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New World Library
(2018-09-04)
304 pages
ISBN: 978-1608685646

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Getting Away from It All… If That’s Still Possible

January 20, 2011 by William Powers Leave a Comment

Radio Eco-Shock interviewed William Powers this week; it airs on two dozen university and community radio stations this week in the U.S. and Canada. Enjoy!

Listen: William_Powers on Radio Ecoshock

About the interview: There is an emptiness that invites us all to escape. I did, for a while, living for 10 years without electricity in a self-built cabin in Northern Ontario, Canada.

William Powers did. And who is he? Google tells me about an American from Long Island, an international development and aid worker in poorer countries, a man concerned with the extinction of people, languages, and Nature.

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Filed Under: Media Interviews, Uncategorized Tagged With: 12x12, carbon footprint, corporate-led globalization, environment, Hamlet’s Blackberry, Leisure Ethic, nature, organic farming, permaculturalists, sustainability, The Simple Living Network

Hamlet’s Blackberry

July 24, 2010 by William Powers 7 Comments

Have you ever monitored your Twitter feed while you were in the middle of Facebooking— only to be distracted by the ping of an incoming email?  In this digital age, do you ever feel too connected?

I’m in the middle of a new book called Hamlet’s Blackberry, which seeks to teach us how to connect with wisdom.  I came across it partly because the author and I share the same name. The book looks to history for precedents into how we can reduce some of our information age anxiety.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: 12x12, BlackBerrys, Facebook, Hamlet’s Blackberry, information age anxiety, internet sabbaths, iPads, Social Media, twelve by twelve, Twitter, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, william powers

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