2017

In This Issue:

• SLW! Podcast #96-97 -- Shane Claiborne author of the classic "Irresistible Revolution" and more recently "Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It's Killing Us"
• SLW! Podcast #95 -- Peter Sawtell author of Eco-Justice Ministries (6/15) [PREVIEW] // Previous Podcasts
• SLW! Podcast #94 -- Iowa Senator Rob Hoog author of America's Climate Century (6/1) // Previous Podcast
• Banishing "Fake News" // Simpler Living SANITY // I Buy Blue //
• Simpler Living Daily Nudges for JULY
• Relish These QUOTES // ART //
• What Others Are Doing - So Much Help!
• More!

What's NOW with SLW!

• SLW! Podcast #95 -- Peter Sawtell of Eco-Justice Ministries (6/15)
• SLW! Podcast #94: Iowa State Senator Rob Hogg, author of America's Climate Century. Despite current backwards government, he shares positive vision.
• Banishing Fake News: We changed our long-standing 'Alternate Celebrations' to 'Non-Conform-Freely Celebrations' because the terms 'alternate' and 'alternative' had been compromised by the new buzz words 'alternative facts' in DC. Larry Trover asked, 'Do you have any ideas for banishing fake news without abridging freedom of speech and freedom of the press?' Here's a dozen. READ MORE
• We've cancelled our vacation to Alaska and plan to see the fall colors in Vermont instead. More information about "I Buy Blue. Won't You Too?"
• SLW! Lent/Easter Resource Index
• Our Daily Simpler Living Nudge
  • What Is The NUDGE? / How It Works / How to GET It - Subscribe by sending NUDGE to SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com. / How to SHARE It / More About Holidays
  • 2016
  • September: Non-conform Freely
  • October: Sustenance
  • November: Unplug the Christmas Machine || Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?
  • December: Ten Tips for a Simpler, More Meaningful Christmas
  • 2017
  • January: The Five Life Standards of Voluntary Simplicity
  • February: Celebrating More Responsibly--Music/Worship; Preparing for Lent, Easter and Other Spring Festivals; Rites of Passage; What Is 'Enough'?
  • March: Global Justice--Weeks 1 & 2: Hunger & Homelessness || Week 3: Peace/Violence || Week 4: Advocacy/Boycotts
  • April: Earth Care--Chemicals/Waste, Consumables, etc.
  • May: Earth Care--4 R's

• SLW! Site Search Engine on Home Page Window #4
• Current activities of the Chief Activist
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• Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar - JULY
• Check out a few of SLW! thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They're all FREE. Visit Seasonal/Thematic Resource Index

What Others Are Doing - So Much Help!

