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Coca-Cola Will Help YOU Invest in "Sustainable" Ag

by: Jill Richardson

Thu Sep 02, 2010 at 03:56:21 AM PDT


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I'd like to share one of the more entertaining emails I've gotten with you. For the low, low price of $795.00, Coca-Cola will tell ME how to invest in sustainable agriculture. Wow, I could make a killing off of skyscrapers that grow food vertically! I'm sure that's how we'll all grow food in the future.

And did you know that Coca-Cola has a Senior Manager of Sustainable Agriculture. His name is Ernesto Brovelli and he is "an active player in [Coca-Cola's] global partnership with World Wildlife Fund." Wow. That makes me think even LESS of the World Wildlife Fund.

And if that ain't enough, there are a few speakers from Wall Street banks! Ooh, just the people I trust for good advice. Tell me, J.P. Morgan, how can we sustainably grow food to feed the world and make a huge profit off of it at the same time?

The email's below, for your amusement. Also, if you check out the agenda, you'll notice that Anna Lappe is among the speakers. Hopefully that means that we won't have to fork over $795 to find out what goes on at the event. Cuz honestly, I am DYING to hear what Coca-Cola has to say about sustainability.

Jill Richardson :: Coca-Cola Will Help YOU Invest in "Sustainable" Ag
On Tuesday, September 14 in New York City, the Agriculture 2.0 Global Investments conference will bring investors from around the world together with entrepreneurs actively seeking investment.

Eight such entrepreneurs have been hand-selected to present their investment thesis to attendees. They are working to solve some of the greatest problems facing the world's food system, from drought to contamination to rural agrarian poverty. Joining them will be dozens of management teams with proprietary technologies seeking investor partners with the common goal of steering funds in the proper direction to facilitate sweeping changes to the system.

In addition to early-stage companies, major international corporations including John Deere and The Coca-Cola Company will frame the need for new technologies and new solutions. Speakers from JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, the USDA, Root Capital, Acumen Fund and the International Finance Corporation will present valuable information for investors new to the sector.

Current participants include: North Bridge Capital, RockPort Capital Partners, General Atlantic, DuPont Agricultural Biotechnology, Rabobank, KPMG Corporate Finance and many more.

Join them now for the discounted rate of $795!

WHAT
Agriculture 2.0 Global Investments Conference
Hosted by NewSeed Advisors
Sponsored by The Financial Times and The Coca-Cola Company

WHEN
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
8:00am-6:00pm

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Mies van der Rowcrops! (4.00 / 1)
Couldn't resist, you know me...

;)

Wow, I could make a killing off of skyscrapers that grow food vertically! I'm sure that's how we'll all grow food in the future.

Talk about taking garish glass boxes to previously unimagined heights of hideocy (yes, I think I just invented that word).

For 27 years, Dr. Despommier conducted NIH-sponsored laboratory-based research on a parasitic nematode, Trichinella spiralis. However, his long-term interests center on the environment and the ecology of infectious disease transmission. He co-authored a book on parasitic infections (Parasitic Diseases 5th ed.), authored another on the West Nile virus (West Nile Story), and has published over 65 peer-reviewed scientific articles and numerous reviews on a variety of subjects, mostly dealing with parasitic infections, the ecology of infectious diseases, or the concept of the vertical farm.

Must. Not. Make. Wall. Street. Banker. Joke.


OK, I admit to being unusually dense this AM (4.00 / 1)
How would a Wall Street banker joke relate to a parasitologist?

Normal people scare me.... But not as much as I scare them.

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If I spell out the link... (4.00 / 2)
...between parasitic infections and Wall Street, it just isn't funny anymore.

Oops.


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OK Goty'all (4.00 / 1)
not enough coffee this morning for me.... ;-)

Normal people scare me.... But not as much as I scare them.

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bankers = parasites nt (4.00 / 1)


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