Nothing's Too Small to Make a Difference - Hardcover

Urbanska, Wanda; Levering, Frank

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0895872978 ISBN 13: 9780895872975

Publisher: Friends of the Mountains to Sea, 2004

Synopsis

Nothing's Too Small to Make a Difference is the companion volume to the PBS series, Simple Living with Wanda Urbanska. In chapters covering time, money, work, the environment, child rearing, community life, health and food, and spiritual growth, the authors offer proven, practical advice on how to simplify and improve life. Not idle dreamers but the owners of a small business themselves, not iconoclasts but proud Americans who believe it's possible to work within the system, Urbanska and Levering point the way toward a future in which community, family, and health can reclaim their rightful positions alongside money as the pillars of life.

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About the Author

National lecturers, workshop leaders, and authors or co-authors of seven books, Levering and Urbanska have appeared on Oprah, CBS This Morning, the Today show, and NPR's All Things Considered. They've been featured in USA Today, Redbook, Family Circle, and Glamour. They now own and operate Levering Orchard, the largest cherry orchard in the South, located in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Reviews

Here's more thoughtful, if often familiar, advice from the authors of Simple Living. A companion to the PBS series Simple Living with Wanda Urbanska, scheduled for this summer and fall, the volume shares lessons culled from the authors' move from fast-paced Los Angeles to running a Virginia cherry orchard, and the experiences of friends and experts. They believe "lifestyle simplification invariably cycles back to stewardship of your time, your money, and the environment." Eight chapters include plenty of "nothing's-too-small" choices to challenge the "assumption that one person—and one action—can't make a difference." For example, a simple switch to cloth napkins or using a travel mug instead of a Styrofoam cup daily cuts down on waste. While the chapter on environmental impact offers new ideas, chapters on managing money, work situations and reaching out to the community are filled with the tried-and-true. Most valuable is the chapter on cultivating the values of simplicity in children. In a lovely section, the authors explain how they teach their son the value of a few carefully selected gifts over holiday excess. Urbanska and Levering certainly feel the small changes they recommend are crucial, for "if our personal choices make no sense for the one planet we all share, then that planet will no longer be a good home."
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Edition details

• Publisher: Friends of the Mountains to Sea
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0895872978
• ISBN 13: 9780895872975
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 179