[Scpg] Thursday: free talk on Financial Permaculture, Natural Investing

[LBUZZELL at aol.com]

Please mark your calendars!  This 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:   

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

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