Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle [Paperback]

In his bestsellerAffluenza, David Wann and his co-authors diagnosed the debilitating disease of over-consumption. InSimple Prosperityhe 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 place

In our age of hedge fund hysteria,Simple Prosperityis a new way of investing that will save our sanity and the planet.

DAVID WANN is the author of many books, including the bestsellingAffluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic,which he co-authored. He lives in Golden, Colorado.

David Wann makes a compelling case that the current fiscal squeeze is really a good thing inSimple Prosperity. A coauthor of the best selling Affluenza, he covers a lot of solution-oriented ground, from conscientious consumption and cohousinig to building human-scale neighborhoods and dismantling the fossil fuel economy... Utne Reader

This book is full of wisdom for real living; and it will help you find a kind of wealth that's woven right within the fabric of everyday life. Sarah Susanka, author of The Not So Big Life: Making Room for What Really Matters

We've reached a point in our planet's history when nothing less than fundamental change is needed. In his bookSimple Prosperity, David Wann proposes that we move away from an obsession with material wealth to an abundance of time,l³.