[permaculture] 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 santa barbnara

Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network lakinroe at silcom.com
Wed Feb 18 09:05:41 EST 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 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 quant, 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--- 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, 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's Slow Money could be the connection back to 
Main street, that Wall street needs right now. Slow money, according 
to Tasch, is Nurture Capital.

  	 Tasch suggests we need to move from capital markets based on 
consumption and extraction to capital markets based on restoration 
and preservation.

	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 please join us


The event takes place on Monday, March 9, 2009, 7pm at Victoria Hall 
Theatre, 33 West Victoria St, Santa Barbara. Donation, $5, no 
reservations needed.  Presented by Santa Barbara Permaculture Network 
NonProfit. For more information, (805) 962-2571, 
margie at sbpermaculture.org,   www.sbpermaculture.org.
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network's  event

Cosponsored by
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
Quailsprings Learning Oasis and Permaculture Farm    www.quailsprings.org
UCSB Office of Sustainability <http://sustainability.ucsb.edu/> 
http://sustainability.ucsb.edu/
Quailsprings Permaculture Learning Center and Farm    www.quailsprings.org
Santa Barbara Green and Local pages www.sblocal.org/
Owen E. Dell, landscape architect & contractor www.owendell.com 
Author of New Book Sustainable  Landscape for Dummies
Island Seed& Feed   www.islandseed.com
Hopedance Media www.hopedance.org
Isle Vista Food Coop  www.islavistafood.coop
Sojourner Cafe www.sojournercafe.com
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 MoneyWoody 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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