TEDxPresidio - Ari Derfel - Slow Money April 6, 2011

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Ari is an award winning entrepreneur, organic chef, activist, mountain guide & public speaker. His academic career includesthe University of Wisconsin, Harvard, Georgetown, UCLA, and Cambridge.

Currently, Ari is the Executive Director of Slow Money, a national organization quickly gaining prominence at the intersection of the sustainable food, socially responsible investing, localization, and social enterprise movements. Their mission is to catalyze investment in local food systems as a means to build strong, secure, robust local economies. Their current goal is to get 1 million Americans to invest 1% of their assets in local food systems by 2020. Slow Money is has been named one of the biggest ideas of 2010 by Business Week and one of the top five trends in Finance by Entrepreneur Magazine.

Recorded April 2, 2011 at The Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, San Francisco, California.

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