Back to Basics & Personal Pages
An experiment in owning less and exploring more.
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 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.
Escape the 9 to 5 life, anywhere.
Nature, gardening and sustainable community website filled with feature articles!
A website dedicated to our cordwood building adventure and living a more self-sufficient lifestyle.
Online resource for learning all about the practical arts of simple, self-sufficient living!
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.
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.
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, …)
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?
Books on Simple Living
Linda Breen Pierce’s books on simple living.
Cheap/Simple House Plans
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.
Consuming Less
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.
Education on Simple Living
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
Frugality Tips for Simple Living
A personal finance blog focusing on ordinary people dealing with unprecedented levels of debt.
You’ll find here information on how any family can save money. Literally 100s of dollars can be saved monthly around your home using simple techniques and changing habits with little change in lifestyle.
Everything imaginable for the do-it-yourselfer for home, car, garden, …
Living better for less.
How to get or stay out of debt, also includes a good doses of psychological aspects. Monthly newsletter.
Some useful tips.
Free newsletter, many links to discount offers, tips.
Tipz Time has 1270 household tips & craft ideas for your home.
“Save money in an Earth-friendly manner”. Many solutions brought are rather technological than “simple”.
Gandhi, Apostle of Simple Living
Development and environmental issues, eco-Gandhi, the ecology of terrorism.
This is the place where Gandhi spent the last 12 years of his life in voluntary poverty and simplicity.
His life, work & philosophy. Includes: books, articles, cd’s, multimedia, video clips, quotations, student projects,….
Gandhi’s philosophy, biography, photographs, FAQ’s, books, current news, discussion group, ….
J. Krishnamurti
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.
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
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.
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.
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
Magazines on Simple Living
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, …
Practical ideas for self-reliant living.
Price Comparison
We provide the most accurate and comprehensive price search of UK online bookshops on the web, currently searching 15 sites.
Simple Life Blogs
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.
Simple Life Products
Quality products for simple living, preparedness & outdoors.
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,…
Simple Living
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You may be surprised at how much your car is worth. Junk cars are worth more than scrap, your car has lots of components that add significant value.
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Helping you create a saner, simpler life.
A Ph.D. child and family psychologist with 3 children tries out some of the latest parenting ideas (green, educational, simple living, psychological, exercise-related) at home.
Your guide to living a clean, green life and maintaining your organic home.
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.
Simple living philosophy – Changing lifestyle – Career Changes
Articles, forum, products, newsletter,….
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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.
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.
” 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.
We help individuals act on their deepest values– through educational programs that include publications, presentations, workshops, gatherings, coaching groups, and individual consultations and referrals.
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.
A search for simple and ecologically sane living. An interesting case of returning to the forest. Good on-site discussions.
We are a friendly community focused on sustainability, permaculture, organic gardening, backyard livestock, simple living and stepping lightly on the planet. If youre interested in a simple sustainable lifestyle then youre in the right place; there are fellow travellers here.
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.