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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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
Culture
Picture Show: California Dreaming Along the Pacific Coast Highway
This Picture Show originally appeared in GOOD Issue 18: The Slow Issue. You can read more from The Slow Issue here. There was a time, not long...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
Culture
Project: Create a Time Capsule
The father of the modern time capsule was Dr. Thornwell Jacobs, the president of Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, who came up with the idea...
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...
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...
