Idle Time & Localism

Hopedance has an entire issue devoted to energy issues (www.hopedance.org). Below are a couple of links to articles I enjoyed.

Interview with Tom Hodgekinson, author of How to be Idle. He discusses how with the addition of free time, you can become more involved with issues at the local level. I loved his mention of the Guild systems of medieval Europe as a model for organizing labor in a sane manner and how he spends his typical day, “taking care of his three children, reading, writing, lunching with his girlfriend, gardening, and relaxing in his Mexican hammock.”

http://www.hopedance.org/new/issues/54/article11.html


Great interview with Michael Shuman author of Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age.

http://www.hopedance.org/new/issues/54/article9.html