The Heart of Simple Living: 7 Paths to a Better Life
For two decades, through her books and television programs, Urbanska has been an advocate for simplicity, a life of more meaning and fewer possessions. Given the growing popularity of the green movement and now the more austere financial realities brought on by the recession, Urbanska's viewpoints are gaining more widespread interest. Urbanska offers readers seven specific paths to simple living: financial independence through frugality; meaningful work; smaller, more eco-friendly housing that is paid for; reclaimed homemaking with green-conscious decorating and cleaning; healthier eating and family-oriented meals; a return to gardening for fresher, healthier fruit and vegetables; and a return to community engagement. Each chapter begins with a homily—live frugally, live liberally, retire debt as fast as you can—and solid advice on how readers can achieve the simple life. She offers plenty of examples from her own life, as well as those of others, of hard-earned lessons about the benefits of the simple life. --Vanessa Bush