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17-11-2023
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Eloge de la lenteur - Slow life
"There’s slow, slower and Jamaica " affirme une expression populaire à propos du rythme de vie relax de cette île des Antilles.....L'éloge de la lenteur devient le premier signe de résistance à une société marchande ivre de toujours plus. « Moins de biens, plus de liens… »
Produire, consommer, voyager... Urgence : ralentir ! Ils refusent la vitesse, celle de la ville, du travail, des transports, de l’alimentation, du sexe… Du "slow food" au "slow sex" en passant par le "slow voyage", rencontre étonnante avec ceux qui font de la lenteur un principe de vie.
Aujourd'hui, la culture est à la rapidité. Mais dans cette course contre la montre, rien ne survit - notre travail, notre santé, nos relations, notre vie sexuelle. Nous sommes si pressés que la personne ou la chose qui nous ralentit représente, d'emblée, l'ennemi à abattre. Tout un courant d'opinion met en question ce culte de la vitesse et réaffirme les vertus de la lenteur. Baptisé "Slow" il ne prétend nullement qu'il faut tout faire à une allure d'escargot mais souligne que notre qualité de vie passe par un meilleur équilibre entre rapidité et lenteur. L'enquête de Carl Honoré, menée de pays en pays, montre les différentes formes prises par ce phénomène qui touche de plus en plus de monde. Et si un bon usage de la lenteur pouvait rendre nos vies plus riches et plus productives? Carl Honoré est journaliste. Il a travaillé pour l'Economist, l'Observer, le National Post et le Houston Chronicle. Il vit à Londres. Best-seller international, Eloge de la lenteur est traduit en plus de 20 langues. Auteur : Carl Honoré - Editions Marabout - sept. 2005 - 287p - ISBN 2501044
Eloge de la lenteur - Récit des tribulations de Dominique et Alain sur les chemins de la lenteur http://www.lenteur.canalblog.com/
Mouvement slow:
Slow city Slow food - Slow travel - Slow build - Slow school - Slow music Slow
design - Slow sex - Slow TV
------------------------------- Slow Cities - Città slow ------------------------------- Cittàslow: les villes lentes contre la frénésie automobile - Dans un monde en constante accélération, quelques municipalités européennes ont créé un réseau, Slow Cities, visant à ralentir le rythme de la vie. Ce réseau réunit des villes et municipalités désireuses d’améliorer la qualité de vie de leurs citoyens, notamment en matière de nourriture et d’environnement.Né en Italie, Cittaslow (”Villes lentes” en italien), est issu d’un autre mouvement: Slow Food, en opposition au Fast Food nord-américain, synonyme de mal bouffe. L’objectif de cette organisation internationale est de protéger la gastronomie et le plaisir de la table. La philosophie des “Villes lentes” repose sur certains principes. En n’utilisant que des produits régionaux de qualité, on apporte ainsi son soutien aux agriculteurs qui travaillent dans le respect de l’environnement et qui refusent de faire appel à de la main d’œuvre bon marché. C’est l’une des idées qui ont conduit, il y a maintenant 20 ans, à la création du mouvement Cittaslow en Italie. Un mouvement qui a gagné 70 villes italiennes de moins de 60 000 habitants et une vingtaine d’autres dans le monde, jusqu’en Nouvelle-Zélande. The slowhomes - The Slow Home Movement by John Brown - Une critique des standards en matière d'habitat et des concepts de voisinage - Il est temps de changer Slow families, slow driving, slow film, slow reading Slowplanet
Simplicité volontaire - des personnes qui veulent vivre et promouvoir la simplicité volontaire comme moyen d’améliorer leur propre vie et de contribuer à édifier une société plus juste et plus durable http://www.simplicitevolontaire.org/
