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From New Hope Natural Media Partner Slow Money.With the Slow Money National Gathering right around the corner, be sure to register today! Can't make it to the event? Catch it all via the Slow Money live stream.
Slow Money
April 25, 2013
2 Min Read
Of the 600 folks from around the U.S. and abroad who are attending our upcoming national gathering, more than 150 are from across Colorado — Durango, Hotchkiss, Paonia, Aspen, Ft. Collins, Telluride, Denver, Boulder and more. This is an unparalleled opportunity for folks from across the state to get to know one another and explore opportunities to work together to build local and regional food systems.
On Tuesday, April 30, seven Colorado food entrepreneurs will present investment opportunities in their ventures (along with 18 from elsewhere in the U.S.), and there will be an afternoon workshop, led by Michael Brownlee of Localization Partners and Woody Tasch of Slow Money, exploring opportunities for Colorado residents to create local investment clubs and related initiatives.
With only one week to go, we hope you will consider joining us. Register today, as we are nearing capacity.
If you can’t make the trip, we hope that many of you will view the event online.
The entirety of the proceedings on the Main Stage will be available by live streaming.
This is a wonderful opportunity to hear Woody Tasch, Carlo Petrini, Wes Jackson, Mary Berry, Winona LaDuke, Gary Nabhan, Michael Brownlee and many other thought leaders, social entrepreneurs and investors.
See the full program.
If you are interested in local food, or in new ways of thinking about money and the soil, or in new ways to put some of your money to work near where you live, or in all of the above and the hopeful economic and cultural direction in which they point, then take a few hours and watch what Bill McKibben has called "one of the keys to a healthy future."
For $50, you will have unlimited online access to two full days of programming, as well as to a recording of same.
“What a pleasure to be part of a gathering that wasn't just talking about the future but bending it! Slow Money is one of the keys to a healthy future.” – Bill McKibben, Founder of 350 .org
The Slow Money 4th National Gathering comes to Boulder, April 29-30, 2013. Learn more about the Gathering here.
About the Author(s)
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. I
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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