[Scpg] Slow Money: Investing in Food, Farms and Fertility

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Contact: Margie Bushman.
Santa Barbara Permaculture  Network
(805) 962-2571, margie at sbpermaculture.org

Santa Barbara Permaculture  Network
presents
A Book-signing Event  with
Woody Tasch
author of
Inquiries Into The Nature of Slow Money
Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility  Mattered

7pm, March 9, 2009, $5
Victoria Hall, Santa  Barbara

" We've tried  Casino Capitialism.....
Maybe it's time to try Nurture  Capitalism" 

There is such a thing as money  that is too fast. Money that is too fast is 
money that has become so detached  from people, place, and the activities that 
it is financing, that not even the  experts understand it fully.

In his newly published book, Inquiries Into The Nature of Slow  Money, 
Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered, published by  Chelsea Green  
www.chelseagreen.com , Woody Tasch examines the idea of  whether the world 
economy is going through a correction in the credit  markets,  triggered by the 
sub-prime mortgage crisis, or whether we are  teetering on the edge of something 
much deeper.  He examines our  current economy, tied to petro-dollars, 
derivatives, hedge funds, futures,  arbitrage, and a byzantine hyper-securitized 
system of inter-mediation--- that  no program trader, no speculator, no investment 
bank CEO ---can any longer fully  understand or manage.

Woody Tasch proposes we  bring money back down to earth.  A long-term venture 
capitalist and  entrepreneur, Tasch knows Wall Street and is putting that 
experience to work to  create a different model of venture capital through a 
newly formed NGO and  movement called Slow Money, which will invest in companies 
that  build natural and social capital as well as financial  capital.

The  Slow Money movement has two parts--- an NGO (non-government 
organization) where  a series of workshops held around the country bring together 
stakeholders to  talk about how they would invest slow money in their region, and a 
Fund side,  coming to market in 2009, to raise $50-100 million to initiate a 
series of  regional Slow Money venture funds . Scrutinizing  where we are in 
history,  Tasch believes we have to behave differently if we want to survive, by  
nurturing  markets that don't require unlimited growth---growth that goes  
beyond the limits of natural and social capital. Tasch suggests we need to move  
from capital markets based on consumption and extraction to capital  markets 
based on restoration and preservation. Slow Money could be the  connection back 
to Main street that Wall street needs. Slow money, according  to Tasch, is 
Nurture Capital.


Woody  Tasch is Chairman of Investors' Circle ( www.investorscircle.net) , a  
national non-profit network of investors dedicated to "Patient Capital for a  
Sustainable Future."  Since 1992, Investors' Circle has facilitated the  flow 
of over $130 million to over 200 sustainability-minded early-stage  companies 
and venture funds, including over $25 million to 42 food companies. He  is 
Chairman and President of the newly formed NGO, Slow Money, an intermediary  
dedicated to catalyzing the flow of capital to enterprises that support soil  
fertility and local food communities. Woody has worked as an entrepreneur,  
venture capitalist, board member and consultant with many organizations  including 
CERES (the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies),  National 
Mentor, Greenway, Northwest Area Foundation, CIMMYT (the International  Maize and 
Wheat Improvement Center) and The Farmers Diner. He is a frequent  speaker at 
various socially responsible business and sustainable agriculture  venues

If you are questioning the role of money in building a vibrant healthy 
Community  and local economy you should attend-

The event takes place on  Monday, March 9, 2009, 7pm at Victoria Hall 
Theater, 33 West Victoria St,  Santa Barbara. Cost $5, no reservations needed.  The 
event is presented by  the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network NonProfit. For 
more information, (805)  962-2571, margie at sbpermaculture.org,    
www.sbpermaculture.org.


Co-sponsors:
Permaculture Credit Union  www.pcuonline.org
Christie Communications    www.christiecomm.com
Johnny Sacko <johnnysacko at mac.com>
Santa  Barbara City College Center for Sustainability     
http://sustainability.sbcc.edu
Slow Food Santa Barbara  www.slowfoodsantabarbara.org
UCSB Office of Sustainability _http://sustainability.ucsb.edu/_ 
(http://sustainability.ucsb.edu/) 
Quail Springs  Learning Oasis & Permaculture Farm     www.quailsprings.org
Santa Barbara Skills and People Resource Directory ~ and  Green and Local 
Pages   www.sblocal.org/
Owen E. Dell, landscape architect & contractor  www.owendell.com (author of 
newly published book Sustainable Landscaping  for Dummies)
Island Seed& Feed Nursery   www.islandseed.com
Hopedance Media www.hopedance.org
Isla Vista Coop   www.islavistafood .
Surfrider Foundation, Santa Barbara Chapter
Edible  Gardens Seed Company
more cosponsors to come

ChelseaGreenTV  Woody Tasch
www.chelseagreen.com/tv/episode/1541700/
Woody Tasch,  author of Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money, discusses a 
new  approach to Money.  Woody Tasch is the chairman and CEO of Investors'  
Cirlce--a network of over 200 angel investors, professional venture capitalists, 
 foundations, family offices and others who are using private capital to 
promote  the transition to a sustainable economy.



*Friday, Feb 27,  9-10am Sustainable World Radio on  KCSB 91.9 FM PST and 
streaming live on www.kcsb.org. Also found  on    www.sustainableworldradio.com, 
later in the  month
Interview with Woody Tasch, author of Inquiries into the Nature  of Slow 
Money, Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered by Woody  Tasch, book 
forward  by Carlo   Petrini  (Chelsa Green  Book) with Host Jill Cloutier and 
Wes Roe of the Santa Barbara Permaculture  Network and Board member for 8 years 
of the Permaculture Credit Union  www.pcuonline.org one of the 10 Top Green 
Lending Institutions in USA and the  PCU pioneered the Sustainable Discount 
Loans Programs in USA

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Santa Barbara Permaculture  Network
an educational  non-profit since 2000
(805)  962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA  93190
margie at sbpermaculture.org
www.sbpermaculture.org

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to grow." - Anonymous

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