Essays about simple lifestyles

The basics

Hut life

My communalist community ideas

These essays are about setting up simple lifestyle based on solid common-sense rather than on comfort. They range over a variety of related topics, covering such matters as whether the Vikings had the technical ability to construct a hydro-electric power plant, how voluntary simplicity relates to actual poverty, and the advantages of re-introducing the stocks.

Simplicity is not a lifestyle in itself; it can be part of a variety of ways of living. It was promoted not only by St Francis of Assisi, but also by his contemporary, Genghis Khan!

Law with kindness

Some thoughts on sharing

Simplicity and Poverty

Sufficiency

Appropriate use of technology

Essays about communalism