Description:
Let's say you could save money, inoculate yourself against many of the ills of modern life, live more lightly on earth and enjoy everything more on both the sensual and profound levels.
Here is a toolkit to help you do just that.
Brief description: Annie may write 'horticulturalist' when she fills out the Main Occupation box on her tax return, but she considers herself an aesthete first and foremost. (She also usually writes some very small numbers in the Earnings box, yet considers herself incredibly rich.) She takes immense pleasure in the sensual world, and sees enjoying it without destroying it to be her main aim as a human being. She's keen to help others do the same, and gave up making art in favour of teaching people how to feed themselves sustainably. She has worked on permaculture projects in far-flung countries, co-authored with Adam The Weed Forager's Handbook: A Guide to Edible and Medicinal Weeds in Australia and Let's Eat Weeds: A Kid's Guide to Foraging, spent a decade at the nursery in CERES Community Environmental Park in Melbourne, and taught over-zealous workshops on soil biology. In between, she finds deserts to walk across, tries to think clever thoughts about the Anthropocene, and lies in her local park reading Thomas Hardy novels and eating homegrown bananas in the sunshine. She currently lives in Western Australia.
Review Quotes:
"The freest and most contented people pretty much follow the advice in The Art of Frugal Hedonism." Clive Hamilton, author of Growth Fetish and co-author of Affluenza.
"The Art of Frugal Hedonism is an absolute joy. It is good-natured not pious, humane not self-righteous and a guide to ethical living that makes the impossible possible. I am happy to make this my bible." Christos Tsiolkas, author of The Slap
"An invaluable harvest of tips oozing with hedonistic wit and wonder. Packed with ideas about why and how we are to live with less to ensure we have a hell of a lot more." Meg Ulman, co-author of The Art of Free Travel
"In an age that is obsessed with consumer trinkets and oblivious to waste, the philosophy of frugal hedonism provides a welcome and necessary antidote. The simplicity of this message is profound. Be frugal and be free." Samuel Alexander, co-director of the Simplicity Institute