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On the Web
- Simple Living - An on-line book about one family's simple and sustainable-living lifestyle. Other pages include tips and inspiration for simple living, natural building, communities, the ecology and other topics.
- Simple Living Network - Sponsors a huge range of simple living resources as well as communities and books. A one-stop place for most subjects involving simplifying your own life.
- Simple Living Resource Guide - Resource guide for people interested in voluntary simplicity, simple living, and downsizing, maintained by the Pierce Simplicity Study.
- Live Simple - An E-book that sets out specific suggestions for simplifying possessions, home, daily routines, personal goals, and use of resources.
- Simple Living - Official site for series focusing on sustainability and simplicity. Includes overview, events, sponsors, and articles.
- Voluntary Simplicity Book Project Wiki - A wiki with information and resources about simple living. and establishing a global community which aims to write and publish a non-profit book on simple living.
- Simple Living America - Articles and community newsletter for Americans attempting to simplify their lives. Discusses health psychological benefits to living a more simplified lifestyle.
- Tabletop Homestead - Modern homesteading and simple living in southern Oklahoma.
- Mrs. D's Homestead - Articles and journal about homesteading, gardening, livestock, simple living. Offers homemade goat's milk soap, handcrafts, natural lotion bars, handmade rice bags.
- Family Homesteading Advocate - Simple living for the urban and rural homesteader.
Wikipedia Articles
- Simple living - Simple living (or voluntary simplicity) is a lifestyle in which individuals consciously choose to minimize the 'more-is-better' pursuit of wealth and consumption. Adherents choose simple living for a variety of reasons, including spirituality, health, increase in 'quality time' for family and friends, stress reduction, conservation, social justice ...
- Living document - A living document or dynamic document is a document which may be continually edited and updated by either a limited or unrestricted group. A simple example of a living document is an article in Wikipedia, in contrast to "dead" or "static" documents, such as an article in a single edition of the Encyclopædia Brittanica.
- Jesuit Volunteer Corps - ... who dedicate at least a year of their lives to community service working with the homeless, abused women and children, immigrants and refugees, the mentally ill, people with HIV/AIDS and other illnesses, the elderly, children, and other marginalized groups. Through retreats, a local formation team, and community living, volunteers are also immersed in the "four values" of JVC: spirituality, community, simple living, and social justice.
- The good life - The good life is an ambiguous term for the life that one would like to live. It has especially been used in regards to simple living in the memoirs of American back-to-the-landers, Helen and Scott Nearing.
- Eco-Communalism - Eco-Communalism is an environmental philosophy based on ideals of simple living, local economies, and self-sufficiency (often associated with the ideologies of socialism, communalism, and sustainability). Eco-communalists envision a future in which the economic system of capitalism is replaced with a global web of economically interdependent and interconnected small local communities.