Posted in media stories, tagged culture, Slow on January 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As this story in today’s NY Times suggests, the Slow movement is going mainstream. It’s no longer just food that’s Slow, but architecture, design, sex and even the way you work.
Writer Penelope Green points out that much about the movement is “essentially rebranding familiar ideas — like those of the New Urbanists, for example — [...]
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The Guardian’s George Monbiot draws attention today to the discomfort that many environmentalists feel when it comes to discussing global population growth. Responses to the article take him to task for positing a false dichotomy between population and consumption, but both the article and the comments are worth a look.
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The new issue of Science reports on “a coming crisis in water supply for the western United States,” the Associated Press tells us today.
“Human activity such as driving and powering air conditioners is responsible for up to 60 percent of changes contributing to dwindling water supplies in the arid and growing West, a new study [...]
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Here’s a story from the most recent issue of the very mainstream Scientific American. It’s a look at the dramatic effect that newly-discovered reserves of water under the Antarctic ice sheets might have on rising sea levels.
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is a start, really. It’s about beginning to rethink the fundamental question of how we should live now.
It’s a place for asking what we need to do to recalibrate our lives, our expectations, our ideas of what will — and what can — make us happy in the face of the reality that [...]
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