Books

Vicki Robin, Joe Dominguez, and Monique Tilford, Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence: Revised and Updated for the 21st Century (Penguin Books, 2008).

Linda Breen Pierce, Simplicity Lessons: A 12 Step Guide to Living Simply.

Marie Sherlock, Living Simply with Children.

Websites

• Center for a New American Dream, which “helps Americans to reduce and shift their consumption to improve quality of life, protect the environment, and promote social justice.”
• The Story of Stuff, a movement that began with an online video. From the home page:

We have a problem with Stuff. We use too much, too much of it is toxic and we don’t share it very well. But that’s not the way things have to be. Together, we can build a society based on better not more, sharing not selfishness, community not division.

• World in the Balance: Material World, a website supporting a 2004 episode of the PBS series Nova that explored material life of families around the globe.