[Scpg] Mar.9/ Book-signing event with Woody Tasch author of INQUIRIES INTO THE NATURE OF SLOW MONEY, Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered

Tue Feb 24 00:02:22 PST 2009

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

-end -

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

"We are like trees, we must create new leaves, in new directions, in 
order to grow." - Anonymous

First Annual Southern California Permaculture Convergence August 2008
  http://socalifornia.permacultureconvergence.org
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.permaculture-guilds.org/pipermail/southern-california-permaculture/attachments/20090224/f70c2cc0/attachment.html>