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Modern Homesteading and the Trend Towards Greater Independence

Small Business Labs

The trend towards desiring greater levels independence - and the autonomy, control and flexibility that comes with it - takes many forms.  For example, the growing FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement is all about independence.  Data on how many people are pursuing this lifestyle is non-existent.

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Rachel Ceruti Is Curbing Environmental Waste By Upcycling Clothes

Success

Growing up, Rachel Ceruti had an appreciation for the environment, but she didn’t consider herself an environmentalist nor had she started upcycling clothes. While she was there, she learned about how secondhand clothing is shipped to Africa and then ends up in landfills. “We What is upcycled clothing?

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How 30 Days of Kindness Made Me a Better Person

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It’s a warm September day in New York, but he’s sitting under a mountain of ragged bits of clothing, towels and blankets. Some days felt more significant: buying cough syrup for the two coughing boys in pajamas at the pharmacy, for example. Admittedly I experienced some form of generosity fatigue around the second week of my challenge.

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Why Less Is More

Brilliantly Better

Without a goal to direct it, without a plan to make it something material, it will remain in its raw form. And every form of raw energy is a dangerous thing to play with. Without a goal to direct it, without a plan to make it something material, it will remain in its raw form. Particularly helpful when I go clothes shopping !

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Drive-By Shooting Special: Melani Ward | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Now James stood in the doorway, the mud spit up by the old bike’s back tire forming grey-brown clumps on his white t-shirt. In fact, we’re confused – entrepreneurship, lifestyle design, health, wellness, and spirituality… that’s quite the cocktail, and it’s never a good idea to mix your drinks.

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Minimum Survival Kit

Brilliantly Better

When it was cold, it was really cold, we had to sleep with clothes on and didn’t have any other way to get warm. Exciting, if you look at it form the outside, frightening if you have to do it. The same thing happens to some of the people who are violently thrown out form their 10 or 20 years long relationship. On the contrary.

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What I Learned From Wearing the Same Outfit for 2 Weeks

Success

By “automating your wardrobe,” I mean following the fashion examples of Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs and others whose jobs demand a daily deluge of global-scale decision-making. When picking my official automated outfit, I realized an unsettling truth: I wear a lot of the same clothes anyway. Why wear the same outfit every day?

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