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General Simple Living
Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life that is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich by Duane Elgin
A Garden of Simplicity (article) by Duane Elgin
The Simple Living Guide: A Sourcebook for Less Stressful, More Joyful Living
Making a Home
Shelter for the Spirit Create Your Own Haven in a Hectic World by Victoria Moran
Sweeping Changes: Discovering the Joy of Zen in Everyday Tasks
Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House by Cheryl Mendelson
Laundry: The Home Comforts Book of Caring for Clothes and Linens by Cheryl Mendelson
Nourishing Ourselves
Mindful Eating
One Bowl: A Guide to Eating for Body and Spirit by Don Gerrard
Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life
Whole Foods, Plant-Based Eating
Main Street Vegan: Everything You Need to Know to Eat Healthfully and Live Compassionately in the Real World
The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World
Voices of the Food Revolution: You Can Heal Your Body and Your World with Food!
Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth Second Edition
Nourishing Wisdom: A Mind-Body Approach to Nutrition and Well-Being
Losing Weight
Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, Revised Edition
The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy, and Weight Loss
Creating Health
Dr. Neal Barnard’s Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes without Drugs
Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure
Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
The Hundred-Year Lie: How to Protect Yourself from the Chemicals that are Destroying Your Health by Randall Fitzgerald
Working
Work: How to Find Joy and Meaning in Each Hour of the Day
How to Survive Without a Salary: Learning How to Live the Conserver Lifestyle by Charles Long
Spending Money
Material World: A Global Family Portrait
Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence: Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
How to Survive Without a Salary: Learning How to Live the Conserver Lifestyle by Charles Long
The New Good Life: Living Better Than Ever in an Age of Less
Consuming Kids: Protecting Our Children from the Onslaught of Marketing & Advertising
Affluenza: How Overconsumption Is Killing Us – and How to Fight Back
Cultivating Time
In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed (Plus)
Taking Care of Ourselves
Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living (Shambhala Classics)
The Places that Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times (Shambhala Classics)
No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
Taking Care of Others
How to Love
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder
The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World as Your Child’s Classroom by Mary Griffith
Learning All the Time by John Holt
Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling by John Holt
Planting Seeds: Practicing Mindfulness with Children
Building Community
The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community
Stopping at Every Lemonade Stand: How to Create a Culture That Cares for Kids