From Financing our Foodshed by Carol Peppe Hewitt. 2013

Why do people feel inclined to lend “Slow Money?  This was part of what Seth had to say:

In talking to one of my friends who also had an interest in what happens to money when you drop it off at the bank……, We had so many conversations and discussions about this topic that we elided that we needed to start recording them and put them out for others to listen to and think about.  One thing lead to another and The Extraenvironmentalist was born (extraenvironmentalist.com)…  The show come from the perspective of an outsider recently arrived on the earth, with no prior knowledge or cultural programming who asks why do we do the things we do?  Why do we hurt each other and strive to rule each other?  Why do we wrap ourselves up in complicated monetary systems and create business organisations that disregard the humans it must exploit?  The ideas and topics we talk about are not anything new, but they are often ignored by mainstream media sources.

Using this viewpoint of an outsider, we have begun to dissect complicated ideas surrounding what it means to be a human at the beginning of the 21st century and what the future holds in store.

We often land at the conclusion that civilisation on the current scale is not sustainable.  The historic model go human interaction has always been in small groups, where goods and services are traded between neighbours and supported by local infrastructure.  Knowing where your money is going, where your food is coming from and why it’s important to keep it local leads to a mindset n which the corporate model of exploitation becomes untenable.  When business as usual becomes less about cheap goods from a third-world country on the other side of the world and more about the maintenance of human welfare.

When humans can view themselves not through the lens of nationalism, or capitalism but as brothers and sisters, united on this floating blue ball we call Earth, then the slow money initiative will have achieved.