iEat Green - Community Service and an Interview with William Powers, Author of the New Book, “New Slow City” - 11/13/14

This week, my guest on the Progressive Radio Network is William Powers, a man who is talking the walk and walking the walk! Mr. Powers got his degrees from Brown and Georgetown Universities in International Relations and spent years working in development aid in Latin America, Africa and North America. Feeling burnt out and like he had had enough, he took his friend up on her offer, to live in her 12 x 12 cabin, off the grid, in North Carolina. In his book, Twelve by Twelve, William shares that experience and feeling inspired, he returns to New York and, with his wife,  leaves his 2,000 sq. ft townhouse in Queens, for a tiny 350 sq. foot apartment in Greenwich Village. His latest book, New Slow City, tells that story, and how cutting down expenses, cutting down on stuff, and cutting down on work, opened him up to another world of New York City, one that includes Slow Food, Slow Money, roof top gardening, beekeeping and urban sanctuaries. Please join me on Thursday to learn more about William Powers’s philosophy of slowing things down.