Voluntary Simplicity http://www.fishpond.com.au/Books/Voluntary-Simplicity-Samuel-Alexander/9780986453700

The Poetic Alternative to Consumer Culture

By Samuel Alexander

Table of Contents

Introduction, Samuel Alexander -- Voluntary Simplicity: The 'Middle Way' to Sustainability, Mark A. Burch -- A New Social Movement?, Amatai Etzioni -- Two Ways of Thinking About Money, Jerome Segal -- What is Affluenza?, Clive Hamilton & Richard Denniss -- The Conundrum of Consumption, Alan Durning -- The Value of Voluntary Simplicity, Richard B. Gregg -- Less is More, Philip Cafaro -- Building the Case for Global Living, Jim Merkel -- Voluntary Simplicity, Duane Elgin And Arnold Mitchell -- Thoreau's Alternative Economics, Philip Cafaro -- Why Simplify?, Mark A. Burch -- Sharing the Earth, Jim Merkel -- The Downshifters, Clive Hamilton & Richard Denniss -- Fourteen A Culture of Permanence, Alan Durning -- Simplicity, Community, and Private Land, Eric T. Freyfogle -- The New Politics of Consumption, Juliet Schor -- Political Prescriptions, John de Graaf -- Extending the Movement, Mary Grigsby -- Transcendental Simplicity, David E. Shi -- 'Economy' from Walden, Henry David Thoreau -- Meditations On Simplicity, Samuel Alexander -- Appendix i Manifesto of the Life Poets' Simplicity Collective -- Appendix ii Peaceful Acts of Opposition -- Appendix iii Declaration on Degrowth

About the Author

Samuel Alexander is a sessional lecturer and doctoral student at the University of Melbourne, Law School. Living simply and happily in a small hut that he built himself using mostly abandoned material, he spends his time quietly planning, with youthful ambition, the non-violent erasure of consumer culture.