Books relevant to Living Lightly on the Earth
"Don't it always seem to go that we don't know what we've got till it's gone;
they pave paradise and put up a parking lot..." Joni Mitchell
All of these books are as easily gotten from your closest library branch as from a bookstore. If you want to support the author financially, send a check to the author in care of the publishing company involved. Even a small check will benefit the author much more than the tiny percentage he or she receives from a book sale. Meanwhile, you'll be saving a tree and reading a copy that will be shared with many like-minded people. Such a deal...they pave paradise and put up a parking lot..." Joni Mitchell
Ishmael by Daniel
Quinn
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Voluntary Simplicity:
Toward a Way of Life that is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich by Duane Elgin
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Voluntary Simplicity:
Toward a Way of Life that is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich by Duane Elgin ***Browse some excerpts...
The Table Where Rich People Sit
(for children and all ages) by Byrd Baylor and Peter Parnall. This is about a teenager who's ashamed of her family's frugal lifestyle. So the family sits down to calculate the real worth of their lifestyle.

In Our Face: Impolite Essays On Humanity's War Against Our Children and the Earth by John Enright, Ph.D
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Living More With Less by Doris Janzen Longacre
Lots of interesting perspectives.
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Clutter's Last Stand by Don Aslett
Filled with funny cartoon illustrations and amuzing examples of junk from the author's own life, but even richer, in the midst of the humor, with urgings that are profoundly thought-provoking.
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[The book's guarantee:] "You'll immediately lose 100 pounds without dieting :>"
Simplicity:Notes, Stories, and Exercises for Developing Unimaginable Wealth by Mark Burch.
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Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Tightwad Gazette by Amy Daczycyn
Simplify Your Life: 100 Ways to Slow Down and Enjoy the Things That Really Matter by Elaine St. James, 1994
Simplify Your Life: 100 Ways to Regain Peace and Nourish Your Soul by Elaine St. James, 1995
Why Things Bite Back:Technololgy and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences by Edward Tenner, 1966
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Living Lightly - Travels in Post-Consumer Society by Walter and Dorothy Schwartz, 1998
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