We must bring money back down to earth.Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money presents the path for bringing money back down to earthphilosophically, 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 visiona 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 questionsat the heart of Slow Moneyare 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 aroundnot extraction and consumption butpreservation and restoration.Is it a movement or is it an investment strategy? Yes.
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Bringint it all together
Review Date: December 25, 2008
Reviewer: SunshineGirl, San Francisco, CA
Disgusted with the garbage we call food and the markets and government that subsidize it? Impatient with politicians who refuse to connect the dots between ag subsidies, obesity, childhood diabetes, shriveling family farms and an environment poisoned by ag chemicals? If you found Michael Pollan's works provocative and insightful, you'll recognize this book as the next "ah ha" moment on the path to food and farms that nurture rather than weaken our communities. "Slow Money" is a way to fight back. It has a message of hope and empowerment like the one that propelled Obama to victory: together we build momentum for change. We pool our money and invest it in a food system that builds instead of harms environmental and human health. I invested in three copies of this book: one for me and two for friends, who will tell their friends. The movement begins.
Where your money went
Review Date: January 9, 2009
Reviewer: Joan Dye Gussow, Rockland County, NY
Sometimes books come along at exactly the right time to help us understand where we were headed just before we crashed. Slow Money does that and more. And now that business as usual has publicly tanked, there's no one I'd rather follow into the fields of food and finance than former financier Woody Tasch who trails everyone from Icarus to Rod Serling in his wake. Here is his basket of exclamations, explorations, exhortations and explanations of how frantic capital might be slowed so as to support instead of destroying--as it now does--soil fertility, biodiversity, food quality and local economies. Reflect for a moment on Tasch's idea that we need to learn to make a living rather than a killing in the market and then get this book. It will turn your head around and make you laugh at the same time. It goes along with Small is Beautiful on my "books that matter" shelf.
A Clarion Call for Change
Review Date: January 6, 2010
Reviewer: Rebecca Calahan Klein, Lafayette, California USA
Paul Hawken's "The Ecology of Commerce" was a game-changer, helping us re-imagine a new, healthy relationship between business and the environment. Woody Tasch's new book, "Slow Money" carries this process forward, fundamentally altering our understanding of money and showing the role it can play in building restorative economies in communities around the globe. "Slow Money" sounds a powerful call for real investment made in real businesses producing real goods like food for our tables and soil fertility for our shared future. It evokes a new way of thinking about money that is the key to making sustainable development and restorative economics real. This is a life changing book.
This Book is the Start of a Movement
Review Date: January 28, 2010
Reviewer: L. Brunjes, San Francisco, CA
Every once in a while, you come upon a book that impresses you with the feeling that you are watching history unfold with each page--you find yourself daydreaming mid-read about telling your children and your children's children about who you were when you first read that book, and how you had the kernel of foresight that it would be the start of something that would influence our world and our relationship to it. For better, forever.
This is one of those books.
Slow Money is medicine for our diseased relationship with money and the tangible resources that it was originally intended to represent. It is a poetic, profound de-conditioning of our standard, abstracted views of economics. Woody Tasch's background in traditional venture capital investing allows him to speak the lingo we all know with aplomb, while also breaking ground for the new languaging that is needed to start this critical conversation. It represents the transition from money as depleting to repleting, from money as numbers to money as what has stood the test of time as the apotheosis of human culture and survival: food.
As a leader in the biochar field, I am intimately familiar with the catastrophic dangers inherent in eroding our soil health, and work daily to help us avoid them. Enter Slow Money: I am floored. I am inspired. I am rejoicing. Slow Money is exactly what our soils and the people that depend on them (read: ALL OF US) need, and it brings poetry to economics in a way that is deeply and unexpectedly healing to our collective psyche.
This book is so riddled with gems that I realized immediately that underlining key phrases would be pointless, because I would be underlining the whole book. I am going to read it several times so that I can systematically adopt the healthy mental gestalt that Slow Money brilliantly expounds.
May all who read Slow Money be agents of this meme, which promises to change the way we view money, forever.
Excellent book
Review Date: April 22, 2009
Reviewer: David S. Robbie, NJ United States
I really loved this book. I completely agree with the ideas presented by the author. This book, along with Schumacher's "Small is Beautiful" have completely changed my views on economics and sustainability. The key now for me is how do I go forward after reading this book? If you are looking for a book on making money in socially responsible funds, this is not for you. It is about investing in sustainable practices, that do no harm to the earth, soil and all living things. When you invest in these things, abundance is sure to come for all (better health, sustainability, etc.). It is long term thinking and not about quick fixes. The author does not discourage innovation, but encourages us to re-think what we are innovating. It is very basic in that it all starts with fertile soil. Fertile soil is teaming with life that we don't even understand. Everything we do has a consequence. In this recession, we think we have run out of opportunities to add value to society and be employed. This book showed me that the opportunities to do good are endless. I am starting with an organic garden in my yard. As Geoff Lawton says, "All of the world's problems can be solved with a garden.."
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