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BUY*OLOGY
m o r e (truth behind branding)I recently read Martin Lindstrom's Buyology, curious as to the tagline of what it is that makes us buy. After all, I'm an advocate of buying less and buying better, so I wanted to get the scoop on how these decisions wo...
RAPT: ATTENTION AND THE FOCUSED LIFE
m o r e (really paying attention)Winifred Gallagher is already an established social observer and after a cancer diagnosis which she dealt with (and conquered) by learning to live in and love the moment, she set her sights on attention. And it turns ...
THE COVE
m o r e (saving cetaceans)My husband and I were the only people in the theater where we saw a Friday matinee of The Cove during its last weekend in Los Angeles. Being isolated in the dark, cavernous space only added to the suspense and horror of wh...
THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE MICROWAVED
m o r e (real food revolution)With Food Inc. out in full force, food is on the brain. And it makes perfect sense. Food is a logical place for people to enter into the simple, slow, green life. After all, most of us eat at least three squares a day wi...
KIDS + MONEY
m o r e (looking materialism in the face)I recently watched the fascinating (and pretty hard to take at times) documentary Kids + Money on my latest installment of Wholphin. It's a look from Lauren Greenfield at a gamut of kids in Los Angeles and the...
BEAUTIFUL BIRDS
m o r e (winged whimsy)Happened on the illustrated book, Birds, by artist Jeffrey Fisher in a local crafty store (I have three such stores within biking distance!). It is a spare compilation of 46 different birds (some commonplace and some surprising...
MINDFUL AWARENESS
m o r e (engaged selves and senses)I'm reading Jon Kabat-Zinn's latest book on mindfulness, Coming to Our Senses at the moment. It's quite a tome, but luckily each chapter is more like a short reflection and the content is so ancient and engaging tha...
FOOD INC. AND MORE RESOURCES FOR YOUR TABLE
m o r e (fair fine food)My plead: See it, see it, see it!See Food Inc. (in a theater now or if it's not playing near you, on DVD later) for a perfect primer on the true face of food in our country.See it to go behind the scenes of factory farms and c...
HANDMADE MODERN
m o r e (sleek DIY)Happened on this book at a local crafty store recently and immediately thought of at least two friends (you know who you are) who would fall in love with it and perhaps could've written it themselves.Handmade Modern:A DIYers dream ...
ZEN BOOKS FOR COOL KIDS
m o r e (beautiful, mind-bending books)I first saw one of Jon Muth's extraordinary picture books at a book fair this spring. Just the title and cover art were enough to make me make a note of it and put a hold on all of his books I could get a hold o...
THE NEW COFFEEHOUSE INVESTOR + GIVEAWAY
Enter to win a copy of The New Coffeehouse Investor! Simply send an e-mail to danielle at lessismorebalanced dot com with Coffeehouse Investor in the subject line by 11:00 a.m. on Monday, June 8th. I'll pick one entrant randomly and we'll have ourse...
HANDMADE NATION: THE FILM
m o r e (made it myself)There's a documentary afoot that's based on the popular book Handmade Nation. The author turned director, Faythe Levine, independently produced an hour long doc showcasing devoted crafsters in 15 cities.No DVD as of yet, but t...
SOCIETY
m o r e (music to move you)I mentioned Into the Wild (the film) without mentioning the incredible soundtrack courtesy of Eddie Vedder. Here's a sample, complete with a shout out to "less is more." ...
INTO THE WILD
m o r e (examining)On our recent road trip to Sedona, my husband and I took along the audio version of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild. We'd seen the Sean Penn directed film, which was astoundingly beautiful in its construction, and it had sparked enoug...
CHANGE THE WORLD FOR TEN BUCKS
m o r e (little changes, big happiness)I happened on this simple book when the Festival of Books came to town a couple of weekends ago. I love the streamlined concept--each spread is something small and surprising you can do to change the world. The...
