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Design
Built to Last
As an inventor, Saul Griffith has spent a lot of time thinking about how to make useful things. Griffith developed innovative designs for...
Design
If You Build It, They Will Walk
Re-engineering slowness back into building design An idea quietly floated by New York City health commissioner Thomas Farley this summer might...
Lifestyle
Make Out-of-the-Ordinary Pancakes
This article is part of The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down, from GOOD Issue 18. Read more of the guide here. Step away from the...
Lifestyle
Flora and Fauna
The philosophy of slow food is based on an understanding of the provenance of our food, and the appreciation of each individual ingredient in...
Lifestyle
How to Cultivate Conscious Laziness
This article is part of The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down, from GOOD Issue 18. Read more of the guide here. People talk a big...
Culture
The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down
The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down originally appeared in GOOD Issue 18: The Slow Issue. Use the table of contents below to...
Environment
Eliminate Something
This article is part of The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down, from GOOD Issue 18: The Slow Issue. Read more of the guide...
Design
Spruce up Your Home (at Least Once a Year)
This article is part of The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down, from GOOD Issue 18. Read more of the guide here.A simple rearranging of...
Lifestyle
Novella Carpenter, Urban Cowgirl
My parents were back-to-the-land hippies; they were of that generation in the late 1960s that decided to reject cities and move to the country. I...
Technology
Step Away from the Smartphone
This article is part of The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down, from GOOD Issue 18. Read more of the guide here. Easy ways to unplug...
Environment
Pushing the Limits
In Oregon, radical antisprawl laws aim to save the state's bucolic paradises. But with land-hungry suburbs on the prowl, can these goats be...
Design
Interview: The Handmade Tree Chair
This article is part of The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down, from GOOD Issue 18. Read more of the guide here. Peter Cook and...
Cities
Not a New York Minute
How four Italian cities bucked the traditional urban growth model and started an international trend called Cittaslow. In the 1990s, as...
Design
Build an Indoor Stoop
This article is part of The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down, from GOOD Issue 18. Read more of the guide here. Ever since we saw...
Technology
Hurry Up and Wait
We asked some of the world's most prominent futurists to explain why slowness might be as important to the future as speed. Julian...
Issue 018
Slowpokes Hall of Fame
This article is part of The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down, from GOOD Issue 18. Read more of the guide here. For further proof...
Culture
Slow Down
What follows is the introduction from GOOD Issue 18: The Slow Issue. You can read more articles from the Slow Issue here, or by clicking the "read...
Technology
Multitasking Too Much of Ourselves
This article is part of The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down, from GOOD Issue 18. Read more of the guide here. Focus 2.0 Infinite...
