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		<title>Beyond peace and quiet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Perpetual Tourist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When her marriage ended, Sara Maitland found herself enjoying the lack of noise. But gradually an addiction to silence turned into a craving for the hermit's life...]]></description>
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		<title>How to Live the Simple Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Perpetual Tourist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kimberly Palmer
Originally published by US News and World Report
During a recent interview with Tim Kasser, associate professor of psychology at Knox College and author of The High Price of Materialism, I found myself wanting to ask him questions beyond the scope of our discussion on the connection between materialism and happiness. Specifically, I wanted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voluntary simplicity movement re-emerges</title>
		<link>http://voluntarysimplicity.org.uk/articles/voluntary-simplicity-movement-re-emerges</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 19:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Perpetual Tourist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By By Ralph Blumenthal and Rachel Mosteller
Originally published by The International Herald Tribune, May 18, 2008
Like many other young couples, Aimee and Jeff Harris spent the first years of their marriage eagerly accumulating stuff: cars, furniture, clothes, appliances and, after a son and a daughter came along, toys, toys, toys.
Now they are trying to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Author Urges &#8216;Simplicity&#8217; to Help Combat Global Warming</title>
		<link>http://voluntarysimplicity.org.uk/articles/author-urges-simplicity-to-help-combat-global-warming</link>
		<comments>http://voluntarysimplicity.org.uk/articles/author-urges-simplicity-to-help-combat-global-warming#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Perpetual Tourist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author unknown
Published by Energy Resource, February 5, 2008
There&#8217;s urgency in Duane Elgin&#8217;s words as the well-known author of books on spiritual growth and environmental consciousness balances his innate optimism with the cold, hard facts of climate change.
Double-parked on the horizon, Elgin advises, is &#8220;the perfect storm of a world systems crisis.&#8221; He&#8217;s not talking about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A simpler, happier life</title>
		<link>http://voluntarysimplicity.org.uk/articles/a-simpler-happier-life</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 16:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Perpetual Tourist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Niki Sullivan
Originally published by News Tribune (Tacoma, WA), July 29, 2007
Lauree and Logan Dillard exchanged vows last summer on a cliff overlooking the Wisconsin River.
Her white strapless dress was elegant, and her ring was exactly what she wanted. Their pictures show a couple glowing with happiness.
But when the Dillards, who have lived in Tacoma [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living deliberately: how to approach simplification</title>
		<link>http://voluntarysimplicity.org.uk/articles/living-deliberately-how-to-approach-simplification</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Perpetual Tourist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Carla Harbour
Originally published by Countryside &#38; Small Stock Journal, November 1, 2005
Simplify, simplify, simplify! Perhaps trying to identify the owner of these words, you are drawn back into an old wooden desk in a high school classroom&#8230; English 3, American literature class. &#8220;Your research paper&#8217;s topic cries for simplification,&#8221; stated Mrs. Woods as she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>By Removing the Clutter, Many Find Path to Clarity</title>
		<link>http://voluntarysimplicity.org.uk/articles/by-removing-the-clutter-many-find-path-to-clarity</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2004 13:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Perpetual Tourist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Caryle Murphy
Originally published in The Washington Post, October 3, 2004
Lia Kent, raised with what she calls a &#8220;Depression mentality,&#8221; always found it hard to throw things away. Her North Potomac home was filled with clothes that no longer fit, piles of magazines she never read and gifts from relatives she never used.
But a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life in the slow lane</title>
		<link>http://voluntarysimplicity.org.uk/articles/life-in-the-slow-lane</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2003 23:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Perpetual Tourist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Martin Vander Weyer
Originally published by The Daily Telegraph, May 10, 2003
The Good Life is back in fashion. The 1970s sitcom of that name, about a suburban couple striving for back-to-nature simplicity, is on our screens for the umprteenth re-run. Alongside it in recent months has been a spate of other programmes like No Going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The good life: 21st century style</title>
		<link>http://voluntarysimplicity.org.uk/articles/the-good-life-21st-century-style</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2003 22:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Perpetual Tourist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Margarette Driscoll
Originally published by the Sunday Times, April 20, 2003
Wendy Bennett can still remember seeing Augill Castle for the first time. Set in the heart of the Eden Valley in Cumbria, the late summer sun seemed to make it glow against a backdrop of rolling hills.
The house, a folly built in the 1840s by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voluntary Lifestyle of Simplicity Helps Maintain Financial Independence</title>
		<link>http://voluntarysimplicity.org.uk/articles/voluntary-lifestyle-of-simplicity-helps-maintain-financial-independence</link>
		<comments>http://voluntarysimplicity.org.uk/articles/voluntary-lifestyle-of-simplicity-helps-maintain-financial-independence#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2000 16:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Perpetual Tourist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dolores Kong
Originally published by The Boston Globe, May 7, 2000
Penny Yunuba gave up a $70,000-a-year job in computer sales a decade ago and now chooses to live on less than $10,000 a year, shopping at thrift stores when her clothes get too frayed, buying groceries in bulk, and furnishing her Jamaica Plain home with [...]]]></description>
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