Slow Lifestyle Links Take Back Your Time Day–An exciting campaign to focus attention on the time-crunch with an annual national day, like Earth Day. The first one, held Oct. 24, 2003, was a big success, and the Time Day folks are building for a bigger event next year.
www.timeday.org Utter Foolishness–Tea is the drink of us slow lifestylers, so why not stories about tea drinking? Read slightly true tea stories, written in easy-to-understand American English.
www.TeaMadness.com Corporate Asylum–A lively and amusing site that lampoons the corporate culture and also offers a wealth of resources on the work-life bind. Site mastermind, Glen Draeger, aka “The Inmate,” has put a lot of thought and humor into his take on the daily grind.
www.thecorporateasylum.com Unconventional Ideas–Expand your leisure options with ideas from this site, which features provocative essays, such as choosing to spend money to take your kids on vacation and let them see the world now, instead of saving it all for college.
www.unconventionalideas.com TV-Turnoff Network–It’s a national nonprofit organization that encourages children and adults to watch much less television in order to promote healthier lives and communities.
www.tvturnoff.org/ City Dharma–Arthur Jeon’s Weblog. CITY DHARMA is the essential guide for everyone who’s forced to make a living, find someone to love, or just get through the day in the congested and inhospitable environments most of us call home.
www.citydharma.com The Lazy Way To Success–Fred Gratzon’s Website and Weblog. How to do nothing and accomplish everything. Read Fred’s bio, it’s well worth doing.
www.lazyway.net Slow Down Productively at Work Easy Desktop Yoga– Exercises for computer users based on yoga postures on downloadable video.
www.EasyDesktopYoga.com Lawyers Life Coach–The most overworked people in the land? The billable hours folks in the legal world are at the top. If you’re in this world or married to someone who is or in other stressful careers, this site, and its operator, psychologist Ellen Ostrow, can help get your life back.
www.lawyerslifecoach.com Creative Success–Career coach and psychotherapist Gail McMeekin has worked with many time-starved careerists. She brings a practical, real-world approach to finding and balancing work and life.
www.creativesuccess.com The Strategic Coach–Revolutionary consulting firm that is persuading entrepreneurs and business owners that free time is the key to productivity and profits, convincing formerly workaholic zombies to take a month off each year. Get your boss to try a seminar with this company, and your vacation time can grow.
www.strategiccoach.com Rational Simplicity–Tim Covell, author of Rational Simpliciy, has a new site about how to live simply. He is giving away free bumper stickers that read “Less Stuff, more time.”
www.rationalsimplicity.com In Praise of Slowness–Carl Honoré’s site about his book of the same name. Mr. Honoré is one of the leaders of the Slow Lifestyle movement in Europe. Read an excerpt from his book.
www.inpraiseofslowness.com Shorter Work Time Group–Veteran lobbyists for saner hours. Their aim is to bring the work-time issue into the public debate and public policy arena.
www.swt.org Live Simple–A very interesting site that sets out specific suggestions for simplifying possessions, home, daily routines, personal goals, and use of resources.www.december.com/simple/live/index.html Live Simply With Style–Authors Mary Helen and Shuford Smith offer retirement, travel, and photography tips for a simple lifestyle.www.livesimplywithstyle.com Living Lightly on the Earth–This site is based on an assumption that every human being has a right to an equal share of physical space on this planet, purely by virtue of being human.www.scn.org/earth/lightly/index.html Living Simply–Quick tips and short but informative articles on simplifying your life and prioritizing your time to get more out of life.www.geocities.com/livingsimplynow Living Simply at Suite 101–Tips, information, encouragement, and discussion for those who wish to take control of their lives and learn to relax and simplify.www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/living_simply Living Without a Car: Thoughts and Ideas–Suggests alternatives such as walking, bicycle and public transport. The practical aspects of living without a car in Sydney, Australia with links to relevant sites.
www.geocities.com/sydneysiteau/nocar.html MindfulCanada: The Canadian Voluntary Simplicity Network–A Canadian online community, message boards, newsletter and information on being mindful of what we are doing to reduce the impact we have on our own lives and the earth. http://www.mindfulcanada.com New Liberty Village–A community and network of websites with articles on self-sufficiency, voluntary simplicity, and spirituality. A movement of ideas and freedom which is providing an online school of right living. www.geocities.com/newlibertyvillage The New Road Map Foundation–Providing people with practical tools and innovative approaches for managing and mastering basic life challenges. www.newroadmap.org Path to Freedom - One Step at A Time–Strives to inspire individuals to “think globally, act locally” by motivating them to live a simpler and more fulfilling life. www.pathtofreedom.com Thoughts on Voluntary Simplicity–Explains the difference between voluntary simplicity and frugality; articles on topics such as building the simple life. www.word-works.com/simple.htm Society for the Deceleration of time. English version in progress, (April 2005).
http://www.zeitverein.com/ School of Contemplative Wisdom– School started by author of, “The Spiritual Guide for the New Millennium.”
schoolofcontemplativewisdom.com The Simple Living Network: Tools, Examples and Contracts for Consious, Simple, Healthy and Restorative Living
http://www.simpleliving.net
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