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Woody Tasch is the founder and chairman of the Slow Money Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to catalyzing the flow of capital to local food systems, connecting investors to the places where they live and promoting new principles of fiduciary responsibility that bring money back down to earth. Since 2010, via local Slow Money networks in dozens of communities in the U.S. and a few in Canada, France and Australia, over $57 million has gone to 632 small, local and organic food enterprises. Tasch is former chairman of Investors' Circle, a nonprofit angel network that has facilitated more than $200 million of investments in over 300 early-stage, sustainability-promoting companies. As treasurer of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation in the 1990s, he was a pioneer of mission-related investing. He was founding chairman of the Community Development Venture Capital Alliance. Utne Reader named him “One Of 25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.”Heis the author of Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered (Chelsea Green), SOIL: Notes Towards the Theory and Practice of Nurture Capital (Slow Money Institute), and AHA!: Fake Trillions, Real Billions, Beetcoin and the Great American Do-Over (Slow Money Institute).In this episode, we talk about completing capitalism as opposed to punishing it, the slow money movement, playful visionaries, allegiance to land as an act of healing and Woody's upcoming work.For more information about what Woody's up to, check out www.beetcoin.org.Save What You Love with Mark Titus:⁣Produced: Emilie FirnEdited: Patrick Troll⁣Music: Whiskey Class⁣Instagram: @savewhatyoulovepodcastWebsite: savewhatyoulove.evaswild.comSupport wild salmon at evaswild.com

On today’s Morning Magazine, we'll hear from a scientist who leads the CU Wizards program, which has been bringing entertaining science lectures to kids of all ages for over thirty years. Then we'll hear how the Slow Money Institute has […]

Perhaps no one has spoken so clearly about the problem of capitalism and its impact on our food system as Woody Tasch. He is the founder of the Slow Money Institute and the movement it supports. Hear about his latest written statement, A Call to Farms and the Beet Coin initiative launching on September 11, 2022.

For Woody Tasch, founder of Slow Money Institute, it's all about balance. Every moonshot needs an Earthshot; diversity and efficiency; simplicity and complexity. That's where the “deceptively simple” concept of Beetcoin comes in. Providing crowdfunded, 0% loans to organic and local food projects, Beetcoin is a challenge not just to the food system but the growth economy at large. Hear Woody and Brian dig into the details on this week's Steady Stater.Beetcoin: https://beetcoin.org/

Christopher Lindstrom's long passion for alternative monetary systems and local currencies led to his work at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics, where he organized a major international conference, called “Local Currencies in the 21st Century,” in '06 he co-founded BerkShares, a local currency for use in the southern Berkshires of western Massachusetts, which continues to receive international media attention and has served as a model for other communities interested in creating their own locally circulating currency. Lindstrom has been active in the bioenergy sector as an investor and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Catalyst Bioenergy Group, has served on the Board of Directors of the Slow Money Institute, and currently serves as a director of the David Rockefeller Fund. He is also the co-founder of CyclEffect, a new model of cooperative investing and business incubation that enables companies in their early stages to own a stake in a growing ecosystem of mission-aligned businesses. Learn More: growthguide.love

There is more to life than money. But even the investors who believe that sentiment continues to feed the beast, putting much of their capital back into a system that thrives on consumption. What if we considered the impact of our investments as much as the returns? What if we designed our capital markets around restoration rather than extraction? What if we put Slow Money into local food systems and made soil health part of our ROI?  Woody Tasch is the founder of the Slow Money Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to catalyzing the flow of capital to local food systems, connecting investors to the places where they live. He is also the author of Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money and SOIL: Notes Towards the Theory and Practice of Nurture Capital.  Today, Woody joins Ross and Christophe to discuss how he developed the idea of Slow Money and explore the reasons why we can’t seem to get our money out of the markets and do something radically different with it—especially foundations whose investments are out of alignment with their missions.  Woody introduces us to the concepts of innate value and shared risk, explaining how Wendell Berry’s ideas around belonging to a community inform his work on investing locally. He also covers the idea of blended value, weighing in on the non-financial aspects of sharing risk with farmers. Listen in for Woody’s distinction between agrobusiness and agriculture—and learn how Slow Money’s 0% loan program is growing a pool of capital and restoring soil health!   Key Takeaways   [1:13] Woody’s path to reversing climate change 35 years in philanthropy, angel investing Introduced to green revolution in 1979 Moved $75M into 750 small organic farms   [6:46] How Woody developed the idea of Slow Money Greatest accumulation of wealth in history Yet don’t take money out of system Need to think long-term (generationally)   [13:17] Why few foundations align their investments + mission Focus on making money to have more to give away Bought into market growth as only way to grow assets   [16:34] Why divestment campaigns don’t totally work Existing structure of foundations hard to deconstruct Lose sight of innate value and shared risk   [21:58] How Woody defines shared risk  Similar to CSA model (buy share of farm’s produce) Admit to risk and take on piece, ‘all in it together’   [24:01] Woody’s insight around blended value Continuum from giving money away to VC Explore relationship with impact continuum   [25:27] Woody’s take on the non-financial aspects of shared risk Neighbor’s barn burns down, loan money without interest Investing in community makes innate value obvious   [30:06] What keeps Americans from realizing Berry’s vision Urge to conquer, extract and exploit Lack of belonging to places we live   [36:18] The difference between agriculture and agrobusiness Farmers like Eliot Coleman = connection to land Large-scale industrial ag (45 minutes/acre/year)   [41:52] Slow Money’s SOIL 0% Loan Program in Boulder Individuals make annual donations of $250 to $50K Grows pool of capital over time + builds soil fertility   Connect with Ross & Christophe   Nori Nori on Facebook  Nori on Twitter Nori on Medium Nori on YouTube Nori on GitHub Nori Newsletter Email hello@nori.com Nori White Paper Subscribe on iTunes Carbon Removal Newsroom   Resources   Slow Money Institute Email info@slowmoney.org Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered by Woody Tasch SOIL: Notes Towards the Theory and Practice of Nurture Capital by Woody Tasch International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture by Wendell Berry Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by E.F. Schumacher ‘Microplastics are Raining Down from the Sky’ in National Geographic ‘It’s Raining Plastic: Microscopic Fibers Fall from the Sky in Rocky Mountains’ in The Guardian Video Game Addiction on Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel John Elkington on Reversing Climate Change EP028 John Doerr Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation Carlo Petrini & Slow Food Jed Emerson & Blended Value Joel Salatin Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long by Eliot Coleman Eliot Coleman An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Woody Tasch, the Founder of the Slow Money Institute, is the author of Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms and Fertility Mattered, which sparked a movement and led to the flow of more than $60 million to hundreds of local and organic food enterprises around the country. Woody is former Chairman and CEO of Investors’ Circle, one of the country’s oldest angel networks and the only one dedicated to sustainability, steering more than $200 million into 300 early stage companies since 1992. He was also founding Chairman of the Community Development Venture Capital Alliance. Utne Reader named Woody one of “25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.” Heritage Radio Network On Tour is powered by Simplecast

Woody Tasch, founder and chairman of the Slow Money Institute , shares with host Stephanie Syson and guest host Gwen Garcelon about his newest book .

Woody Tasch, founder of the Slow Money Institute and an author, says that it's time to bring our money back down to earth--literally--and invest in local, organic, small food enterprises that build local food systems and rebuild our precious soils.