Thousands of Americans have begun affirming a new direction for the economy. It’s called Slow Money.
Inspired by the vision of Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing As If Food, Farms and Fertility Mattered, published in 2009, 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.
“Combine poisonous factory-farm tomatoes with disgraced investment banker Bernard Madoff. Throw in a stock market disaster. You get a public spooked by the dangers of industrial food production and investors wary of risky business. This may be the recipe for a Slow Money revolution.”
– David Gutnick, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
“The Slow Money movement is one of the top five trends
in finance for 2011.” – Entrepreneur.com
With trillions of dollars a day accelerating around the globe, invested in securities that no one fully understands, it is time to ask:
** What would the world be like if we invested 50% of our money
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?
“We must bring money back down to earth.” – Slow Money Principle I
