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Wed Feb 25 13:55:19 EST 2009


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On Wednesday, February 25, 2009, at 11:21AM, <permaculture-request at lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:
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>   1. Re: Fuels Cells out of Dirt, and Microbes (negiliblek)
>   2. FRI Feb 27 / Sustainable World Radio Interview with Woody
>      Tasch author of INQUIRIES INTO THE NATURE OF SLOW MONEY,
>      Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered
>      (Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network)
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>Thanks Keith, you saved me hours of searching.
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>For anyone else who wants to get their hands dirty here's the materials you'll need:
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>-Two Graphite electrodes (Grade G-10, 8.9 cm dia x1.3cm thick) www.graphite-eng.com
>-Two lenghts of Insulated wire (Ancor Marine Grade 16gauge)
>www.ancorproducts.com
>-Electrical Conductive Epoxy (H20E silver epoxy)
>www.epoteck.com
>-Resistors for a simulated load (try LEDs with resistors) 100 -1k Ohm range 
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>The above is not my work; it came from the pdf found at:
>http://www.geobacter.org/research/microbial/
>Named: Sediment Battery Prepartion.pdf
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>Which can show those also interested how to assemble the above parts.
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>.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
>
>Join Jill Cloutier of Sustainable World Radio for an interview with 
>Woody Tasch author of INQUIRIES INTO THE NATURE OF SLOW MONEY, 
>Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered 
>(www.chelseagreen.com for dates for national book tour) with Wes Roe 
>	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.
>	Woody Tasch proposes we bring money back down to earth. A 
>long-term venture capitalist, entrepreneur, and Chairman of 
>Investors' Circle.
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>Wes Roe is a co-founder of  Santa Barbara Permaculture Network and 
>Board member for 8 years of the Permaculture Credit Union 
>www.pcuonline.org
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>BOOK SIGNING EVENT IN SANTA BARBARA
>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.
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>FURTHER NOTES AND ARTICLES
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>  " We've tried Casino Capitialism.....
>  Maybe it's time to try Nurture Capitalism" 
>
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>	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
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>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.
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>Why We Need Slow Money 
>http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/inquiries_into_the_nature_of_slow_money:hardcover
>  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. Money that is too fast makes it impossible to say whether 
>the world economy is going through a correction in the credit 
>markets, triggered by the subprime mortgage crisis, or whether we are 
>teetering on the edge of something much deeper and more challenging, 
>tied to petrodollars, derivatives, hedge funds, futures, arbitrage, 
>and a byzantine hyper-securitized system of intermediation that no 
>quant, no program trader, no speculator, no investment bank CEO, can 
>any longer fully understand or manage. Just as no one can say 
>precisely where the meat in a hamburger comes from (it may contain 
>meat from as many as a hundred animals), no one can say where the 
>money in this or that security has come from, where it is going, what 
>is behind it, whether-if it were to be "stopped" and, like a hot 
>potato, held by someone for more than a few instants-it represents 
>any intrinsic or real value. Money that is too fast creates an 
>environment in which, when questioned by the press about the outcome 
>of the credit crisis, former treasury secretary Robert Rubin can only 
>respond, "No one knows."
>
>This kind of befuddlement is what arises when the relationships among 
>capital, community, and bioregion are broken. As long as money 
>accelerates around the planet, divorced from where we live, our 
>befuddlement will continue. As long as the way we invest is divorced 
>from how we live and how we consume, our befuddlement will worsen. As 
>long as the way we invest uproots companies, putting them in the 
>hands of a broad, shallow pool of absentee shareholders whose primary 
>goal is the endless growth of their financial capital, our 
>befuddlement at the depletion of our social and natural capital will 
>only deepen. **** We must reexamine the story of progress, being 
>honest about where we as a species seem to be going awry-if one 
>defines nuclear weapons, 9/11, Twinkies, the continuing promulgation 
>of a culture of rampant consumerism in the face of 6.6 billion 
>people, climate change, volatility in global food prices, and 
>widening wealth inequalities as "going awry." We must recognize the 
>potentially disastrous consequences of doing the same thing over and 
>over again-going more and more global, bigger and bigger, faster and 
>faster-hoping for a different outcome. Then, and only then, we may 
>find the courage to slow money down-not all of it, of course, but 
>meaningful quantities of it. In a world of trillions of dollars a 
>day, this means billions of dollars a day . . . wait . . . did I say 
>billions of dollars a day? I did, and before The Twilight Zone theme 
>song starts ringing in your ears, I add: The Good Lord, and his 
>better half, Great Gaia, did not hand us today's global financial 
>markets on a platter, blessed and preordained
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>. No, we invented them, and we have it in our power to reinvent them, 
>to design what comes after them. What seems pre- posterous when 
>viewed through the wrong end of the fast-money telescope seems 
>wonderfully within reach when looked at through the lens of slow 
>money, allowing us to set about the work of rebuilding healthy 
>relationships among enterprises and communities and bioregions, and 
>between investors and the enterprises in which they invest. Let us 
>set about this work, then, so that whoever it is that comes onto the 
>world stage after Homo economista and Homo consumerista and the 
>Invisible Hand of the marketplace, may, as they exit stage left, 
>come-fully and fearlessly and wearing whiffs of humus and manure like 
>badges of honor-into view. Woody Tasch From the Prologue of Inquiries 
>into the Nature of Slow Money (see page 28)
>
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>Bringing the cash crunch back down to earth.
>By Woody Tasch
>www.hopedance.org/cms/content/view/637/86/
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>Q&A: Woody Tasch
>The venture capitalist talks to Plentymag.com about his new book on 
>"slow money," building natural and social capital along with economic 
>capital, how to measure abstractions, and what's wrong with the 
>market today
>By Ragan Sutterfield
>
>http://www.plentymag.com/features/2009/01/qa_venture_capitalist_woody_ta.php
>
>We have been learning all about fast money. From the mortgage-backed 
>securities with little grounding in reality to Bernard Madoff's Ponzi 
>scheme, fast money has been showing its true self recently. Woody 
>Tasch believes it's time to pull the reins back on fast money and 
>create a market that values the environment, local communities, and 
>the natural world as much as it does financial growth. His new book, 
>Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, 
>and Fertility Mattered articulates this vision. A long-time venture 
>capitalist and entrepreneur, Tasch knows Wall Street. He is putting 
>that experience to work to create a different model of venture 
>capital through a newly formed NGO called Slow Money, which will 
>invest in companies that build natural and social capital as well as 
>financial capital. Plenty spoke with Tasch by phone from his home in 
>the mountains outside of Santa Fe, NM to talk about Slow Money, his 
>new book, and his ideas for a new kind of economy.
>
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>GreenMoney Journal - publishing since 1992
>Fall 2008 issue
>www.greenmoneyjournal.com/article.mpl?newsletterid=44&articleid=604
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>A book excerpt from Slow Money, by Woody Tasch
>http://www.odemagazine.com/doc/58/slow-money-excerpt/all
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