[Scpg] PR Simple Prosperity Poster Booksigning and Slide Show Friday Feb 8, 7pm 2008

[Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

SANTA BARBARA PERMACULTURE NETWORK AND  S. B. SIMPLICITY CIRCLE
Presents:

Simple Prosperity

Slide Show & Booksigning with
Dave Wannn

Friday , February 8, 2008, 7 pm  Donation $5
Santa Barbara Public Library, Faulkner Gallery



Best selling author David Wann presents 17 forms 
of “real wealth” that can eradicate affluenza, a 
pandemic he helped diagnose in the book, 
Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic. “When we 
change a few key priorities and values, such as 
what we mean by the word “success,” many of our 
material wants will cease to be obsessions,” says 
Wann. “Instead of fidgety, addictive consumption, 
our lives can be filled with the real wealth of 
sanity, health, hope, caring, connection, participation, and purpose.”


Sounds too good to be true? Wann’s new book, 
Simple Prosperity , Finding Real Wealth in a 
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claiming to be www.davewann .com , draws on the 
latest research to document how social 
connections, good health, contact with nature, 
stimulating work, leisure time, great 
neighborhoods, and other forms of real wealth can 
build up our immunity to affluenza. “As a result, 
we become less vulnerable to the borrow-and-spend 
mentality that’s backed the U.S. economy into a 
corner,” says Wann. “By reevaluating many aspects 
of daily life, including what we eat, where we 
live, and what we buy, we’re starting to imagine 
what a joyfully moderate, efficient, 
compassionate lifestyle will look like. The good 
news is that curing the pandemic of 
over-consumption at both the personal and 
cultural scale is not about giving up the good life but getting it back.”


Simple Prosperity offers many concrete examples 
of how we can have twice the satisfaction for 
half the resources (such as water, energy, and 
materials.) By rethinking our reliance on energy 
hogs like aluminum cans (which require 3% of the 
world’s electricity to manufacture), bottled 
water (which annually consumes power equivalent 
to the gasoline used in three million cars), 
monster houses, excessive airplane travel, 
feedlot meat, and suburbs-without-stores, we can 
also reduce our “ecological footprint,” a 
measurement of how much land is required to 
support a given standard of living. In the U.S., 
the average person requires about 30 acres, twice 
the footprint of an average Italian or German.



Wann points to the transition Japan made in the 
18th century as a model for what America can 
become. “Land was in short supply, forest 
resources were being depleted, and minerals such 
as gold and copper were suddenly scarce as well. 
Japan went from being resource-rich to 
resource-poor, but its culture adapted by 
developing a national ethic that centered on 
moderation and efficiency. An attachment to the 
material things in life was seen as demeaning, 
while the advancement of crafts and human 
knowledge were seen as lofty goals. Ritualistic 
disciplines like fencing, martial arts, the tea 
ceremony, flower arranging, literature, art, and 
skillful use of the abacus all fluorished. Most 
people had access to basic education and health 
care, and the three largest cities in Japan had 
1500 bookstores among them. “We can make that 
kind of transition in America,” says Wann.


David Wann is president of the non-profit 
Sustainable Futures Society, a board member of 
the Cohousing Association of the U.S., and a 
fellow of the Simplicity Forum, an association of 
writers and thinkers on the topic of sensible, 
sustainable lifestyles. Wann has received various 
lifetime achievement awards for his work on 
sustainability. He’s been an passionate gardener 
for 25 years and coordinates the community garden 
in the neighborhood he helped design – Harmony 
Village in Golden, Colorado. He’s written nine 
books and produced many award-winning TV programs 
and videos on sustainable design and sustainable lifestyles.

The Booksign and Slide Show  takes place at the 
Santa Barbara Public Library, Faulkner Gallery, 
40 East Anapamu St, in downtown Santa Barbara, on 
Friday, February 8, 7:00 pm . Books will be for 
sale by author at event. No reservations are 
required, admission donation $5. Cosponsors Santa 
Barbara Simplicity Circle, For the Future, S.B. 
Organic Club and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
For more information please call (805) 962-2571, 
or email margie at sbpermaculture.org,  www.sbpermaculture.org.




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Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
margie at sbpermaculture.org
www.sbpermaculture.org

"We are like trees, we must create new leaves, in 
new directions, in order to grow." - Anonymous

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