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Downshifting Made Easy: How to plan for your planet-friendly future
 
 

Downshifting Made Easy: How to plan for your planet-friendly future [Kindle Edition]

Marian McCain
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An inspiring and readable book that not only offers a practical framework but also gives valuable insights into the process step by step. Marian speaks from experience, but adds the warm dimension of the heart, making downshifting not only desirable but more easily achievable. --(Maddy Harland, Editor, Permaculture Magazine: Inspiration for Sustainable Living)

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What does it mean to ?downshift?? Why is it now imperative that millions of people begin moving towards a simpler, more sustainable lifestyle? If you, too, are to join this worldwide effort to create a different sort of world, when should you start? How should you set about it? Might you need to move house in order to live more sustainably, and if so, to where? And to whom can you turn for advice and guidance? This easy-to-read guidebook, by an author who undertook a similar journey, aims to answer all these questions and more. It will reassure you that while the downshifting process is not without its challenges, the rewards, in terms of life satisfaction, enjoyment and sense of fulfilment, can be huge. There are many books full of practical ideas for green living. But this one goes to the heart of the matter by looking at who you are, what your needs are and how to create your custom-made plan for a lifestyle perfectly adapted to the coming ?Age of Sustainability?.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 345 KB
  • Print Length: 82 pages
  • Publisher: O-Books (16 Jun 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B0056A1IIC
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #254,901 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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The word 'holistic' is a bit over-used these days, but the author does indeed take a very holistic approach to this book. Structured as a series of questions, it looks at the practical and psychological issues involved in simplifying your life. It accepts that we may have doubts and fears, and that down-shifting can be approached in a number of ways.

It's a short, thin book that can be read in an afternoon. In this sense it's deceptively simple; I found that after the first reading I was really enthused, but a second reading gave me all kinds of additional food for thought.

Highly recommended.
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More a booklet than a book 5 July 2011
By Citizen Paine - Published on Amazon.com
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I'm a fan of this author, Ms. Van Eyk McCain, so I was looking forward to this new book, sure she'd have enlightening wisdom to share on the topic of Downshifting. As usual, I was not disappointed in her insights, but was very disappointed in the book's length. Its pages number only 72, and of that, four pages are devoted to Notes and About the Author. To be honest, I feel ripped off at the brevity of this "book." I'm sure somewhere the page count was noted but I didn't see it. This book should be re-done with the topic more fully developed so other readers don't feel disappointed as I am. The author's other books, two of which I own, were full-length, so this booklet-length title was a surprise.
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