Description
Vicki Robin is a prolific social innovator, writer and speaker. She is coauthor with Joe Dominguez of the international best-seller, Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence (Viking Penguin, 1992, 1998, 2008). It was an instant NY Times best seller in 1992 and steadily appeared on the Business Week Best Seller list from 1992-1997. It is available now in eleven languages.
Her new book, Blessing the Hands that Feed Us; what eating closer to home can teach us about food, community and our place on earth (Viking/Penguin 2014) tells how her experiment in 10-mile eating not only changed how she ate, but also renewed her hope and rooted her in her community. She calls this “relational eating.” She went on to investigate how we might restore the vitality of our regional food systems so everyone could have the benefit of relational eating – healthy food, healthy communities. She calls this building “complementary food systems,” not to replace but to work along side of the global industrial systems we now depend on for almost 100% of our food. Her book offers many practical tools for transformation, from changing our attitudes, to changing our habits to changing our food sources to getting active in social and political change.
Charlotte A. –
been plowing through this book over and over. it’s a practical guide for valuing your time, your life, your money and your dreams. it’s caused me to put a much higher value on my time than I had previously and to see hidden costs in things. this book is relevant and also timeless.
Charlotte A. –
Fantastic book that I recommend for everyone. Updated edition brings new stories and is just as good as previous versions. I buy copies of this book to give away to friends fairly often. Fantastic service to those who can see the value, although voluntary simplicity isn’t for everyone.