hi everyone
Sunday Mar
8, 10:00am interview on KIST 1490 AM with Woody Tasch author of INQUIRIES
INTO THE NATURE OF SLOW MONEY, Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility
Mattered by Nick Beeson
wes
ps don't forget the Woody will be in Santa Barbara Mar 9 in person at the
Victory Hall
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Contact: Margie Bushman
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
(805) 962-2571, margie@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 Capitalism.....
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@sbpermaculture.org,
www.sbpermaculture.org.
Co-sponsors:
Permaculture Credit Union
www.pcuonline.org
Christie Communications
www.christiecomm.com
Johnny Sacko <johnnysacko@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/
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.coop
Surfrider Foundation, Santa Barbara Chapter
www.surfrider.org/santabarbara/
Fund for Santa Barbara
www.
fundforsantabarbara
.org
Edible Gardens Seed Company
www.ediblegardens.com
Media
Sustainable World Radio
www.sustainableworldradio.com
Common Good Media
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
-end -
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
an educational
non-profit since 2000
(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
margie@sbpermaculture.org
www.sbpermaculture.org
"We are like trees,
we must create new leaves, in new directions, in order to grow." -
Anonymous