2017
Simple Living Works! Monthly Digest
Updated WeeklyNovember, 2017
In This Issue:
- SLW! Podcast #104-107 -- WHOSE Birthday Is It, Anyway? (11/1, 11/15, 12/1, 12/15) //
- SLW! Podcast #103 -- Kathy McGinnis of The Institute for Peace and Justice (10/15) //
- Banishing "Fake News" // Simpler Living SANITY // I Buy Blue //
- Simpler Living Daily Nudges for NOVEMBER
- Relish These QUOTES // ART //
- What Others Are Doing - So Much Help!
- More!
What's NOW with SLW!
- 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)
- Reflections on Black Friday Shopping (11/24)
- Choose Holiday Traditions That Serve You (11/19)
- Don’t Trade Your Passion Just to Gain the World (11/13)
- Let Go of What Was to Make Space for What Will Be (11/6)
- All The Reasons You Keep Hearing About Minimalism (10/31)
- Inspiring Simplicity Reads (10/28)
- Why Families Need Minimalism (10/21)
- Inspiring Simplicity Reads (10/14)
- Why Experiences Are Better Than Things (10/11)
- What I Learned About Minimalism in Poland (10/7)
- How to Make Good Moments Last Longer (10/2)
- Inspiring Simplicity Reads (9/30)
- 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 DreamÂ
- 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.
- All Simplify the Holidays resources
- The Common Good Podcast - Check out the new site.
- Ep. 88: Paul K. Chappell: Distinguishing Violence from Aggression in Living & Teaching Nonviolence (10/1)
- Ep. 87: Enrique Morones: Advocate for Migrants, Immigrants, and Keeping Borders Humane (9/1)
- 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
- Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive // SLW! Podcast // SLW! Podcast #66
- An Eco-Justice Thanksgiving (11/17)
- Thoughts and Prayers (11/10)
- God's Kin-dom and the Anthropocene (11/3)
- Four Strategies for Effective Action (10/27)
- Our Children's Trust (10/20)
- Save ANWR, Save the Climate (10/13)
- Persistent in Compassion and Justice (10/6)
- Not My Neighbor? (9/29)
- Secretary Zinke's Empty World (9/22)
- Deprivation or Opportunity (9/15)
- Is This the One? (9/8)
- Flooded Cities - Here and There, Now and Then (9/1)
- Parts per Trillion (8/25)
- Prayer for Times of Turmoil (8/18)
- Accepting North Korea (8/11)
- The Church and Ecocide (8/4)
- 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)
- Why Jubilee Works Inter-religiously and with Other Groups for Alternatives to the Capital Economy (11/14)
- Â Event: Inter-religious Critique of Capitalism
- Toward an Ecological Civilization (8/30)
- Jubilee Circles: What They’re Doing and How to Form One (8/29)
- Tolerate the Heat (8/28)
- Why World Peace Is Possible (8/25)
- 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)
- 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.