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What Can Offer You More Money, Power, Freedom, Greater Health and Can Help Save the World? Ask Roger Doiron.
Posted in collective action, community, consumerism, happiness, health, hope, shared abundance, simple living, sustainability, tagged happiness, lawns to gardens, living consciously, living well, tough times on December 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Why We Spend Money We Don’t Have in Search of Happiness We Can’t Buy
Posted in american pathology, consumerism, happiness, tagged consumerism, happiness, living consciously, materialism, true wealth on December 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
How over consumption is undermining the American dream and our happiness.
In Search of the Good LIfe
Posted in awe and wonder, consumerism, good life, happiness, simple living, simplicity, spirituality, wisdom on December 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What is the ‘good life’? The late comedian, George Burns, concluded that he had had a good life. Scott and Helen Nearing (homesteaders and social activists) maintained that they had lived the ‘good life’ too. George Burns life was vastly different from the Nearings and yet I suspect that those who knew them each well [...]
Theodore Roszack, our Toxic Culture, Boomers, and Hope
Posted in american pathology, collective action, community, consumerism, sustainability, therapy, transformation, tagged boomers, eco psychology, Hope, Theodore Roszac, therapists on September 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
He called on therapists such as myself in his book, “The Voice of the Earth: An Exploration of Ecopsychology,” and he called on boomers such as myself in his last book, “The Making of an Elder Culture: Reflections on the Future of America’s Most Audacious Generation,” to relaim the spirit that was very much alive in the sixties, the one that “questioned rather deeply the cultural standards of the time.
Happiness is Connected More to What We Do Then What We Have
Posted in consumerism, good life, happiness, money on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
According to research findings presented by Ryan Howell of San Francisco State University, ultimately it’s our experiences (what we do), not our possessions (what we have), that contribute most to our overall happiness. Hmmm… Science reinforcing wisdom… For more you can read: Study: Experiences Make us Happier Than Possessions Money = Happiness, But There’s a [...]
Sustainable Consumption
Posted in consumerism, meaning on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bill Seitz wrote in response to Umair Haque’s article, America’s Addiction and the New Economic’s of Strategy that, “maybe consumerism is a pathological vacuum-filler compensating for a lack of meaning/engagement/creativity…” I believe there is significant truth in Seitz’s statement. This economic crisis certainly calls for a life filled with far more meanginful activities, civic engagement, [...]
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