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by: David Wann
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.0973
EAN: 9780312361419
ISBN: 0312361416
Label: St. Martin's Griffin
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: December 26, 2007
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date: December 26, 2007
Sales Rank: 33616
Studio: St. Martin's Griffin
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Product Description:
In his bestseller Affluenza, David Wann and his co-authors diagnosed the debilitating disease of over-consumption. In Simple Prosperity he shows readers how we can overcome this disease by investing in a variety of real wealth sources. To recapture a more abundant and sustainable lifestyle, try:
- 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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Rating:  - For a first time venture into Simplicity
Maybe the publishers do it - but this book echo's so many of other books* in the same genre. I think it must be the age group and class as Harold Roth (review below) alludes to as well. I think they are pandering after the burned-out exec rat race. The books in 70's about ecology had passion because it was a new idea that sprouted only in a small way. These ideas are throwbacks and I believe a new reckoning will come through the local, small and social entrepreneurship.
*(Voluntary ... Read More
Rating: - Yuppie stuff
I've been gardening organically for 25 years, but only in the past ten or so have I done anything about trying to simplify my life so that I am not being such a resource hog. I've looked at all sorts of info about how to do this. I thought this book would be a good source. It isn't, though, unless you are a yuppie.
For instance, the author described how he decided to put his money where his mouth was in terms of sustainability by quitting his job at the EPA and going freelance to write ... Read More
Rating:  - A humbling perspective
I read Wann's Simple Prosperity for supplemental reading to one of my college classes. It was one of the best recommendations I've received in a long time, and I have thanked my professor for insisting that I read it.
Wann's book challenges the reader to step outside the daily onslaught of the modernist western world, one's own ego, and what we do habitually so we can grasp the things in life that truly matter: life, love, liberty, freedom to (and freedom from), community, and health. Wann, ... Read More
Rating:  - America Bashing Atheist
I purchased this book based upon the glowing reviews here on Amazon, and now after reading as much as I could stand, I see these reviews must be from the authors friends as most have not read the book. I took this book on vacation with me as I like to read just before i drift off to sleep, As I read I was blind sided so hard deep in the book that I could not even sleep. I expect to see many of them come on here and bash my honest observation of this book and find it "not helpful" just so you know. The thing ... Read More
Rating: - Charming, Delightful and Practical Read!
I sat down and read Simple Prosperity for an hour and a half when I first got it and was thoroughly charmed and delighted. I love the way David Wann uses stories about his own and other peoples' experiences to illustrate the delights of Simple Prosperity. It is such a positive philosophy and so very earthwise. I didn't want to quit reading and go back to work. I think this book is the perfect antidote to the sense of malaise about the future that most of my friends and family have been expressing ... Read More
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