Paul & Sarah Edwards
For over twenty years Paul and Sarah, originators of the Elm Street Economy concept, have been advocates for
creating healthy, balanced and fulfilling ways of living
and working. They co-direct a non-profit local Transition
Initiative in Pine Mountain Club, CA, and are two of the
few
Transition Initiative trainers and consultants in the US, assisting local communities and
organizations transition to a resilient, sustainable future.
Sarah a PhD ecopsychologist and Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Together they are authors of 17 books with over two million copies in print.
Prior to their work together as authors, speakers, and trainers, the
Edwards enjoyed individual careers; Sarah in private practice as a
psychotherapist and Paul as an attorney, CEO and public affairs consultant.
Their book Working From Home, now in fifth edition, was the first
commercially published book about how to work from home. Always interested
in major trends and how they will affect our lives, their seventeenth book,
Middle Class Lifeboat: Careers and Lifestyles for Navigating a Changing
Economy, released January 1, 2008, provides practical information for
what individuals can do to address the growing anxiety about economic and
ecological changes in the global economy.
The Edwards live in the mountains of the Los Padres National Forest. Sarah, as the director the Pine Mountain Institute, offers counseling and online continuing education (CE) programs for professionals seeking to help clients deal with the practical and psychological challenges of today's economic and environmental realities. She also has a private psychotherapy practice and serves as a member of the Red Cross Mental Health Emergency Response she helped to found, which is the first such team in Kern County California.
Together the Edwards also speak for organizations and associations about how to adapt one's career or profession for a prosperous transition in today's changing eco-nomic realities. They also speak and conduct workshops on overcoming institutional barriers to sustainability. Through Let's Live Local they have organized a wood pellet coop, an organic food coop, a grass-fed Beef Coop, and other localization projects.
Books
The Edwards’ titles include Working From Home, now in its fifth
edition. The Best Home Businesses for People 50+, The Best Home
Business for the 21st Century, Changing Directions Without Losing
Your Way, Cool Careers for Dummies, 1st and 2nd editions, The
Entrepreneurial Parent, Finding Your Perfect Work,
Getting Business to Come To You, Home-Based Business for Dummies,
Home Businesses You Can Buy, Making Money with Your Computer at
Home, Secrets of Self-Employment, Teaming Up: The Small
Business Guide to Collaborating with Others, The Practical Dreamers
Handbook, Why Aren’t You Your Own Boss?, and Making Money
in Cyberspace, which received the best general computer book award from
the Computer Press Association. Their books have been made into four
audio titles and translated into eight languages.
Columns
and Blogs
Their print column appears in the Costco Connection. From 1988
until 1998 they were contributing editors and columnists for Home Office
Computing magazine and until recently wrote columns distributed through
the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, and Entrepreneur Magazine, BYOB, and
Homeofficemag.com. Their blogs are
Eco-nomicWellbeing.com and
9Lives4YourBook.com.
TV and Radio
Paul and Sarah have twenty years of radio experience, having hosted and
produced Entrepreneur Magazine's Home Based Biz Show for six years and
before that for fourteen years, the Working From Home Show on the Business
News Network. They were weekly commentators on CNBC's "How
To Succeed in Business" and hosted the weekly "Working From Home
television show with Paul and Sarah Edwards" on Scripps-Howard's Home and
Garden cable network, which the network ran for four years.
Spokespeople and Speakers
The Edwards have been retained by such corporations as
Avery-Dennison, Canon, DuPont, Epson, Fuji, Hewlett-Packard, Intuit,
Microsoft, Network Solutions, Northern Telecom, Okidata, Sears, Symantec,
Xerox and many profess professional associations. As spokespeople, they have
appeared in nearly 100 U.S. cities. Sharing Ideas, the
International Newsmagazine for Speakers, Meeting Planners and Agents, named
them "Consummate Speakers for 1996."
Recognition
Paul and Sarah have been the subjects of scores of articles in such
publications as The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles
Times, Business Week, and Newsweek. They have been featured on
television shows like the Today Show, the CBS Morning Show and Oprah. Paul and Sarah have consulted the White House. In 2006, they were recognized
as the U.S. Small Business Administration's (SBA) Region IX "Small Business
Journalists of the Year."