Archive for February, 2011

It’s time to get you up to date on what’s going on in the simply stephen network this month of february 2011. This is where I keep you posted on all the action happening on the sites to share thoughts and keep you posted on exciting changes. I will be doing this update on a [...]

For the early part of this year, we are going to explore different types of lifestyles that have a positive impact on our environment. Each of them green in some way. I’m familiar and well versed in many green lifestyles, although I haven’t necessarily lived them. Homesteading is one of those lifestyles that I haven’t [...]

Frugal living can be green living and green living can be frugal living but frugal living isn’t always green living and green living isn’t always frugal living. Huh…did you get that? I didn’t think so. Bit confusing, isn’t it? Let’s step back a bit and look at green and frugal living separately. what is frugal [...]

In recent articles on minimalism, consumerism and voluntary simplicity. I  tried to answer the “what” for each of these lifestyle choices but the leap to”how” is a little bit harder. Being frugal is about learning to buy more with less money. But simple living is a little more encompassing, it’s about being satisfied and actually [...]

One recent trend is to talk about various types of green living. No reason to stop now.  A good follow up on recent dialogue about minimalism and consumerism is voluntary simplicity. Just like green, it means many different things to different people. Some common themes: improve health & stress levels (mind, body, spirit) increase quality [...]


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