Happiness is earning more……. than other people do
This sounds like a never-ending competition where most people are almost surely going to fall short. From a University of Warwick (UK) study (via Futurity.org) : Simply being highly paid isn’t enough. To be happy, people need to perceive themselves as being more highly paid than their friends and work colleagues. "Our study found that the ranked position of an individual’s income best predicted general life satisfaction, while the actual amount of [...]
Global Warming and the Blizzard of 2010
Deniers Can’t Snow Us with “Snowmageddon” By Michael Beck They can’t have it both ways. Those who loudly deny Climate Change science as a hoax and an attack on the American lifestyle have pounced on the record Mid-Atlantic blizzards to make their point. The snowiest season ever recorded in places like DC and Philadelphia couldn’t possibly have happened, they tell us, if the planet were really warming, let alone warming because of human [...]
Today’s new poll deserves special word
Our series of weekly polls continues a little longer as all preparations are being made to launch the Get Satisfied Interactive Handbook soon - along with a Get Satisfied Game Show! The Interactive Handbook is a “game-changer” that is produced in cooperation with the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA and will very shortly offer you a personalized how-to plan for finding the satisfaction of enough. Meanwhile, the new week’s [...]
Lifestyle Change Vs. Climate Change
By Michael Beck Global warming deniers accuse environmentalists of hyping climate change into a Big Scare, turning it into yet one more liberal plot to deprive patriotic Americans of their sacred right to consume as much stuff as they damned well please. It’s certainly not a plot, but the deniers have a point. In the long term, climate stability means pushing global atmospheric CO2 back below 350 ppm (parts per million). Not only [...]
In the words of our Get Satisfied authors
Katherine Hauswirth, Deep River, CT "Radical simplicity—you know, the quit your job, grow your own food, live off the grid type of existence—works for some. But it scares most of us. It scares some of us so much that we even shy away from not so radical simplicity, where the move toward a simpler existence can mean very gradually weaning ourselves from the comforting teat of complacency while we awaken to the [...]
Global Warming = Global ‘Warning’ for Consumerism
By Michael Beck Unlike with the previous Simple Living America blog, I intend to contribute to Postconsumers regularly. As my main focus - and typical of how I gravitate towards the big picture - I will address what I frequently slip and call global warning. It's a Freudian slip, honest: climate change looms so powerfully in my awareness that when I'm speaking publicly, I need to consciously remind myself to pronounce 'm' rather [...]
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