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Contents
To help you keep track of resources you have already investigated, resources listed after the start of the service on March 13, 2014, are noted NEW and dated.
TOPICS
Activism Literacy
Celebrating Literacy
Economic Literacy
Environmental Literacy
Family/Children Literacy
Financial Literacy/Consumerism
Food, Water and Agriculture Literacy
Happiness Literacy
Health/Medical Literacy
Historical Literacy
Media Literacy
Organizing/Decluttering/Minimalism Literacy
Peace/War/Militarism/Empire Literacy
Political Literacy
Spiritual/Faith Literacy
Time and Work Literacy
General
Simple Living Literacy: INTRO
Simple Living is a comprehensive way of living. It's so much more than it's stereotype of growing a few tomatoes and wearing our favorite old clothes!
This list contains books (paper, eBooks and audio books), video (DVD), audio (CD, MP3).
These are somewhat current resources. For a list of classic resources, visit Study Guides (link above). Almost every resource has an accompanying list of additional resources, for example Simple Living 101: Additional Resources, also Worship Alternatives: Resources.
Mildly interesting historical note: For most of its 40 years of service Alternatives offered a Book Service, sales from which usually made up 1/3 of Alternatives' operating income (the rest from memberships and donations, and grants). From 1995-2008, Alternatives published and distributed a modest quarterly Resource Guide, i.e. sales catalog. I reviewed hundreds of resources to find the ones ideal for our audience/clientele/customers. Since August, 2010, I have continued to review resources, most of which I recommend to my local public library and they add to their collection. I have interacted with each of these titles/sources.
SLW! does not sell anything, but we recommend resources from other sources and publishers, which we urge you to get from your public library or your local, independent bookstore. For help locating a local source, visit IndieBound.org. We promote sharing but not collecting, not even books!
Many below are free on the internet. Most of the links take you to my previews.
Some of the titles are faith-based, most are not. Though I list each title only once, some would fit nicely in more than one category. They vary from simple to complex, from friendly to polemical.
Find a TOPIC that interests you; try a few of the entries. Then move to another TOPIC. The titles are not in alphabetical or priority order.
Worship Alternatives: ART 1 #2354
TITLES
Activism Literacy
Shift Happens: Changing Paradigms to Live SustainablyMotivation -- SLW! blog
Work the Plan -- SLW! blog
Influencing Others -- SLW! blog
Self-Starters Needed! -- SLW! blog
Creative Community Organizing: a guide for rabble-rousers, activists, and quiet lovers of justice -- Si Kahn
Language Intelligence: lessons on persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Lady Gaga -- Joseph J. Romm
End-civ: resist or die -- DVD with Derrick Jensen
World on the Edge: how to prevent environmental and economic collapse -- Lester R. Brown
Truths Among Us: Conversations on building a new culture: interviews -- Derrick Jensen
The Progressive's Guide to Raising Hell: how to win grassroots campaigns, pass ballot box laws, and get the change we voted for -- Robert Scheer
Resistance Against Empire -- Derrick Jensen
Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel -- Alice Walker
Celebrations Literacy
Advent Abundance! Worthy resources from others -- SLW! blog
Little Insurrections -- Jubilee Economics blogs
Unwrapping Christmas -- Jubilee Economics blogs
WHOSE Birthday? '13 -- Jubilee Economics blogs
WHOSE Birthday? -- Podcast series
Explaining Santa to My Granddaughter -- SLW! blog
CONSUMO Must Go! -- SLW! blog
Displacing Santa from the Top -- SLW! blog
12 Days of Christmas Start on Christmas Day -- SLW! blog
New Year - New Daily Inspiration -- SLW! blog
How We Celebrate Says a Lot About How We Live: Thanksgiving -- SLW! blog
My Birthday Wonder! -- SLW! blog
Occupying the Flagstaff Bridal Fair -- SLW! blog
Abstract Expressionist Halloween -- SLW! blog
Free SPANISH Language Resources -- SLW! blog
Economic Literacy
FREE: Spending Your Time and Money on What Matters Most (Aug 8, 2013) by Mark Scandrette and Richard RohrJubilee Economics in 90 Seconds -- AUDIO
Reading the Bible Economically: A Workbook
Chris Hedges: Corporate Coup d'Etat -- Alternative Radio podcast
Unmasking the Gods of the Economy -- SLW! blog
Plenitude: The Emerging New Economy -- Juliet Schor
Gar Alperovitz: Beyond Capitalism -- Alternative Radio podcast
Socially Responsible Investing: Green Investing, Episode 11 | SRI Challenges Episode 23 -- TheCommonGoodPodcast.com | Will Socially Responsible Investors Turn from Fossil Fuels? -- Jan Schalkwijk blog
