Investing in Local Food and Organic Farms
In the small township of Port Medway on Nova Scotia’s South Shore, Annabelle Singleton and Debra Melanson, their husbands, and their staff have made The Port Grocer into the heart of the community.
Mar 20, 2017
I am a refugee from conventional finance. It all started in the most innocent and promising way: a graduate student in math and economics.
Jan 23, 2017
There are Tweets and there is chaff and the two need to be separated. Isn’t this clearer than the hair on you know who’s head? We’ve got too many Tweets and way too much chaff these days.
Dec 20, 2016
How is it in this country we are so willing to look at technology and say that it will solve all of our problems? We always rush right in, let “progress” take over, and never imagine that it may have a negative effect on the overall society. I’m not sure why, but I felt this even in the very early days of the internet, when the excitement was so high.
Jun 28, 2016
I am not a Democrat. I am not a Republican. I am not a political animal. I’m just an earthworm. An earthworm in the soil of a restorative economy.
Jun 13, 2016
With the help of Slow Money Northern California, Planting Justice has purchased Rolling River Nursery, and expanded the operation in Sobrante Park, which has the highest unemployment and crime rate in Oakland. The nursery is set to be transformed into an urban farm and training center that will greatly expand access to fresh produce, food-producing trees and […]
May 17, 2016
I don’t know what a bitcoin is. I know how bitcoin is described in the media, that it is called a crypto-currency, that the Japanese programmer who created it is shrouded in secrecy, that it has been used by drug dealers, that venture capitalists are pouring billions of dollars into “mining” it, that websites feature […]
Oct 30, 2015
I’m guessing that you, like me, watched the presidential debate on Tuesday night. And I’m also guessing that many of us have already made contributions to Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders … or, for that matter … Ben Carson or Ted Cruz. To my thinking, money spent on presidential politics is all pretty much the same, […]
Oct 15, 2015
When we learned, a week or so ago, courtesy of the latest satellite mapping, that the world has three trillion trees, and that over the past 11,000 years, humans have reduced global tree stocks by roughly 50%, I immediately thought of BEETCOIN. Here’s how I got there. First, I thought of my two acres of […]
Sep 08, 2015
Slow Money Southern California has been actively exploring means of enabling deal making at the crowdfunding and investment club end of things. Led by our Director of Investment Programs, Michelle Greenwood, we are developing many opportunities for slow-money minded agripreneurs to connect with community members and potential funders Over the past 18 months, more than […]
Sep 08, 2015