STAR-BELLIED SNEETCHES
m o r e (Dr. Seuss)Gotta love Dr. Seuss. There just isn't any other writer for tykes like him--funny, whimsical, wildly creative, and, sometimes, incredibly incisive. I'm a big fan of the enviro-classic, The Lorax, but was recently told, to my deligh...
STUFFED AND STARVED
m o r e (farmers sustained)Stuffed and Starved is no light read. Raj Patel's tome is a sibling of Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma, but takes as its subject not just our food system, but that bedrock, cornerstone, source of it: the farmer and his/her plig...
WORLD TAI CHI AND QI GONG DAY
m o r e (mindful movement)World Tai Chi and Qi Gong Day is Sunday, April 19th. While both are yoga's cousins and just as ancient, they're much more off the radar. And they need not be. Both are 2,000 year old Chinese healing modalities that include s...
EARLY BOOKS FOR EARTHY KIDS
m o r e (eco-aware early readers)Here's the lowdown on kids books I love that have an earthy twist (I am a huge fan of picture books):*Follow the Line Around the World by Laura Ljungkvist is a chance to see the animals of Africa and the Arctic by si...
IT'S NOT ABOUT THE MONEY
m o r e (financial consciousness)In these times, I imagine one sale going up is financial advice books. It's Not About the Money is not a conventional financial advice book. It's more like a financial approach that combines spirituality with the m wo...
SWEET!
m o r e (natural sweets)Love sweets? Hate sugar? Lovingly referred to by my friend C as the white death, sugar is not so nice. Other, natural sweeteners are easy on the blood sugar and my muffin staple ingredient, agave, is actually sweeter than sug...
YOUR VINTAGE BOOK = TYLER BENDER'S RECYCLED JOURNAL
m o r e (vintage rewares)Tyler Bender will bind you a vintage book into a new (though recycled) journal. (Or provide you with one he's found in the stacks.)Just send him your old, cool-covered book and he'll send you back a journal according to your ...
FLOW
m o r e (resources preserved)Yet another film that I think every American should see. Flow is all about water, or Blue Gold as its referred to in the book (soon to be released film) by Maude Barlow, an amazing woman who figures in the movie.It tells...
THE OPEN ROAD (TO INDIE DIVES NEAR YOU)
m o r e (spirit)I just read Pico Iyer's The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. It's a layered look at this man who is a monk and the leader of Tibet and its exile community at the same time. It's all about paradoxes: an ancie...
OLDIE BUT GOODIE: GORILLAS IN THE MIST
m o r e (primates living primo, long lives)I watched this oldie but goodie a few days ago. I hadn't seen it since I was a grade schooler, but Gorillas in the Mist stands the test of time (well, minus the cheesy music anyway). I watched it and remembe...
FOLLOW THE LINE AROUND THE WORLD
m o r e (tracing the world with your finger)I found this book, Follow the Line Around the World by Laura Ljungkvist, at an independent bookseller near me.And what a treasure it is! The Amazon, the Sahara, Kenya, Greenland--each spread is a new place ...
TALES FROM THE HIVE
m o r e (bees abuzzing)Long before Colony Collapse Disorder was on the radar, Nova put out this amazing romp through a beehive filled with amazing bee behaviors, queenly competition, and struggles against rain, moths, and bears. My favorite part is...
JANE GOODALL
m o r e (chimpanzees and other creatures)I watched the IMAX film (albeit on a very, very small screen) Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees this week.It's an amazing look at the work Goodall has done in Gombe National Park in Tanzania and the chimpanzees ...
DEEP ECONOMY
m o r e (local, living, economies)I finally got around to reading Deep Economy over the last week and it feels like given our current economic crisis, it's a good time to revisit it. With things as they are, maybe it's prime time for some serious r...
TOUCH THE SOUND
m o r e (music making)I found the documentary, Touch the Sound, absolutely mesmerizing. A bio and performance showcase of Evelyn Glennie, world famous percussionist (who is also deaf), it's also an exploration of slowing down and of sound, of what ...
