{"id":149,"date":"2005-11-08T12:18:20","date_gmt":"2005-11-08T16:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2005\/11\/08\/running-out-of-time\/"},"modified":"2007-02-15T15:40:39","modified_gmt":"2007-02-15T19:40:39","slug":"running-out-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2005\/11\/08\/running-out-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Running out of time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a2259\"><\/a>  From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forumforthefuture.org.uk\/\">Forum for the Future<\/a>, a pointer to a new book edited by Tim Aldrich, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forumforthefuture.org.uk\/news\/AboutTime_page2405.aspx\">About Time<\/a>.  It sounds like they&#8217;re on to something:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Despite the burgeoning army of machines designed to save us time \u2013 from cars and aeroplanes to dishwashers and microwaves &#8211; we don\u2019t seem to have any more of it on our hands. We simply fill the space we clear with more things to do &#8211; consuming more, spending more &#8211; and then look around for new ways of saving time.<\/p>\n<p>The fallout from a society hooked on speed is everywhere. It\u2019s affecting our health \u2013 sixty per cent of the adult population in the UK report that they suffer from stress, and more than half of these say that this has worsened over the last 12 months. It\u2019s affecting our family-life, with a quarter of British families sharing a meal together only once a month. And it affects our environment too: air travel is a major source of carbon dioxide emissions, accelerating climate change as we speed around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The faster we live, the faster we consume, the faster we waste energy and the faster we pollute the planet. The faster we seem to be running out of time.<\/p>\n<p>Forum for the Future\u2019s new book, edited by Tim Aldrich, features essays using the idea of time to take a different view of sustainable development. Contributors include the Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees, ethicist Baroness Mary Warnock, author Jay Griffiths and Will Hutton, CEO of the Work Foundation, as well as Jonathon Porritt.<\/p>\n<p>All argue for a reassessment of how time is perceived and used in modern society.<\/p>\n<p>The breakdown in our relationship with time is a root cause of the crisis of unsustainability. \u201cAbout Time\u201d investigates why and, with many practical suggestions, shows us a new way through.<\/em>  [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forumforthefuture.org.uk\/news\/AboutTime_page2405.aspx\">from here<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;And (ahem), that&#8217;s all I have time for today&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Forum for the Future, a pointer to a new book edited by Tim Aldrich, About Time. It sounds like they&#8217;re on to something: Despite the burgeoning army of machines designed to save us time \u2013 from cars and aeroplanes to dishwashers and microwaves &#8211; we don\u2019t seem to have any more of it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}