Slow Money Body Language

Indigenous Co-Founders Scott & Matt had a great time presenting at this years Slow Money National Gathering at Fort Mason in San Francisco 

Thousands of Americans have begun affirming a new direction for the economy. It's called Slow Money, and people have literally started to embody the movement. 

 Slow money national gatherings are quickly emerging as a significant new venue for field building, investing and social change. 

The Slow Money Alliance is bringing people together around a new conversation about money that is too fast, about finance that is disconnected from people and place, about how we can begin to fix our economy from the ground up. 

What would the world be like is we invested 50% of our money within 50 miles of where we lived? 

What if there were a new generation of companies that gave away 50% of their profits? 

What if there were 50% more organic matter in our soil 50 years from now? 

We can bring money back down to earth! 

Indigenous founders Scott Leonard and Matt Reynolds are long-time members of Social Venture Network, an association of innovative, influential entrepreneurs who are using the power of business to solve social and environmental problems (www.svn.org).

Scott and Matt will be joining fellow SVN members Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield of Ben & Jerry's who will be speaking at SVN's upcoming fall conference in Philadelphia on Oct. 29th. Just before Ben & Jerry's plenary session, Lynne Twist of the Soul of Money Institute will be hosting a benefit for SVN's Bridge Project. Social Venture Network's Bridge Project is an initiative to support entrepreneurs of color, women entrepreneurs and young leaders who are transforming the way the world does business. Research has shown that these particular business people face greater barriers to growing their ventures and ultimately changing the world. Scott and Matt have donated beautiful Indigenous shawls and blankets for The Bridge Project fundraiser

Indigenous Fall/Winter 2011 Collection

We've been busy putting up some of our best pieces from our Fall/Winter 2011 collection on our web store, and we're so excited about sharing it with you that we've decided to extend our Step into Fall sale into October! Just use coupon code 'FB128' at checkout to receive 25% off of your entire purchase. That is in addition to our every day free shipping!!

The line is looking better than ever with a diverse collection of eco friendly knits in a wide variety of silhouettes.

Starting with our light weight jersey collection, you've got great stand out tops and skirts and ultra comfortable layering items.

Our jersey is super soft and made from 100% organic cotton.

See our entire jersey collection here!

Looking for something a little warmer? Try a cozy cardigan made from the softest baby alpaca.

All of the alpaca we use is sourced from free range herds in Peru, where alpaca has been raised for thousands of years. It's as warm as wool but as soft as cashmere and has a unique texture and feel all of its own.

Explore our current alpaca styles here!

Our most recent addition to the line is our super soft, luxurious organic cotton fleece.

Made from the same fine organic cotton as our jersey, this fleece is the softest we have seen.

 This year there are several great fleece styles to chose from, like the Fleece Weekender, seen here!

On a tight budget? We've got some great styles on sale for pretty serious discounts. 

Visit our sale page for up to 50% off on sale items. And yes, you can use your coupon for items that are already on sale! 

And of course, we haven't forgotten our Men out there. Come see what's new in our fair trade + organic men's online store - like this super lightweight long sleeve polo in three great colors!

Shop our entire collection of men's tops here! 

WAKE UP AND DREAM

We'd like to invite you to take a moment to explore our good friend Gregory Wendt's blog WAKE UP AND DREAM. 

 "If you're paying attention to what's going on around the planet, and don't have your head in the sand, you can see that things are rather chaotic in the human mind globally.

People have two reactions to such chaos - surf the chaos, or attempt to hold on to old identities during the transition.

It's not unlike a metamorphosis - there's a liminal state between caterpillar and butterfly where neither form is readily apparent. How we steer our attention through such a transitions is particularly important."

Read On! 

Territory Ahead Enhances Fall Apparel Offering with Styles from Indigenous Designs

Multi-channel clothing retailer, Territory Ahead, teams with Indigenous to offer a collection of artfully original, handcrafted women's garments. Indigenous clothing is organic and preserves rich South American textile traditions, with fair trade standards and wages.

This Fall, Territory Ahead is offering a collection of Indigenous clothing including sweaters, coats and accessories. The assortment features the chromatic Cowl Sweater - and organic cotton and Tencel blend in a hand loomed reversible knit. The dual color sweater, which falls to the top of the thigh, boasts contrasting color on the reverse side of its cowl neck, cuffs and hem.



Both Territory Ahead and Indigenous design unique, quality clothing from the threads up. Their garments attract customers who care that their clothing is produced responsibly. The partnership allows Territory Ahead to augment its fall offering with styles that are in line with the brand's core values and reach new customers.

Read the full article in the SF GATE.

Bringing the Slow Money National Gathering to San Francisco, Oct. 12-14th

Slow Money national gatherings are quickly emerging as a significant new venue for field building, investing and social change. More than 1000 people from 34 states and several foreign coutnries attended our first two national gatherings, and more than $4.25 million has been invested in 16 of the presenting small food enterprises. Since last year's event at Shelburne Farms, Vermont, 11 local Slow Money chapters have begun investing around the country.

Learn More

Join the Slow Money movement at historic Fort Mason for what promises to be a special few days on San Francisco Bay - from thought leadership to entrepreneurship, from global vision to local food and music, from deal-doing to relationship building. Be a part of this emerging community that is working together to fix our economy from the ground up ... starting with food.

Register

Our Friends At United by Blue

We want to introduce our fans to a very important new clothing line that is working to help protect our oceans. For every product sold, United By Blue removes 1 pound of trash from our oceans and waterways!

"We know more about the surface of the moon than we do about the sea floor. As a landlubbing society, it is hard for many of us to see how closely our lives are connected to the world’s waterways, whether we live on a coast or 1,000 miles inland.

The Blue Movement is committed to changing this misconception. Lead by a committed group of individuals and organizations, the Blue Movement is dedicated to preserving and protecting our world’s oceans and waterways for our own and for future generations. We are scuba divers, fisherman, and sailors. We are educators, activists, and businesspeople. Most importantly, we are all passionate, and we all understand our dependence on the world’s oceans and waterways."

"The Blue Movement can trace its beginnings to deepwater explorers Jacques Cousteau, an avid diver whose own passion for the underwater world transformed a generation, and to Dr. Sylvia Earle, whose groundbreaking research continues to inspire a new generation of scientists and discoverers.

Unfortunately, the waters that first welcomed Monsieur Cousteau and Dr. Earle many years ago now have much less to give. Overfishing has decimated and even destroyed fishing populations around the world, and fish remaining fish are choking on pieces of the 14 billion pounds of trash that end up in the ocean every year. An exploding Chinese middle class population has increased the demand for shark fin soup—and increased the number of sharks killed for their fins to 90 million every year. As oceans absorb the atmosphere’s excess carbon dioxide, the water becomes more acidic, causing once lush coral reefs to turn white and die.

The modern Blue Movement refuses to let this trend continue. The Cousteau family continues to work toward more sustainable resource management in fishing communities and to raising awareness not just of underwater beauty, but of underwater problems. Advocates like Wallace ‘J’ Nichols has started the Blue Marble Project not just to spread the awareness of the Blue Movement, but to remind us that every hand holding a marble is connected to oceans and waterways and has the power to use that hand to do something good.

And that, perhaps, is the very essence of the blue movement: each and every one of us, no matter where live, depends on the ocean for survival. And no matter where we live, we have the power to make a difference in an underwater ecosystem thousands of miles away."

UBB uses the power of business, education, and environmental action to save our oceans and waterways from pollution.

To date, UBB has hosted 42 cleanups and removed 28009 pounds of trash.