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Andy Couturier

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Andy Couturier is an American author and winner of the 2017 Nautilus Book Award, Gold, in Green Living/Sustainability. His books include Writing Open the Mind: Tapping the Subconscious to Free the Writing and the Writer, A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance, and The Abundance of Less: Lessons in Simple Living from Rural Japan. The Abundance of Less is a revised and updated edition of his previous work. His essays and articles on ecology, sustainable living, and the problems inherent with nuclear power have appeared in The Japan Times, North American Review, Adbusters, Kyoto Journal, the Oakland Tribune, and Creative Nonfiction.