Economic Trends -- Jubilee Economics blogs
Indigenous Economics | Fair Trade -- Jubilee Economics blogs
Living Fair Trade -- SLW! blog
Questioning Capitalism | Limits to Growth -- Jubilee Economics blogs
Aftershock: the next economy and America's future -- Robert Reich
Humanizing the Economy: co-operatives in the age of capital -- John Restakis
Microfinance: TheCommonGoodPodcast, ep. #41
Poverty Capital: microfinance and the making of development -- Ananya Roy
Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed and Corruption Led to Economic Armegeddon -- Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism -- Ha-Joon Chang
The Fifteen Biggest Lies About the Economy: and everything else the right doesn't want you to know about taxes, jobs, and corporate America -- Joshua Holland
Economics Unmasked: from power and greed to compassion and the common good -- Manfred Max-Neef and Philip B. Smith
In and Out of Crisis: the global financial meltdown and left alternatives -- Greg Albo, Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch
Blinded by Progress: Breaking Away from the Illusion That Binds Us -- Lee Van Ham
Jubilee-Economics.org: One Earth Economics for the Common Good
One Earth -- Jubilee Economics blogs
The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need -- Juliet B. Schor
The Crash of 2016: the plot to destroy America--and what we can do to stop it -- Thom Hartmann
CASSE -- Center for Advancement of Steady State Economics
Supply Shock: economic growth at the crossroads and the steady state solution -- Brian Czech
Enough Is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources -- Rob Dietz and Dan O'Neill
ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth
Sabbath Economics -- Ched Meyers
America the Possible: manifesto for a new economy -- James Gustave Speth
Revenue Matters: tax the rich and restore democracy to save the nation -- Berkley Bedell
The Man Who Quit Money -- Mark Sundeen
Inside Job DVD: An analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost of over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research, and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation, and academia.
Environmental Literacy
NEW fall, 2014 -- This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. Climate by Naomi Klein -- Jubilee Economics blogThe Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert (Feb., 2014)
4/10/14--Homegrown Christianity Podcast mini-series // Guests: Randy Woodley (3/5/14), Jen Butler (2/18/14), Matthrew Sleeth (1/30/14), Leah Ostamo (1/18/14)
Resistance Radio with Derrick Jensen
The Climate Cliff: Bill McKibben -- Alternative Radio podcast
Sandra Steingraber: Fracking and Public Health -- Alternative Radio podcast
Earth Focus TV series
Ecoliterate: How Educators Are Cultivating Emotional, Social, and Ecological Intelligence -- Daniel Goleman, Lisa Bennett and Zenobia Barlow from Center for EcoLiteracy: Education for Sustainable Living.
Environment blogs -- Jubilee Economics
Simple Living Works! #6 - Earth Care
New from Earth Mama -- SLW! blog
The Nature of Things (Podcast) -- David Suzuki
A Radical Environmental Paradigm (Podcast) -- David Suzuki
Climate Justice: Ethics, Energy and Public Policy -- James B. Martin-Schramm, Professor of Religion at Luther College. Fortress Press, 2010
Merchants of Doubt: how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming -- Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
Climate Justice: ethics, energy, and public policy -- James B. Martin-Scramm
HOT: Living through the next 50 years on Earth -- Mark Hertsgaard
Outdoor Parents, Outdoor Kids: a guide to getting your kids active in the great outdoors -- Eugene Buchanan
The Renewable Revolution: how we can fight climate change, prevent energy wars, revitalize the economy and transition to a sustainable future -- Sajed Kamal
Everything under the Sun: toward a brighter future on a small blue planet -- David T. Suzuki
Tropic of Chaos: climate change and the new geography of violence -- Christian Parenti
America's Climate Problem: the way forward -- Robert Repetto
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet -- Bill McKibben
350.org
America's Climate Century: what climate change means for America in the 21st century and what Americans can do about it -- Senator Rob Hogg
Plastic-free: how I kicked the plastic habit and you can too -- Beth Terry
Too Much Magic: wishful thinking, technology, and the fate of the nation -- James Howard Kunstler
The Upcycle: beyond sustainability, designing for abundance -- William McDonough and Michael Braungart
Before the Lights Go Out: conquering the energy crisis before it conquers us -- Maggie Koerth-Baker
EcoMind: changing the way we think, to create the world we want -- Frances Moore Lappé
Nuclear Roulette: the truth about the most dangerous energy source on Earth -- Gar Smith
Ecothrifty: cheaper, greener choices for a happier, healthier life -- Deborah Niemann
The Weather of the Future: heat waves, extreme storms, and other scenes from a climate-changed planet -- Heidi Cullen
Is Sustainability Still Possible? -- World Watch Institute
Family/Children Literacy
Consuming Kids documentary
RAISING KIDS WHO WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE - Helping Your Family Live with Integrity, Value Simplicity, and Care for Others -- Susan V. Vogt (Chicago: Loyola Press, 2002, $13.95)
KIDS CREATING CIRCLES OF PEACE -- Anne Marie Witchger Hansen and Susan V. Vogt (Parenting for Peace and Justice, 2000, $5)
JUST FAMILY NIGHTS- 60 Activities to Keep Your Family Together in a World Falling Apart -- Susan V. Vogt, editor (Elgin, IL, Brethren Press, 1994, $15.95)
CELEBRATING & BECOMING A HOLY FAMILY DVD of Susan and Jim Vogt's presentations (CC Video Productions, 2006, $20)
Living Life Outside the Rat Race -- SLW! blog
New Dream Community Action Kit: Guide to Sharing
Three Green Rats -- SLW! blog
SACRIFICE -- SLW! blog
WASTE -- SLW! blog
Deep Change: Metanoia Stories -- SLW! blog
Tyranny of Appearances -- SLW! blog
Addiction -- SLW! blog
A Vision of the Future -- SLW! blog
Get Satisfied -- PostConsumers
Jubilee Living -- Jubilee Economics blogs
Housing and Property -- Jubilee Economics blogs
Sandy's Incredible Shrinking Footprint -- Femida Handy and Carole Carpenter; illus. Adrianna Steele-Ozard
Get Out! 150 Easy Ways for Kids and Grown-Ups to Get into Nature and Build a Greener Future -- Judy Molland
Going Blue: a teen guide to saving our oceans, lakes, rivers & wetlands -- Cathryn Berger Kaye, Philippe Cousteau and EarthEcho International
A Kids' Guide to Hunger and Homelessness: How to Take Action!
A Kids' Guide to Climate Change and Global Warming: How to Take Action!
A Kids' Guide to Protecting and Caring for Animals: How to Take Action!
All by Cathryn Berger Kaye, grade 6 & up, Service Learning for Kids series
Financial Literacy
Justin Lewis: Media and Consumer Capitalism podcast; Beyond Consumer Capitalism: Media and the Limits to Imagination book; Consumerism and the Limits to Imagination video (seen on LinkTV).MONEY IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD: Six Essential Attitudes for followers of Christ -- Susan V. Vogt. (The Word Among Us Press, 2011, $11.96)
Simple Living Works! #4: New Year's Resolution
Simple Living Works! #5: Money
Shopping: Christian Explorations of Daily Living -- Michelle A. Gonzalez
Frugillionaire: 500 Fabulous Ways to Live Richly and Save a Fortune -- Francine Jay. big and grow rich.
Faith And Money Guide -- FaithAndMoneyNetwork.org, especially writing your Money Autobiography
The New Frugality: how to consume less, save more, and live better -- Chris Farrell
The Cheapskate Next Door: the surprising secrets of Americans living happily below their means -- Jeff Yeager
Radical Homemakers: reclaiming domesticity from a consumer culture -- Shannon Hayes
What's Mine is yOurs: the rise of collaborative consumption -- Rachel Botsman
Food, Water, Land and Agriculture Literacy
Food and Water -- Jubilee Economics blogsRebuilding the Foodshed -- Philip Ackerman-Leist
Land Use -- Jubilee Economics blogs
Animal Industrial Complex -- David Nibert: Alternative Radio Podcast
Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat -- Temra Costa
Blessing the Hands That Feed Us -- Vicki Robin, co-author of Your Money or Your Life
Mark Rasmussen: The Legacy of Aldo Leopold -- TheCommonGoodPodcast, episodes 43-44
Drinking Water: a history -- James Salzman
Genetic Roulette: the gamble of our lives DVD [GMO crops]
Foodopoly: the battle over the future of food and farming in America -- Wenonah Hauter
Folks, This Ain't Normal: a farmer's advice for happier hens, healthier people, and a better world -- Joel Salatin
Diet for a Hot Planet: the climate crisis at the end of your fork and what you can do about it -- Anna Lappe'
The Food Matters Cookbook: 500 revolutionary recipes for better living -- Mark Bittman
A River of Waste: the hazardous truth about factory farms -- DVD
Happiness Literacy
NEW-6/16-Stuff-ocation: Why We've Had Enough of STUFF and Need EXPERIENCE More Than Ever by James Wallman. Although the message is profound, the design of the book, except for some clever subheadlines, is really boring.The Myths of Happiness: what should make you happy but doesn't, what shouldn't make you happy, but does -- Sonja Lyubomirsky
Shiny Objects: why we spend money we don't have in search of happiness we can't buy -- James A. Roberts
John De Graaf: Affluenza and Happiness -- TheCommonGoodPodcast, episodes 39-40.