• Alternative Radio Podcast (David Barsamian)
• Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)
  • 7 Reasons to Minimize Your Kitchen This Weekend (7/28)
  • 33 Articles of Clothing = 25,176 Different Outfits (7/24)
  • Inspiring Simplicity Reads (7/22)
  • How Digital And Physical Clutter Are More Similar Than You Think (7/10)
  • Inspiring Simplicity Reads (7/8)
  • If You Are Looking for Reasons to Be Happy, You’ll Probably Find Them (7/5)
  • Use This Accountability Trick To Consume Less (6/26)
  • Inspiring Simplicity Reads (6/24)
  • What To Do When a Distraction Becomes a Lifestyle (6/22)
  • How Space Influences What We Buy (6/15)
  • Four Lessons on Money I Learned After Making $1 Million (6/12)
  • NEW Simplify Magazine 001 (online quarterly)
  • Inspiring Simplicity Reads  (6/10)
  • All The Things I Want to Say About Money But Never Do (6/6)
• Center for a New American Dream: Kids Unbranded Action Kit
  • This month, we're challenging families to rethink their spring holiday traditions to be less wasteful while still honoring the meaning and spirit of the season. Why not give it a try yourself?
  • Have a More Fun, Less Stuff Easter: Easter doesn't have to be yet another commercialized, excessive celebration. You can still participate in all the fun without the waste and stress.
  • View all of our Simplify the Holidays resources.
  • They asked each family to buy a "normal week's worth of food". . . and the differences across cultures are striking.
  • Hope for a New(er) Dream
• The Common Good Podcast - Check out the new site.
  • Ep. 85: Actions for a Better World in a Time of Climate Change and U.S. Extremism -- Lee & Jerry (7/1) [Back-up]
  • Ep. 84: Patricia St. Onge: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Peoples Coming Together for OneEarth Living (6/1)
  • Ep. #83 -- Hazel Henderson, founder of Ethical Markets Media, and Series Creator and Co-Executive Producer of its TV series: Reforming Economies to Work for the Wellbeing of All Creatures (5/1)
  • Ep. 82 :: Kelly Siefken: How Sacramento Food Bank Distributes Food (Where the Food System Fails) and Helps Families Become Self-Sustaining
  • Ep. 81: Learning Resistance and Alternatives from Zapatistas and Jubilee's Mexico Partners
• Community Solutions: Founded in 1940, this non-profit organization advocates for small communities and the benefits of face-to-face relationships. Since 2003, the focus has been to provide resources for low-carbon living and to inspire collective, cooperative solutions in the face of peak energy and climate change.
• Creation Justice CAPSULES: News and Opportunities for Christians Doing Creation Justice
• E-The Environmental Magazine
• Earth Island Journal (Earth Island Institute): Latest News // Current Issue
• Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) NEW -- Made for These Times song for Ladies Sewing and Resistance Society
  • Lead sheet with melody line (downloadable PDF @ http://www.earthmama.org/)
  • Full lyrics (downloadable PDF @ http://www.earthmama.org/)
  • video (1 minute) of singing and sewing https://youtu.be/NQjZ4eeVTWs
  • video (6 minute) including wonderful short interviews with sewers explaining WHY they will be marching, some for the first time ever in this kind of activism. Song plays the last minute. https://youtu.be/IJiNZcYc428
  Blessings, Joyce (Earth Mama) //
Website, Songbooks, YouTube videos; Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumb drive, Standing on the Shoulders music video, sheet music offerings // SLW! Podcast
• Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive // SLW! Podcast // SLW! Podcast #66
  • Act and Pray in the Season of Creation (7/26)
  • The Forest and the Trees (7/21)
  • Rejecting Energy Dominance (7/14)
  • Imperatives for a New Moral Era (7/7)
  • Act Locally (6/30)
  • Eco-Justice and Health Care, 2017  (6/23)
  • Defending Earth Community (6/9)
  • There Is Still an Agreement (6/2)
  • The Pontiff vs. the President (5/28)
  • The Island of Plastic Junk (5/19)
  • God, Mammon and Methane (5/12)
  •  Churches and Political Speech (5/05)
• GodSpace (Christine Sine) // SLW! Podcast
• The Good Stuff your dose of what's working in the world from The Story of Stuff Project!
• Green Child eMagazine: Simplify for Happier, Calmer Kids
• The Homesteading Guide Daily: Exploring life off the grid.
• Jubilee Economics / Casa Jubileo (Lee Van Ham & Gerald Iversen)
  • Save the Carrizo Plain! (7/1)
  • Wes Howard-Brook on the Religion of Empire vs. the Religion of Creation in the Bible and Beyond (6/22)
  • Mixed News at King Rally (5/26)
  • A Bit of Encouragement from the Red Mid-West (4/18)
  • Centro Cultural Daniel Swanson (3/16)
  • A World Famous Prayer Opposes Superpowers, Urges Jubilee Living (3/11)
  • Mexico Blog (English/Spanish): Chiapas Delegation
• A Living Earth Economy (David Korten - Yes! Magazine): How we can make peace with nature, realize the value of living wealth, and return to local, self-organized rule.
• Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways - Finding good homes for no longer needed items rather than just putting them in the trash //SLW! Podcast // SLW! Podcast: Lent
  • Going Beyond My Bubble - Why and how I became motivated to reach out to those who voted differently than me
  • Procrastination Redeemed - 5 lessons learned from continuing last Lent's effort to declutter my work space and how the first step revealed unintended additional steps but also unexpected finds.
  • Political Conversations - an interruption - or was it
  • Updating My Life #1 - Files - How to evaluate what work files are worth keeping
  • Updating My Life #2 - Paper - Applying similar criteria to even more paper
  • Updating My Life #3 - Books - The mystery of how getting rid of some books required a bigger bookcase.
  • Letting Go of Health - Life interrupted: 9 lessons from a fall.
  Although I haven't written it yet, my mind has been working on the idea of "Letting Go of Hate." It's a follow up to my "Political Conversations" post. Stay tuned.

• 088 | Respond
• 087 | Balance
• 086 | Rich
• 085 | Shopping
• 084 | Nonline
• 083 | Rob
• 082 | Hoarding
• 081 | Bloodchocolate
• 080 | Family
• 079 | Collisions
• 078 | Q&A
• 077 | Seattle
• 076 | LiveWire
• 075 | Maine
• 074 | Boston
• 073 | Vermont
• 072 | Pittsburgh
• 071 | Media
• 070 | Clutter
• 069 | Values
• 068 | Overwhelm
• 067 | Happiness
• 066 | Things
• 065 | Tour
• Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things
• The Art of Letting Go: The Minimalists TEDX Talk (July, 2016)

• With U.S. Abdicating Leadership on Climate, Is Any World Leader Likely to Give This Speech? The Podium Waits (7/10)
• August 2 - A Special Day for Us and Earth. Know Why?
• Patricia St. Onge (Haudenosaune) on Standing Together since Standing Rock (6/12)
• Kiss the Ground and Affectionately Solve the Crisis of Too Much CO2 in Our Air
• Teaching Important Ecology Choices in Adult Forums at St. Paul's Cathedral (Episcopal), San Diego (5/13)
• Richard Anthony's Answers to 5 Questions Retrain Us for Zero Waste Living (5/5)
• Ecological Events Accelerate Despite Washington, D.C. (3/27)
• Three minute film:Ecology and Economics: Colleagues, Not Rivals
• Conversation about The OneEarth Project and Lee's book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us

• Other Simple Living and Ecology resources
• CatholicCreationCare.com - General resources
• CreationCareKids.com - Children's resources

• Environmental article archive, our Save the Planet hub, our Tree Hugging Center for Arbor Day and our favorite Earth Day quotes!
• Tallying the Environmental Movement's Wins and Losses in 2016
• Need vs. Want vs. Impact
• The Environmental Benefits of a Vegetarian Diet
• Lessons Learned from Prince

• God and stuff: Lawnmowers, banking boodle, and the Spirit's traffic in human affairs
• Signs of the Times (6/13)--Refugee Sunday: News, views, notes, and quotes