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Bringing My Money Closer To Home

March 31, 2018

Bringing My Money Closer To Home Henry David Thoreau lived 200 years ago, but his influence continues, inspiring the likes of Tolstoy, Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., E.F. Schumacher, Wendell Berry, and Bill McKibben, to name an illustrious few. Thoreau’s Walden set the bar of thinking and doing so poetically high and yet so pragmatically […]

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Agricultural Innovation with John-Paul Maxfield

March 22, 2018

Agricultural Innovation with John-Paul Maxfield John-Paul founded Waste Farmers with $9,000 and a belief that idealism and capitalism can coexist. Waste Farmers has evolved into an innovator respected by leaders in the global community for developing simple solutions to the complex problems of modern agriculture and food security. Mar 20, 2018 John-Paul Maxfield | Photo […]

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The Future of Urban Farming

November 16, 2017

From left, Nataka Crayton-Walker, Greg Bodine, and Bobby Walker at a City Growers microfarm in Dorchester. | Photo by Leise Jones/City Growers The Future of Urban Farming Some sights in the neighborhood were so common that I had stopped noticing them; but then one day they came into view. While driving down Harold Street on […]

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A Conversation With Dr. Daphne Miller

September 28, 2017

A Conversation With Dr. Daphne Miller Daphne Miller: These days I’m focused on the true cost of food. We have the cheapest food in the world. Food purchases make up something like 8% of our GDP. But when you start to factor in all the chronic diseases and environmental impacts—the health footprint of food—then all […]

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Investing in Soil Health, One Piece of Land at a Time

April 18, 2016

Jim Baird in a field of organic vetch in the Columbia River Basin Investing in Soil Health, One Piece of Land at a Time Three years ago, in collaboration with a group of farmers and investors, my spouse and I formed an LLC called Living Lands. Together we wrote our purpose and articles of incorporation […]

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Slow Money and the State of Soil

February 18, 2016

Slow Money and the State of Soil  “Beetniks Against Global Warming.”There’s a placard you never saw in Paris. Because to a Beetnik—someone who has participated in a Slow Money Beetcoin campaign or anyone whose occasionally countercultural tendencies are tempered by an appreciation of local entrepreneurs and farmers— investing in a small food enterprise near where […]

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Why Slower Money Is the Key to a Real Economic Recovery

November 13, 2015

Why Slower Money Is the Key to a Real Economic Recovery  An exciting crop of organizations are financing businesses in a way that creates real wealth. Here are a few ways to scale them up so that they can truly challenge Wall Street. There’s a financial fault line that runs through the heart of our […]

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