Simple Living With Wanda Urbanska

How did the Simple Living With Wanda Urbanska television series – which debuted around the country in July 2004 – come into being? What was the inspiration for this home-grown project that has already developed a sizeable following around the country?

Frank and Wanda moved from Los Angeles to the Levering family cherry orchard in Carroll County, VA – just north of Frank’s hometown of Mount Airy, NC – back in 1986. The couple was seeking more connection and meaning in their lives and a simpler life in general. As it turns out, Frank and Wanda were not alone in their pursuit of simplicity back then. Then as today, people from every walk of life are working to reshape lives, to “get back to basics,” to build meaningful relationships and secure, caring communities. We all want to learn how to budget time and money, how to lessen the environmental impact of our lifestyle on the planet.

Simple Living With Wanda Urbanska offers thoughtful ideas to inspire each of us to make adjustments to possession-cluttered, time-starved lives. Whether it’s suggesting that you commit to writing one letter every week, replacing disposable coffee cups with a travel mug, buying a seasonal share of a local farmer’s crop or volunteering for a worthwhile cause, we’ll provide you with small steps that, taken together by all of us, can make a large impact on your own life and on society as a whole.

Simple Living With Wanda Urbanska examines what people can do to make their lives easier and more stress-free, from buying products that will last a long time to managing budgets more responsibly. The show focuses on four themes: environmental stewardship, thoughtful consumption, community involvement and financial responsibility.

In each episode, audiences learn how to make dramatic lifestyle changes with multiple and overlapping benefits. While of these benefits and changes are little changes, they add up to a lot when taken together. They are ways for people to become more thoughtful about the way that we live, and to lessen our environmental footprint. From Wanda & Frank's home base in Mount Airy, NC, to your home base wherever you live, remember the mantra: Nothing’s Too Small to Make a Difference.

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