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Living Cheaply
With
Style
Smart Ways to Live Better and Spend
Less
Ernest Callenbach
ive better. Save money. Improve your
health. Do something
for the planet. After reading Ernest Callenbach's
Living Cheaply With Style you'll be
able to do them
all.
Even in the most
prosperous of times many people have
limited funds and must live cheaply. To Earnest
Callenbach,
author
of Ecotopia and Ecotopia Emerging,style
comes from
expressing
yourself and he shows how to live stylishly while
spenidng less.
Living Cheaply
with
Style has much to offer people with
comfortable icomes, too.
there is the question of "enoughness"
which is different for each person. By stressing the
feeling of
satisfaction
that comes from personal competence and a sense of
having enough,
Callenbach
shows how these qualities contribute to an
independent, thoughtful,
resilient
personal style.
Living Cheaply with Style
is a fun book filled with practical and ecologically
sensible ideas on
how
to spend less money while improving the quality of
your life. It covers
a
wide range of topics including food, housing, clothes,
furniture,
health,
entertainment, transportation dealing with the law,
and more. This book
will
show you how to analyze your real needs and wants,
beat rising costs
and
expand the pleasures in your life. His steady stream
of creative
suggestions
will help you furnish your home attractively at a low
cost, borrow
money
cheaply, protect your health and much more.
Underlying Callenbach's
suggestions is his concept
of the "Green Triangle," which states that the
environment, health, and
money
are all intertwined. If you do something good for one,
the others will
also
benefit. For instance, if you ride a bike to work to
save on car
expenses
you will improve your health and reduce pollution.
Living
Cheaply With Style
provides an encyclopedia of tips on how to stretch a
dollar while
adding
to your quality of life. "If we learn to live
smarter," says
Callenbach,
"we can tap a rich potential for sustaining healthy,
productive, and
happy
lives -- lives with real personal style."
One way we can understand some
critical
everyday regularities is by considering what I
call the Green Triangle:
the three points of the
triangle are environment, health, and money. The
principle that relates
these three points is: Anytime you do
something beneficial for one of them, you will
almost inevitably do
something
beneficial for the other two.
If you apply the Green
Triangle to your everyday life, examples
of delightful
synergistic
effects can be found everywhere. Some cases: Low
or no-cost fun with
other
people is almost always more ecologically and
financially desirable
than
hard work and heavy consumption.
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