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Slow Is Beautiful: New Visions of Community, Leisure And Joie De Vivre - Couverture souple

Andrews, Cecile

 
9780865715547: Slow Is Beautiful: New Visions of Community, Leisure And Joie De Vivre
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0865715548 ISBN 13 : 9780865715547
Editeur : New Society Publishers, 2006

Synopsis

Speed kills--slow saves: how we can recapture a life of joy, leisure, community, and well-being.

We're hammered, we're slammed, we're out of control. Happiness is on the decline in the most affluent country in the world and Americans are troubled by the destructiveness of a lifestyle devoted to money and status. Yet no-one seems to have a clue how to exit from the Fast Lane...

Slow Is Beautiful analyzes the subtle consumer, political and corporate forces stamping the joy from our existence and provides a vision of a more fulfilling life through the rediscovery of caring community, unhurried leisure, and life affirming joie de vivre. The book discusses:

  • the frantic time poverty plaguing everyone-a poverty that is being challenged by the growing Slow Life movement whose message is reverberating around the world
  • the need to build a culture of connection with both people and the planet by challenging the consumer society and recreating vibrant life in our local communities
  • the creation of a different experience of time where we live life in slower, more reflective ways, savoring our lives and recapturing exuberance and laughter.

Offering inspiration and concrete ideas, Slow Is Beautiful will appeal to a broad audience of Baby Boomers nearing retirement, harried professionals with a social conscience, the one-time "middle class," and 20-30-somethings who are now facing the sobering realities of constricted choices.

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À propos de l'auteur

Cecile Andrews is a community educator, author of Circle of Simplicity , and contributor to several books on living more simply and taking back our time. She has a doctorate from Stanford and teaches at Seattle University. She and her husband are founders of Seattle's Phinney Ecovillage, a neighborhood-based sustainable community.

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Éditeur
New Society Publishers
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0865715548
ISBN 13 
9780865715547
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
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Personne responsable
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