2013 Summit video: Reconnecting farmers, eaters and healthy communities

2013 Summit opening session video

The 2013 Slow Living Summit

Downtown Brattleboro Rainbow — photo by Craig S. O'Connell, used under Creative Commons License

The third annual Slow Living Summit Wed., June 5 – Fri., June 7, 2013 If you were there, thank you for coming! If not, please join us next year in Brattleboro for the 4th annual Slow Living Summit (tentative dates): June 4, 5 and 6, 2014. The following was our invitation to the 2013 Summit: What can you learn...
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2013 Summit session reports

Slow Living Institute brainstorming and Local Food refreshments

Help Us Plan a Slow Living Institute

By Mary McLoughlin Facilitated by: Cary Gaunt, Sustainability and Watershed Consultant and Lori Hanau, Summit Emcee and Founder of the Global Round Table Leadership “What are your Slow Living Leadership needs?” “What form would a Slow Living Institute take?” or “Should the Slow Living Summit become an Institute at all?” These questions and many...

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The 2013 Summit Peace Labyrinth

Our Peace Labyrinth in Plaza Park was facilitated by Ingrid Bredenberg.

Quick/Slow Design: The Idea-Table Brainstorming method

By Mary McLoughlin Breakout Session: Slow Design Using N-light Table Facilitated by: Julie Lineberger Owner, Joseph Cincotta Principal Architect of Linesync Architecture of Wilmington, Vermont. Other members of their design time helped lead the activity. Sybil Idelkope – Designer Adam Lemire – Senior Designer Ryan Edwards – Intern Designer Emily Wergin – Office Manager...

Participants discuss the meaning of happiness

Pursuit of Happiness Walk: Women Pursue True Happiness on Foot

Annalise Ritter is a student at UMass Amherst studying Community Sustainability and Art. After 594 miles, Paula Francis and Linda Wheatley may not have had happy feet, but they certainly felt joy in their hearts. From August 25th to October 7th, 2012, the two women walked from Stowe, VT to Washington, D.C. in an...

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SLS Plenary 2: Agriculture, food and food systems

SLS Plenary 2: Agriculture, food and food systems Tad Montgomery is an ecological engineer who ponders the meaning of slowness from the confluence of the Connecticut River and Whetstone Brook: http://Tadmontgomery.com “It is not possible to know what is possible, so we are free to go for the world that we want.” What are...


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