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slow food: SLOW FOOD, SLOW HOMES AND NOW SLOW MONEY - 01/06/09 11:44 PM
I have written about Slow Food and Slow Houses and given the current economic situation, you might wonder if this is a good time to write about Slow Money. I think it is a perfect time to write about it. A lot of people are in serious economic trouble right now because they thought they could make "fast money" whether it be investors who got in over their heads thinking they would make a killing on the ever increasing and very fast appreciation of the properties they kept buying or the people who bought homes they knew they could not afford based … (3 comments)

slow food: Three Principles of the Slow Home Movement - 11/30/08 01:41 PM
John Brown is a registered architect, a real estate broker and a professor of architecture at the University of Calgary. He is also the founder of what he calls the Slow Home Movement. The idea is a shelter based version of the Slow Food Movement. While slow food aims to increase our awareness of the foods we eat and the way in in which their growth, preparation and consumption affects us, the Slow home Movement encourages home owners to focus on where and how they live. It argues that the predominant housing developments produced today are cookie cutter houses that are, … (5 comments)

 
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My blog is as much about a philosophy of life and living as it is about real estate as a business. E.F. Shumacher subtitled his book SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL "Economics as if People Mattered" In the real estate industry we realize that people matter and that where they live matters. We now also have a larger responsiblity, I believe, to get them to consider HOW they live. Everyone in the developed world using less energy and resources makes it possible for those who have access to neither to experience a better life and to make the difference between their being able to having a roof overhead or not or for their children to eat or not. 



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