Simple living philosophy - Changing lifestyle |
| Northwest Earth
Institute |
NWEI offers self-guided discussion courses which are offered in workplaces, universities, homes, faith centers, neighborhoods, and community centers throughout North America. Each program encourages participants to explore values, attitudes, and actions through discussion with other people. |
Aussies Living Simply
Australia |
We are a friendly community focused on sustainability, permaculture, organic gardening, backyard livestock, simple living and stepping lightly on the planet. If you’re interested in a simple sustainable lifestyle then you’re in the right place; there are fellow travellers
here. |
| The Simple Living Network |
Providing tools and examples for those who are serious about learning to live a more conscious, simple, healthy and restorative lifestyle. |
| Seeds of Simplicity | Seeds of Simplicity is a national, nonprofit public membership organization working to help build a strong voice for voluntary simplicity as an authentic social justice and environmental movement. Organizing & educating for voluntary simplicity: tools for children, adults & community. |
| Simple and Sustainable Living | A search for simple and ecologically sane living. An interesting case of returning to the forest. Good on-site discussions. |
LowImpact Living Initiative
UK | LILI - A non-profit organization dedicated to helping protect the global environment by researching and promoting sustainable, low-impact alternatives to various aspects of everyday life. We believe that by incorporating these ideas into their lives, people can help protect the environment, improve their quality of life and save money. |
| Redefining Progress | "A nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy organization that seeks to ensure a more sustainable and socially equitable world for our children and our children's children. Working both within and beyond the traditional economic framework, RP generates and refines innovative policies and ideas that balance economic well-being, the environment, and social equity so that those living today and those who will come in the future can have a better quality of life." |
| Economic Freedom | Definition, degrees, philosophy, quotes. |
| FI Associates | Financial Integrity Associates (FIA) helps people create more personally fulfilling and ecologically sustainable lives by applying the program detailed in Your Money or Your Life to develop strategies for more effective use of their life energy and financial resources. Resources, study groups, ... |
| More Than Money | We help individuals act on their deepest values-- through educational programs that include publications, presentations, workshops, gatherings, coaching groups, and individual consultations and referrals. |
| The Center for a New American Dream | " A non-profit organization dedicated to helping Americans change the way they consume to improve quality of life, protect the environment, and promote social justice. Enough! -- a quarterly report on consumption, quality of life, and the environment. Kids and commercialism. How to get rid of junk mail. |
| Changing Course | If you want more than a job change, if you want more than a career change, if what you really desire is a meaningful life change… maybe it’s time to consider Changing Course. Resources, tools, perspective and inspiration to help you discover and follow your dreams of a more fulfilling work/life doing what you love. |
| Forum for Friends of Peoples close to Nature | A global movement of individuals and groups dedicated to the survival of Tribal peoples, in particular hunter-gatherers. These were the first and are the last societies on Earth to have a non -exploitative relationship with the natural world. Our task is to help them preserve their unique cultures from enforced assimilation, the ideologies of 'progress' and 'growth' and absorption in the global economy. |
| Frugal Living @ about.com | Articles, forum, products, newsletter,.... |
| Work to Live | Shows you how to beat the unwritten rules of work life, the stuff no one ever talks about that drives overwork, missed vacations, and you to wits end. Find out how to get more time for life and avoid being a gibbering stress case. |
| Best Places.net | Find easily the latest data and profiles of 3,000 cities, including cost of living/salary calculator, climate, crime, schools, ... |
Frugality Tips for Simple Living |
| James Dulley Columns | "Save money in an Earth-friendly manner". Many solutions brought are rather technological than "simple". |
| Tipz Time | Tipz Time has 1270 household tips & craft ideas for your home. |
