Suggested Reading

In Context:

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Andrews, Cecil.
Less in More: Embracing Simplicity for a Healthy Planet, a Caring Economy and Lasting Happiness. Gabriola Island, BC; Canada: New Society Publishers, 2009.

Beavan, Colin.
No Impact Man: The Confessions of a Guilty Liberal. New York: Picador, 2010.

Browing, Dominique.
Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put on my Pajamas and Found Happiness. New York: Atlas, 2010.

Curtis, Adam.
The Century of the Self (BBC Documentary):
The Happiness Machines: link
The Engineering of Consent: link
There is a Policeman Inside link
Eight People Sipping Wine link

De Graaf, John, David Wann and Thomas H. Naylor.
Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2005.
Take Back Your Time, link

Dominquez, Joe and Vicki Robin.
Your Money or Your Life. New York: Penguin, 2008.

Elgin, Duane. V
Voluntary Simplicity. New York: Harper, 2010.

Hayes, Shannon.
Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture. Warnerville, N.Y.: Left to Write Press, 2010.

Hawken, Paul.
Blessed Unrest. New York: Viking, 2007.

Hunnicutt, Benjamin K. Kellogg’s Six-Hour Day.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996.

Korten, David.
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007.

When Corporations Rule the World. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2001.

Leonard, Annie.
The Story of Stuff, link

Levine, Judith.
Not Buying It: My Year without Shopping. New York: Free Press, 2007.

Loeb, Paul Rogat.
Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2010.

McKibben, Bill.
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet. New York: Times, 2010.

Merkel, Jim.
Radical Simplicity. Gabriola Island, BC; Canada: New Society Publishers, 2009.

Nearing, Scott.
The Making of a Radical. White River Jct., VT.: Chelsea Green, 2000.

The Good Life: How to Live Sanely and Simply in a Troubled World. New York: Schocken Books, 1970.

  • Note: any of the Scott Nearing materials are recommended reading. See enclosed supplemental Bibliography of Nearing’s works.

Nearing Podcasts:
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O’Shea, Tim.
Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything. link

Powers, William.
Twelve by Twelve: A One Room Cabin Off the Grid. Novato, CA: New World Library, 2010.

Robbins, John.
The New Good Life: Living Better than Ever in an Age of Less. New York: Ballantine, 2010.

Saltmarsh, John A.
Scott Nearing: The Making of a Homesteader. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008.

Schor, Juliet B.
The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need. New York: Harper Perennial, 1999.

The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure. New York: Basic Books, 1993.

Shuman, Michael.
The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses are Beating the Competition. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2007.

Thoreau, Henry David.
Walden: link

Civil Disobedience: link

Life without Principle: link

Walking: link

Wachtel, Paul.
The Poverty of Affluence. Gabriola Island, BC; Canada: New Society Publishers, 1989.

Wann, David.
Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2007.

Zinn, Howard.
A People’s History of the United States. New York: Harper Collins, 2003.