Abundant Simplicity

Discovering The Unhurried Rhythms Of Grace

BY JAN JOHNSON
Which activities give you energy and connect you with God? Simplicity is about choosing the engaging, relational life we were meant to live. It means shedding obligation and pretension. It means spending time energy & money in ways that help us become clear-headed. It means being intentional about what we do and how we live. These choices allow God's power to move through us and bless others as we have space to do good. In each chapter Jan Johnson provides small experiments with simplicity as well as questions for discussion or reflection to get you started. Come and discover the unhurried rhythms of grace.

IVP 2011 172 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Clear The Clutter

Make Space For Your Life

BY INGE VAN DER PLOEG
Whether you need to know how to organize your laundry, weekly shopping, office computer files or your ten-year backlog of family photographs, this book can help. Full of no-nonsense advice, practical exercises, handy tips and checklists, it can be used to address a specific problem or as an overview for clearing up your life. Sorting out your surroundings has other benefits, too: the practical experience of ordering a home or work space leads on naturally to rethinking other aspects of life. Clearing out the clutter really can make space for your life, and offer greater emotional and personal stability.

Floris Books 2004 125 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

Cradle To Cradle

Remaking The Way We Make Things

BY WILLIAM MCDONOUGH, MICHAEL BRAUNGART
A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism. Instead of "Reduce, reuse, recycle" why not design Products might so that, after their first useful life, they provide nourishment for something new-either as "biological nutrients" that safely re-enter the environment or as "technical nutrients" that circulate within closed-loop industrial cycles, without being "downcycled" into low-grade uses (as most "recyclables" now are).

North Point Press 2002 208 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Economy Of Love

Creating A Community Of Enough

BY SHANE CLAIBORNE
America thrives on a simple message that what we currently have is not enough. Not big enough, not nice enough, not fast or hip enough. The American Dream is based on wanting more. But does God s dream for the world look like the American Dream? In this five-week study, unpack what the patterns of God's kingdom look like compared to the patterns of our world. What is the value of enough? Economy of Love will challenge individuals to join in community, journeying together as they begin to consider a new standard of living a personal economic threshold oriented not around the size of a monthly paycheck, but around the value of enough.

House Studio 2010 118 PP. Paper

$12.99 (in stock)

Finding The Taproot Of Simplicity

A Movement Between Inner Knowledge And Outer Action - Php 400

BY FRANCES IRENE TABER
Subtitled " a movement between inner knowledge and outer action". This pamphlet explores the spiritual basis of Friends' testimony of simplicity. It looks at how it evolved from early Friends efforts to live in away that fostered spiritual richness in their lives and how it continues to speak today in the lives of those who seek to find not merely balance but wholeness to their inward and outward lives. A rich and fascinating essay to mark the pamphlet series reaching Four hundred!

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2009 28 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Hundred Dollar Holiday

The Case For A More Joyful Christmas

BY BILL MCKIBBEN
Many dread the approach of the holidays, a season that should be the most relaxed, intimate, joyful time of year. McKibben shows how to rethink Christmastime, so that our obsession with present-buying becomes less important than the many other possible traditions & celebrations. Working with their churches, Bill and his colleagues found people were hungry for a more joyful Christmas. Trying to limit the money they spent at Christmas to about $100 per family was a spur to creativity - and an anchor against the onslaught of commercials & catalogs that try to say Christmas is only Christmas if it's store-bought. McKibben shows us how to return to a simpler, more enjoyable holiday.

Simon and Schuster 1998 96 PP. Paper

$12.99 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Little Quaker Book Of De-clutter

BY ELLIE CALDWELL
The world needs much work from us as members of the Religious Society of Friends, to care for others and care for the earth. Our seas are polluted, our forests are disappearing, and refugees wander the earth. Poverty rates rise daily. We need health care, world care, earth care, and care of each other. And we can't do any of that without self care. Good care of ourselves is about physical health, but also about emotions, spirit, finances, relationships, work, and households. We cannot serve as we are needed without being fit inside and out & what about the health of our home environment?

SEYM 2010 48 PP. Paper

$6.00 (in stock)

Made From Scratch

Discovering The Pleasures Of A Handmade Life

BY JENNA WOGINRICH
Jenna Woginrich set out to build a more self-sufficient lifestyle by learning homesteading skills. She didn't own land or have much practical experience beyond a few forays into knitting and soap making... After moving to a rented farmhouse in Idaho, she learned to raise chickens, keep bees, and grow her own food. This is the story of her joyful, dramatic, and sometimes sorrowful journey toward self-reliance. Along the way, she learned that an abundance of enthusiasm and a willingness to experiment could make up for a lack of knowledge, and that reaching out to others for mentoring and guidance could help her reconnect with her community.

