The Free Range 'Energy Beyond Oil' Project – The 'Simplicity/Less' (E) Handouts

S.3. Simplicity Solutions

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Sheet no.x in the Free Range 'Energy Beyond Oil' Project's 'Simplicity/Less' series of handouts looks at Simplicity Solutions – Why "less" can mean "more".

Peak Energy will affect all our lives, but it is only one in a number of trends that are converging to make life difficult; debt, housing costs and climate change will also negatively affect our lives over the next two or three decades. There is a solution that is able to address many of these problems, but in today's "modern" society it's considered too extreme to advocate: voluntary simplicity.

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Background information/links

Links

Alternatives for Simple Living –
http://www.simpleliving.org/
Diggers and Dreamers: A Guide to Communal Living in Britain –
http://www.diggersanddreamers.org.uk/
The Downshifter –
http://www.thedownshifter.co.uk/
Downsizer –
http://www.downsizer.net/
Lets Link UK –
http://www.letslinkuk.org/
Low Impact Living Initiative (LILI) – LILI offer not just practical information, but a wide range of courses –
http://www.lowimpact.org/
National Downshifting Week –
http://www.downshiftingweek.com/
The Community Solution –
http://www.communitysolution.org/
Permaculture Magazine –
http://www.permaculture.co.uk/
The Powerdown Project –
http://www.powerdownproject.org/
Relocalize –
http://www.relocalize.net/
Shared Energy –
http://www.sharedenergy.org.uk/
Surviving Peak Oil –
http://www.survivingpeakoil.com/
Transition Culture – The "transition" movement has sprung up in the last year or so, and now covers most of the UK and is growing internationally. The web site provides further details – http://www.transitionculture.org/
Redefining Progress –
http://www.rprogress.org/
Selfsufficient-ish – A growing resource that concentrates on urban self-sufficiency –
http://www.selfsufficientish.com/
Backwoods Home Magazine – This is a US magazine for "gun-rack environmentalists", but provided you can get past the gun-totin', libertarian sentiments the articles are really useful and informative – http://www.backwoodshome.com/
Institute for Local Self Reliance –
http://www.ilsr.org/
Permaculture Association –
http://www.permaculture.org.uk/
Allotment Growing –
http://www.allotment.org.uk/
Bread Matters –
http://breadmatters.com/
The Compost Guide –
http://www.compostguide.com/
Garden Organic –
http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/
Go Vegan! –
http://www.govegan.net/
Organic Gardens UK –
http://www.organicgarden.org.uk/
The Vegan Society (UK) –
http://www.vegansociety.com/
Veg Box Schemes UK –
http://www.vegboxschemes.co.uk/
The Simple Living Network –
http://www.simpleliving.net/
UK Credit Unions –
http://www.ukcu.co.uk/
Viable Self Sufficiency –
http://www.viableselfsufficiency.co.uk/
National Car Share –
http://www.nationalcarshare.co.uk/
National Rail Enquiries –
http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/
Seat61 –
http://www.seat61.com/
Travelwise –
http://www.travelwise.org.uk/
Traveline –
http://www.traveline.org.uk/
Traveline Cymru –
http://www.traveline-cymru.org.uk/
Village Car Share –
http://www.villagecarshare.com/
Walk It! –
http://www.walkit.com/
Off-Grid –
http://www.off-grid.net/
greenhomebuilding.com –
http://www.greenhomebuilding.com/