b'Keeping hearts and minds open has always been a particular challenge when it comes to matters of money. The money is in certain hands. It got there through means that are laden with centuries of ethical and ecological weightings. Now, we want it to find its way into certain other hands. Different hands. More hands. We want it to flow in ways that de-escalate, in ways that cultivate rather than deracinate. We want it to create good work and economic opportu-nity, while preserving, restoring, repairing, regenerating. Healing pulses of capital and peaceable mobilizations of people.Reconnecting to one another, to the places where we live and tothe land. But how can this be a recipe for systemic change? you ask. Isnt it too informal, too local, too small, too slow? It may be. It may also be the case that these are seeds of the systemic change for which we yearn:Combine poisonous factory-farm tomatoes with disgraced investment banker Bernard Madoff. Throw in a stock market disaster. You get a public spooked by the dangers of industrial food production and investors wary of risky business. This may be the recipe for a Slow Money revolution. David Gutnick, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation For a few generations, now, we have been treating finance as if it were the center of the universe, so there is a hint of the Copernican in this revolution. We are disrupting prevailing notions about planet money and its relationship to spheres of culture. 39'