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The 2013 Slow Living Summit

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

Slow Down and join us! The third annual Slow Living Summit Wed., June 5 – Fri., June 7 Downtown Brattleboro, Vermont! What can you learn in the Slow Lane that you can’t learn in the Fast Lane? The Slow Living Summit is a gathering focused on sustainable living, resilient communities, and the personal, inner transformations that are necessary for...
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What is Slow Living?

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Registration  | What is Slow Living? | Summit sponsors | Schedule at a glance | Speakers Detailed schedule | Who’s coming? | Summit info | Slow Living Leadership course The concept of Slow Living is built on the metaphor of “slow,” as used by other visionary organizations like Slow Food and Slow Money. “Slow” encompasses several layers of meaning that go beyond simply “sustainable.” Slow is the opposite of “fast” — fast food, fast money,...
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Slow Living Summit seeks student volunteers

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Students — here’s an opportunity to: Help out at the Summit for 6-8 hours Attend the rest of the Summit, meals included, at no cost Meet Summit speakers who are leaders in your field of study The 3rd annual Slow Living Summit takes place in downtown Brattleboro June 5-7. The Summit is a conference focused on sustainable living and...
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Slow Living Leadership for Sustainable Change

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Marlboro College Graduate School, Tuesday evening, June 4 through Friday, June 7, 2013  Are you interested in Slow Living?  Do you want to start a Slow Living movement, or hold a Slow Living event, in your community or place of work?  Do you want to learn tips to live and lead your life more Slowly? If your answer is...
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Strolling of the Heifers

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The Slow Living Summit is a project of Strolling of the Heifers, a non-profit organization founded in 2001 with the mission of supporting and sustaining family farms by connecting people with healthy local food. “The Stroll” annually presents its biggest events during Strolling of the Heifers Weekend (June 7-9), when tens of thousands of people come to Brattleboro for...
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2013 Summit: Who’s Coming?

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Registration  | What is Slow Living? | Summit sponsors | Schedule at a glance | Speakers Detailed schedule | Who’s coming? | Summit info | Slow Living Leadership course   You’ll meet people from many different sectors, specialties, businesses, bioregions and communities at the 2013 Slow Living Summit, including: *denotes program committee member #denotes speaker, moderator or panelist Michael Abbate, chief operating officer, Common Capital, Inc., Holyoke MA Michael Abrams, Human Scale...
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2012 Summit session reports

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Thanks to our Summit Sherpas — including graduate students at Marlboro College, World Learning, the University of Vermont, Antioch University of New England and the University of Massachusetts — we have reports available on a number of the sessions of the 2012 Summit. Click here to access the full list. For more on the 2012 and 2011 Summits, access the Past...
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