Andrews, Cecile

Author of Slow Is Beautiful: New Visions of Community, Leisure and Joie de Vivre (New Society Publishers), Andrews has a leadership role in the national volunteary simplicity movement. Cecile Andrews is a community educator who has spoken and written widely about simplicity and the slow life movement. A former affiliated scholar with Seattle University and visiting scholar at Stanford, she founded the Phinney Ecovillage project in her north Seattle neighborhood and works with community groups on sustainability, global warming and justice issues. She also is author of "The Circle of Simplicity: Return to the Good Life" and a contributor to "Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America." Panel: Visioning Our Communities: An Interactive Forum Community can be the secret ingredient in sustainability. Shared resources and cooperative neighbors help us reduce our global environmental impact while magnifying our political impact. This interactive session will give you the opportunity to participate in a small-group visioning exercise to provide the experience of community decision-making. You’ll learn about your own priorities and how you can band together to build new, more sustainable neighborhoods.