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...