The world is changing. And it can be very easy to get lost in the ocean of potential impulse buys that lurk at every market, store or mall we walk into. And while there’s nothing wrong with being a consumer, sometimes our purchases own us as much as we own them. We amass clutter. We lose track of the things that are really important. We find ourselves seeking the easy way in everything we do, when sometimes it really is better to take the long way round and avoid the expressway altogether.

We eat too much. We don’t exercise enough. We lose track of what’s really important and let the clutter rule our lives.

At least I do.

But balance…balance is important. You don’t want to buy too much, but you don’t want to live an absolutely Spartan lifestyle, either. You want more decoration than a nail driven into the wall upon which you hang the one hat that you own. You want comfort without clutter.

And there’s [re]evolver’s purpose in simplified terms: I just want to live. I want to live comfortably, and I want to leave a decent world behind me for my children to adopt. I want to be healthy and to live to be a wise old man. And though I strive for simplicity in my life, to manufacture a sustainable existence for myself and my family, along the way I still want to know when NASA’s Titan mission succeeds. I want to know what they find when they get there. I want to know the very moment that the God Particle is discovered. I want to see the day when the first woman walks on Mars. And I want to see the day when racism and poverty are nothing more than ugly chapters in a history book.

So [re]evolution isn’t only about living a Spartan lifestyle. It’s about living a fun, free, happy, healthy life while ensuring the world we leave behind will still be the amazing place it is today. Maybe even better than it is today. It’s simplicity and minimalism, yes, but it’s focused on the future, too. Because as we all know, the Singularity is near.

Hi, my name’s Matt Mitchell. I’m the primary writer and creator of [re]evolver.com. I’m a married guy living in the American South with two little boys to keep me harried and occupied and frenzied and insane. But I still managed to marry my high school sweetheart, and I try very hard to reuse, reduce, recycle…all the re’s I can think of, including renew, reconnect and [re]evolve. My [re]evolution is just getting started, and you, of course, are welcome to join me. I have a personal blog in which I write about my other calling, that of being an author of fiction. It’s called Unabashed.