| The Frugal Shopper | Free newsletter, many links to discount offers, tips. |
| RealSimple | Some useful tips. |
| Debt-Proof Living | How to get or stay out of debt, also includes a good doses of psychological aspects. Monthly newsletter. |
| The Dollar Stretcher | Living better for less. |
| DoItYourself.com | Everything imaginable for the do-it-yourselfer for home, car, garden, ... |
| SpartanSaving.com | You'll find here
information on how any family can save money. Literally 100’s of dollars can be saved monthly around your home using simple techniques and changing habits with little change in lifestyle. |
Simple Life Blogs |
| Zen Habits | Zen Habits
covers: achieving goals, productivity, being organized, GTD, motivation, eliminating debt, saving, getting a flat stomach, eating healthy, simplifying, living frugal, parenting, happiness, and successfully implementing good habits. |
Consuming Less |
| The Uniform Project | Starting May 2009, I have pledged to wear one dress for one year as an exercise in sustainable fashion. Every day I will reinvent the dress with layers, accessories and all kinds of accouterments, the majority of which will be vintage, hand-made, or hand-me-down goodies. |
Price Comparison |
DealTime.com
| DealTime is a free service that makes comparing products, prices & stores easier than ever before. |
BookBrain.co.uk
UK | We provide the most accurate and comprehensive price search of UK online bookshops on the web, currently searching 15 sites. |
Back to Basics & Personal Pages |
| Doug Fine |
Author of 'Farewell, my Subaru'. Can a regular American kick his addiction to oil and live more locally while still dancing to thumping subwoofers and not looking like a refugee from a Rainbow Gathering? |
| Homestead.org | Contains an entire resource directory of information on homesteading (self-sufficiency, small farming, sustainable agriculture, horticulture, permaculture, organic gardening, animal husbandry, etc.), wildlife management (ecology, conservation, stewardship, etc.), alternative and vernacular housing (straw bale, cob, cordwood, adobe, stuccoed sandbags, rammed earth, tire, earth-bermed, sod-roofed, thatch-roofed, underground, tree houses, houseboats, ...) |
| Path to Freedom | Read about the detailed account of a family of five living successfully the return to basics philosophy. The site includes produce results (3,300 pounds on 3,900 sq.ft in 11 months for 2002, results of solar cooking, and much much more. |
| Frog Holler | Since 1972 the main activities at Frog Holler have been
organic truck farming and
homesteading,
home schooling,
yoga and
music. The King family’s personal life style has centered around
natural foods,
ecological responsibility and healthy
physical, academic and spiritual practices. |
| Overcoming Consumerism | This site details ways that you can help defeat consumerism, save money, work less and lead a more satisfying and environmentally benign life while helping to restore the economic self-sufficiency of your community. |
| CountryLife.net | Online resource for learning all about the practical arts of simple, self-sufficient living! |
| Blackbird Ridge Homestead | These pages were inspired by my recent escape from the concrete jungle to a life living and working in the country. My goals are to be as self-sufficient as possible, living life the way I was raised - growing my own food, canning and preserving, and generally living by the tenets espoused by my Grandmother: "Use it up, wear it out, Make it do or do without" |
| Daycreek | A website dedicated to our cordwood building adventure and living a more self-sufficient lifestyle. |
| Backyard Nature Center | Nature, gardening and sustainable community website filled with feature articles! |
| The 4-Hour
Workweek | Escape the 9 to 5 life, anywhere. |
Cage Free Family
Blog | This is our story of our journey to find our true values and apply them to our lives. Watch us change everything about ourselves as we move from the six figure funded ties which bind the American middle class to Cage Free movement toward our true dreams; a farmstead funded healing community in the wild of Vermont. |
Adventures in Voluntary Simplicity
Blog | Follow along as a highly-paid lawyer gives up a life of material comfort and unencumbered excess, and embraces the beauty and freedom of simple happiness. |
This Tiny House
Blog | An experiment in owning less and exploring more. |
Education on Simple Living |
| Jackmountain Bushcraft | Jack Mountain Bushcraft teaches primitive and traditional skills and facilitates authentic outdoor experiences to help people reconnect with their ancestors and the Earth.
