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    <![CDATA[Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;<p>In his bestseller <em>Affluenza</em>, David Wann and his co-authors diagnosed the debilitating disease of over-consumption.  In <em>Simple Prosperity</em> he shows readers how we can overcome this disease by investing in a variety of real wealth sources. To recapture a more abundant and sustainable lifestyle, try: </p><p>- Creating a richer life story through personal growth incentives <br/>- Forming higher-yield friendships and stronger bonds through social capital <br/>- Taking preventive healthcare measures to build up wellness reserves <br/>- Balancing the biological budget through “greener” currency <br/>- Caring for people, not just cars, to improve your neighborhood wealth index <br/>- Resolving that pesky carbon conundrum through energy savings <br/>- Celebrating instead of desecrating! Cultural prosperity futures value the earth as a sacred place</p><p>In our age of hedge fund hysteria, <em>Simple Prosperity</em> is a new way of investing that will save our sanity and the planet.</p>&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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  <read_at>Thu Dec 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Got this book for Christmas, and while the subject interests me I just can't get past the author's insufferably pompous tone. The ideas are parroted from better books, and much of it reads like a rant. I am about halfway through and I just can't take any more! ]]></body>
    
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