Publications
To follow publications from Simplicity Institute writers, see Samuel Alexander’s publications page here and Ted Trainer’s page here.
Many of our ebooks are freely available – or available on a ‘pay what you can’ basis – here.
Samuel Alexander is currently working on a collection of essays on the aesthetics of degrowth and simplicity, available here.
Latest Reports, Articles, and Books
Paradise Lost? The Climate Crisis and the Human Condition (2023) Paul Hoggett (paperback, pdf).
S M P L C T Y: Ecological Civilisation and the Will to Art (2023), Samuel Alexander (paperback, hardback, pdf).
Do You Want to Know the Truth? The Surprising Rewards of Climate Honesty, Rupert Read (2022, pdf and paperback).
Extinction Rebellion: Insights from the Inside (2020, edited collection of Rupert Read’s essays) (paperback, Kindle, pdf)
The Simpler Way: Collected Writings of Ted Trainer, (2020) edited by Samuel Alexander and Jonathan Rutherford (paperback here and ebook here)
The Simpler Way: Envisioning a Sustainable Society in an Age of Limits (2019) (published in Real World Economics Review here)
Ted Trainer and Samuel Alexander
This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the End of Empire – and What Lies Beyond (2019, co-authored by Rupert Read and Samuel Alexander) (paperback and ebook).
Carbon Civilisation and the Energy Descent Future: Life Beyond this Brief Anomaly(2018) (paperback here and pdf here)
Samuel Alexander and Joshua Floyd
Varieties of Eco-Socialism: Comparing the Thought of John Bellamy Foster and Saral Sarkar (Simplicity Institute Report, 18a, 2018)
Jonathan Rutherford
Art Against Empire: Toward an Aesthetics of Degrowth (2017), Samuel Alexander – paperback (pdf)
Compost Capitalism: The Art and Aesthetics of Degrowth (2017) Samuel Alexander – paperback
Wild Democracy: Degrowth, Permaculture, and the Simpler Way (2017) Samuel Alexander – paperback (pdf)
Words for Awakening: Voices of Inspired Revolt (2017) Samuel Alexander and Simon Ussher paperback
A Critique of the Decoupling Strategy: A ‘Limits to Growth’ Perspective (Simplicity Institute Report, 17b, 2017)
Samuel Alexander, Jonathan Rutherford, and Josh Floyd (pre-published version here).
The Moral and Ethical Weight of Voluntary Simplicity: A Philosophical Review (Simplicity Institute Report, 17a, 2017)
Samuel Alexander and Jacob Garrett
Just Enough is Plenty: Thoreau’s Alternative Economics (2016) (paperback here, pdf here, Kindle here)
Samuel Alexander
Deface the Currency: The Lost Dialogues of Diogenes (2016) (paperback here, pdf here)
Samuel Alexander
Wild Democracy: A Biodiversity of Resistance and Renewal (Simplicity Institute Report, 16a, 2016)
Samuel Alexander
Prosperous Descent: Telling New Stories as the Old Book Closes (Griffith Review, 52, 2016)
Samuel Alexander
Policies for a Post-Growth Economy (MSSI Issues Paper, No. 6, April 2016)
Samuel Alexander
Sufficiency Economy: Enough, for Everyone, Forever (2015) (paperback here, pdf here)
Samuel Alexander
Low-Tech Living as a ‘Demand-Side’ Response to Climate Change and Peak Oil (Simplicity Institute Report, 15d, 2015)
Samuel Alexander and Paul Yacoumis
Prosperous Descent: Crisis as Opportunity in an Age of Limits (2015) (paperback here, pdf here)
Samuel Alexander
The Case for Simplicity (Simplicity Institute Report, 15c, 2015)
Ted Trainer
Our Renewable Future (Simplicity Institute Report, 15b, 2015)
Richard Heinberg
The Paradox of Oil: The Cheaper It Is, the More It Costs (Simplicity Institute Report, 15a, 2015)
Samuel Alexander
Books Published by the Simplicity Institute
Extinction Rebellion: Insights from the Inside (2020, edited collection of Rupert Read’s essays) (paperback, Kindle, pdf)
The Simpler Way: Collected Writings of Ted Trainer, (2020) edited by Samuel Alexander and Jonathan Rutherford (paperback here and ebook here)
This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the End of Empire – and What Lies Beyond (2019, co-authored with Rupert Read) (paperback and ebook).
Carbon Civilisation and the Energy Descent Future: Life Beyond this Brief Anomaly(2018) (paperback here and pdf here)
Samuel Alexander and Joshua Floyd
Art Against Empire: Toward an Aesthetics of Degrowth (2017), Samuel Alexander – paperback
Compost Capitalism: The Art and Aesthetics of Degrowth(2017) Samuel Alexander – paperback
Wild Democracy: Degrowth, Permaculture, and the Simpler Way (2017) Samuel Alexander – paperback
Words for Awakening: Voices of Inspired Revolt (2017) Samuel Alexander and Simon Ussher paperback
Just Enough is Plenty: Thoreau’s Alternative Economics (2016) (paperback here, pdf here, Kindle here)
Samuel Alexander
Deface the Currency: The Lost Dialogues of Diogenes (2016) (paperback here, pdf here)
Samuel Alexander
Sufficiency Economy: Enough, for Everyone, Forever (2015) (paperback here, pdf here)
Samuel Alexander
Prosperous Descent: Crisis as Opportunity in an Age of Limits (2015) (paperback here, pdf here)
Samuel Alexander
Simple Living in History: Pioneers of the Deep Future (2014)
edited by Samuel Alexander and Amanda McLeod
The Hidden Door: Mindful Sufficiency as an Alternative to Extinction (2013)
Mark A. Burch
Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation (2013) (paper here, pdf here, Kindle here).