--------------------------------- Slow Food ----------------------------------- Slow Food est une association éco-gastronomique à but non-lucratif financée par ses membres.Elle a été fondée en 1989 pour contrer les fast-food et la « fast life », pour enrayer la disparition des traditions gastronomiques locales et le manque d'intérêt des gens pour leur nourriture, pour ses origines, pour ses saveurs et pour les conséquences sur le reste du monde de nos choix alimentaires. http://www.slowfood.com/about_us/fra/welcome_fra.lasso Les temps des enfants - prendre du temps http://www.oejaj.cfwb.be/IMG/pdf/livret.pdf Dans une autobiographie, Daniel Pennac, se raconte depuis ses souvenirs d’enfance pour témoigner de son parcours aussi marginal qu’exceptionnel, égratignant au passage la bêtise de ceux qui croient savoir ce que signifie réussir sa vie (Galimard) " J’estime que vivre constitue, en ce qui me concerne, une chance, qui ne me sera pas accordée une seconde fois, dit-il : une chance non point parce que la vie nous fait des cadeaux et que sur une balance idéale la somme des plaisirs excéderait celle des peines, mais parce que je mesure à chaque instant la chance que j’ai d’être un vivant, d’accéder chaque matin à la lumière et chaque soir aux ombres, que les choses n’aient pas perdu leur éclat naissant et que j’aperçoive aussitôt l’esquisse d’un sourire, ou le début d’une contrariété sur un visage, bref que le monde me parle. " Les penseurs, les idéologues reconnus ont opéré un glissement considérable. D’un exercice nécessaire à la constitution de notre personne, ils sont passés à un éloge de l’action, quelle qu’en soit la nature. Son bonheur à lui qui se délecte de ces conseils ? " Me présenter comme un vivant face à la mort, ce serait la plus belle des fins ". Rien à ajouter. Pierre Sansot, Du bon usage de la lenteur, Payot, 1998.
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seulement) une garde-robe de 33 pièces maxi ------------------------------------------------------------- THE ’SLOW LIFE’ MOVEMENT : HAPPINESS BEFORE ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY
"Do you feel restless when you’re not busy ? Do you feel uneasy when you’re not working hard ? You don’t have to live that way !" This is the unexpected message on the back of business cards of employees at the Iwate Prefectural Office. Iwate Prefecture issued a "Take-It-Easy Declaration" in 2001 to launch a movement away from the prevailing ethos of economic efficiency. Iwate’s case is explained below. "Let’s make our life in the new century more human, more natural, and more simple"-these ideas indicate Iwate’s ideal, epitomized by its "take-it-easy" slogan. For example, Iwate’s approach to buildings is to conserve traditional wooden houses that stand in harmony with nature, rather than to cut forests to make way for state-of-the-art buildings. Such a sense of harmonious coexistence between nature and humans is highly valued in Iwate’s take-it-easy movement.
In Japan, the words "gambaru" (meaning ’I’ll work hard’) and "gambare" (meaning ’You work hard’) are often used in daily life. Surprisingly, Iwate has chosen a negative form, "gambaranai" (meaning ’take-it-easy’), for the Declaration. "The expression ’working hard’ has been a symbol of the high economic growth period in Japan," said Governor Hiroya Masuda of Iwate Prefecture. "Iwate’s Take-It-Easy Declaration might appear to encourage laziness, but in fact it does not. Rather, it symbolizes our intention to live a more natural life."
I wate tried to reach a larger audience by placing national newspaper advertisements for its "Take-It-Easy Declaration." The slogan, encouraging an intentional shift away from contemporary values emphasizing economic efficiency, has been well received by people across the nation. Not only I wate but also other local governments are campaigning for a more relaxed and comfortable lifestyle instead of the current lifestyle characterized by efficiency and speed. In the last couple of years, increasing numbers of municipalities have joined this movement, for example, by adopting "Slow Life" as their slogan and by assigning a "Slow Life Month" for special events to raise residents’ awareness of slower lifestyles.
Kakegawa Declares Itself a "Slow Life City"(Japanese) A remarkable effort by one of the pioneer municipalities, Kakegawa City in Shizuoka Prefecture, has been described in a previous JFS article. Kakegawa Declares Itself a "Slow Life City" Kakegawa City, which adopted the nation’s first "City Declaration of Lifelong Learning" in 1979, has been actively promoting the development of human and community resources through lifelong learning. The city’s twenty-year experience with this endeavor has culminated in the creation of a new vision fittingly called "Slow Life." Mayor Junichi Shinmura was reelected after advocating Slow Life in his campaign during the most recent municipal elections. Let’s look at the city’s declaration, which was adopted in 2002.
