{"id":18789,"date":"2013-11-15T15:48:24","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T15:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/?p=312218"},"modified":"2013-11-15T15:48:24","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T15:48:24","slug":"how-living-with-less-can-help-you-live-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/how-living-with-less-can-help-you-live-more\/","title":{"rendered":"How Living With Less Can Help You Live More"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/livewithless-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"livewithless\"><\/p>\n<p>Do you sometimes feel that your possessions are running your life? Are the things you&#8217;re consuming actually consuming you?<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/author\/aleonard\/\" target=\"_blank\">Annie Leonard<\/a> details in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/storyofstuff.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Story of Stuff<\/a><\/em>, Americans live in a world of excess and spend a considerable amount of time shopping.&nbsp;At the same time, there&#8217;s no sign that owning more things makes people happier. In fact, research shows the <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2012\/03\/12\/economics-of-happiness\/\" target=\"_blank\">reverse is true<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an infographic from&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.masters-in-human-resources.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">mastersinhumanresources.org<\/a>&nbsp;that illustrates how we are absolutely being controlled by our stuff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.masters-in-human-resources.org\/living-with-less\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Living With Less: America's Quest for Simplicity\" src=\"http:\/\/ig.masters-in-human-resources.org\/simplify.jpg\" width=\"500\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/newsletter-signup\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"topnewsbanner1\" src=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/topnewsbanner11.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"120\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,57],"tags":[12201,12297,12202,12205],"class_list":["post-18789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","category-leed-news","tag-featured-living","tag-green-lifestyle","tag-living","tag-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}