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“Peril and Promise” An interview with Duane Elgin by Arnie Cooper for The Sun Magazine, August 2002
Duane Elgin helped define the trend toward a life of sustainable prosperity back in 1981 with his first book, Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich (Morrow). In that now-classic text, updated in 1993 and again in 2010, Elgin encouraged us not just to cut back on consumption and ease our busy schedules, but to live a life with purpose, in which every action is the result of a conscious choice.