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  • From: Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <lakinroe@silcom.com>
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  • Subject: [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
  • Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:05:41 -0800



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@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@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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Anyone know of any sources for hardy, productive, high-sugar Gleditsia tricanthos?
I'm looking at Zone 4.

I hope someone out there is maintaining (maybe even improving) the fantastic genetic heritage of this species.

Thanks...


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