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Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money
Woody Tasch
Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered
Chelsea Green Publishing Company
November 2008
On Sale: November 12, 2008
240 pages
ISBN: 1603580069
EAN: 9781603580069
Hardcover
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We must bring money back down to earth. Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money presents the path
for bringing money back down to earth—philosophically,
strategically and pragmatically, and with an
entrepreneurial spirit that is informed by decades of work
by the thousands of CEOs, investors, grant-makers, food
producers and consumers who are seeding the restorative
economy. The months and years ahead will surely see a flood of books
proposing micro- and macro-economic fixes to the financial
crises of the day. Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money
brings a different vision—a meta-economic vision, looking
above the top tine and below the bottom line, a new way of
seeing what is going on in the soil of the economy. The soil of the economy? Bringing money back down to earth? This is the path towards a financial system that serves
people and place as much at it serves industry sectors and
markets. To discover this path, and to begin to walk down
it, is the mission of Slow Money. This mission emerges from decades of work as a venture
capitalist, foundation treasurer, and entrepreneur by Woody
Tasch, whose explorations shed new light on a truer, more
beautiful, more prudent kind of fiduciary responsibility, a
fiduciary responsibility that is not stuck in the
industrial concepts of the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, but which reflects the new economic, social and
environmental realities of the 21st century. These explorations take us from the jokes of his father to
the insights of his son, from the Board rooms of
foundations and start-up companies to the farm fields of
Vermont, from gopher holes in New Mexico to the
possibilities of an alternative stock exchange, from Carlo
Petrini to Muhammad Yunus, from Thoreau to Soros. Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money investigates an
essential new strategy for investing in local food systems,
and introduces a group of fiduciary activists who are
exploring what should come after industrial finance and
industrial agriculture. Theirs is a vision for investing
that puts soil fertility into return-on-investment
calculations. Could there ever be an alternative stock exchange dedicated
to slow, small, and local?
Could a million American families get their food from CSAs?
What if you had to invest 50 percent of your assets within
50 miles of where you live? Such questions—at the heart of Slow Money—are the first
step on our path to a new economy and a new culture.
Inquiries into Slow Money is a call to action for designing
capital markets built around—not extraction and consumption
but—preservation and restoration. Is it a movement or is it an investment strategy? Yes.
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