In addition to the author's original reflections on themes such as doing justice, learning from the world community, nurturing people, cherishing the natural order, and nonconforming freely, "Living More with Less: 30th Anniversary Edition" contains new and updated essays, reflections, and practical tips in areas such as money, homekeeping, gardening, cooking, clothing, transportation, and technology.

Doris Janzen Longacre home economist, theologian, and advocate for the world's hungry, wrote the More-with-Less cookbook, which as sold nearly one-million copies, and Living More-with-Less.