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FOREWORD BY VICKI ROBIN ............................................ xi INTRODUCTION ..................................... ......... xvii PART I: JOURNEY TO SIMPLICITY ......................... 1 CHAPTER 1: BUILDING THE CASE FOR GLOBAL LIVING ............ 2 Inside Ourselves ........................... .................. 6 Outside Ourselves .......... ..... ........ ................... . 6 We Have No Other Choice ....... .................. ........ 9 CHAPTER 2: A CULTURE OF GLOBAL LIVING ..................... 11 Material ................................................. 12 Non-material ........................ ................... . 13 Three Sacred Cows ............ ....................... 13 Lovable Limits .................... ........................... 16 CHAPTER 3: SUSTAINABILITY IN ACTION ....................... 17 Learning from the Chumash ................................. 20 The Muir Trail .............................................. 22 Learning from Kerala .......................................... 26 "Theories ................................................33 Experiences .......................................... 35 Practical Lessons ...... .... ...... ..... ............. .. . . 36 The Kani ................................................. 39 Leaving Kerala ............................................ 41 The Global Living Project ................................... . 44 The Findings .............................................. .45 PART II: THREE TOOLS ................................... 51 CHAPTER 4: SHARING THE EARTH ............................. 52 Living Equitably .............................................. 54 Inter-species Equity .................... .................. . 54 Inter-human Equity ......................................... 58 Inter-generational Equity ........... ........................... 62 CHAPTER 5: GETTING STARTED ............................... 66 The Sustainability Sweatshop ................................. 67 Part One: Simple Goal Setting ............................ 67 Part Two: Tough, Sweaty Goal Setting ........................ 68 Part Three: Cool-down and Visualization ......................... 71 Three Tools ................... ............ ...... ....... . 72 Ecological Footprinting ..................................... 72 Your Money Or Your Life ................................. . 72 Learning From Nature .................................... 72 Whole Systems .............................................. 73 CHAPTER 6: THE FIRST TOOL - ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTING .... 75 Footprinting Science .......................................... 76 What's In a Footprint? ........................................ 77 Calculating Footprints ..................................... 81 How Big is My Footprint? ..................................... 83 How Big is My Paycheck? .................................. 83 Quick Footprint Quiz ..................... ... ... ..... 86 The Footprinting Calculator .. .. ...................... .. ....... 94 Footprinting Language .................................... . 95 Using the Calculator ....................................... 96 Fine-tuning the Calculator .............. ............. ..... 98 Making Comparisons ....................................... 98 Footprinting ................ ... ........ ........ ............ 110 What You'll Need .......... .. ...................... . 110 A Few Questions ........................... ............. . 111 Step One: Flows .......... ........ .......... .... ...... . 112 Step Two: Taking Stock ................................... 113 Step Three: Determining Your Footprint ..................... 122 CHAPTER 7: THE SECOND TOOL - YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE ..123 The Nine Steps of YMOYL ................ ....... ........ 124 The Family of Fulfillment Curves ..................... ...... 124 Four Qualities and Six Realities of "Enoughness" .............. 125 Why is this Tool so Timely? ................................. 127 The Making of a Movement .................................. 128 Success Stories .................................. ........... 130 Ways to Use This Tool ...................................... 131 Financial Independence .................................. 131 Periodic Financial Independence ......... ..... . .......... . 131 Flexible Work ................... ......................... 132 A Job You Truly Believe In? ................ .............. 132 Restorative Employment .................................... 132 The First Five Steps ................. ...................... 132 Step One: Making Peace with the Past ..................... 133 Step Two: Being in the Present .............................. 134 Step Three: Where is it All Going? .......................... 134 Step Four: Three Questions that will Transform Your Life ...... 135 Step Five: Making Life Energy Visible ........................ 136 CHAPTER 8: THE THIRD TOOL - LEARNING FROM NATURE .... 138 Courting the Wild ................... ...................... 138 Fear of Nature ......... .......... .................... 139 Being in Nature .......................................... 140 Secret Spot ...... . ................ ............. ......... 140 Walking Meditation ...................................... 141 Owl Walk ............................... . 141 Vision Quest ..............,.............. . ......... 141 Doing in Nature ............................................ . 142 Day Walks ............................................. 142 Tracking ............................................... 142 Overnights .............................................. 142 Human-powered Activity ......... ....................... 143 Harvesting Wild Foods and Medicines ....................... 143 Harvesting Fuel and Fiber ................................. 143 Harvesting Fertility .............. .................... 144 Vegetable Gardening ..................... ........... 144 Studying Nature .................................... ..... 144 Watersheds ............................. .... ... ....... . 144 Identification and Behavior ................................ 145 Ecology .... ................................. ........ .. . 145 Biom im icry .................. ..... ............ .......... 146 At Home in Nature ......................................... 146 PART III: INTEGRATION ................................. 149 CHAPTER 9: APPLYING THE TOOLS ........................... 150 Getting Strategic ............... ...... .... ......... ........ 151 Big-ticket Items ................ ............... ....... . 151 Low-hanging Fruit ............................. ............. 152 The Triple Bottom Line Test ................................. 154 Improving Energy Efficiency ............................ 156 Efficiency's Caution .................. ............. .... 158 Guiding Principles ................... ................... 158 Good Old-fashioned Principles .................... 158 Permaculture Principles ................ ..................159 Spiritual Principles ............................ ........ . 162 CHAPTER 10: THE WISEACRE CHALLENGE ................... 164 Who Lives on One Wiseacre? ............... ........... 166 Experiencing Poverty ..................................... 167 Wiseacre Scenarios .................... . .... ..... .. ...... .. 168 Wiseacre Food ....................................... 169 Wiseacre Housing ................................... 173 Wiseacre Transportation ...... ....................... 176 Wiseacre Goods and Services .............................. 178 Wiseacre Stocks ................. ......... ..... .......... 179 Wiseacre Wastes ................ ... ..... ............... 180 CHAPTER 11: THE ONE-HUNDRED-YEAR PLAN ................ 182 Freely Choosing to Have Fewer Children ....................... 184 The One-hundred-year Plan .................................. 185 Who Is Having Small Families .......................... . 186 Making it Personal - The Options ............,,.............. 188 Simplified Population Model ................................. 189 One-child Families ...................................... 189 Two-child Families ...................................... 189 Three-child Families ....................................... 190 Family Size Versus Wild Space ......... ................... . 190 Sustainability and Family Size ............................... 191 CHAPTER TWELVE: TOWARD A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE ........... 193 ENDNOTES ............................ ............... 197 APPENDIX A: FOOTPRINT FACTORS ........................... 203 APPENDIX B: FOOTPRINTING WORKSHEETS .................. 211 APPENDIX C: YMOYL WORKSHEETS .......................... 223 APPENDIX D: WISEACRE WORKSHEETS ........................ 234 INDEX ............................... .........241 ABOUT THE AUTHOR ..................... 249