[Scpg] Sunday Mar 8, 10:00am interview on KIST 1490 AM SB with Woody Tasch author of INQUIRIES INTO THE NATURE OF SLOW MONEY, Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered

Sat Mar 7 17:02:38 PST 2009

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 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 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 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.coop
Surfrider Foundation, Santa Barbara Chapter 
<http://www.surfrider.org/santabarbara/>www.surfrider.org/santabarbara/
Fund for Santa Barbara www.fundforsantabarbara.org
Edible Gardens Seed Company <http://www.ediblegardens.com>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

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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

"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
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