Great Links page to other outdoor schools |
J. Krishnamurti |
| Krishnamurti Foundation of America | Its mission is to “preserve and disseminate the teachings of Krishnamurti”. This work includes the operation of the Oak Grove School, the Foundation Business Office, the Krishnamurti Archives, the Krishnamurti Study Center, the Krishnamurti Library, and Krishnamurti Publications of America |
Krishnamurti Foundation Trust
UK | Established in 1968 as an educational charitable trust, the Foundation exists to preserve and make available Krishnamurti's teachings, as well as to support Brockwood Park School and the Krishnamurti Centre. |
Krishnamurti Foundation of India
India | Krishnamurti Foundation India (KFI) was set up in 1928 as a charitable institution by Krishnamurti under the name of The Rishi Valley Trust. The name was changed to the Foundation for New Education in 1953 and then to the Krishnamurti Foundation India in 1970. The activities of the Foundation include the preservation and dissemination of his teachings, the running of schools, environmental conservation, rural education and health care. |
Brockwood Park School
UK | Brockwood Park is a co-ed international residential school in the UK, valoring academic excellence and nurturing life skills. Founded in 1969 by J. Krishnamurti |
Journal of the Krishnamurti Schools
India | This is the official site of the Journal of Krishnamurti Schools. Articles in the Journal broadly cover the areas of philosophy and practice in education. |
Gandhi, Apostle of Simple Living |
| Mk Gandhi - Sarvodaya | Gandhi's philosophy, biography, photographs, FAQ's, books, current news, discussion group, .... |
| The Complete Site on Mahatma Gandhi | His life, work & philosophy. Includes: books, articles, cd's, multimedia, video clips, quotations, student projects,.... |
| Sevagram Ashram | This is the place where Gandhi spent the last 12 years of his life in voluntary poverty and simplicity. |
| Ecology from Gandhian Perspective | Development and environmental issues, eco-Gandhi, the ecology of terrorism. |
Magazines on Simple Living |
| Backwoods Home Magazine | Practical ideas for self-reliant living. |
| Countryside Magazine |
Countryside is the truly original country magazine (established 1917) serving
that branch of the Voluntary Simplicity movement seeking greater self-reliance
(homesteading), with emphasis on home food production. This includes gardening,
small-scale livestock, cooking, food preservation, resource conservation,
recycling, frugality, ... |
Books on Simple Living |
| The Simplicity Resource Guide | This list of over 150 books evolved from Linda Breen Pierce's research on simple living. It also includes books highly recommended by the simplicity study participants. The books are listed in alphabetical order by the author's last name. |
Simple Life Products |
| Lehman's | Source for old-fashioned, hard-to-find items such as pickle kegs, grain mills, wooden barrels, hand water pumps, and much, much more. Has also a good bookstore. Pre-electric lights, toys, heat- and cook stoves, appliances, pressure washers, hand washers,... |
| Homestead Products | Quality products for simple living, preparedness & outdoors. |
| Pro-Vision Supply | Kitchen, ranch, and preparedness supplies. |
Cheap/Simple House Plans |
| BaleWatch | Straw bale house plans |
| The NotSoBigHouse | Site based on the book by the same name. Underlying all of the chapters of this book is a request that we look more closely at ourselves, at how we want to live, at what inspires us, and at what our planet needs to return to balance. House plans for sale. |
| Simple Home | Make your dream home a reality by purchasing one of our efficiently designed house plans. Bookshop. Ideas and information about building affordably and living simply, the key ideas behind our simple house plans. |
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Creating Sanctuary
Kansas | Creating Sanctuary: body-mind-Soul. Online education and support for
soulful living. I can help you Simplify your life so that you may return to sanctuary, and truly live a
soulful life. |
| Environmental-Living.com | Your guide to living a clean, green life and maintaining your
organic home. |
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