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[All MNN Content] A recap of SOCAP 2009 | MNN - Mother Nature Network: Close to 150 organizations are providing approximately $4 billion in capital and services to small and growing businesses in developing countries. And areas like clean tech and socially responsible investing have seen double-digit growth year-over year, despite challenging economic conditions.

[Civil Eats] Civil Eats » Blog Archive » Message to the Slow Money Alliance ...: Kristine Martinez, founder of Angeles with Attitude, a Santa Fe based investor association, said it will be different based on the goals and desires of the businesses and investors. Eric Becker, vice president of Trillium Asset Management, a socially responsible investment entity, said the returns “will” be lower than market rate.

[Chelsea Green] Slow Money Inaugural National Gathering: From the Ground Up ...: p“Founded by Woody Tasch, a pioneer in merging investing and philanthropy, Slow Money is dedicated to catalyzing the flow of capital to local food systems, while promoting new principles of responsible investing that support sustainable agriculture and the emergence of a restorative economy” (from SlowMoneyAlliance.org) Woody Tasch expanded and explained the Slow Money philosophy in […]

[SustainableWork] SustainableWork: Slow Money: it is the gestalt that emerges as socially responsible investing matures and the wave of triple-bottom-line [social, environmental and economic accounting] entrepreneurs and investors builds”¦ Applied to the food sector, patient capital becomes slow money - whose name carries with it more than a doff of the cap to Slow Food, the international NGO that promotes biodiversity, artisan food traditions, heirloom varieties and connections between small farmers and consumers. Slow money can be thought of as a subsector, or sub-asset class of patient capital, focused with appropriate patience on the health of soil and bioregion."

[Miller-McCune] Business & Economics Articles | Slowing Down Financial System May ...: No surprise that this poet of the financial world has coined phrases like "nurture capitalism" or "the war on terroir." But more than just catchy neologisms, these terms reflect Tasch's underlying mission to transform the world of investing so its impacts can more directly and positively enhance the lives of ordinary Americans. This includes small-scale investors and entrepreneurs as well as anyone who values "triple bottom line" approach to accounting —

[Chelsea Green] Woody Tasch Talks Sustainable Cash on The Peter Laufer Show ...: pWoody Tasch, author of Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered, spoke with Peter Laufer (Mission Rejected: U.S. Soldiers Who Say No to Iraq) on The Peter Laufer Show concerning the nascent slow money movement (recently featured on NPR).

[NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - News feed] Wholesome Investing | Newsroom | NextBillion.net | Development ...: The rise in social venture comes as institutional and accredited investors are putting significantly more money into so-called socially responsible investment (SRI) vehicles. Today, roughly $2.71 trillion-or 11% of assets under professional management in the United States-are now involved in SRI, according to the Social Investment Forum, a trade group.

[Chelsea Green] Change the World: Support a New Kind of Capitalism : Chelsea Green: We might learn to think of our housing as shelter, first and foremost, and long-term investment—not an asset to be flipped, or an ATM. We might also be more willing to confront the serious problems that plague our industrialized food system, as documented in Food, Inc.

[Thinking Big Works] Thinking Big Works » Blog Archive » Slow Money: We had the Slow Food industry, as a backlash to unhealthy eating, now Woody Tasch has initiated his Slow Money movement to offset the lust for speedy profits, at any cost. Tasch is our honored CEO of Enlightened Orgs for the work he is doing to bring sensibility to a world made giddy by financial greed.

[Geezeo] Heard of “Slow Food”? Now There's “Slow Money” « Geezeo: “Slow Money” movement was named by Woody Tasch, Chairman of the Investor's Circle, a business investment group. “Slow Money”, Tasch writes, is “a new vision for investing that looks above the top line and below the bottom line pu soil fertility .

[Guy Fawkes' blog] Osborne's Command Economics - Guy Fawkes' blog: Did any one see the great leader and the news conference, planted question from the BBC, got his message out, job done, well done the Babour Broadcasting Corporation, propoganda machine paid for by us; this will feature on the next few hours of news, TV and Radio, when will this stop?

[Environment » Eoin] Does wind power really provide more jobs than coal? | csmonitor.com: To be fair,  Woody’s lede does say that “[t]he wind industry now employs more people than coal mining in the United States.” But his story then immediately abandons this distinction, and then goes on to characterize those 81,000 jobs as comprising the total employment of the coal industry.

[Blogactiv - EU Blog Platform] ELIAMEP Blogs » Blog Archive » Learning from the financial crisis: A remarkably tiny group of conniving, deceitful, ostentatiously greedy, patently fraudulent financial schemers on what is left of Wall Street in the remaining investment houses and the major {stress-tested} banks that are described as “too big to fail” are at one and the same time being given hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer money, racking up billions of dollars in profits, and paying themselves millions of dollars in bonuses. All the while, millions of people are losing their livelihoods, homes, pensions, etc.

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