Treasury of Celebrations: Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don’t Cost the Earth:  Winter Festivals: Jan.-April | LENT | EASTER

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