Slow Money

August 6, 2013

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Slow Money TED-style talks: Fixing the food system

We're headed for a nutritional cliff if our current food system of waste, unfair farmer compensation, soil infertility and band-aid diabetes treatment that's predicted to soon total in the trillions persists unchecked.

Gary Nabhan talks solutions to restoring a just food supply chain during this year's Slow Money 4th National Gathering.

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What is Slow Money? 

 

The Slow Money Alliance is bringing people together around a new conversation about money that is too fast, about finance that is disconnected from people and place, about how we can begin fixing our economy from the ground up... starting with food.

 

The National Gathering 

Register for this year's National Gathering, which will take place April 29 and 30 in Boulder, Colorado. Register here for this event.  

  • Watch pioneering investment presentations

  • Participate in break-out sessions such as New Visions of Corporate Philanthropyand Exploring Seeds and Biodiversity to Impact Investing. 

  • Connect with investors, advocates and more to learn about a new kind of social investing. 

  • Listen to speakers including Carlo Petrini, international founder, Slow Food; Wes Jackson, founder, The Land Institute; and Janie Hoffman, founder, Mamma Chia

 

Sign the Slow Money Principles

In order to enhance food security, food safety and food access; improve nutrition and health; promote cultural, ecological and economic diversity; and accelerate the transition from an economy based on extraction and consumption to an economy based on preservation and restoration, we do hereby affirm the following Slow Money Principles:

I. We must bring money back down to earth. 



II. There is such a thing as money that is too fast, companies that are too big, finance that is too complex. Therefore, we must slow our money down -- not all of it, of course, but enough to matter. 

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II. The 20th Century was the era of Buy Low/Sell High and Wealth Now/Philanthropy Later—what one venture capitalist called “the largest legal accumulation of wealth in history.” The 21st Century will be the era of nurture capital, built around principles of carrying capacity, care of the commons, sense of place and non-violence. 



IV. We must learn to invest as if food, farms and fertility mattered. We must connect investors to the places where they live, creating vital relationships and new sources of capital for small food enterprises. 



V. Let us celebrate the new generation of entrepreneurs, consumers and investors who are showing the way from Making A Killing to Making a Living. 



VI. Paul Newman said, "I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer who puts back into the soil what he takes out." Recognizing the wisdom of these words, let us begin rebuilding our economy from the ground up, asking: 



* What would the world be like if we invested 50% of our assets within 50 miles of where we live?


* What if there were a new generation of companies that gave away 50% of their profits?

* What if there were 50% more organic matter in our soil 50 years from now?


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