
Radical Simplicity
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Imagine you are first in line at a potluck buffet. The spread includes not just food and water, but all the materials needed for shelter, clothing, healthcare, and education. How do you know how much to take? How much is enough to leave for your neighbors behind you - not just the six billion people, but the wildlife, and the as-yet-unborn?
In the face of looming ecological disaster, many people feel the need to change their own lifestyles as a tangible way of transforming our unsustainable culture. Radical Simplicity is the first book that guides the reader to a personal sustainability goal, then offers a process to monitor progress to a lifestyle that is equitable amongst all people, species, and generations. It employs three tools to help readers begin their customized journey to simplicity:
- It builds on steps from Your Money or Your Life so readers can design their own personal economics to save money, get free of debt, and align their work with their values.
- It uses refined tools from Our Ecological Footprint so readers can measure how much nature is needed to supply all they consume and absorb their waste.
- And by advocating time alone in wild nature, it opens readers to another reality with humanity as one species among many on a complex and inter-related planet.
Combining lyrical narrative, compassionate advocacy and absorbing science, Radical Simplicity is a practical, personal answer to 21st century challenges that will appeal as much to Cultural Creatives and students as to spiritual seekers, policy makers and sustainability professionals.
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- COVER PAGE
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I: JOURNEY TO SIMPLICITY
- CHAPTER 1: BUILDING THE CASE FOR GLOBAL LIVING
- INSIDE OURSELVES
- OUTSIDE OURSELVES
- WE HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE
- CHAPTER 2: A CULTURE OF GLOBAL LIVING
- MATERIAL
- NON-MATERIAL
- THREE SACRED COWS
- LOVABLE LIMITS
- CHAPTER 3: SUSTAINABILITY IN ACTION
- LEARNING FROM THE CHUMASH
- THE MUIR TRAIL
- LEARNING FROM KERALA
- THEORIES
- EXPERIENCES
- PRACTICAL LESSONS
- THE KANI
- LEAVING KERALA
- THE GLOBAL LIVING PROJECT
- THE FINDINGS
- PART II: THREE TOOLS
- CHAPTER 4: SHARING THE EARTH
- LIVING EQUITABLY
- INTER-SPECIES EQUITY
- INTER-HUMAN EQUITY
- INTER-GENERATIONAL EQUITY
- CHAPTER 5: GETTING STARTED
- THE SUSTAINABILITY SWEATSHOP
- PART ONE: SIMPLE GOAL SETTING
- PART TWO: TOUGH, SWEATY GOAL SETTING
- PART THREE: COOL-DOWN AND VISUALIZATION
- THREE TOOLS
- ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTING
- YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE
- LEARNING FROM NATURE
- WHOLE SYSTEMS
- CHAPTER 6: THE FIRST TOOL - ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTING
- FOOTPRINTING SCIENCE
- WHAT'S IN A FOOTPRINT?
- CALCULATING FOOTPRINTS
- HOW BIG IS MY FOOTPRINT?
- HOW BIG IS MY PAYCHECK?
- QUICK FOOTPRINT QUIZ
- THE FOOTPRINTING CALCULATOR
- FOOTPRINTING LANGUAGE
- USING THE CALCULATOR
- FINE-TUNING THE CALCULATOR
- MAKING COMPARISONS
- FOOTPRINTING
- WHAT YOU'LL NEED
- A FEW QUESTIONS
- STEP ONE: FLOWS
- STEP TWO: TAKING STOCK
- STEP THREE: DETERMINING YOUR FOOTPRINT
- CHAPTER 7: THE SECOND TOOL- YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE
- THE NINE STEPS OF YMOYL
- THE FAMILY OF FULFILLMENT CURVES
- FOUR QUALITIES AND SIX REALITIES OF "ENOUGHNESS
- WHY IS THIS TOOL SO TIMELY?
- THE MAKING OF A MOVEMENT
- SUCCESS STORIES
- WAYS TO USE THIS TOOL
- FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE
- PERIODIC FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE
- FLEXIBLE WORK
- A JOB YOU TRULY BELIEVE IN
- RESTORATIVE EMPLOYMENT
- THE FIRST FIVE STEPS
- STEP ONE: MAKING PEACE WITH THE PAST
- STEP TWO: BEING IN THE PRESENT
- STEP THREE:WHERE IS IT ALL GOING?
- STEP FOUR: THREE QUESTIONS THAT WILL TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE
- STEP FIVE: MAKING LIFE ENERGY VISIBLE
- CHAPTER 8: THE THIRD TOOL- LEARNING FROM NATURE
- COURTING THE WILD
- FEAR OF NATURE
- BEING IN NATURE
- SECRET SPOT
- WALKING MEDITATION
- OWL WALK
- VISION QUEST
- DOING IN NATURE
- DAY WALKS
- TRACKING
- OVERNIGHTS
- HUMAN-POWERED ACTIVITY
- HARVESTING WILD FOODS AND MEDICINES
- HARVESTING FUEL AND FIBER
- HARVESTING FERTILITY
- VEGETABLE GARDENING
- STUDYING NATURE
- WATERSHEDS
- IDENTIFICATION AND BEHAVIOR
- ECOLOGY
- BIOMIMICRY
- AT HOME IN NATURE
- PART III: INTEGRATION
- CHAPTER 9: APPLYING THE TOOLS
- GETTING STRATEGIC
- BIG-TICKET ITEMS
- LOW-HANGING FRUIT
- THE TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE TEST
- IMPROVING ENERGY EFFICIENCY
- EFFICIENCY'S CAUTION
- GUIDING PRINCIPLES
- GOOD OLD-FASHIONED PRINCIPLES
- PERMACULTURE PRINCIPLES
- SPIRITUAL PRINCIPLES
- CHAPTER 10: THE WISEACRE CHALLENGE
- WHO LIVES ON ONE WISEACRE?
- EXPERIENCING POVERTY
- WISEACRE SCENARIOS
- WISEACRE FOOD
- WISEACRE HOUSING
- WISEACRE TRANSPORTATION
- WISEACRE GOODS AND SERVICES
- WISEACRE STOCKS
- WISEACRE WASTES
- CHAPTER 11: THE ONE -HUNDRED -YEAR PLAN
- FREELY CHOOSING TO HAVE FEWER CHILDREN
- THE ONE-HUNDRED-YEAR PLAN
- WHO IS HAVING SMALL FAMILIES
- MAKING IT PERSONAL -THE OPTIONS
- SIMPLIFIED POPULATION MODEL
- ONE-CHILD FAMILIES
- TWO-CHILD FAMILIES
- THREE-CHILD FAMILIES
- FAMILY SIZE VERSUS WILD SPACE
- SUSTAINABILITY AND FAMILY SIZE
- CHAPTER TWELVE: TOWARD A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
- ENDNOTES
- APPENDIX A: FOOTPRINT FACTORS
- APPENDIX B: FOOTPRINTING WORKSHEETS
- APPENDIX C: YMOYL WORKSHEETS
- APPENDIX D:WISEACRE WORKSHEETS
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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