Sarasota News Leader
November 29, 2013
release notes. "Since founding Slow Money
NC in 2010, she has catalyzed more than 90
low-interest loans to nearly 50 small farmers
and local food businesses in North Carolina,
with a goal of building resilience in local food
sheds," the release adds.
Her book, Financing Our Foodshed: Growing
Local Food With Slow Money, "tells the compelling, real-life stories of 22 Slow Money
entrepreneurs who grow, process, distribute
and sell local food, as well as the generous
people in their communities who became
their lenders," the release continues.
A second speaker, Trish Riley, will discuss
Greening Your Business: Working Together
Toward a Sustainable Future. Riley is an
award-winning journalist and author whose
books include The Complete Idiot's Guides to
Green Living and Greening Your Business
and The Explorer's Guide to South Florida,
Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Miami and
the Keys, the release notes.
Trish Riley/Contributed photo
Riley publishes www.GoGreenNation.org, an
environmental news site and resource to help
build sustainable communities. She founded
the Gainesville Chapter of Green Drinks as
well as Cinema Verde, an environmental film
and arts festival in Gainesville.
Sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities are
available, the release notes. The deadline for
sponsorship and exhibitor applications is
Dec. 2.
To learn more about becoming a sponsor or
exhibitor and to view the applications, visit
www.scgov.net/SustainableCommunities/
Pages/2013Applications.aspx.
To learn more about the event and to register, contact the Sarasota County Call Center
at 941-861-5000, or visit www.scgov.net/
SustainableCommunities.
Carol Hewit/Contributed photo
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