Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered by Woody Tasch

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Synopsis

There are green business books and there are green business books. There are books about ethical investing and corporate governance and shareholder activism and local economies and local currencies. Then there is Funny Money Honey and Other Flights of Financey...the first honeybee's-eye view of the world of small business, capital markets and sustainability.

Is it possible to reinvent the relationship between companies and bioregions, and between investors and companies? Can Slow Money begin to heal the wounds of globalization? Yes, argues Funny Money Honey--if you can call its blend of poetry, non-fiction and fiction an argument.

No, this is ordinary polemic. It is a joyous and unpredictable search for the epiphany that can awaken today's investors to the new purpose of their capital.

The diappearance of the bees is both disturbing sympton and exquisite metaphor. Even as our wealth piles up around us, we are disoriented, displaced, dizzied by the spectacular power of global markets. Our dollars, and the businesses they finance, lose their connection to place. Our imagination, as global citizens and as investors, requires a new kind of pollination.

How can we be so rich and so poor? How can we be so powerful and so vulnerable? Can we find the courage to step off the treadmill of false progress? Can we ever find our way back home?

The answer, dear fellow 6.4-billionth-participant in the global human drama of the early 21st century, is buzzing right outside your window, right inside your heart and somewhere around page 168 of this extraordinary foraging expedition across the boundaries of nature, imagination and finance.

Biography

Woody Tasch is Chairman Emeritus of Investors' Circle, a

nonprofit network of angel investors, venture capitalists, foundations,

and family offices that, since 1992, has facilitated the flow of

$130 million to 200 early-stage companies and venture funds dedicated

to sustainability. He is president of the newly formed NGO

Slow Money. Woody was formerly treasurer of the Jessie Smith

Noyes Foundation. He is an experienced venture capital investor

and entrepreneur and has served on numerous for-profit and

nonprofit boards. He was founding chairman of the Community

Development Venture Capital Alliance, which supports venture

investing in economically disadvantaged regions. He lives in

northern New Mexico. For information about Slow Money please

visit www.slowmoneyalliance.org.