[Cob] Book recommendations: Live Simply?

[Travis Miller]

On May 3, 2007, at 10:58 PM, drub wrote:

>
> Any recommendations on books to coach a person out of the  
> dependence on high
> income, high dwelling expenses, the conventional suburban  
> lifestyle.  I am
> *certain* they exist.  Hope that folks with the cob perspective  
> would have
> some of the best perspectives.  I could use a few recipes. I could use
> "lessons learned" and not re-invent the wheel.  I could use some "best
> practices".
>

My personal favorites are Radically Simple by Jim Merkel and Your  
Money or Your LIfe by Joe Dominguez.  I like the tapes that Joe  
Dominguez did too.  The tapes help make more sense out of the book.

The really great thing about both of those books is the authors both  
show with their own lives as an example that you can have a lower  
standard of living based in quantitative terms and achieve a much  
better life in qualitative terms.  Both books are totally non  
judgmental and encourage the reader that they can live a life that is  
more rewarding, more healthy and more enjoyable than working as a  
wage slave.


Travis
wyrdbrew at gmail.com

It is axiomatic that we are in no way protected from the consequences  
of our actions by remaining confused about the ecological meaning of  
our humanness, ignorant of ecological processes, and unmindful of the  
ecological aspects of history.

William R. Catton, Jr