Storey 2008 184 PP. Cloth

$7.50 (in stock)

The Moneyless Man

A Year Of Freeconomic Living

BY MARK BOYLE
Imagine a year without spending even a dime. Former businessman Boyle did just that. Following his own strict rules, Boyle learned ingenious ways to eliminate his bills and flourish for free. Encountering seasonal foods, solar panels, skill-swapping schemes, cuttlefish toothpaste, and a cash-free Christmas, Boyle puts the fun into frugality and offers some great tips for economical (and environmentally friendly) living.

One World 2010 206 PP. Cloth

$22.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Neither Plain Nor Simple

New Perspectives On The Canterbury Shakers

BY DAVID STARBUCK
"Because the Shakers were a religious group that believed in communal living and celibacy, and because the group was founded in the 18th century, many people have assumed that they were cloistered, rigid or austere . . . But what Starbuck has found suggests that, while they adhered to their principles, their principles may have been different than what most people have commonly believed." - Valley News. From his 25 years of excavating at Canterbury Shaker Village, Starbuck's systematic mapping and inventory program for the entire settlement provide a new, welcome, completely different, and creative interpretation of the Shakers.

University Press of New England 2004 190 PP. Paper

$6.00 (in stock)

Nothing's Too Small To Make A Difference

Small Things You Can Do To Change Your Life & The World Around You

BY WANDA URBANSKA AND FRANK LEVERING
"This book is here to tell you that the problems are not too big and that one person is never too small. Nothing's Too Small to Make a Difference challenges the self-defeating assumption that one person - and one action - can't make a difference. .The suggestions this book offers are both proven and practical. In eight chapters - chapters dealing with time, money, work, the environment, children and the young, community life, health and food, and spiritual growth -Nothing's Too Small to Make a Difference gives you tools that have worked for us and others and can work for you." - the Authors

John F. Blair 2004 179 PP. Cloth

$21.95 (in stock)

Plan C

Community Survival Strategies For Peak Oil And Climate Change

BY PAT MURPHY
Concerns over climate change & energy depletion are increasing exponentially. Mainstream solutions still assume a panacea for our climate ills without seriously modifying our way of life. Plan C explores the risks in trying to continue our energy-intensive lifestyle & how each person's individual choices can dramatically reduce CO2 emissions. It offers specific strategies in the areas of food, transportation, & housing. One chapter analyzes Cuba's economic decimation when the USSR stopped oil exports in 1990 & provides a vision for a low-energy way of living. Plan C is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in a lower-energy, saner, sustainable lifestyle.

New Society Publishers 2008 304 PP. Paper

$19.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Radical Simplicity

Sustainable Lifestyles For Global Equity

BY JIM MERKEL
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.

New Society 2003 288 PP. Paper

$17.95 (in stock)

The Simple Living Guide

An Essential Sourcebook For Less Stressful, More Joyful Living

BY JANET LUHRS
Whether you are looking at small solutions for cutting down the stress in your life or taking the big leap toward the simpler life, this book can be your guide. Janet Luhrs, the nationally recognized founder and editor of the Simple Living Journal, brings together strategies, inspiration, resources, and real-life profiles of people who have slowed down, overcome obstacles, and created richer lives. As Janet Luhrs says, Simple living is about living deliberately. Simple living is not about austerity, or frugality, or income level. It's about being fully aware of why you are living your particular life, and knowing that life is one you have chosen thoughtfully.

Broadway Books 1997 444 PP. Paper

$24.95 (in stock)

Small Is Possible

Life In A Local Economy

BY LYLE ESTILL
In an era when incomprehensibly complex issues like Peak Oil and Climate Change dominate headlines, practical solutions at a local level can seem inadequate. In response, Lyle Estill's book introduces us to "hometown security," with this chronicle of a community's response to resource depletion in a fickle global economy. True stories, springing from Chatham County, NC, offer a positive counter balance to the bleakness of our age. This is the story of how one small town found actual solutions to actual problems. Unwilling to rely on government and wary of large corporations, residents discovered it's possible for a community to feed itself, fuel itself, heal itself & govern itself.

New Society 2008 240 PP. Paper

$17.95 (in stock)

Voluntary Simplicity

Toward A Way Of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich

BY DUANE ELGIN
Elgin offers a revised and updated version of his classic book about living with balance. By embracing the tenets of voluntary simplicity-frugal consumption, ecological awareness, and personal growth-people can change their lives-and in the process, may change the world.

William Morrow 1993 240 PP. Paper

$14.99 (out of stock but can be backordered)