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Woody Tasch

Woody Tasch is chairman and president of Slow Money, a 501c3 formed in 2008 to catalyze the flow of investment capital to small food enterprises and to promote new principles of fiduciary responsibility to support sustainable agriculture and the emergence of a restorative economy.

Woody pioneered the integration of asset management and philanthropic purpose in the 1990s as treasurer of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation and was founding chairman of the Community Development Venture Capital Alliance. For ten years, through 2008, he was chairman of Investors' Circle, a network of angel investors, funds, and foundations that has invested $133 million in 200 sustainability-promoting ventures and venture funds. Woody is the author of Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered (Chelsea Green Publishing Company).

Videos featuring Woody Tasch

The Chicken Comes Home to Roost

Author Woody Tasch describes how the current economic crisis evokes fundamental questions about the future of capitalism.

(1 min 47 sec)
Slow Money

Author Woody Tasch speaks about creating capitol flow that supports environmentally sustainable food movements and environmentally sustainable financial markets in general.

(4 min 31 sec)
The Purpose of Capital Markets

Author Woody Tasch argues that the current economic crisis is an opportunity to reorganize capital markets towards a more sustainable and ethical future.

(5 min 9 sec)
The Next Generation of Entrepreneurs

Author Woody Tasch believes that there is a dramatic need to focus time, energy, and capital on the next generation of small business entrepreneurs because they represent diversity.

(5 min 42 sec)
Destructive Economics

Author Woody Tasch explains how current models of economic growth depend upon destructive and unsustainable living practices which do not support well being.

(2 min 48 sec)
A Question of Balance

Author Woody Tasch describes the need to balance current large-scale farming models with smaller, sustainable, and long-term models.

(5 min 10 sec)
Farming and Harming

Author Woody Tasch explains that the way we currently grow food is destructive, and argues that the human race has never lived sustainably.

(2 min 45 sec)
A Thousand Billionaires

Author Woody Tasch feels that the way modern economies create wealth is not proactive enough to sustain social and environmental relationships.

(2 min 56 sec)
Slower, Smaller and Local

Author Woody Tasch explains that if we detach from global markets we can enhance quality of life by living slower, smaller and local!

(1 min 19 sec)
Woody Tasch: Complete Interview

In this complete interview, Author Woody Tasch illustrates the concept of Slow Money. He describes how the current economic crisis evokes fundamental questions about the future of capitalism and provides a unique opportunity to reorganize financial markets for sustainability. He explains the simple notion that if we slow down, we can enjoy life more, and challenges us to bring this concept into financial markets.

(29 min 25 sec)

"The biggest opportunity that we have right now is to radically change people's awareness of the purpose of capital markets."

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Adyashanti

Adyashanti began teaching in 1996 at the request of his Zen teacher, with whom he had been studying for fourteen years. The author of Emptiness Dancing, The Impact of Awakening, and My Secret is Silence, Adyashanti offers spontaneous and direct nondual teachings that have been compared to those of the early Zen masters and Advaita Vedanta sages.

Videos featuring Adyashanti

Losing Identity

Spiritual teacher Adyashanti describes the illusory sense of a separate self as part of the natural development of human consciousness. And, he says, once we become aware of the whole, we begin to uncover the fear of losing that individual identity.

(3 min 23 sec)
Heads and Tails

Spiritual teacher Adyashanti points out the difference between being motivated by fear, which keeps us operating with the same old state of consciousness, and by love, which comes through us as we face our fears.

(3 min 6 sec)
Love Is Indiscriminate

Spiritual teacher Adyashanti describes the inclusiveness of love and how actions motivated by love have the power to unite and to change consciousness.

(3 min 46 sec)
Time is Running Out

Spiritual teacher Adyashanti describes how reaching a point of crisis can lead to a shift in consciousness, both individually and collectively, and acknowledges the pressure on humanity to awaken before time runs out.

(3 min 47 sec)
Transcending Personal Concerns

Spiritual teacher Adyashanti suggests that our desire for change has to transcend our personal concerns. Only then, he says, can we access the infinite transformative power we need.

(3 min 50 sec)
It’s All the Same Substance

Spiritual teacher Adyashanti acknowledges that we are all made of the same substance, though we express the One in individual manifestations.

(1 min 48 sec)
What Is Spirituality?

Spiritual teacher Adyashanti describes spirituality as not being separate from existence; although, he suggests, much of what we call spirituality primarily serves the dream state.

(1 min 51 sec)
Do You Want to Find Out?

Spiritual teacher Adyashanti describes the process of letting go of collective consciousness and the fear that causes us to cling to it.

(4 min 3 sec)
Adyashanti: Complete Interview

Spiritual teacher Adyashanti describes how in the development of human consciousness, there comes a shift from a sense of a separate self toward the experience of unity. He points out that the fear of losing our individual identity keeps us from making this shift, and by confronting our fear we come into love. Adyashanti also suggests that reaching a point of crisis can allow an opportunity for consciousness to shift, individually and collectively.

(24 min 41 sec)

"Until everything is possible, we’re not even actually inquiring into what’s true."