Samuel Alexander
Key Reports from the Simplicity Institute
The Sufficiency Economy: Envisioning a Prosperous Way Down (Simplicity Institute Report, 12s, 2012)
Samuel Alexander
Your Delightful Day: The Benefits of Life in The Simpler Way (Simplicity Institute Report, 13b, 2013)
Ted Trainer
Mindfulness: The Doorway to Simple Living (Simplicity Institute Report, 12n, 2012)
Mark A. Burch
Essays on Frugal Abundance (1 of 4) (Simplicity Institute Report, 14c, 2014)
Serge Latouche
Ted Trainer and The Simpler Way (Simplicity Institute Report, 12d, 2012)
Samuel Alexander
Retrofitting the Suburbs for the Energy Descent Future (Simplicity Institute Report, 12i, 2012)
David Holmgren
The Deep Green Alternative: Debating Strategies of Transition (Simplicity Institute Report, 14a, 2014)
Samuel Alexander and Jonathan Rutherford
The Voluntary Simplicity Movement: A Multi-National Survey Analysis in Theoretical Context (Simplicity Institute Report, 11a, 2011)
Samuel Alexander and Simon Ussher
The Transition Movement: Questions of Diversity, Power, and Affluence (Simplicity Institute Report, 14g, 2014)
Esther Alloun and Samuel Alexander
Our Renewable Future (Simplicity Institute Report, 15b, 2015)
Richard Heinberg
Policies for a Post-Growth Economy (MSSI Issues Paper, No. 6, April 2016)
Samuel Alexander
Full Archive of Simplicity Institute Publications
The Voluntary Simplicity Movement: A Multi-National Survey Analysis in Theoretical Context (Simplicity Institute Report, 11a, 2011)
Samuel Alexander and Simon Ussher
Peak Oil, Energy Descent, and the Fate of Consumerism (Simplicity Institute Report 11b, 2011) [see update here]
Samuel Alexander
The Simpler Way: A Practical Action Plan for Living More on Less (Simplicity Institute Report, 12a, 2012)
Samuel Alexander, Ted Trainer, and Simon Ussher
Degrowth implies Voluntary Simplicity: Overcoming Barriers to Sustainable Consumption (Simplicity Institute Report, 12b, 2012)
Samuel Alexander
Living Better On Less? Toward an Economics of Sufficiency (Simplicity Institute Report, 12c, 2012)
Samuel Alexander
Ted Trainer and The Simpler Way (Simplicity Institute Report, 12d, 2012)
Samuel Alexander
Can Renewable Energy Sustain Consumer Societies? A Negative Case (Simplicity Institute Report, 12e, 2012) (update forthcoming)
Ted Trainer
Twenty Questions: Technology and Simple Living (Simplicity Institute Report, 12f, 2012)
Mark A. Burch
But Can’t Technological Advance Solve the Problems? (Simplicity Institute Report, 12g, 2012)
Ted Trainer
Resilience through Simplification: Revisiting Tainter’s Theory of Collapse (Simplicity Institute Report, 12h, 2012)
Samuel Alexander
Retrofitting the Suburbs for the Energy Descent Future (Simplicity Institute Report, 12i, 2012)
David Holmgren
Educating for Simple Living (Simplicity Institute Report, 12j, 2012)
Mark A. Burch
The Simplicity Exercises: A Sourcebook for Simplicity Educators (Simplicity Institute Report, 12k, 2012)
Mark A. Burch
Degrowth, Expensive Oil, and the New Economics of Energy (Simplicity Institute Report, 12l, 2012)
Samuel Alexander
Mindfulness: The Doorway to Simple Living (Simplicity Institute Report, 12n, 2012)
Mark A. Burch
Communicating Simplicity (Simplicity Institute Report, 12o, 2012)
Mark A. Burch
Radical Simplicity and the Middle-Class: Exploring the Lifestyle Implications of a ‘Great Disruption’ (Simplicity Institute Report, 12p, 2012)
Samuel Alexander
Simplicity and Economy (Simplicity Institute Report, 12q, 2012)
Mark A. Burch
Simplicity, Sustainability, and Human Rights (Simplicity Institute Report, 12r, 2012)
Mark A. Burch
The Sufficiency Economy: Envisioning a Prosperous Way Down (Simplicity Institute Report, 12s, 2012)
Samuel Alexander
Sufficiency: Enough, For Everyone, Forever (Simplicity Institute Report, 12t, 2012)
Mark A. Burch
Can a Collapse of Civilization be Avoided? (Simplicity Institute Report, 13a, 2013)
Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich
Your Delightful Day: The Benefits of Life in The Simpler Way (Simplicity Institute Report, 13b, 2013)
Ted Trainer
Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation (2013) (paper here, pdf here, Kindle here).
