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Technology
Going de Grey
How will living forever change our lives? How long do you think you'll be around for? Ninety years? One hundred and twenty? Aubrey de Grey, a...
Design
Watch Your Garden Grow
This article is part of The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down, from GOOD Issue 18. Read more of the guide here. If you believe the...
Design
Mass Reduction
Welcome to slowLab, a collective of designers applying a cradle-to-cradle philosophy to consumer goods. The slow-design movement thinks it's...
Lifestyle
Take Time to Still Your Mind
This article is part of The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down, from GOOD Issue 18. Read more of the guide here. While cleaning out...
Lifestyle
The President of Slow Food Nation
Since 1998, Slow Food USA, the American branch of the Slow Food organization, has spearheaded community organizing and national policy...
Design
Make Yourself a Place to Escape
This article is part of The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down, from GOOD Issue 18. Read more of the guide here. Travelers to the...
Technology
Interview: The Handmade Toaster
This article is part of The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down, from GOOD Issue 18. Read more of the guide here. Thomas Thwaites, a...
News
You Can Drive 55
How a national speed limit could improve our lives. The first automotive speed limit in the United States was enacted in 1901, when the state...
Culture
Read a Book
This article is part of The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down, from GOOD Issue 18. Read more of the guide...
Cities
Reading a City
How the built environment instructs us on how to move through it Greene Street Jane Jacobs wrote about the "ballet" of the street when...
Design
Build a Backyard Dumpster Pool
This article is part of The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down, from GOOD Issue 18. Read more of the guide here. For most of us, a...
Design
The Century Camera
See what develops over the next 100 years. The Century Camera appears in GOOD Issue 18, which is on newsstands now. While you can try printing...
Business
Slow Burn
By John Collins Rudolf Woody Tasch says we need to put the brakes on our investment portfolios. Don't worry, though: He still has a way for...
Culture
The Slowest Jam
When the avant-garde composer John Cage noted that his eight-page 1985 composition "Organ²/ASLSP" should be played as slowly as possible, he might...
Design
Issue 018: Graphic Statement
This illustration originally appeared as the Graphic Statement for GOOD Issue 018: The Slow Issue. You can see the full image here. You can...
Business
We Want to Work
How long it takes to learn popular jobs in America In the Middle Ages, people attained expertise in their trades through decade-long...
Lifestyle
Watched Pots: Meals for the Back Burner
This article is part of The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down, from GOOD Issue 18. You can read more of the guide here. Here are a...
Culture
Metal for Meditation
What comes to mind when you think about heavy-metal music? Maybe it's burly dudes headbanging in unison or a violent mosh pit. But these...
