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Living simply
Synonyms:
Advocating plain living
Popularizing voluntary simplicity
Living modestly
Adopting sufficiency lifestyle
Living lightly
Living gently
Broader:
Valuing simplicity
Living sustainable lifestyles
Living within earth's carrying capacity
Setting appropriate fashion for consumption of goods and services
Applying sustainable development
Narrower:
Homesteading
Religious living
Living off the land
Practising poverty
Conserving resources in the home
Constrained by:
Living decadently
Facilitates:
Survivalism
Practising religious discipline
Establishing minimum standard of living models
Facilitated by:
Gardening
Downscaling lifestyles
Setting standards of living
Honouring right livelihood
Applying ecological footprint analysis
Problems:
Extravagant life style
Marginal living space
Poor living conditions
Pursuit of affluence
Values:
Voluntary
Simplicity
Involuntary
Sufficiency
Insufficiency
Self-sufficiency
References:
Murtagh, J and Robinson, K: Living Simply: how and why we came to believe in an anti-materialist lifestyle
Nearing, Scott and Helen: Living the Good Life
Leckie, Jim, et al: Other Homes and Garbage
McKibben, Bill: Hope, Human and Wild: True stories of living lightly on the Earth
Schwarz, Walter and Schwarz, Dorothy: Living Lightly: travels in a post-consumer society
Subjects:
Society
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Maternity, paternity
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Voluntary
Communication
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Promotion
Experiential Activity
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Experiential activity
Type Classification:
D: Detailed strategies