"Slow Life Declaration in Kakegawa"(excerpt) "In the late twentieth century, Japan valued and pursued the "fast, cheap, convenient, and efficient" life that brought us economic prosperity. However, it also caused problems such as dehumanization, social ills, and environmental pollution. We would like to move forward, with the slogan "Slow Life," to achieve "slow, relaxed and comfortable" lifestyles, and shift from a society of mass production and mass consumption, to a society that is not hectic and does cherish our possessions and things of the heart."
"Humans live about 700,800 hours (assuming an average life expectancy of 80 years), of which we spend about 70,000 hours working (assuming we work for 40 years). The remaining 630,000 hours are spent on other activities, such as eating, studying, and leisure, including 230,000 hours sleeping. Until now, people often focused their lives on these 70,000 hours of labor, devoting their lives to their companies. However, with the "slow life" principles, we would now like to pay more attention to the 630,000 hours outside of work to achieve true happiness and peace of mind." "The practice of the "Slow Life" involves the following eight themes : SLOW PACE : We value the culture of walking, to be fit and to reduce traffic accidents. S LOW WEAR : We respect and cherish our beautiful traditional costumes, including woven and dyed fabrics, Japanese kimonos and Japanese night robes (yukata). SLOW FOOD : We enjoy Japanese food culture, such as Japanese dishes and tea ceremony, and safe local ingredients. S LOW HOUSE : We respect houses built with wood, bamboo, and paper, lasting over one hundred or two hundred years, and are careful to make things durably, and ultimately, to conserve our environment. SLOW INDUSTRY : We take care of our forests, through our agriculture and forestry, conduct sustainable farming with human labor, and ultimately spread urban farms and green tourism. SLOW EDUCATION : We pay less attention to academic achievement, and create a society in which people can enjoy arts, hobbies, and sports throughout our lifetimes, and where all generations can communicate well with each other. SLOW AGING : We aim to age with grace and be self-reliant throughout our lifetimes. SLOW LIFE : Based on the philosophy of life stated above, we live our lives with nature and the seasons, saving our resources and energy."
A "Slow Life" Summit was held on August 24, 2003 in Gifu City with the participation of 20 municipalities from around the country that have embraced "Slow Life" as their slogan. They have adopted a "Gifu Declaration on Creating a Slow Life Community" for designing a community where citizens can enjoy life to the fullest. At the summit, innovative efforts of the slow life movement were presented, and participants enjoyed discussing their local foods over a box lunch made from Gifu’s traditional ingredients. The summit venues will rotate annually, and Kanazawa City will be the host in 2004. The Italian-born slow food movement has spread into Japan, which is now suffering from the aftereffects of rapid economic expansion and the current economic recession. Japanese people have begun questioning themselves about what matters most to them. More and more are now realizing that they prefer a slow, happy life to a life based on competition, economic efficiency and speed, and this realization is energizing Japan’s slow life movement. Japan’s Environment Ministry mentioned the term "slow life" for the first time in the 2003 edition of its Environmental White Paper a sign that the movement is spreading. This trend is a step toward creating a sustainable society, shifting away from the era of mass production, mass consumption, and mass disposal. Some readers may find it hard to believe that such a movement is happening in what has become seen as Corporate Japan. Look forward to the future development of the "Slow Life" and "Take-It-Easy" movements in Japan !
Example : Here is an interesting example. During the planning stage for the construction of a new condominium, the prospective residents had a heated debate on whether or not an elevator should be installed. Some were opposed because once installed it would consume energy, which would mean carbon dioxide emissions. Others were in favor, insisting that elderly people living on the top floors would need it.
How did they solve the problem ? A "slow elevator" was their solution. They agreed to install an elevator that moves slowly. Young people don’t want to wait for the elevator, while elderly people can use it if they want to, since they are usually not in a rush. As expected, once installed, the slow elevator is now used only by the elderly, and it consumes much less energy than a conventional elevator.
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Je
persiste à penser que si l'on continue à se calquer sur un modèle social
entièrement conditionné par l'argent et le pouvoir, tenant aussi peu compte des
vraies valeurs de l’amour, les générations futures pourraient bien se retrouver
en butte aux pires difficultés. Alors, malgré la difficulté que représente un
changement intérieur, le jeu en vaut la chandelle. J’en ai la fermeconviction :
il faut tenter l’impossible. Que l’on réussisse ou non est une autre question
(..) Au moins aurons nous tenté de bâtir un monde meilleur, fondé sur l’amour
authentique et non sur le profit personnel". Le Dalaï Lama
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