Mark A. Burch is an author, educator, and group facilitator who has practiced simple living since the 1960s, and since 1995, has offered presentations, workshops and courses on voluntary simplicity. Besides his classics "Stepping Lightly: Simplicity for People and the Planet" and "The Hidden Door: Mindful Sufficiency as an Alternative to Extinction," his latest book and first of futuristic fiction is "Euterra Rising: the Last Eutopia."