print email comment close Take Back Your Time URL: http://www.timeday.org/ Description: This is "a nationwide initiative to challenge the epidemic of overwork, over-scheduling, and time famine that now threatens our health, our families and relationships, our communities and our environment." The site provides a handbook, petition forms, reading suggestions, and information about the October 24 observance that "falls nine weeks before the end of the year, symbolizing the nine full weeks more we work each year compared to our trans-Atlantic neighbors." From The Simplicity Forum. Publisher: Simple Living Network Extra Keywords voluntary simplicity, simple living Library of Congress Subject Headings: Hours of labor Quality of life -- United States Special days LII Database Information: Record 4587 created by Julianna Hamann on 10/21/2003 Last modification on 02/19/2007 Published: 10/21/2003   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/4587