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More Praise for Sustainable Happiness

What makes Sustainable Happiness such an important collection is the books practicality. It helps readers understand ways they can make things better for themselves and their communities starting now.

David Brancaccio, host, American Public Medias Marketplace Morning Report, and co-executive producer, Fixing the Future

I read this book with both sadness and gladness. Sadness to realize how far astray global culture has led us from the true sources of happiness, and gladness that there are so many wise and practical voices gathered in one book to guide us back to lives of real fulfillment.

Margaret J. Wheatley, author of Leadership and the New Science

These stories of enjoyable forms of supportive local cooperation stimulated by wider individual frames of reference make concrete what sustainable happiness means. Try it. Its easier than you may think.

Ralph Nader, author and public interest advocate

Everyones life is a balancing act in the often-difficult world. This enlightening anthology offers a trove of helpful reflections on what it really means to have and to be, reminding us that joy is there to be found.

Mollie Katzen, chef and author of the Moosewood Cookbook

Sustainable Happiness is a fine selection of thoughtful articles. Youll come away with a deeper understanding of how we can improve the quality of all of our lives while passing on a verdant planet to our descendants. I heartily recommend this book!

John de Graaf, author and cofounder of the Happiness Alliance

The Sustainable Happiness volume delivers inspiration for your personal journey of joy and well-being as you navigate the pursuit of happiness in a deeply troubled world. Read this book for the wisdom it contains. It will nourish your soul.

Parker J. Palmer, educator and author of Let Your Life Speak and A Hidden Wholeness

Weve been sold a bill of goods about happinessand its costing us in all the things that make life worth living. Sustainable Happiness shows that the hours of our lives are not trinkets but rather a gift from and for the living world. Youll be happy you read this book.

Vicki Robin, bestselling author

Finally, a book on the pursuit of happiness that is not self-referential and small minded! Instead, it is honest, challenging, and invitational to a larger world beyond the small self. What a magnificent collection of writers and ideas!

Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM, founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation

What the happiness movement needs now is actionable examples pointing the way for our future that are rooted in the us, not just the me. Sustainable Happiness is the first book to answer that call.

Laura Musikanski, author and executive director, Happiness Alliance

Sustainable Happiness offers a gentle invitation to return to our deeper humanity, to a place that isnt so bogged down in daily chores, minute-to-minute texts, and a brain full of clutter. I loved it!

Dee Williams, author and tiny house builder (cofounder of Portland Alternative Dwellings)

In Sustainable Happiness, YES! has offered us a rich buffet of facts that surprise, ideas that inspire, stories that touch our hearts, and much food for thought. And really, who doesnt want to be happy?

Lama Tsomo, author of the forthcoming book Why Is the Dalai Lama Always Smiling?

The wealth of Sustainable Happiness grows out of the wisdom that has guided the beautiful growth of YES! initiativesinvariably, a celebration of ordinary people setting daily examples of courageous commoning, step-by-step, with infinite patience yet a necessary sense of urgency.

Madhu Suri Prakash, writer and educator

Sustainable Happiness blazes a trail into the brave new world of transforming extremely materialistic development models into ones that create true prosperity and happiness and of changing consciousness. A great book!

John Perkins, bestselling author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Modern society is a network of lures intended to seduce and reduce humans to consumers. Dig into Sustainable Happiness. Join the revolution of perception. Your happiness depends on it.

Makana, musician, composer, and activist

Sustainable Happiness

Live Simply, Live Well,
Make a Difference

Edited by Sarah van Gelder
and the staff of YES! Magazine

Sustainable Happiness

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Dedicated to our friends
folk music legend Pete Seeger (1919-2014)
and civil rights icon Vincent Harding (1931-2014)
who spent their lives working to make happiness
accessible to everyone.

Sarah van Gelder

Roman Krznaric

Jen Angel

Annie Leonard

Brooke Jarvis with Richard Wilkinson

Eric Michael Johnson

Akaya Windwood