Beetcoin
The world's first non-crypto, non-currency supporting organic farmers and local food.
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There’s a hole in our hearts, and in the heart of capitalism, and in our households and communities and bioregions.
It’s as if the Invisible Hand had put a spell on us. Or the Dow Jones Industrial Average had hypnotized us. Or Rogue Algorithm had slipped a little something into our morning coffee...
We’re on our way from Homo sapiens to Homo philia. We need a new myth that puts finance in its place.
Investing. Philanthropy. Other People’s Money. Our Own Money. Local currency. Cryptocurrency. In the name of diversity and peace, I’ll see your bitcoin and raise you beetcoin.
Are we going to put all of our eggs into the basket of technology, or are we going to recognize the value of small, diversified organic farms and local food systems? (With a little beetroot infused vodka along the way.)
One ton of soil carbon at a time, one nurture capital funding relationship at a time, we are building small nodes of mutuality, affection and trust. As many small nodes of mutuality, affection and trust as we can imagine.
Resilience. Localization. Biodiversity. Climate. Trust.
It is about billions and trillions of dollars in the global economy, and billions and trillions of microbes in healthy, fertile soil. Nurture capital is a vision of finance that starts where investing and philanthropy leave off, giving us a new way to reconnect to one another and places where we live, all the way down to local food systems and the soil.
Could there ever be an alternative stock exchange dedicated to slow, small, and local? Could a million American families get their food from CSAs? What if you had to invest 50 percent of your assets within 50 miles of where you live? Such questions—at the heart of slow money—represent the first steps on our path to a new economy.
The Journal includes editorials, interviews, essays, and the public remarks of thought leaders, food entrepreneurs, farmers and other participants in the Slow Money movement. This issue features Daphne Miller, Jeff Moyer, Daniela Ibarra-Howell, William Bryant Logan, Sir Albert Howard, Elaine Ingham, Courtney White, and many more.
The Journal includes editorials, interviews, essays, and the public remarks of thought leaders, food entrepreneurs, farmers and other participants in the Slow Money movement. This issue features Don Shaffer, Gary Paul Nabhan, Odessa Piper, Fred Kirschenmann, David Montgomery, and many more.
The Journal includes editorials, interviews, essays, and the public remarks of thought leaders, food entrepreneurs, farmers and other participants in the Slow Money movement. This issue features Will Harris, Joan Gussow, Eliot Coleman, Narendra Varma, Stephen Grace, and many more.
This report analyzes data from the first five years of investing through the Slow Money network (2009–2013) along with data from a survey of 42 investment funds, family offices, foundations and angel investors over the same period, covering $293 million of investment in 968 food and agriculture deals.
