Running On Local: Author-Talk about Local Food and Finance

Sustainability all-stars Carol Peppe Hewitt (http://financingourfoodshed.com/about/), author of Financing Our Foodshed, and Lyle Estill (http://lyleestill.com/), author of many books including most recently Small Stories – Big Changes, will be teaming up to speak to the Boston community about all things local: food, finance and fuel, all while enjoying local friends fun!

This event is co-hosted with Cambridge Local First (http://cambridgelocalfirst.org/).

Carol and Lyle will be giving a brief presentation about their experiences in the intersections of food and finance, covering topics from peer-to-peer loans to community resilience. There will be ample networking opportunities before and after the presentation. Light refreshments will be served.

The ticket includes a copy of either Carol or Lyle’s book at the preference of the attendee!

Speaker Bios

Carol Peppe Hewitt describes herself as “an author, business owner, rabble-rouser and pioneer in the Slow Money movement”. She co-founded Slow Money NC in 2010 and since then has catalyzed over 85 low-interest loans, totaling just over $1.2 million to 60 small farmers and local food businesses in North Carolina, building resilience in the local economy. In April 2013, Carol published her first book: Financing Our Foodshed: Growing Local Food with Slow Money, to tell the real-life stories of 22 of the growers, processors, distributors and sellers in North Carolina. Additionally, Carol is a business owner and is involved in running the Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance in Silk Hope, NC.

Lyle Estill says that “many think of him as a traveling salesman who accidentally became an environmentalist, stumbled into being an activist, and went on to become what some refer to as a social entrepreneur”. Lyle has extensive experience in the business world, in addition to his experience as an author: he has founded companies and grown enterprises as an intrapreneur in addition to being an accomplished author of newspaper columns, poetry, and of course his many books. He is the author of Small is Possible; Life in a Local Economy (http://lyleestill.com/the-books/small-is-possible/), and Biodiesel Power; the passion, people, and politics of the next renewable fuel (http://lyleestill.com/the-books/biodiesel-power/). His third book, Industrial Evolution; Local Solutions for a Low Carbon Future (http://lyleestill.com/the-books/industrial-evolution/) was published in the spring of 2011. In 2013 he assembled Small Stories, Big Changes; Agents of Change on the Frontlines of Sustainability (http://lyleestill.com/estill2013/the-books/small-stories-big-changes/).