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Planet Home: Conscious Choices for Cleaning and Greening the World You Care about Most by Jeffrey Hollender and Alexander Zissu breaks Duke Augustus’ rule of only recommending books he has thoroughly read. Though in a different way, the Duke and Duchess are thoroughly familiar with the author. Hollender is the co-founder and former CEO of the Seventh Generation cleaning products company. In addition to natural cleaning agents such as vinegar, salt and baking soda, the Duke & Duchess’ castle has been thoroughly stocked with Seventh Generation products for a decade. (Refresh the page if the reader with the first chapter of the book does not appear.)
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Duke Augustus writes: Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence: Revised and Updated for the 21st Century by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez sparked the modern simplicity movement. It remains one of the pre-eminent sources for how to create financial freedom by separating your needs from your wants. This is not a get rich quick scheme. It is the progeny of Thoreau’s On Walden Pond. The Harvard-educated Thoreau freed himself from the business world by by taking the extraordinary measure of changing his life from pencil manufacturer to squatter. Dominguez and Robin suggest a less drastic change by helping you re-direct your prosperity from consumer driven wants to enough wealth to stop working.
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