Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money Investing as If Food, Farms and Fertility Mattered

Woody Tasch is the Founder and Chairman of Slow Money, a non-profit headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, with an alliance of national and international chapters. Slow Money took root in 2009 when Tasch wrote his groundbreaking book " Inquiries Into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered."Tasch is widely regarded as a pioneer of the concepts of patient capital, mission-related investing and community-building venture capital. For ten years before founding Slow Money, he was the Chairman of Investor's Circle, a network of investors that funds startups that emphasize sustainable business practices. Tasch was founding chairman of the Community Development…  More Venture Capital Alliance and Treasurer of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation during the 90s, where he had the foresight to invest  Less

Carlo Petrini is a food writer and the founder and president of the International Slow Food Movement. He lives in Bra, Italy. William McCuaig is a translator living in Toronto. Alice Waters is executive chef and owner of Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, CA.