I have grown in the breadth of my own awareness of how important conscious consumption is to personal, social and environmental health. Seattle showed that the time is ripe for all the lonely people who have felt at odds with the American Dream to find one another and act in concert. Now I am wondering if we are indeed a movement in the traditional sense or some other sort of impulse. I know we are legion. I know we are moving in the right direction, each in our own unique ways.
Movement have phases and timing.
Naming is powerful. In the Fall of 1999 Penguin Putnam is re-releasing the book with a new preface that tells of Vicki's personal journey, including the death of Joe Dominguez in 1997, and of the vigorous spread of the sustainable lifestyle movement in the United States. Newspapers around the world have reported on her work on lowering consumption in North America. Fluent in Spanish, she traveled to Europe in the Spring of 1997 to introduce the German and Spanish translations of Your Money or Your Life. In addition to widespread public education on financial integrity via the book and the media, Vicki and the staff of the New Road Map Foundation are now facilitating group study of Your Money or Your Life through a new series of Study Guides.