Word: movement
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Slow Food movement has helped raise consciousness about where food comes from, down to the farmer," says Tasch. "We're doing the same thing with money - where does it come from, and, when you spend or invest, where does it go?" In Tasch's vision that covers everything from seed companies to farms to markets and restaurants...
...Slow Money Alliance, set up as a nonprofit, brings the tenets of the Slow Food movement (buying local) to finance - exploring investment vehicles that re-circulate within the local economy, minimize environmental impact, stress diversity over monoculture, and earn decent returns. Tasch wants to give investors a stake in "restorative economy," building the food and ecological infrastructure on a community to community basis. (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...
...hard to figure out what to do once the noise of electronic culture and consumer culture ceased? Michelle: There was this weird moment when my consumer self kind of died away, and it felt like there was an empty spot. If you've heard of the slow-food movement, this was like the slow-life movement. It changed my perspective of time...
...Obama: You always have to remind people, even throughout the campaign, that solutions and forward movement on any issue is a multi - requires a multi-pronged approach. You need government, you need individuals, you need strong communities. And sometimes you lose sight that all of those have to be working. You rely too heavily on government to the exclusion of individual responsibility and engagement; individualism takes over community. But they all have to be working in sync...
...goal is to continue to hit the ball and to continue to remind one another that they're all critical to the forward movement and the change that we desperately want and seek...