The Tortoise Tendency

Motto: Slow and Steady Wins the Race

Gandhi: “There is more to life than increasing its speed.”

People are becoming increasingly aware that the fast pace of modern life is destroying our health, our communities, and our planet. Our economy has been taken over by turbo-capitalism. We have all caught the hurry virus, and need a cure.

The Tortoise Tendency is a new organisation to support people who want to live their lives more slowly. We offer advice on slow living, including slow food, slow travel, slow work, slow exercise, slow medicine, slow education, slow leisure, and slow cities.

Like a tortoise we can move slowly but survive a long time, have a tough exterior but be soft inside, spend the winter asleep, and still win the race.

Links:

Slow Food

Slow Cities

The Slow Movement

The Idler

Further Reading:

“In Praise of Slow” by Carl Honoré

“How to be Idle” by Tom Hodgkinson

Downshifting-

"New complete book on self-sufficiency" John Seymour

"Wild food" Roger Phillips

"Scenes from a smallholding" Chas Griffin

The Complete Book of Raising Livestock and Poultry; Paperback ~ Katie Thear, Alistair Fraser

The Smallholder's Manual; Katie Thear

Smallholders D-I-Y (Gold Cockerel S.); ~ Michael Roberts, Roberts Michael (Illustrator)

Out of Your Townie Mind: The Reality Behind the Dream of Country Living; Richard Craze, Roni Jay

Urban Dreams Rural Realities: In Pursuit of the Good Life; Daniel Butler, Bel Crewe

Smallholding website

self-sufficient.co.uk

Transition Towns-

http://www.transitionstowns.org - the homepage of the Transition Towns Network, based on a Wiki that some of the Transition Towns use to communicate with residents and each other.

http://www.transitiontowns.org/TransitionNetwork - information about the Transition Network, a charity set up to promote the concept of transition towns

http://www.transitiontowns.org/TransitionNetwork/Mulling - listing of communities that are considering the possibility of adopting/adapting the transition model for themselves

http://www.transitiontowns.org/TransitionNetwork/Newsletter - including details of new transition training courses

http://transitionculture.org/ - Rob Hopkin's blog

To contact The Tortoise Tendency:

email: webmaster@ecozine.co.uk