[Ccpg] Thurs Feb 4 - free talk on "Financial Permaculture" at Karpeles Library

[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

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."

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:

<mip://064202e0/what-is-natural-investing/community-investing>Community 
Investing - puts money into the hands of local people who are 
building economic justice in communities around the world.

<mip://064202e0/what-is-natural-investing/corporate-investing>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.

<mip://064202e0/what-is-natural-investing/regenerative-investing>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
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