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Voluntary poverty — it could save your life, but what a hard sell

By Erik Curren | July 8, 2011

Children and mom from the Depression

Poverty is finding middle class families these days these days through unemployment, bankruptcy and home foreclosure, whether they like it or not. And mostly, they don't like it. But John Michael Greer, author of this year's The Wealth of Nature: Economics as if Survival Mattered and several previous books on surviving peak oil, suggests that those who haven't found poverty … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Spirit, Transition Tagged With: Diogenes, Epicurus, Henry David Thoreau, John Michael Greer, poverty, simple living, slow food, St Francis of Assisi

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