Review
?Woody Tasch has one of those fast minds that always seems to ask the right slow questions. He is on to something: a new vision of deploying capital in a way that might offer a true alternative to faster and faster, bigger and bigger, more and more global.?–Eliot Coleman, farmer and author of The New Organic Grower and Four-Season Harvest?An essential read for anyone who is concerned about the human condition and our planet.?–Mark Finser, Chair of the Board, RSF Social …
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent book
I really loved this book. I completely agree with the ideas presented by the author. This book, along with Schumacher’s “Small is Beautiful” have completely changed my views on…
Disgusted with the garbage we call food and the markets and government that subsidize it? Impatient with politicians who refuse to connect the dots between ag subsidies, obesity, childhood diabetes, shriveling family farms and an environment poisoned by ag chemicals? If you found Michael Pollan’s works provocative and insightful, you’ll recognize this book as the next “ah ha” moment on the path to food and farms that nurture rather than weaken our communities. “Slow Money” is a way to fight back. It has a message of hope and empowerment like the one that propelled Obama to victory: together we build momentum for change. We pool our money and invest it in a food system that builds instead of harms environmental and human health. I invested in three copies of this book: one for me and two for friends, who will tell their friends. The movement begins.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A look at agriculture and its power as a solid investment prospect
Not every way to make money has to be fast. “Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered” is a look at agriculture and its power…
Sometimes books come along at exactly the right time to help us understand where we were headed just before we crashed. Slow Money does that and more. And now that business as usual has publicly tanked, there’s no one I’d rather follow into the fields of food and finance than former financier Woody Tasch who trails everyone from Icarus to Rod Serling in his wake. Here is his basket of exclamations, explorations, exhortations and explanations of how frantic capital might be slowed so as to support instead of destroying–as it now does–soil fertility, biodiversity, food quality and local economies. Reflect for a moment on Tasch’s idea that we need to learn to make a living rather than a killing in the market and then get this book. It will turn your head around and make you laugh at the same time. It goes along with Small is Beautiful on my “books that matter” shelf.
3.0 out of 5 stars
A slow book on slow money
Woody Tasch quite rightfully points at the excesses of the financial world and sees insanity and egoism that does not serve mankind.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Right idea, right time
It’s pathetic isn’t it?
How many people saw their life savings cut down to near nothing by the government-enabled crooks on Wall Street?
5.0 out of 5 stars
A launching pad
For Tasch, the challenge of local sustainable agriculture is not knowledge but finance. The current financial system – disconnected from people, place, and mindful practices, and…
The vision, goal and poetry of this book are beyond reproach. Unfortunately, it is written to fellow true-believers. The average reader will find it difficult to translate into action or new insight.
For example, the book suggests more money should be invested in corporations with very long term plans. The author points out that top-soil takes hundreds of years to become a mature ecosystem, so we need companies with similar outlooks. Of course, that is a great goal, but most readers will wonder how such an organization could survive when government policy currently promotes mad consumerism as a sort of patriotism. The author regularly points out the absurdity of this ‘pro-growth’ religion, but never investigates its history, institutional power base nor weaknesses. The new comer to ‘slow money’ will find the omission frustrating.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Beautiful visionary work…
Amidst my frantic preparations for departure on a trip to Chile, I
eagerly stole the time to finish this book. It is an absolutely
beautiful, visionary work.