#VoluntarySimplicity
An #economicsystem based on #community, not on rapacious #profit—that is what a vow to support #MotherEarth requires. That is a twenty-first century version of the monastic vow of #poverty. #NewMonasticism #VoluntarySimplicity bit.ly/4k1KUr6
July 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
“If the food doesn’t taste good,” says Blondin, “no matter how much you discount it or promote it or place it in people’s faces, they’re not going to want to eat it.”

Yes, and… taste is not natural or neutral. Our tastes need to change, too. #pottagecore #blanderisbetter #voluntarysimplicity
December 1, 2024 at 2:26 PM
New blog post:

Voluntary Simplicity - Duane Elgin

some thoughts on the #book #VoluntarySimplicity by #DuaneElgin, a book club read in March

"Use it up, wear it out, make do, or do without."
(New England Puritans)

#simplicity #minimalism #happiness #life #the-future

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Voluntary Simplicity – Duane Elgin :reading
Voluntary Simplicity by Duane Elgin was the March 2025 choice for the TimeCrafting Trust Book Club that I am a member of. I think it’s fair to say that it is unlikely that I would have read i…
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April 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Really, solutions are in hands: stopping (halving by 2030) the use of extracted resources, going #circular, #voluntarysimplicity, living with #enough.

What's your enough? Mine is not much. It's a process that took years at my individual level.

The main thing is to #choose to start the journey.
March 11, 2026 at 3:38 AM
I lose interest in cars the moment they get so wide that I can't reach over from the driver's seat and touch the passenger window without having to lean over. Navigating the world in an aircraft carrier is for navies.

#compactcars #smallcars #bikesarebetter #transit #voluntarysimplicity
June 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM