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 -The New York Times provides some bold steps to make your Carbon Footprint smaller in this informative article A real poop of a article! By Brendan I. Koerner -A CNN Article 'The idea of a local economy rests upon only two principles: neighborhood and subsistence..." Next to nuclear war, the climate crisis may be the biggest challenge ever to confront the human race. Bill McKibben lays out where we can act. To do it, he says, we need "a political swell larger than the civil rights movement." A very informed letter to the President-Elect about our food dillema and the state of the farming industry and how to fix it. For Woody Tasch, founder of the slow money movement and author of the book Inquiries Into the Nature of Slow Money (Chelsea Green, November 2008), the relationship between capital and soil is clear. Tasch is the chairman of Investor’s Circle, a network of investors that meets this week in Boston to fund startups that focus on sustainable business practices. In Slow Money, Tasch suggests a financial paradigm shift that mirrors the tenets of the slow food movement: valuing local food systems over global, industrialized food systems. We caught up with Tasch this week to talk about why slow money may be a long-term solution to sustainable finance.
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