Investing in Local Food and Organic Farms
I was watching the news this morning over my coffee and listening to a brief mention of Quaker lobbying on Capitol Hill for peace initiatives in the Middle East, to which the commentator immediately offered the following knee-jerk, supposedly un-trumpable retort: “But what about ISIS? Isn’t military response to ISIS completely justifiable and needed?” There […]
Sep 11, 2014
I arrived at this month’s inaugural Slow Money Canada meeting ready to share an excerpt of Michael Lewis’s new book, Flash Boys. Is there a more stark counterpoint for slow money, a better argument for bringing money back down to earth, than the excesses of high-frequency traders racing to achieve a few-millisecond trading edge?
Jun 12, 2014
The recent collapse of Mt. Gox and the “inconvenience,” in its CEO’s words, caused by the disappearance of hundreds of millions of dollars of Bitcoin investors’ money, should make us all think about the history of finance and … organic beets. We invented joint stock companies in 1600, came to what appeared to be an […]
Apr 17, 2014
The Chinese New Year is rolling around in February, ushering in the Year of the Snake. It seems only right for us, then, to call 2013, the year in which we push forward with the Soil Trust, the Year of the Earthworm. Here’s how a bunch of us earthworms are getting the year off to […]
Jan 22, 2013
We did it! After gestating the idea for quite a while, we have planted the seeds of the Soil Trust firmly in the field of action. A couple of weeks ago we announced the Soil Trust to all of you and we are pleased by the strong interest it generated. A special thank you to […]
Nov 02, 2012
A shortage of goat milk was the beginning of an innovative investment currently mid-stride in Vermont. Allison Hooper and Bob Reese, co-owners of Vermont Creamery, wanted to invigorate dairy goat farming in their state. Their creamery is a successful company 28 years in operation, manufacturing high-quality butter and artisanal cheeses from goat and cow milk. […]
Sep 25, 2012
