The Slow Home Movement

One of my favorite websites, worldchanging just published a story on The Slow Home. Akin to the Slow Food movement, the Slow Home Movement is about turning the places we live back into a home, instead of just an investment or a temporary landing pad.

From Worldchanging.com...

"The newest slow kid on the block is the Slow Home Movement, a web-based design community and resource library dedicated to taking residential architecture back from the grip of the "cookie cutter houses and instant neighborhoods" churned out by community-blind development corporations, to revive the presence of good design and empower individuals to create homes that will support and fulfill them for a long time."

After I read this article, I sent off a quick email to the editor letting him know about how Newberry Place has integrated many of the Slow Home principles into our design. Within a couple days, they included us in their weekly video blog report, pretty cool...

facebook and blueprint

As you can see by the newly created Facebook Profile on the right, I've given up trying to resist the lure of this social networking site. I was overly frustrated with my MySpace account because I couldn't find any of my friends, and I kept getting trashy messages. So I cancelled my MySpace account and switched over, and it is soooooo much better. I've found old college friends, highschool friends, current friends in far off places - really nice and simple.

I'm also gearing up for Thursday when Newberry Place will be getting an award at a Smart Growth conference. The award is called the Blueprint Award and it goes to 3 innovative projects every year in the greater Grand Rapids area. The compliment to us is that they really didn't know what category to put us in because we fit all of their categories for good, responsible, innovative design.

Apartment for Rent in Fall

If anyone reading this blog knows of anyone that will be looking for a place to rent in the fall, send them this link http://719livingston.blogspot.com I will be adding more specifics to this post as I have them.

Nora and I are set to move into cohousing in October and will be looking for someone to rent out our current digs. It is a 3 bedroom unit with fenced in yard and park across the street. We've loved this home so much that we just can't part with it, so we are going to try the landlord thing for a little while.