Michael Shuman Lecture – More Details!
Posted: April 24, 2013
Categories: Events / Food in the News
Saturday, May 25, 7 p.m.
Innis Town Hall – University of Toronto
2 Sussex Avenue
Tickets are $20. Subsidies may be available.
More information and registration here!
Email: foodfinance@sustainontario.ca
Local Dollars, Local Sense: 12 Cutting-Edge Tools to Finance the Local Food Revolution
More local food means more wealth, jobs, and tax revenues; better ecosystems and smaller carbon footprints; and less obesity and diabetes. But to spread, food localization must overcome obstacles like scarce land, aging farmers, and obsolete small-business models. Above all, argues author Michael Shuman, the local food revolution requires a local capital revolution. Drawing from his recent book, Local Dollars, Local Sense, Shuman shows how to use a variety of cutting-edge tools to finance local food businesses, including: targeted bank deposits, cooperatives, LION clubs, peer-to-peer lending, donation sites like Kickstarter, local stock, community portals, investment clubs, and self-directed RRSPs.
Michael Shuman is director of research for Cutting Edge Capital, director of research and economic development at the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), and a Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute. He holds an AB with distinction in economics and international relations from Stanford University and a JD from Stanford Law School. He has led community-based economic-development efforts across the country and has authored or edited seven previous books, including The Small Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition (2006), Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in the Global Age (1998) and Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity (2012).
Presented as part of Food, Farms, Fish and Finance: A strategic forum exploring the delicious, diverse and delicate potential for social finance and impact investing in our food system.