Respite From a Fast-Paced Life with Outside Magazine and Carrie Battan

In Carrie Battan's recent Outside Magazine article, she says she came to Serenbe to see if it truly offered respite from, as she wrote, "the exhausting effects of {her} fast-paced, digital, urban life." In this episode of Serenbe Stories, we talk with her about her visit to Serenbe in Fall 2019, her Outside article, and how her life has changed since the coronavirus has forced people away from public spaces and leaving her life in Brooklyn NY. We also talk about the positive effects on the environment and she wonders if more communities will begin to live life the way Serenbe does.

Mentioned In The Episode

Jeff Tkach and 7 “Silver Linings” - The New Hope Network held a webinar in April 2020 on the State of Natural and Future of Organic, in which Nick McCoy Caleb out seven “silver linings” to the crisis. They are:

1. Increased focus on wellness
2. Moving away from individualism and toward new investments in public goods and services (especially health)
3. Expansion of online communities
4. Domestic self-sufficiency and reducing or eliminated the need for imports
5. Land conservation
6. Post-crisis boom in seeking relief from stress, pleasure, and community
7. Increase in community at all levels from micro to macro

Poets’ Walk - Named in honor of Washington Irving and other literary figures said to have walked the grounds, Poets’ Walk is one of the most popular places to take a stroll in the Hudson Valley.

America’s Biggest Cities Were Already Losing Their Allure. What Happens Next? - The New York Times

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