Simplicity and Peak Oil - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

1 / 6
About This Presentation
Title:

Simplicity and Peak Oil

Description:

Frugality: high joy to stuff. Soulful: Outwardly simple, inwardly rich ... Balance: healthy harmony between all parts. What isn't simple living? Political. Easy ... – PowerPoint PPT presentation

Number of Views:28
Avg rating:3.0/5.0
Slides: 7
Provided by: vicki74
Category:
Tags: harmony | oil | peak | simplicity

less

Transcript and Presenter's Notes

Title: Simplicity and Peak Oil


1
Simplicity and Peak Oil
2
What is simple living?
  • Goldilocks enoughness
  • Frugality high joy to stuff
  • Soulful Outwardly simple, inwardly rich
  • Intentionality The examined life
  • Ecological Living well within the earths means
  • Justice Live simply that others may simply live
  • Economy FI
  • Balance healthy harmony between all parts

3
What isnt simple living?
  • Political
  • Easy
  • New
  • Every age
  • Puritans
  • Plain people amish, Brethren, Mennonites
  • Transcendentalists
  • Ladies Home Journal
  • Our era the communes to the relocalizers
  • every spiritual tradition
  • Socrates, Plato, Aristotle the golden mean
  • Stoics temperance
  • Diogenes ascetic primitivism
  • Virgil pastoral
  • Buddha
  • Jesus
  • Lao Tzu

4
Current Era of Simple Living
  • Books
  • Voluntary Simplicity
  • Graceful Simplicity
  • Radical Simplicity
  • Simplicity Circles
  • Choosing Simplicity
  • Affluenza

5
Simple Living and Peak Oil
  • Practitioners be the change you want to see in
    the world
  • Only small portion ready for peak oil message
  • Appeal to
  • Self reliance
  • Values based it is a values revolution
  • Solving systemic problems that bedevil
    simplifiers
  • Sickness care
  • Public consumption education, parks, libraries

6
Websites for Simple Living
  • www.newroadmap.org
  • www.yourmoneyoryourlife.org
  • www.simplicityforum.org
  • www.newdream.org
  • www.simpleliving.net
  • www.simplelivingamerica.org
Write a Comment
User Comments (0)
About PowerShow.com