Keyword: simplicity

The Art of Plant-Based Cheesemaking
How to Craft Real, Cultured, Non-Dairy Cheese
by Karen McAthy

Full colour photos throughout
As plant-based, dairy-free diets continue to expand in popularity for health and ethical reasons, cheese often becomes the "last hurdle."
Much of what passes for non-diary "cheese" lacks the quality and depth of …
related subjects: Food & Gardening

Homegrown & Handmade - 2nd Edition
A Practical Guide to More Self-reliant Living
by Deborah Niemann

Food recalls, dubious health claims, scary and shocking ingredients in health and beauty products. Our increasingly industrialized supply system is becoming more difficult to navigate, more frightening, and more frustrating, leaving us feeling stuck …
related subjects: Modern Homesteading and Farming

Grow Create Inspire
Crafting a Joyful Life of Beauty and Abundance
by Crystal Stevens

How can we embrace the absolute necessity of preserving and protecting the earth for our descendants, creating a future in which there is still clean water to drink, fresh air to breathe, and fresh, healthy food vital to human existence?
Grow Create …
related subjects: Education & Parenting

Better
The Everyday Art of Sustainable Living
by Nicole Caldwell

Intellectual arguments alone will not sway the dominant paradigm; to be motivated to create change, people must be moved. Art has the power to inform, influence, and inspire. The creative impulse can, quite literally, change the world.
Better …
related subjects: Conscious Community

The Joy of Missing Out
Finding Balance in a Wired World
by Christina Crook

There's no doubt that technology has overrun our lives. Over the past few decades, the world has embraced "progress" and we're living with the resultant clicking, beeping, anxiety-inducing frenzy. But a creative backlash is gathering steam, helping …
related subjects: Social Responsibility

Simply Imperfect
Revisiting the Wabi-Sabi House
by Robyn Griggs Lawrence

Wabi-sabi is about appreciating the simple and letting go of the superficial – the perfect antidote for a society in recovery from a decades-long consumerist binge. In 2004 The Wabi-Sabi House helped popularize this ancient Japanese philosophy in …
related subjects: Sustainable Building & Design

Less is More
Embracing Simplicity for a Healthy Planet, a Caring Economy and Lasting Happiness
by Cecile Andrews & Wanda Urbanska

Our obsessive pursuit of wealth isn't working -- people are afraid and anxious; we're destroying the planet, undermining happiness, and clinging to an unsustainable economy.
But there's another way. Less can be More. Throughout history wise people …
related subjects: Social Responsibility

Slow is Beautiful
New Visions of Community, Leisure, and Joie de Vivre
by Cecile Andrews

We're hammered, we're slammed, we're out of control. Happiness is on the decline in the most affluent country in the world and Americans are troubled by the destructiveness of a lifestyle devoted to money and status. Yet no-one seems to have a clue …
related subjects: Conscious Community