Announcing the February GBR Speakers!

 

 Transition Towns: Strengthening communities through re-localization

-and- 

Slow Money: Fixing the Economy from the Ground Up   

Together In One Event! 

 

Date:   Friday, February 3rd, 2012  @  8:30 am

Place: Wilkinson Public Library - Program Room

Speakers: Michael Brownlee of Transition Colorado, and Woody Tasch of the Slow Money Alliance. 

Check it out:   

The Transition Initiatives, designed to achieve relocalization at the community level, currently represent one of the most promising ways of engaging people and communities in strengthening themselves to meet the challenges of the future, resulting in a life that is more fulfilling, socially connected and resilient. 

 

Check out  http://www.transitioncolorado.org for more about the Colorado organization and  http://transitionus.org/ as well as internationally at http://www.transitionnetwork.org/ 

 

 The Slow Money Alliance was started just a few years ago, the brainchild of Woody Tasch, who ran the Investors Circle for many years. His book, Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing As If Food, Farms and Fertility Mattered, was published in 2009. The Alliance is bringing people together around a new conversation about money that is too fast, about finance that is disconnected from people and place, about how we can begin fixing our economy from the ground up... starting with food.

 

Members include experienced investors, leading food entrepreneurs, social investment pioneers, organic farmers and just plain old regular folks who are worried about where their investments are going or who want to chip in small donations.  All believe that putting some of their money to work in local food enterprises makes tremendous sense-in terms of financial diversification, in terms of biological diversity, in terms of security, in terms of local resilience, in terms of addressing many of today's most pressing health and environmental challenges.

 

For more information about Slow Money click below. 

 

 

Michael and Woody recently teamed up to make a presentation together in Boulder with great success. A Slow Money Chapter is forming there - and the Transition movement is strong. Could we hope for similar successes in our region? We will be starting a book club around Woody's book in February!

 

Invited:  Everyone!!!

RSVP: By 3:00 pm Feb. 2nd so we have enough food

Hosted by:  The New Community Coalition & Wilkinson Public Library with support from the Telluride Foundation and Telluride Inside and Out  

Cost:  Zero! Breakfast Provided. Donations appreciated

Info/RSVP: Contact TNCC at 728-1340 

E-mail:  events.tncc@gmail.com or 

Visit: www.newcommunitycoalition.org