2013: New Year Stunts, Challenges and Resolutions

Want a challenge? Break up, little-by-little, with consumerism. In December, the ritual of creating "new year's resolutions" can propel us to redesign what's not working in our lives.

Myself--Well, I love something ascetic and kooky. I love reading other peoples's meditations. I'm sick of self-help guides by materialists pretending to be spiritual gurus, if you know what I mean.

Here's a list of one year-long experiments in book form:

• Not Buying It by Judith Levine
• No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process by Colin Beavan
• Living Oprah: My One-Year Experiment to Walk the Walk of the Queen of Talk by Robyn Okrant
• The Year I Saved My (downsized) Soul by Carol Orsborn
• A Year Without "Made in China": One Family's True Life Adventure in the Global Economy by Sara Bongiorni
• The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver

Bonus "Year-of" Book:
The Year of Dreaming Dangerously by Slavoj Zizek

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