Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Gov. Peter Shumlin will be among dozens of high-profile speakers who will address the second annual Slow Living Summit in downtown Brattleboro May 30-June 1. Summit organizers have also announced the availability of special rates to enable Brattleboro area residents and students with limited means to attend the gathering, which will explore cross-sector solutions...
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Here’s a video invitation to the Slow Living Summit! Please share and re-post! Join us at the U.S. Slow Living Summit, May 30-June 1 from Wyatt Andrews on Vimeo.
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Call for entries in the 2012 Slow Living film/video competition, IMAGINE Slow Living Earth , a Vision of Humanity in Harmony with Planet Earth. Loading…
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Open Space Technology is a term which describes a particular method of organizing meetings and group discussion and work processes. At the second-annual U.S. Slow Living Summit we’ll be using Open Space Technology to convene a session from 2:10 p.m. to 3:25 p.m. on Friday, June 1 in the Holstein Room. To learn more...
Here is a sampling of answers to a question we’re asking participants in the Slow Living Summit. Please add your comment at the bottom. It will help us to craft the format of the summit to meet your needs and expectations. To help make the Summit the transformational, action-oriented event we are all hoping...
by Chris Lindgren, reporting on the Slow Living Summit, Brattleboro, VT. Early June 2011. The Slow Living Summit session, Economy and Business: Building the Resilient New England Economy: Common Good Success Stories, was inspiring. Our first two presenters from Coop Fund of New England, and Coastal Enterprise Inc, represented long established organizations with enviable...
By Katherine Naylor, small-business owner and MBA Candidate at Marlboro College Grad School John Abrams, co-founder of Martha’s Vineyard-based design/build firm, South Mountain Company, spoke at the Slow Living Summit about building sustainable communities. He spoke about the history of South Mountain Company, founded in 1975, which has always closely considered the interests and...
By Bonnie Sigwalt, MBA Candidate, Marlboro College Graduate School Blogging from the Ending Keynote Speaker Bill McKibben, author, educator and activist: “The Slow Living Paradigm for Local Agriculture, Local Economies, and Sustainable Energy”. Bill McKibben is known by many as the best environmental journalist and author of our day. Currently a Scholar-in-Residence at Middlebury College,...
By: Laura Zeppieri, MBA Candidate, Marlboro College From the session Education for Sustainability: Deep Learning: Educating Youth to Cherish Place and Community with Becca Martensen from the Vermont Wildlife School, Lisl Hofer from Kroka Expeditions, and Stephen Stearns from the New England Youth Theatre. As I entered the Education for Sustainability session, a large...
By: Laura Zeppieri, MBA Candidate, Marlboro College From the session: Where Do Entrepreneurs Find the Money? with Janice St. Onge from VSJF Flexible Capital Fund and LC3, Chris Sikes from the Western MA Enterprise Fund, Ryan Torres from the Vermont Community Foundation, and John Hamilton from Vested for Growth NH Loan Fund. There are...
By: Toivo Halvorsen Tom opens up quoting Joseph Stiglitz: The time is ripe for our measurement system to shift emphasis from measuring economic production to measuring people’s well being.” Stiglitz Commission Report, August 2009, p. 12, emphasis in original Tome continues with showing us Robert Kennedys Famous speech from 1968 where he addresses the...
By: Eunju Halvorsen Education as an ideal process is an example of slow living. IT takes time, patience and reflection. The undergrad at Marlboro supports this process, as undergrads are able to develop in this way. Ellenemphasizes also how students have the possibility to travel abroad and study different cultures. She says that many...
By Galen Guerrero-Murphy, MBA Candidate, Marlboro College Graduate School The closing plenary session of the Slow Living Summit was introduced by Ralph Meima, Director of the Marlboro MBA in Managing for Sustainability Program, by highlighting a central theme of this summit: there is much to be gained, much that is latent. And these big...
