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2023.
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When the pandemic hit in 2020, flour and vegetable seeds flew off the shelves. But homesteader and entrepreneur Jill Winger believes these longings for sourdough bread and fresh veggies are more than a trend. As our society races toward progress, we've left something important behind. We are more connected than ever before, yet we re still feeling unfulfilled. In Old-Fashioned on Purpose, Winger shows how simplifying our lives and adopting retro skills...
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c2011
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Burning Man is the premier countercultural event of modern times, growing over 25 years from a strange San Francisco beach party into an experimental city of 50,000 colorful souls in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, which burns brightly for a week before dissolving into dusty memories and changed lives. Longtime newspaper journalist Steven T. Jones embedded himself in this blossoming culture starting in 2004, a dispiriting year for American politics but...
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Here, Chris Guillebeau shows you how to lead a life of adventure, meaning and purpose--and earn a good living. Still in his early thirties, Chris has traveled around the world--and yet he's never held a "real job" or earned a regular paycheck. Rather, he has a genius for turning ideas into income, and he uses what he earns both to support his life of adventure and to give back. In preparing to write this book, Chris identified 1,500 individuals who...
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A work of immersive journalism steeped in a distinctively American social history and sparked by a personal quest, [this book] traces the search for the simple life through the stories of three families of new pioneers and what inspired each of them to look for-- or create-- a better existence. Captivating and clear-eyed, it dares us to imagine what a sustainable, ethical, authentic future might actually look like.--.
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Pub. Date
c2009
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IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 7
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Former vice president Al Gore helps children understand the underlying causes of the climate crisis that are threatening the global environment at the start of the twenty-first century and explains what children can do to help reverse the damage.
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[2009]
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"In 'Super Natural Home', Beth shows you how small lifestyle shifts can make a big difference in your health and well-being. She shares the truth about what goes in and on your body and what surrounds you every day, helping you transform your home and lifestyle so you can live clean in a toxic world. This practical guide offers page after page of tips for making the safest, healthiest choices in all kinds of goods, including cosmetics, personal care...
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2014
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Ever want to escape current day society, live closer to nature, take it slower and create a simpler life? Follow this self-described average American as he heads off into the wilds of Idaho to build his own off-grid cabin and finally live his childhood dream. Remote living delivers all he hoped for... and so much more. The simple life may not be as simple as you think.
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2012.
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In 2000, Daniel Suelo left his life savings in a phone booth. He has lived without money - and with a newfound sense of freedom and security - ever since. This book is an account of how one man learned to live, sanely and happily, without earning, receiving, or spending a single cent.
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2005.
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Includes information on Afghanistan, Africa, animals, Asia, Australia, Bangladesh, beaches, bicycles, Brazil, cars, cellphones, children, China, climate change, computers, developing countries, discrimination, diseases, Egypt, Ethiopia, fair-trade products, farming, food, France, gardening, HIV/AIDS, homeless, housing, India, Internet, Japan, Kenya, Mozambique, Nepal, Pakistan, peace, poverty, recycling, schools, South Africa, Sudan, toxins, travel,...
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2023.
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Discover what it's really like to live and work full-time on the road in a camper van from eco-vanlifer and founder of the Diversify Vanlife movement, Noami Grevemberg.
Feeling dissatisfied with her office job and her "stationary home," in 2016 Noami Grevemberg took a bold step. She quit her job, sold her belongings, and set out in her 1985 VW Vanagon to pursue a life of simplicity and travel with her husband and German Shepherd by her side.
In her...
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Pub. Date
2012
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Discover the powerful, unique skills and qualities of Dorothy, the Wizard, and the other archetypes of mind, heart, and courage that live within each of us. Houston offers new understanding of the human condition, the importance of myth, and the critical nature of our role and how we can participate in the creation of a better world. It's time to uncover your inner hero and become the essential human you were always meant to be.
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[2019]
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Newly updated for a new audience of independent, out-of-the-bridal-box thinkers, Offbeat Bride is today's go-to source of support for couples who dare to walk off the beaten aisle Unenthused by a white wedding gown and bored by the hoopla of the Hollywood-style reception, Ariel Meadow Stallings found herself absolutely exhausted by -- and horribly distanced from -- the nuances of traditional nuptials. So, she chose the aisle less-traveled for her...