Living Big On Less

Share more, buy less, live better than ever.

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Some good words of wisdom on attachment and living with less by Ajahn Brahm. 

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The Cost of Digital Nomad Living: Our 3.5 Year Budget

Dreaming about living a free life as a nomad? Here's how Erin and Simon are doing it.

Do you want to know exactly how much it has cost us to travel full-time and run a business on the road for the last 3.5 years? In today's post we share our complete digital nomad budget: [...]

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Instructables: How to Make your own Cream Soap

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21 Habits Of Supremely Happy People

Martin Seligman, the father of positive psychology, theorizes that while 60 percent of happiness is determined by our genetics and environment, the remaining 40 percent is up to us.

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Hungry Planet: What the World Eats - in pictures

Californian photographer Peter Menzel visited 24 countries for the book Hungry Planet. His work shows how much the world's weekly groceries cost

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The Evolution of Kindness: Can Being the 'Nice Guy' Save the Planet?

Is kindness underrated? Can being the nice guy be leverage in the fight to save the planet?

Contrary to what is usually done in trading, barter, or any other type of consumption activity where a transaction is produced, Gift Economy represents the culture of giving something without expecting or demanding anything in return. What if single acts of kindness could be turned into something that could work on a community level? 

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Charlie, built this beautiful straw bale roundhouse because he could not afford a regular house. His father gave him a plot of land and the Lammas ecoVillage next door gave Charlie a helping hand. All in all it cost Charlie about £15,000 ($23,000). Now the local council is forcing Charlie to tear down his house. Read the story and help save this house by signing a petition here. Check out our Eco Housing page to learn lots of creative ways to build your home in a eco sustainable and economic way.

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Taichi is the founder of Happiness Architect, a social enterprise that designs collaboration (open-dialogue, world-cafe, future session, design thinking workshop, team building, etc) for innovation and happiness. He strongly believes in the power of social capital to add new value to our lives, create a positive social impact and bring us happiness. You can read about his project here. This week Taichi is in Berlin, looking for new friends like yourself.

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Here you can watch the award-winning documentary LIVING WITHOUT MONEY for FREE - about Heidemarie Schwermer who has been living 15 years without money. Find out more about the film, host a screening or order the DVD on the film's webpages www.livingwithoutmoney.org

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Key to the concept of degrowth is that reducing consumption does not require individual martyring and a decrease in well-being. Rather, ‘degrowthists’ aim to maximize happiness and well-being through non-consumptive means—sharing work, consuming less, while devoting more time to art, music, family, culture and community. Could this be something for your neighborhood?

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Mmmm, summer is here! Try these healthy and delicious popcycle recipes from the Homesteadsurvival. 

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Here are some great travel tips if you're traveling on a shoestring. After this, having little money is no longer an excuse for not leaving. Looking for work abroad? Take a look at our Live & Work Abroad page for great opportunities.

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Stay for free while traveling!

The globe is finally catching on to a not-so-new new idea: short- and long-term stays all over the world that involve renting or swapping instead of staying in those all-rooms-look-exactly-the-same hotels. Visit our travel page for your best travel bets. You’ll save yourself that 100 €/$ a night and swap your old, outmoded vacation for an exciting, culturally-rich experience.

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Do you ever wonder what you can do to counteract the negative global environmental and socioeconomic impacts of disposable consumer culture? You can start by one easy action: consume less! Here is someone to be inspired from. Get more tips here.

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Imagine traveling or moving to a new city and having a local show you around the city for free. There are networks of volunteers that love their cities so much that they’ll bend over backwards to show you exactly what makes them love the place they call home. See the links on our travel page

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Kitchen Gardeners is a fabulous resource with step-by-step instructions on how to set up a home garden. Recipes, tips, videos and a live forum of growers from 100 countries that answer questions and provide support. Here’s a great TED talk on Subversive Gardening well worth a watch for inspiration’s sake. Here you can find great links on home gardening!

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Inconspicuous consumption, or what lunching ladies have to do with social web karma. By Maria Popova.

Stuff. We all accumulate it and eventually form all kinds of emotional attachments to it. (Arguably, because the marketing machine of the 20th century has conditioned us to do so.)...