The multiple, compounding social and ecological crises of the 21st century are screaming: "We need more than technological innovation! More than new and improved ways to play old financial games! We need economic healing!” A friendly non-retort to Satoshi Nakamoto’s The White Paper, which introduced blockchain technology in 2008, The Red Paper explores a new economic worldview that is utterly pragmatic, appropriately irreverent, occasionally mythic and radically constructive. And it starts with getting real about money.
Preview BookMillions of us sense that after the era of moving fast and breaking things must come an era of moving slow and mending things. We sense the need for a new relationship between economy and ecology, between thinking globally and acting locally. This is the book that came out in 2008 and sparked the slow money movement.
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Starting with a 20-page quasi-epic poem and ending with a 20-page photo
essay of farmers and food entrepreneurs, this graphically rich exploration
of money and mind, soil fertility and culture is a call for meta-economic
imagination. “Walden for the 21st century!”
–Daniel Boese, Hamburg,
Germany
Many have been the wise voices through the ages counseling that there is much greatness in humility, perhaps the greatest greatness of all. Integral to great humility is great care, great affection, great brotherhood, great stewardship, great cooperation. Today’s crises of pandemic, populism and climate call not only for great inventiveness, but also for great humility.
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Written in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine, this small volume presents meditations on Making a Living vs. Making a Killing and Jihad vs. McWorld, seeing food and farming as the foundation for an economy that does less harm.
buy “The social and environmental crises of our times call for radically new economic vision. Who knew that poetry could seed it? Now we know.”
—Leslie Christian, NorthStar Asset Management
“Woody Tasch brings poetry and vital humanism to the most arid and disembodied of human endeavors, finance and investing. A Call To Farms is amoral compass for our complex, highly-polarizedand violent times--helping us chart a course away from ideology and towards healthy communities, healthy soil and an economy that does less harm.”
—Marco Vangelisti, Fulbright Scholar in Economics
“Every once in a while, an idea comes around that you immediately know is not only a good one, but in fact is an absolutely necessary one. Slow money is such an idea. Woody’s book is an inspiration. I can’t wait to live in a world supported by slow money.”
-Tom Stearns, President, High Mowing Organic Seeds
“Belongs on the shelf next to E.F. Schumacher and Wendell Berry.”
—Joan Gussow, often referred to as the matriarch of the “eat locally, think globally” food movement
“Audre Lorde, the brilliant poet, scholar, educator, activist and lifesaving leader for generations of people targeted for destruction by homophobia, sexism, racism, is quoted as saying, ‘I’m doing my work, are you doing yours?’ Woody Tasch is doing his work. I am profoundly grateful for his thought leadership, for his service, and for this groundbreaking, visionary book.”
—Peggy Gould, Sarah Lawrence College
“This beautiful, small volume is a treasure of insight and inspiration, providing us with the vision we all desperately need to go forward!”
—Frederick Kirschenmann, Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture
“ Woody Tasch has one of those fast minds that always seems to ask the right slow questions. He is on to something. I’ve been saying for years that we need to feed the soil, not the plant—slow money is about feeding the soil of the economy.”
—Eliot Coleman, Organic farmer
“A deeply empowering vision grounded in food, soil and community.”
Robin Van Asperen, My City Farm (Amsterdam)