Please mark your calendars!
On Thursday, February 4th,
7-9 pm the Santa Barbara
Permaculture Guild will offer a FREE presentation (no charge or
donations) by permaculture teacher and natural investment advisor
Michael Kramer. He will share his thoughts on "Natural
Investing and Financial
Permaculture."http://naturalinvesting.com/about-ni/michael-kramer
This meeting will be held
at the Karpeles Manuscript Library, 21 Anapamu St. in
downtown Santa Barbara. There is city parking right behind the
building.
Topics to
include:
Community Investing - puts money into the hands of local
people who are building economic justice in communities around the
world.
Corporate Investing - avoids companies and industries that
do harm, seeks companies that work for a better world, and uses
shareholder activism to change companies from the inside.
Regenerative
Investing - the next
generation of natural investing, financing deep green sustainability
and social justice enterprises.
Regenerative Investing offers people who can afford to take on some
added risk the chance to invest in truly innovative projects that aim
to be economically viable models of sustainable society. Imagine:
pedestrian-friendly, solar- or wind-powered eco-villages; key wildlife
habitat preserved on huge ranches, using conservation easements and a
few sensitively-chosen home sites; and tropical tree farms that are
models of forest diversity and create good jobs for locals.
We call this new investment class "regenerative" because it
channels financial resources into projects that mimic the way natural
systems cycle matter and energy to create more life. Investing in
human activities that minimize the use of fossil fuel and toxic
chemicals while providing opportunities for natural systems to remain
healthy or to be restored around them, is a way to assure that future
generations will share in the bounty we are called on to
steward.
See you there!
Linda