- Creating a richer life story through personal growth incentives - Forming higher-yield friendships and stronger bonds through social capital - Taking preventive healthcare measures to build up wellness reserves - Balancing the biological budget through "greener" currency - Caring for people, not just cars, to improve your neighborhood wealth index - Resolving that pesky carbon conundrum through energy savings - Celebrating instead of desecrating Cultural prosperity futures value the earth as a sacred place
In our age of hedge fund hysteria, "Simple Prosperity" is a new way of investing that will save our sanity and the planet.
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We were very excited to read this book. The move to Indiana and the desire to simplify made us eager for advice. Unfortunately this book provides only bad jokes. It told us what we already knew - real food, real people (as opposed to those on tv), real activities - this is what to spend time on. Unfortunately the many anecdotes about people who found that this was a great way to live were totally unhelpful. Deep down, there was no deep down. This book never made us really think. Fipp made us stop reading it after a few chapters and I continued to skim to find "the answer". But alas, the books end was just as boring as the beginning. The one star is because the intro is fine to read and will give you the gist. I even remember that we liked it and it made us excited for the book. Pick it up in a book store and read that instead of buying.
I read it pretty enthusiastically for the first half, finally getting tired of the preachiness and personal anecdotes. Just skimmed the rest of the book, hoping for (but not really finding) useful information to apply to a normal lifestyle. I was hoping it would be a life-changing read, which is how I read Jane Goodall's Harvest for Hope and Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. I do like the idea of the book and hope that super-consumers can make some life changes after reading it (if they pick it up at all).
Okay, I don't think I can make it through this one. I love the idea of the book, but the tone!! Arrgh! Insufferably superior! I get it, David Wann, you're way better than the rest of us mindless consumers. You're practically a god of anti-capitalism. We should all kiss your dumpster-dived boots. But this is not a user-friendly approach to living a simpler, more sustainable lifestyle - more like an environmentally conscious version of S&M. Getting beat over the head with recycling bins isn't my cup of tea.
I am not even halfway thru and I'm having a hard time. I feel like the author has repeated himself so many times already and there are tons of anecdotes that seem peripheral at best. I'm not sure I am going to be able to make it all the way thru the book
This had some great quotes and helpful info. I liked the general idea, but not so keen on the author's constant references to himself and the way he does things to live more greenly. I understand him wanting it to be sort of personal, but this was not a memoir. Him making it so personally was sort of like him giving a lot of advice rather than just some good examples to live more greemly. Otherwise overall good message.
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