CONTENTS
Appendices 63
- Additional Resources 63
- Family Activities, Community Building, Celebrating: Advent & Christmas; Celebrating Year-round; Easter & Lent; Environment (Care of Creation); Media Literacy; Music/Worship 63
- Alternatives’ Simpler Living Community Network
(incorporating SLOW Down Network) 66 - Promotion 72
- SLOW Down Promotional Material 72
- Reaching Out Through the Media 74
- Coaching Groups on the Internet
- Reaching Out Through Social Media
- Graphics 2, 76
- Resource Index (original version) 7
Appendices
Almost all of the resources produced by Alternatives are free at SimpleLivingWork.org >> Archives. Please get books from other publishers recommended by Alternatives through your local public library or independent book store.Additional Resources
Family Activities, Community Building, Celebrating Christmas & Advent
Christmas Campaign Kit: plans and tools for a simpler, less commercialized celebration at home or church. 25 items.
The Christmas Game. Non-competitive, conversation game. Play it in the car, at home, with friends, relatives. Send it in Christmas letters. Give it as Sunday School gifts. Compact size fits in purse, coat, glove compartment, most envelopes. 16 pp.
Celebrating Year-round
The Anytime Game. Non-seasonal version of The Christmas Game. 20 pp.
Everyone Wins: Cooperative Games/Activities. 100 pp. $9.
The Book of New Family Traditions: How to Create Great Family Rituals for Holidays & Everyday. Meg Cox. Autographed! 128 pp. $13.
Lifestories. This board GAME helps build communication, enrich relationships and preserve traditions. Gently prodding questions encourage players of all ages to share personal stories and memories that will be treasured long after the game is over. $29.
365 Outdoor Activities / 365 TV-Free Activities:You Can Do with Your Child – Steve and Ruth Bennett. (ages 2 and up) 430 pp. each. $8 each.
Treasury of Celebrations: Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don’t Cost the Earth – Carolyn Pogue, compiler. Alternatives’ Treasury of Celebrations channels our desire to celebrate into activities that truly nourish the human spirit, express our solidarity with all the Earth’s people, and respect the environment. It helps us resist consumer pressures and celebrate in a more spiritually fulfilling, joyful way. If you are not satisfied with consumer-oriented celebrations, this big book of creative ideas is for you. 288 pp. $12 or free in the Archives.
Wedding Alternatives: A Guide to Planning Out-of-the-Ordinary Celebrations. When a couple is bombarded by consumer, cultural and family pressures to have the “perfect” wedding, their wedding can become a social event rather than a significant religious and personal celebration. As a three-hole punch format, the packet offers engaged couples, clergy and others involved in planning weddings practical advice and personal stories from people who chose to incorporate their values into their ceremony and celebrations. Included are ideas on vows, location, food, flowers, invitations and much more. English or Spanish: Nuestra Boda. Both versions free in the Archives.
Easter & Lent
Before & After Easter: Activities and Ideas for Lent to Pentecost – Debbie Trafton O’Neil; David LaRochelle, illustrator. Full color illustrations. 64 pp. $10.
Who’s Risen from the Dead, Anyway? Five sets of Reflections on the Gospel lessons and Activity Guides; Passover & Easter Seders; and a generous variety of bulletin inserts, posters and 40-day guides, including “Half the Stuff–Twice the Joy,” “12 Steps to a Simpler Life,” “At Least 10% for God’s Creation.” Available on “Simply the Best: Over 30 Years of Alternatives” CD-ROM or free in teh Archives
Environment (Care of Creation)
The Better World Handbook: From Good Intentions to Everyday Actions. Money, shopping, food, personal life, friends and family, community, home, work, media, politics, transportation, travel and organizations. Global challenges, seven foundations for a better world, a Better World Shopping Guide, a Top Ten List of Actions, wide range of follow-up resources. 300 pp. $19.
Responsible Purchasing for Faith Communities. $5
Media Literacy
The Plug-In Drug: Television, Computers, and Family Life: 25th Anniversary Edition / Completely Revised and Updated. Marie Winn’s landmark book about how children get hooked on TV. 350 pp. $14.
Music & Worship
©Creative Commons attribution, non-commercial, share-alike license (originally 2000, 2005, 2007 Alternatives for Simple Living)Sing Justice! Do Justice! A Collection of New Hymn and Song Texts to Familiar and New Tunes. Words and music come ready for personal or group use. book, $8; CD, $10, from Hymn Society of the US and Canada.
Worship Alternatives: Worship Aids and Art, CD-ROM or website Archives.
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