less stuff, more happiness
Emily Oster
Graham Hill is a designer, environmentalist, entrepreneur and founder of the popular website TreeHugger.com. More recently, Hill launched Life Edited - a website with the motto "design your life to include more money, health and happiness with less stuff, space and energy". His TED talk, "less stuff, more happiness" discusses this recent venture and the ideas behind it.
Beginning with some powerful statistics, Hill's short 6 minute talk goes on to make the case that less is indeed more. Advocating quality over quantity, Hill explains how less stuff leads to a smaller carbon footprint, more financial freedom and ultimately less stress and more happiness. The talk is super short so I highly recommend that everyone take the 6 minutes to listen. Enjoy!