Samuel Alexander
Stories of Simplicity: Reimagining the Good Life (2013)
Samuel Alexander and Simon Ussher (eds)
The Hidden Door: Mindful Sufficiency as an Alternative to Extinction (2013)
Mark A. Burch
Crash on Demand: Welcome to the Brown Tech Future (Simplicity Institute Report 13c, 2013)
David Holmgren
The Deep Green Alternative: Debating Strategies of Transition (Simplicity Institute Report, 14a, 2014)
Samuel Alexander and Jonathan Rutherford
A Critique of Techno-Optimism: Efficiency without Sufficiency is Lost (MSSI Working Paper, WP 1/14)
Samuel Alexander
Essays on Frugal Abundance (1 of 4) (Simplicity Institute Report, 14c, 2014)
Serge Latouche
Post-Growth Economics: A Paradigm Shift in Progress (MSSI Working Paper, WP 2/14)
Samuel Alexander
Essays on Frugal Abundance (2 of 4) (Simplicity Institute Report, 14d, 2014)
Serge Latouche
The New Economics of Oil (MSSI ‘Issues’ Paper, No. 2, March 2014)
Samuel Alexander
Essays on Frugal Abundance (3 of 4) (Simplicity Institute Report, 14e, 2014)
Serge Latouche
Essays on Frugal Abundance (4 of 4) (Simplicity Institute Report, 14f, 2014)
Serge Latouche
The Transition Movement: Questions of Diversity, Power, and Affluence (Simplicity Institute Report, 14g, 2014)
Esther Alloun and Samuel Alexander
Degrowth and the Carbon Budget: Powerdown Strategies for Climate Stability (Simplicity Institute Report, 14h, 2014)
Samuel Alexander
Simple Living in History: Pioneers of the Deep Future (2014)
edited by Samuel Alexander and Amanda McLeod
The Paradox of Oil: The Cheaper It Is, the More It Costs (Simplicity Institute Report, 15a, 2015)
Samuel Alexander
Our Renewable Future (Simplicity Institute Report, 15b, 2015)
Richard Heinberg
The Case for Simplicity (Simplicity Institute Report, 15c, 2015)
Ted Trainer
Prosperous Descent: Crisis as Opportunity in an Age of Limits (2015) (paperback here, pdf here)
Samuel Alexander
Low-Tech Living as a ‘Demand-Side’ Response to Climate Change and Peak Oil (Simplicity Institute Report, 15d, 2015)
Samuel Alexander and Paul Yacoumis
Sufficiency Economy: Enough, for Everyone, Forever (2015) (paperback here, pdf here)
Samuel Alexander
Policies for a Post-Growth Economy (MSSI Issues Paper, No. 6, April 2016)
Samuel Alexander
Prosperous Descent: Telling New Stories as the Old Book Closes (Griffith Review, 52, 2016)
Samuel Alexander
Wild Democracy: A Biodiversity of Resistance and Renewal (Simplicity Institute Report, 16a, 2016)
Samuel Alexander
Deface the Currency: The Lost Dialogues of Diogenes (2016) (paperback here, pdf here)
Samuel Alexander
Just Enough is Plenty: Thoreau’s Alternative Economics (2016) (paperback here, pdf here, Kindle here)
Samuel Alexander
The Moral and Ethical Weight of Voluntary Simplicity: A Philosophical Review (Simplicity Institute Report, 17a, 2017)
Samuel Alexander and Jacob Garrett
A Critique of the Decoupling Strategy: A ‘Limits to Growth’ Perspective (Simplicity Institute Report, 17b, 2017)
Samuel Alexander, Jonathan Rutherford, and Josh Floyd (pre-published version here).
Words for Awakening: Voices of Inspired Revolt (2017) Samuel Alexander and Simon Ussher paperback
Art Against Empire: Toward an Aesthetics of Degrowth (2017), Samuel Alexander – paperback
Compost Capitalism: The Art and Aesthetics of Degrowth (2017) Samuel Alexander – paperback
Wild Democracy: Degrowth, Permaculture, and the Simpler Way (2017) Samuel Alexander – paperback
Varieties of Eco-Socialism: Comparing the Thought of John Bellamy Foster and Saral Sarkar (Simplicity Institute Report, 18a, 2018)
Jonathan Rutherford
The Simpler Way: Collected Writings of Ted Trainer, (2020) edited by Samuel Alexander and Jonathan Rutherford (paperback here and ebook here)
This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the End of Empire – and What Lies Beyond (2019, co-authored with Rupert Read) (paperback and ebook).
Extinction Rebellion: Insights from the Inside (2020, edited collection of Rupert Read’s essays) (paperback, Kindle, pdf)
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Other papers by Dr. Alexander are available here.
Other papers by Dr. Trainer are available here.
