About
Leaving work behind at 41 to focus on living: enjoying ourselves while saving dozens of lives, improving thousands more and taking no more than our fair share of resources. This is a family experiment in addressing global challenges and personal wellbeing with robust research, real people and practical solutions.
Redefining “The Good Life”
We’re exploring what it takes to live well, within planetary boundaries, while remaining part of mainstream society. We are building our lives around doing as much good as we can, while consuming about 1/8th of the Australian average household. We’re learning from experts and others on a similar path, how to bring our dream future into the present. Check out our blog or FAQs for more info and subscribe to follow along.
We are Living More
- Positive Emotion: Practicing deep gratitude and finding awe in our daily lives
- Engagement: Immersion in the present and making deliberate, considered choices
- Relationships: Making time to care for each other, our friends, family and strangers
- Meaning: Living aligned with our values and giving generously to greater causes
- Accomplishment: Learning and practising skills to build resilience and reduce our impact
- Health: Good food, ample movement, sleep, and time in nature
…With Less
- Stress, speed and screens
- Constant busyness and productivity pressure
- Debt and financial pressure
- Consumption and waste
- Isolation and loneliness
- Assumptions about how we measure success, progress, and happiness
Our Core Messages
Everyone can make a substantial positive difference in the world: Our family gives generously to effective charities, saving dozens of lives (25% of our income last year). We encourage others to also give what they can, to improve the lives of others and find greater meaning.
We need to scale back our lives to enable a fair and flourishing future. The western lifestyle is destroying our only planet. A better future looks like vastly reduced spending and deeper happiness, greater peace, enhanced resilience, more freedom, fun, connection, creativity and community.
Discovering a Different Way
We are not alone in this. People everywhere are taking action. They are choosing low impact diets, giving up flying, living locally, growing food together, finding ways of living frugally, repairing and sharing, rethinking education, and building resilience through local knowledge and mutual aid.
We’re seeking out these stories to learn and to share. We’re documenting people and places that reflect the values of Living More With Less and share what we learn through our blog, videos, interviews, and real conversations – amplifying the good that’s already happening and building active hope.
If you are part of a family, a movement or a community focused on living more with less or you relate to the message, we’d love to hear from you. Please get in touch to share your story or collaborate.