Simplicity and Peak Oil

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Simplicity and Peak Oil
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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

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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

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Current Era of Simple Living

• Books
• Voluntary Simplicity
• Graceful Simplicity
• Radical Simplicity
• Simplicity Circles
• Choosing Simplicity
• Affluenza

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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

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Websites for Simple Living

• www.newroadmap.org
• www.yourmoneyoryourlife.org
• www.simplicityforum.org
• www.newdream.org
• www.simpleliving.net
• www.simplelivingamerica.org