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Join Jill Cloutier of Sustainable World Radio , from 9-10am PST  for an live interview with author  Dave Wann of  Simple Prosperity , "Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle"

Sustainable World Radio: Friday 9am- 10am PST , Feb 8   KCSB 91.9 FM in Santa Barbara, California and streaming live on www.kcsb.org.

(see booksigning events below in Ventura Feb7, SB Feb 8, SLO Feb 9, Monterey Feb10 and more)

Best selling author David Wann presents 17 forms of “real wealth” that can eradicate affluenza, a pandemic he helped diagnose in the book, Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic. “When we change a few key priorities and values, such as what we mean by the word “success,” many of our material wants will cease to be obsessions,” says Wann. “Instead of fidgety, addictive consumption, our lives can be filled with the real wealth of sanity, health, hope, caring, connection, participation, and purpose.”


Sounds too good to be true? Wann’s new book, Simple Prosperity , Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle www. davewann .com , draws on the latest research to document how social connections, good health, contact with nature, stimulating work, leisure time, great neighborhoods, and other forms of real wealth can build up our immunity to affluenza. “As a result, we become less vulnerable to the borrow-and-spend mentality that’s backed the U.S. economy into a corner,” says Wann. “By reevaluating many aspects of daily life, including what we eat, where we live, and what we buy, we’re starting to imagine what a joyfully moderate, efficient, compassionate lifestyle will look like. The good news is that curing the pandemic of over-consumption at both the personal and cultural scale is not about giving up the good life but getting it back.”

David Wann is president of the non-profit Sustainable Futures Society, a board member of the Cohousing Association of the U.S., and a fellow of the Simplicity Forum, an association of writers and thinkers on the topic of sensible, sustainable lifestyles. Wann has received various lifetime achievement awards for his work on sustainability. He’s been an passionate gardener for 25 years and coordinates the community garden in the neighborhood he helped design – Harmony Village in Golden, Colorado. He’s written nine books and produced many award-winning TV programs and videos on sustainable design and sustainable lifestyles.

Sustainable World Radio: Friday mornings at 9:00 am PST on KCSB 91.9 FM in Santa Barbara, California and streaming live on www.kcsb.org. . Also found on  www.sustainableworldradio.com, or www.radio4all.net later in the week


Book Tour for “Simple Prosperity” in California , Oregon and Colorado
                                                February 7-23, 2008

February 7, Ventura: Artbarn: 856 East Thompson Blvd. (between Ash and Kalorama, behind Kids and Families Together), 7:00 p.m. Ventura, 93001. Contact Lynne Okun,: 805-338-2576 lbokun@earthlink.net
 
February 8:  KSCB 91.9 FM Sustainable World Radio , 9:00 to 10 a.m., Santa Barbara. www.kcsb.org streamimg live

February 8, Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Public Library, Faulkner Gallery, 40 East Anapamu St, in downtown Santa Barbara, 7:00 pm,  contact Wes 805-962-2571 lakinroe@silcom.com
Donation $5

February 9, San Luis Obispo: San Luis Obispo City/County Library 995 Palm St, San Luis Obispo, CA, 7 to 8:30 p.m.  Contact: Bob Banner, 805.544.9663 info@hopedance.org

February 10, Monterey: East Village Coffee House, 498 Washington St.,Monterey, Ca 93940. Contact: Mika Gilmer, 831-236-0204, 6:30 p.m. mikagilmer@yahoo.com

February 12, Ukiah: The Saturday Afternoon Club, 107 S. Oak Street, Ukiah, CA 95482, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Sponsored by the Greater Ukiah Localization Project (GULP)
www.cloudforest.org/GULP, Contact: Cliff Paulin, (707) 463-0413, cliffpaulin@hotmail.com . 

February 15, San Francisco: Book signing at Books, Inc., 7:00 p.m. 2551 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA Contact: Rob Garcelon at 415-931-3633
st, 1500 Ninth Ave., Longmont, CO  80501  7 p.m. www.ucclongmont.org 303-776-4940 Contact: Marian Parsons, kayakers@frii.com


February 20: Borders Bookstore, 2605 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 7 p.m.
Contact: Lillian Knutsen at 503-644-6164

February 21: Catlin Gabel School, Cabell Center, 8825 SW Barnes Rd., Portland, OR 97225, 7:00 to 8:30 Contact Marie Godbey, mlgodbey@mac.com
 
February 23, First Congregational United Church of Christ, 1500 Ninth Ave., Longmont, CO  80501  7 p.m. www.ucclongmont.org 303-776-4940 Contact: Marian Parsons, kayakers@frii.com
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