Slow is Beautiful: New Visions of Community, Leisure and Joie de Vivre

Slow is Beautifulanalyzes the subtle consumer and political and corporate forces stamping the joy from our existence and provides a vision of a more fulfilling life through the rediscovery of caring community, unhurried leisure, and life-affirming joie de vivre.The book discusses:

* The frantic time poverty plaguing everyone—a poverty that is being challenged by the growing slow life movement whose message is reverberating around the world

* The need to build a culture of connectionwith both people and the planet by challenging the consumer society and re-creating vibrant life in our local communities

* The creation of a different experience of time where we live life in slower, more reflective ways, savoring our lives and recapturing exuberance and laughter

Offering inspiration and concrete ideas, Slow is Beautifulwill appeal to a broad audience of baby boomers nearing retirement, harried professionals with a social conscience, the one-time "middle class," and twenty- to thirty-somethings who are now facing the sobering realities of constricted choices.