2017
Simple Living Works! Monthly Digest
Updated WeeklySeptember, 2017
In This Issue:
- In the 500th year of the Reformation SLW! Podcast #101 -- Paul K. Chappell of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
- In the 500th year of the Reformation SLW! Podcast #100 -- Reformation History Scholar and ELCA Bishop Guy Erwin
- SLW! Podcast #99 -- Order of Lutheran Franciscans
- Banishing "Fake News" // Simpler Living SANITY // I Buy Blue //
- Simpler Living Daily Nudges for SEPTEMBER
- Relish These QUOTES // ART //
- What Others Are Doing - So Much Help!
- More!
What's NOW with SLW!
- In the 500th year of the Reformation SLW! Podcast #100 -- Reformation History Scholar and ELCA Bishop Guy Erwin
- In the 500th year of the Reformation SLW! Podcast #99 -- Order of Lutheran Franciscans
- Banishing Fake News
- "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
- June
- July
- August
- September
- SLW! Site Search Engine on Home Page Window #4
- Current activities of the Chief Activist
- SLW! Blog Index | SLW! Podcast Index
- SUBSCRIBE to SLW! Podcast for free through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. Subscribe to SLW! Blog. Click "+Follow" at lower right of blog post, enter a name and email address. Welcome!
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar - SEPTEMBER
- 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!
I gladly pass along links from simple living bloggers, podcasters, coaches and others. Some faith-based, some not. You needn't read them all. Choose FIVE links -- including SLW! -- to investigate.- Alternative Radio Podcast (David Barsamian)
- Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)
- Seven 5-Minute Decluttering Projects You Can Accomplish Today (9/28)
- A Helpful Guide to Packing Lightly (8/18)
- Inspiring Simplicity Reads (9/16)
- “Does It Spark Joy?” Is the Wrong Decluttering Question (9/12)
- Finding Meaning and Inspiration in the Mundane (9/6)
- Inspiring Simplicity Reads (9/2)
- Get Uncluttered this Fall (8/25)
- Lessons Learned From Intentionally Letting Go (8/21)
- Inspiring Simplicity Reads (8/19)
- 5 Myths That Encourage Excess Spending (8/17)
- Simplifying After Tragedy Strikes (8/11)
- Reconsidering The Merits of Slow Acquisition (8/7)
- Inspiring Simplicity Reads (8/5)
- Center for a New American Dream
- Ideas to get more involved, both on an individual and a community level. From helping with hurricane relief efforts, to confronting racism in your community, there are plenty of ways to make a difference, with a couple pledges and challenges as well.
- NEW WAYS TO HELP
- Hurricane Relief: Another Way to Help. Did you know you can use SoKind to deliver the most-needed contributions – both material and non-material – to those who could use a helping hand?
- FIND OUT HOW
- Confronting Racism
Casey Williams, New Dream's Director of Operations and Outreach, makes the case for confronting racism through personal change, individual action, and community connection.READ MORE
PLEDGE - Yes to Waiting
The Wait Until 8th pledge empowers parents to rally together to delay giving children a smartphone until at least 8th grade. Research shows why kids are better off without the internet, social media, and games constantly at their fingertips.SIGN THE PLEDGE
WORKING THE DREAMCHALLENGEROUNDUP
Likable Links
+ The dis-ease of being busy & how to pause + Bookmark this: Simple Rules for Living + How to make positive changes stick + Americans under 25 are bringing a new era of tolerance + Well-being for people & the planet happens through "purpose in action"
Susan Salterberg InterviewSusan Salterberg, from Univ. of Northern Iowa’s Center for Energy & Environmental Education, spoke with us about her work guiding K-12 educators to create lessons for their students around consumption, well-being, and sustainability. READ MORE
Join the EcoChallenge
This October, the Northwest Earth Institute invites you to take on a personal sustainability challenge—and join thousands of other participants as they prove that small actions add up to real change—during the 2017 EcoChallenge.
- The Common Good Podcast - Check out the new site.
- Ep. 86: Walter Brueggemann on the Primal Power of Money & Possessions, part 2 (8/1)
- 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
Website, Songbooks, YouTube videos; Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumb drive, Standing on the Shoulders music video, sheet music offerings // SLW! Podcast