What's the Economy for, Anyway? Why it's time to stop chasing growth and start pursuing happiness -- John De Graaf (producer and author of Affluenza) and David K. Batker
Health/Medical Literacy
Just GREEN It! Simple Swaps to Save the Planet and Your Health -- Ron and Lisa Beres, founders of GreenNest.com
Deadly Monopolies: the shocking corporate takeover of life itself, and the consequences for your health and our medical future -- Harriet A. Washington
Living Downstream: an ecologist's personal investigation of cancer and the environment -- Sandra Steingraber
Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the climate crisis threatens our health and what we can do about it -- Paul R. Epstein, MD, and Dan Ferber
Dodging the toxic bullet: how to protect yourself from everyday environmental health hazards -- David R. Boyd
Deadly Spin: an insurance company insider speaks out on how corporate PR is killing health care and deceiving Americans -- Wendell Potter
Historical Literacy
The Untold History of the United States -- Oliver Stone
News for All the People: the epic story of race and the American media -- Juan González and Joseph Torres
Media Literacy
Simple Living 101: Jerry's Excellent Adventure - social mediaFrontline: Generation Like (PBS) - social media marketing
Media & Consumer Capitalism -- Justin Lewis: podcast, video, book
The Joy of Podcasts -- SLW! blog
Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy -- Martin Lindstrom and Paco Underhill (Feb 2, 2010)
Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy -- Martin Lindstrom (Sep 20, 2011) [audiobook]
How Many HITS for You Today? (blog)
The Filter Bubble: what the Internet is hiding from you -- Eli Pariser
Social Media Supplement, Simple living 101 -- Jerry's Excellent Adventure (SLW! Podcast Ep. 12)
Social Media Gospel -- Meredith Gould
Organizing/Decluttering/Minimalism Literacy
NEW-5/16-Organize His Way: A Christ-Centered Approach to Organizing Your Life by Eileen Koff, CPO (Certified Professional Organizer), available at EileenKoffMinistries.comNEW-5/16-The Minimalists--podcast, books
NEW-5/16-Becoming Minimalist -- blog, classes by Joshua Becker
NEW-5/16-Smart and Simple Matters -- blog, classes, network by Joel Zaslofsky // SLW! Podcast #40
Peace/War/Militarism/Empire Literacy
The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program by Jeremy Scahill and the Staff of The Intercept--exquisitely designed with charts, pull quotes and other graphic elements!
The End of War: how waging peace can save humanity, our planet and our future -- Paul K. Chappell
The Goldstone Report: The legacy of the landmark investigation of the Gaza conflict -- Adam Horowitz, Lizzy Ratner, Philip Weiss
Half the Sky: turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide -- Nicholas D. Kristof
War Is Not Over When It's Over: women speak out from the ruins of war -- Ann Jones
Dismantling the Empire: America's last best hope -- Chalmers A. Johnson
Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War -- Andrew J. Bacevich
Political Literacy
Slow Democracy -- Susan Clark: Alternative Radio Program #CLAS001. Recorded in Saratoga Springs, NY on March 18, 2013. Hear an audio sample at AlternativeRadio.org, but no link to this specific complete podcast. You may either buy the CD ($14) or MP3 ($4) of this speech there or subscribe to the FREE podcast series (on iTunes, for example).Third World America: how our politicians are abandoning the middle class and betraying the American dream -- Arianna Huffington
Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country -- Thom Hartmann
The No-Nonsense Guide to Green Politics -- Derek Wall
Spying on Democracy: government surveillance, corporate power, and public resistance -- Heidi Boghosian
Dollarocracy: how the money-and-media election complex is destroying America -- John Nichols
Transcending Greedy Money: interreligious solidarity for just relations -- Ulrich Duchrow
Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: how to steal an election in 9 easy steps -- Greg Palast
Fifteen Steps to Corporate Feudalism: how the rich convinced America's middle class to eliminate themselves: from Ronald Reagan to the Tea Party Movement -- Dennis Marker
The Price of Inequality -- Joseph E. Stiglitz
Republic, Lost: how money corrupts Congress--and a plan to stop it -- Lawrence Lessig
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt -- Chris Hedges
Share or Die: voices of the get lost generation in the age of crisis -- Malcolm Harris, editor, with Neal Gorenflo
Predator Nation: corporate criminals, political corruption, and the hijacking of America -- Charles Ferguson
Occupying Wall Street: the inside story of an action that changed America -- Writers for the 99%
