Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle

ISBN-13: 9780312361419 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 304 str.

David Wann

Opis

In his bestseller Affluenza, David Wann and his co-authors diagnosed the debilitating disease of over-consumption. In Simple Prosperity he shows readers how we can overcome this disease by investing in a variety of real wealth sources. To recapture a more abundant and sustainable lifestyle, try: - Creating a richer life story through personal growth incentives
- Forming higher-yield friendships and stronger bonds through social capital
- Taking preventive healthcare measures to build up wellness reserves
- Balancing the biological budget through "greener" currency
- Caring for people, not just cars, to improve your neighborhood wealth index
- Resolving that pesky carbon conundrum through energy savings
- Celebrating instead of desecrating Cultural prosperity futures value the earth as a sacred placeIn our age of hedge fund hysteria, Simple Prosperity is a new way of investing that will save our sanity and the planet.

O autorze

David Wann war über zehn Jahre lang für die staatliche amerikanische Umweltschutzagentur tätig, ehe er sich ganz dem Schreiben widmete. Er verfasste mehrere Bücher sowie zahlreiche Artikel und produzierte Videos und Fernsehprogramme, in denen er sich intensiv mit den Herausforderungen eines nachhaltigen Lebensstils auseinandersetzte.