That’s the question that Sheila Simon asks.
Hang out with me.
In my most rich environmentalist fantasies I am off the grid, self-sufficiently solar. In real life I’m still on the grid because I’m not rich.
But even in real life with a budget, my family and I have scored big with one simple lifestyle change—we hang [...]
From MSNBC’s article For commuters, economic woes pile up:
Even cutting trips to church
When the Mitchells bought their modular home in rural Platteville, Colo., north of Denver, they were among the many Americans trading a long commute for an affordable house.
Seven years later, the Mitchells are making another, more painful trade. Their housing woes compounded by [...]
I’m going to be teaching an undergraduate economics course next semester, and I’m thinking about using this little lesson from Dmitry Orlov to help keep things in perspective. Dmitry discusses a series of economics questions about the effects of various factors on someone who is in a bad spot anyway (that would be you and [...]
Here’s an interesting analogy from Jim Brown:
Think of it as though you were one of 100 people shipwrecked on a desert island. The only water source on the island was a small spring fed pond and the spring only produced enough water each day for 25 people. The accumulated water in the pond could supply [...]
