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JOHN BROWN is the editor of theslowhome.com and the founder of the Slow Home Movement. He is a registered architect, real estate broker and Professor of Architecture at the University of Calgary.
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Building Green
Nov 17, 2008

Building Green - http://www.buildinggreen.com
Building Green is an independent publishing company committed to bringing our members accurate, unbiased, and timely green design information.
Green Home Guide
Nov 11, 2008

Green Home Guide - http://www.greenhomeguide.org The Green Building Guide gives you information about building new green homes and remodeling existing homes in healthy, environmentally friendly, efficient ways.
Transform Green Homes
Nov 08, 2008

Transform Green Homes - http://www.transformgreenhomes.com/ Transform Green Homes is a green internet platform filled with information to help the public understand what makes a home green, sustainable and more energy efficient.
We Can Solve It
Nov 05, 2008

We Can Solve It - http://wecansolveit.org/ The We Campaign is a project of The Alliance for Climate Protection -- a nonprofit, nonpartisan effort founded by Nobel laureate and former Vice President Al Gore. The goal of the Alliance is to build a movement that creates the political will to solve the climate crisis -- in part through repowering America with 100 percent of its electricity from clean energy sources within 10 years.
Healthy House Institute
Oct 28, 2008

Healthy House Institute - http://www.healthyhouseinstitute.com The Healthy House Institute® (HHI) provides consumers information to make their homes healthier. HHI strives to be the most comprehensive educational resource available for creating healthier homes. To this end, HHI treats the home like an ecosystem with many interrelated parts, covering topics in-depth such as air and water quality, building, remodeling and furnishing, cleaning and housekeeping, health and safety, ventilation, lighting, energy efficiency and more.
Complete The Streets
Oct 23, 2008

Complete the streets - http://completestreets.org Complete Streets are designed and operated to enable safe access for all users. Instead of fighting for better streets block by block, the National Complete Streets Coalition seeks to fundamentally transform the look, feel and function of the roads and streets in our community, by changing the way most roads are planned, designed, and constructed.
Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition
Oct 21, 2008

Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition - http://healthycommunities.on.ca
The Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition (OHCC) seeks to achieve social, environmental, and economic health and well-being for individuals, communities and local governments.
The New Colonist
Oct 19, 2008

The New Colonist - http://newcolonist.com/vox/vox.html The New Colonist is a web publication for people who love and live in cities. It's not only about the cities themselves, but about life in cities. It's not only about the biggest cities we always hear about, but about the idea of a city as a colony of people growing together.
Global Development Research Center
Oct 16, 2008

Global Development Research Center - http://gdrc.org/uem/ The Urban Environmental Management Research Initiative (UEMRI) was launched by Young Planners of the 1997 ISOCARP Congress in Ogaki Japan to continue to collaborate beyond and after the congress. The Congress was held from 17 to 20 September 1997. A specific theme was selected for collaboration in order to have a concrete output - urban environmental management (UEM).
Blueprint America
Oct 14, 2008

Blueprint America - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/blueprintamerica Blueprint America is a multi-platform initiative that will spotlight America’s decaying and neglected infrastructure.
Zoocasa
Oct 07, 2008

Zoocasa - http://www.zoocasa.com/ Zoocasa is a Canadian home hunting search engine that helps you find homes for
sale and provides you with information at the local level.
Beyond Suburbia
Oct 02, 2008
Beyond Suburbia - http://www.beyondsuburbia.com
Village Development of America LLC (ViDA!) is a for-profit development company that facilitates the establishment of sustainable and empowering mixed-used, mixed-income neighborhoods, so that we can all live in vibrant, alive communities, and prosper.
Building Materials Reuse Association
Sep 23, 2008
Building Materials Reuse Association - http://www.buildingreuse.org The Building Materials Reuse Association (BMRA) is an educational and research organization whose mission is to facilitate building deconstruction and the reuse / recycling of recovered building materials.
Habitat For Humanity ReStores
Sep 20, 2008
Habitat For Humanity ReStores - http://www.habitat.org/env/restores.aspx
Habitat ReStores are retail outlets where quality used and surplus building materials are sold at a fraction of normal prices. Proceeds from ReStores help local affiliates fund the construction of Habitat houses within the community. Many affiliates across the United States and Canada operate successful ReStores—some of which raise enough funds to build an additional 10 or more houses per year.
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We believe that our homes and neighborhoods should be healthy, vibrant places that uplift the spirit and gracefully fit our needs. We call for an end to poor construction, bad design, misleading marketing, unfair lending practices and environmental neglect in the housing industry. We acknowledge our collective responsibility to create CLOSE, SIMPLE, LIGHT places to live that leave a positive legacy for future generations.
provides design focused information that homeowners can use to improve the quality of how and where they live. It takes its name from the slow food movement which arose as a reaction to the processed food industry. The sprawl of cookie cutter housing that surrounds us is like fast food - standardized, homogenous, and wasteful. It contributes to a too fast life that is bad for us, our cities, and the environment. In the same way that slow food raises awareness of the food we eat and how these choices affect our lives, Slow Home empowers you to take more control of your home and improve the quality of how you live while reducing your environmental impact and futureproofing the long term investment value of your home.
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