Rebuild the Dream -- Van Jones
While America Sleeps: a wake-up call for the post-9/11 era -- Russ Feingold
The Short American Century: a postmortem -- Andrew J. Bacevich, editor
Getting Steamed to Overcome Corporatism: Build It Together to Win -- Ralph Nader
Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in Without Going Crazy -- Joanna Macy
With Liberty and Justice for Some: how the law is used to destroy equality and protect the powerful -- Glenn Greenwald
Winner-Take-All Politics: how Washington made the rich richer - and turned its back on the middle class -- Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson
The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Surveillance -- Robin Tudge
Griftopia: bubble machines, vampire squids, and the long con that is breaking America -- Matt Taibbi
C Street: The Fundamentalists Threat to American Democracy -- Jeff Sharlet
Colorblind: the rise of post-racial politics and the retreat from racial equity -- Tim Wise
The Crime of Our Time: why Wall Street is not too big to jail -- Danny Schechter
Spiritual/Faith Literacy
NEW-5/16-Sabbath as Resistance: Saying NO to the CULTURE of NOW by Walter Brueggemann. The basis for SLW! Podcast #69 and The Common Good Podcast #72Spirituality -- Jubilee Economics blogs
Biblical Perspective -- Jubilee Economics blogs
Renovare' Simplicity Podcast -- Dallas Willard and Richard Foster
Occupy Spirituality: a radical vision for a new generation -- Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox; afterword by Lama Surya Das
Resisting Structural Evil: love as ecological-economic vocation -- Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda
#OccupytheBible: what Jesus really said (and did) about money and power -- Susan Thistlethwaite
Red Letter Revolution: what if Jesus really meant what he said? -- Shane Claiborne and Tony Campolo
I Am DVD, and Happy DVD -- Tom Shadyac
Sex, Mom, and God: how the Bible's strange take on sex led to crazy politics, and how I learned to love women (and Jesus) anyway -- Frank Schaeffer
Hope on a tightrope: words & wisdom -- Cornel West
Christians and the Common Good: how faith intersects with public life -- Charles Gutenson
Eternal Life: a New Vision : beyond religion, beyond theism, beyond heaven and hell -- John Shelby Spong
Divine Rebels: American Christian activists for social justice -- Deena Guzder
The Future: Dismal or Reborn? -- Jubilee Economics blog and podcast
Time and Work Literacy
The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline Of Leisure -- Juliet Schor
General
The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture (1985/2007) by David Shi
BLESSED BY LESS: Clearing Your Life of Clutter by Living Lightly -- Susan V. Vogt. (Loyola Press, 2013, $13.95)
Sustainable Happiness: Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference Edited by Sarah van Gelder and the staff of YES! Magazine; Paperback, 168 pages; List Price: $16.95. YES! Price: $14.95
The Circle of Simplicity: Return to the Good Life -- Cecile Andrews (1998)
Slow is Beautiful: New Visions of Community, Leisure and Joie de Vivre -- Cecile Andrews (2006)
Less is More: Embracing Simplicity for a Healthy Planet, a Caring Economy and Lasting Happiness -- Cecile Andrews (2009)
Simple Living Alternative Daily Calendar for Any Year -- inspiration and action
Champions of Simple Living Today -- SLW! blog and podcast series
Another Way of Seeing: Essays on Transforming Law, Politics and Culture -- Peter Gabel
Simple Enough: A Companion for the Journey -- Bob Sitze
Courage to Think Differently -- George Johnson
NorthWestEarthInstitute.org -- group study guides on many of the above topics
Getting a Grip 2: clarity, creativity, and courage for the world we really want -- Frances Moore Lappe'
The World as It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress -- Chris Hedges
All That We Share -- a Field Guide to the Commons: how to save the economy, the environment, the Internet, democracy, our communities, and everything else that belongs to all of us -- Jay WallJasper
Death of the Liberal Class -- Chris Hedges
Authentic Patriotism: Restoring America's Founding Ideals Through Selfless Action -- Stephen P. Kiernan
Living Room Revolution: A Handbook for Conversation, Community and the Common Good -- Cecile Andrews
Living More with Less, 30th Anniversary Edition -- Valerie Weaver-Zercher
Choose Justice DVD with extensive conversation guide -- Tony Campolo and Shane Claiborne
Many More Articles: Non-seasonal
Many More Articles: Advent/Christmas
Many More Articles: Lent/Easter
Many More Articles: Other Seasons
Page updated 2 June 2016
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