Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle
17 assets we can invest in to build immunity to overconsumption, including stronger social bonds, preventive approaches to health, time abundance, great design, re-connection with nature, policy innovations, and neighborhoods-on-purpose. Powerpoint presentation.

Affluenza, the All-Consuming Epidemic
How America's obsession with material wealth results in debilitating symptoms like a Rash of Bankruptcies, the Stress of Excess, Community Chills, Resource Exhaustion, Family Convulsions, Chronic Congestion, and an Ache for Meaninig. Includes audience participation, a film clip, and music.

What Makes a Neighborhood Great?
A discussion of the benefits of lively, sustainable neighborhoods, illustrated by a film clip and slides of cohousing, new urbanist neighborhoods, and intentional "remodeling" of existing neighborhoods, using principles presented in the book Superbia!

The Zen of Gardening
Slideshow illustrating tools, tips and techniques of organic gardening, including Permaculture, Biointensive, and Biodynamic methods. Draws from 30 years of hands-on experience as well as in-depth research at America's best farms and gardens.

Additional Themes:

• Mindful Money: More Value from Better Stuff
• The Bonds of Social Capital: The More We Spend, the More We Have
• Time Affluence: How to Save It and Savor It
• Stocks of Wellness: Preventive Pathways to Health
• The Currency of Nature: A Living Endowment
• Precious Work and Play: Going With the Flow
• The Real Wealth of Neighborhoods: Designing for People, Not Cars
• Higher Returns on Investment: Twice the Satisfaction for Half the Resources
• Energy Savings: Finessing the Carbon Conundrum
• The Benefits of Right- Sizing: Better Than Better Homes and Gardens
• Trimming the Fat: Farewell to Fossil Food
• Infinite Information: How to Channel its Flow
• Historical Dividends: New Rules for An Old Game
• Cultural Prosperity: The Earth as a Sacred Garden