Hey there, MASSES, it *is* an interesting idea, and it's not one I came up with on my own. I just read about it and it's really piqued my interest.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2009/03/the_nature_of_slow_money.html
http://www.slowmoney.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Money
So, in essence, it's the idea that we, as a culture, have to start putting more
back into the earth than we've been taking out, especially with regard to renewables and farm production. It's the idea that we should accept that our planet is, indeed, a finite space with finite resources, and we have to shift the concept of economic growth, which demands physical expansion and reliance upon non-renewable resources, which leads to a "loss of concept" or knowledge about what's happening quite literally with our money (think credit, loans, investing, all that stuff, especially investing) and how quickly it moves in the electronic and information age, which means that we don't really know what our money is doing, where our food is coming from, and the earth is left in a deficit, which leaves *us* in a deficit.
And so, the concept is that if we can shift the thought process, the paradigm if you will, if we can shift our thinking to accept that money itself isn't the only profit, that healthy soils and ecosystems and clean water are another type of profit, which requires
development (think innovation, invention, design, change) instead of
growth only, then we may find a better economic *and* ecologic structure.
I think that deserves its own thread, but I ain't a-gonna right now! Leaving it in your li'l bro's thread. :D
