Open house : Reinventing Space for Simple Living / by Pays, Amanda

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Gandhi : the Power of Nonviolence. by 50MINUTES.COM

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Mahatma Gandhi; Key information; Introduction; Biography; An English education; An African adventure; Return to India; The period of disillusionment; Context; South Africa under British rule; The British Raj; Indian society at the beginning of the 20th century; Highlights; Twenty years in Africa; India: from loyalty to autonomy; Towards independence; Simple living, a moral and political weapon; Impact; The humanity of a symbol: realities and controversies; Gandhi's assassination and celebration as "Father of the Nation"; A bloody and transformative independence; Summary…”
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Living at the end of time : two years in a tiny house by Mitchell, John Hanson

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Building nature's market : the business and politics of natural foods by Miller, Laura J.

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Walden : a fully annotated edition by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862

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Walden : a fully annotated edition by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862

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Less is more : embracing simplicity for a healthy planet, a caring economy and lasting happiness by Andrews, Cecile, Urbanska, Wanda, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover; Advance Praise; Title Page; Rights Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Part One: Simplicity Defined; Introduction; Simple Living: Lessons from the World of Television; Voluntary Simplicity: Cool Lifestyle for a Hot Planet; Graceful Living; A Scientific Approach to Voluntary Simplicity; Finding Real Wealth: Twice the Value for Half the Resources; Religion and the Earth; The Circle of Simplicity; Like Corn in the Night: Reclaiming a Sense of Time; Simplicity, Simply Put; Enroute to Eldertown: Where Fast Lanes Turn into Pastures and Meadows.…”
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Green consumerism : an A-to-Z guide

Table of Contents: “…Adhesives -- Advertising -- Affluenza -- Air travel -- Apparel -- Audio equipment -- Automobiles -- Baby products -- Beverages -- Biodegradability -- Books -- Bottled beverages (water) -- Carbon credits -- Carbon emissions -- Carbon offsets -- Car washing -- Certification process -- Certified products (fair trade or organic) -- Cleaning products -- Coffee -- Commodity fetishism -- Commuting -- Composting -- Computers and printers confections -- Conspicuous consumption -- Consumer activism -- Consumer behavior -- Consumer boycotts -- Consumer culture -- Consumer ethics -- Consumerism -- Consumer society -- Cosmetics -- Dairy products -- Demographics -- Diderot effect -- Disparities in consumption -- Disposable plates and plastic implements -- Downshifting -- Dumpster diving -- Durability -- Ecolabeling -- Ecological footprint -- Ecotourism -- Electricity usage -- Energy efficiency of products and appliances -- Environmentalism -- Environmentally friendly -- Ethically produced products -- E-waste -- Fair trade -- Fashion -- Final consumption -- Finance and economics -- Fish -- Floor and wall coverings -- Food additives -- Food miles -- Frugality -- Fuel -- Funerals -- Furniture -- Gardening/growing -- Garden tools and appliances -- Genetically modified products -- Gifting (green gifts) -- Government policy and practice (local and national) -- Grains -- Green communities -- Green consumer -- Green consumerism organizations -- Green design -- Green discourse -- Green food -- Green gross domestic product -- Green homes -- Green marketing -- Green politics -- Greenwashing -- Healthcare -- Heating and cooling -- Home appliances -- Home shopping and catalogs -- Homewares -- Insulation -- International regulatory frameworks -- Internet purchasing -- Kyoto Protocol -- Lawns and landscaping -- Leisure and recreation -- Lifestyle, rural -- Lifestyle, suburban -- Lifestyle, sustainable -- Lifestyle, urban -- Lighting -- Linen and bedding -- Local exchange trading schemes -- Locally made -- Magazines -- Malls -- Markets (organic/farmers) -- Materialism -- Meat -- Mobile phones -- Morality (consumer ethics) -- Needs and wants -- Organic -- Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) -- Overconsumption -- Packaging and product containers -- Paper products -- Personal products -- Pesticides and fertilizers -- Pets -- Pharmaceuticals -- Plants -- Positional goods -- Poultry and eggs -- Poverty -- Pricing -- Production and commodity chains -- Product sharing -- Psychographics -- Public transportation -- Quality of life -- Recyclable products -- Recycling -- Regulation -- Resource consumption and usage -- Seasonal products -- Secondhand consumption -- Services -- Shopping -- Shopping bags -- Simple living -- Slow food -- Social identity -- Solid and human waste sports -- Supermarkets -- Super rich -- Sustainable consumption -- Swimming pools and spas -- Symbolic consumption -- Taxation -- Tea -- Television and DVD Equipment -- Tools -- Toys -- United Nations Human Development Report 1998 -- Vege-box schemes -- Vegetables and fruits -- Waste disposal -- Water -- Websites and blogs -- Windows.…”
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Horse-and-buggy genius : listening to Mennonites contest the modern world by Loewen, Royden, 1954-

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