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Challenge Toolkit: Simplify Your Holidays
Custom Pages | March 19, 2018
NEW! Hypercapitalism: The Modern Economy, Its Values, and How to Change Them
Blog | by New Dream | December 13, 2017
Hypercapitalism is a sharp, digestible, and funny cartoon guide to how global, privatizing, market-worshipping hypercapitalism threatens well-being, social justice, and the planet.
GUIDE: Good Times Made Simple: The Lost Art of Fun – tips for inexpensive, non-commercial family fun
Resources | by New Dream | June 6, 2011
This short guide is packed with inexpensive, non-commercial ways to spend time with your family—an antidote to video games, screens, and trips to the mall.
WEBINAR: Kicking the Bottled Water Habit
Webinars | April 2, 2014
Want your school or community to kick the bottled water habit? Watch this webinar recording to learn how!
Rethinking Mother's Day
Blog | by Jenn Knepper | May 9, 2014
For Mother’s Day this year, we've partnered with a local business that upcycles materials and offers workshops for groups to come together and let creativity soar.
WEBINAR: Pitchfests – Promoting Local Business Investment Through Entrepreneur Showcases
Webinars | January 27, 2014
Pitchfests are fun events where local entrepreneurs connect with everyday investors. Watch this webinar recording to learn more about how to organize a pitchfest in your own community.
Outside-the-Box Experiential Gift Ideas
Blog | by Kelley Dennings | November 13, 2017
Ready to give more fun, less stuff this holiday season? New Dream Fellow Kelley Dennings provides us with a list of experiential gift ideas designed to help you give a personal, unique, and fun gift to your friends and family that won’t break the bank, regardless of where you live.
WEBINAR: How to Start a Seed Library
Webinars | March 11, 2013
Imagine if your public library didn't just check out books — but also packets of seeds. Watch this webinar recording to learn how to start a seed library!
True Wealth: A Plenitude Economy
Blog | by New Dream | May 6, 2011
In Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth, economist and New Dream board co-chair Juliet Schor offers a groundbreaking intellectual statement about the economics and sociology of ecological decline, suggesting a radical change in how we think about consumer goods, value, and ways to live.
Voluntary Simplicity: Reimagining the Good Life Beyond Consumer Culture
Blog | by Lisa Mastny | July 22, 2011
A new analysis of "voluntary simplicity" dispels some common criticisms that it is an escapist, hippie, or leisure-expansion movement.
Memorable Vacations
Blog | by Kim | May 23, 2008
Question Consumption Stories Project
Campaigns | April 5, 2019
Community Supported Art Picks Up Steam
Blog | by Aislinn Pluta | February 15, 2015
The Community Supported Art movement continues to grow. Read some tips on how to start your own "CSA."
WEBINAR: Community Solar 101
Webinars | January 10, 2013
Go solar — together! Through community techniques such as cooperatives, bulk purchasing, and group net metering, solar energy can be more affordable for everyone.
Give Less, Give More
Blog | by Julie Fathy | November 16, 2016
Mom and simple living expert Julie Fathy explains her "give less" approach to holiday gift giving, which honors the recipient, people, and the planet.