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Title: Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle
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| Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle by St. Martin's Griffin Charming, Delightful and Practical Read! |
I sat down and read Simple Prosperity for an hour and a half when I first got it and was thoroughly charmed and delighted. I love the way David Wann uses stories about his own and other peoples' experiences to illustrate the delights of Simple Prosperity. It is such a positive philosophy and so very earthwise. I didn't want to quit reading and go back to work. I think this book is the perfect antidote to the sense of malaise about the future that most of my friends and family have been expressing of late. The sensible, practical ideas for living a simplier, more responsible yet personally rewarding life are really appealing.
| | Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle by St. Martin's Griffin Should Be Required Reading | | This book should be required reading for every high school and college student and adult "book club" in America for the wealth of information it contains about real, profound, life-changing prosperity as opposed to the fleeting, instant gratification of the American consumption-driven lifestyle. It certainly won't change everyone's thinking -- advertisers are shrewd enough to see to that -- but it will plant the seeds of cognitive dissonance in a great many minds, and that's the kind of thing that can really cause a tipping-point kind of sea change. Highly recommended. | | Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle by St. Martin's Griffin Not Bad But | | I did like this book, truly. But as someone who isn't afflicted with Affluenza, who lives relatively simply currently, it didn't have as many good ideas as i would like. Many of the big ideas are geared toward homeowners and are not really applicable to apartment dwellers (i don't have a lawn i can grow food in or string a clothesline across, i have no control over what i get if one of my appliances goes out) and many of the smaller ideas i am already doing (buying CFL bulbs, going to the Farmer's Market). This is one that should be required reading for any city planner or someone looking to buy a home though. | | Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle by St. Martin's Griffin A mind-changing book | | Although I'm already a dedicated environmentalist and try my very best to live green, this book introduced me to the philosophical and psychological side of sustainable living. This isn't just a book with tips on how to save money by living green, its a book with tips on how to live a happier life by contecting with nature in your search for complete sustainablility. I'd highly recommend it to anyone who is willing to look at their lifestyle in a different way. | | Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle by St. Martin's Griffin Timely and True | I found myself nodding in agreeing with what David Wann wrote throughout Simple Prosperity: Finding Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle.
As Americans, our obsession on spending money to buy stuff began over one hundred years ago, during the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution created an abundance of cheap goods; advertisements taught us that buying stuff would make us happy and fulfilled.
Wann shows us that stuff doesn't make us happy and that the uber-abundance of goods is ruining the environment, particularly cheap, disposable goods, most of which are petroleum based.
Wann believes we must shed the beliefs that goods will make us happy. That we must shift our thinking from economic growth and consumption to become a knowledge based economy. This shift in thinking is not merely for the individuals' well-being, but for the survival of the planet.
The shift from a material dominated society to a spiritual, aesthetic and artistic culture is already happening, led by the Cultural Creatives. For more on the the Cultural Creatives, read: The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World (BTW: the CC's are now approximately 100 million strong; are you one?)
The author of the award winning book, Harmonious Environment: Beautify, Detoxify and Energize Your Life, Your Home and Your Planet | | Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle by St. Martin's Griffin Product Description | In his bestseller Affluenza, David Wann and his co-authors diagnosed the debilitating disease of over-consumption. In Simple Prosperity he shows readers how we can overcome this disease by investing in a variety of real wealth sources. To recapture a more abundant and sustainable lifestyle, try:
- Creating a richer life story through personal growth incentives
- Forming higher-yield friendships and stronger bonds through social capital
- Taking preventive healthcare measures to build up wellness reserves
- Balancing the biological budget through “greener” currency
- Caring for people, not just cars, to improve your neighborhood wealth index
- Resolving that pesky carbon conundrum through energy savings
- Celebrating instead of desecrating! Cultural prosperity futures value the earth as a sacred place
In our age of hedge fund hysteria, Simple Prosperity is a new way of investing that will save our sanity and the planet.
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Throwing Away Your Code
Nick Bradbury: “It's like trying to part with all those old mementos in your closet that you kept because they used to mean something to you.”
Me, I love deleting code even more than I love writing it. I think sometimes that I write code only for the pleasure of deleting it later.
Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:38:28 GMT
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AppleScript: Endianness, FREFs, ARGH!
atomicbird: “The fun started yesterday when I was testing an application, and I noticed this little gem in Xcode's debug console: CoreEndianFlipData: error -4940 returned for rsrc type FREF (id 128, length 7, native = no)”
Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:05:52 GMT
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MacSB Macworld dinner
MacSB Macworld dinner at Chaat Cafe (Tuesday, January 15, 2008) - Upcoming: “Join Mac small business developers for discussion of Apple software creation and running a small independent business. We will inevitably discuss the announcements from Steve Jobs' keynote and share tips for small, independent businesses.”
Also see Niall Kennedy’s post on the subject. (Niall is the organizer. Big thanks for putting this together.)
Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:27:41 GMT
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Software Kit for iPhone, iPod Touch Applications Set for February 2008
Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS: “While there was no consensus in the existing Mac developer community as to whether Apple would ever fully open up the iPhone platform for third-party applications—a view reinforced by Apple's early reluctance to make any commitment—Jobs stated quite clearly at the D: All Things Digital conference in May 2007 that Apple would open the iPhone up.”
Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:44:17 GMT
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Apple Nearing iPhone Third-Party Developer Announcement
Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS: “The bits and pieces I've heard are maddeningly non-specific: I don’t know, for instance, whether a full software developer’s kit (SDK) will be released; what tier of Apple Developer Connection (ADC) program member you need to be (if any); and how much of the innards would be unleashed.”
Normally I wouldn’t think much about a piece like this—but it’s by Glenn Fleishman and it’s published in TidBITS, so I am thinking that something might be happening.
Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:58:18 GMT
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iPhone's AJAX SDK: No, thank you.
Wil Shipley: “What I’m not willing to do is starting programming in AJAX, as Steve so gleefully announced we should do at the (non-nondisclosured) WWDC keynote this year.”
I’ve said before that if Wil didn’t exist, we’d have to invent him. Partly for posts like this one, which say what a bunch of people are thinking—only way funnier.
Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:19:01 GMT
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Gems for iPhone
~stevenf: “Here's a little Independence Day project I've been working on: Gems for iPhone!” I already played it—it’s fun. ;)
Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:14:31 GMT
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Buzz Andersen's 4th Annual WWDC Party
Buzz: “Come celebrate the start of the Apple Worldwide Developer’s conference, meet the people who make your favorite Mac software, listen to some great music, and enjoy some of the Mission District’s finest tacos, straight off the truck!”
I’m pleased to be able to say that the tacos are on NewsGator. ;)
Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:49:04 GMT
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Leopard delayed till October
Apple Statement: “While Leopard's features will be complete by then [WWDC], we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us. We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October.”
This is the sound of Gus hyperventilating. ;)
Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:50:11 GMT
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zep.pl
Steven Frank: "@words = ( 'hey', 'mama', 'said', 'the', 'way', 'you', 'move', 'gonna', 'make', 'sweat', 'groove' );"
Here in the lab: Black Dog achieved in 31 ZepMarks.
Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:22:57 GMT
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