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Are time banks the future for the ‘Big Society’?
Go to originalHaving surrendered all the money to banks, the UK government is now turning to communities to provide essential services for free. This is called the 'Big Society'. Increasingly they are...
View ArticleIs it time for time banking?
Go to originalSometimes introducing accounting to a functioning voluntary sphere can actually be counter productive. If the UK government is to support time banking, it must be sensitive when paying...
View ArticleCould the money system be the basis of a sufficiency economy?
Go to originalMellor argues that the debt issued from the public purse, rather than from private banks would more likely be used for public benefit.Author Mary Mellor In my book The Future of Money* I...
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The World's Ominous Reckoning
Go to originalAnalyses of the financial crisis present us with a false dichotomy, argues Greco. We need to look deeper into the systemic issues inherent to the design of money.Author Thomas H Greco In...
View ArticleThe “elevator-pitch” for community currencies
Go to originalCCs can be viewed, and promoted in many different ways. This post from 2007 is no less relevant today.Author Eric Harris-Braun In theory I agree that an elevator pitch helps us focus on...
View ArticleExploring theSuperFluid
Go to originalRader puzzles over theSuperfluid, and with a little help from founder Nathan Solomon, understands how 'sloppy' currencies can perform a different function to everyday currencies.Author...
View ArticleOpen Source Currency
Go to originalThe ubiquity of mobile phones and the availability of back-end software should make CCs a no-brainerAuthor Douglas Rushkoff (2004) It’s easy to talk about how handheld, networked...
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UDC : a digital currency free for all
https://www.drumbeat.org/en-US/projects/universal-digital-currency/description/ Here's a story of initiative which takes into part the distinction between scarce and abundant goods and creates a...
View ArticleCCs trump health insurance
Go to originalMy healthcare journey through the US health insurance industry, conventional medicine, and alternative medicine using different means of exchange.Author Mira Luna If you think you’re...
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Hungarian currency supported by European co-op law
A small group of entrepreneurs in Sopron (population 57 thousand, near Hungary’s western border) decided in late 2008 to revive the local economy. They created a complementary currency, called...
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BitCoin: a rube-goldberg machine for using electricity
Go to originalBitCoin, a new decentralised, scarce, anonymous money technology has been getting attention recently. But is generating money the best use of scarce energy resources? And could it scale...
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The Role of Time Banks in Crisis Response.
Go to originalThe Lyttelton Time Bank played a vital part in the local response to the recent New Zealand quakes. This report is from the ground.Author Margaret Jefferies, Chair, Project Lyttelton If...
View ArticleThe Semiotics of Digital Currency [abridged]
Go to originalEmpowering local communities and unlocking new levels of value creation and representation via digital technologies are the main goals of Dr. Schwartz’s projects, aiming at the...
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Financial Terrorism: Liberty dollar founder faces 15 years jail
Go to originalFBI Busts Mastermind Criminal For Issuing Silver Currency, Demanding Repeal Of Fed And IRS; Faces 15 Years In PrisonAuthor Tyler Durden The FBI, which apparently has no major criminals...
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The Return Of Precious Metals And Sound Money [abridged]
Go to originalThe gold standard was dropped because it wasn't elastic enough to supply ever increasing quantities of money. But many countries now, and US states are voting with their feet, and moving...
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Maia Maia for carbon emissions reductions!
A innovative community in Western Australia is about to issue notes on the basis of local emission reduction projects. Each note tells a story!Author Sam Nelson Maia Maia ERCS, a local Western...
View ArticleRipple
Ripple is a decentralised payment system which finds 'trust' pathways between people in order to clear debts with minimum use of money.Author Ryan Fugger What's the basic idea? Who is it for and what...
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The emergence of UK transition currencies
Go to originalAfter 3 years of Transition Towns currency experiments in the UK, how far have we come?Author Josh Ryan Collins For print only - See attachment
View ArticleStephen de Meulenaere: A big picture look at challenges and opportunities in...
In this series of interviews with the movement's pioneers, we take a big picture look at challenges and opportunities in the complementary currency movement. In this second interview, Stephen de...
View ArticleThe G-Word
John Rogers' regular column.Author John Rogers Some people tell me off for going on about the importance of Governance in getting community currencies to fly. They say a well-designed CC ‘should run...
View ArticleMadison, Wisconsin: On the Edge
While supporting the working classes in the ongoing upheaval in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, the Dane County Time Bank is looking forward to making mutual credit accounting much easier for communities to...
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Riace - Complementary Currency helps integrate asylum seekers, refugees
While the Italian state has been moving against African immigration for many years, one small town is welcoming immigrants to replace its dwindling population, and using localised Euros as part of the...
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Axiological Economics
Axiological values, experimental social netsorking and alternative currencyAuthor Sergio Guitart Axiological Economy – redistribution of a finite amount of community currency in assistance of an...
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'The Future of Money' by Mary Mellor
Go to originalBook ReviewAuthor Steve Herman Mary Mellor’s The Future of Money takes its cue from the recent financial crisis to explore the history of money from ancient times until the present and...
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Grassroots initiative starts in a socialist manmade city
I became acquainted with Zoltán MIKHELLER, founder of Bakonyi CsereKör a community based LETS circle during my research work, and conducted an email interview with him, that gives some detail about the...
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Big Picture interview with Ithaca hours founder, Paul Glover
Ithaca hours is one of the most successful community currencies running today. This is largely due to the groundwork and commitment of Paul Glover. We caught up with him in Holland to find out how he...
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Venezuela’s Network of Exchange Systems
Go to originalJuan Esteban Lopez is from Medellín, Colombia, and has been living in Venezuela for the past four years where he has helped coordinate the Network of Exchange Systems, which has been...
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Excerpt from New Currency: How money changes the world as we know it
Go to originalThis very well written introduction to why we need differently designed currency has an interesting review of historical experiences, in particular how evolutions after the meltdown of...
View ArticleAttention on global economy
It seems that in the last 3 months, local monies have been squeezed out of the conversation, as all attention is directed towards the visibly crumbling global economy. We are seeing widening discussion...
View ArticleEqual Dollars valuation changes
Go to originalIf an equal dollar doesn't equal a dollar, what does an equal dollar equate?Author Bob Fishman, CEO, Resources for Human Development Last year, the Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke...
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Living Without Money is an Act of Community
Go to originalIn this article for shareable, I wanted to explain that money is only one dimension of life and that changing money is part and parcel of changing our lives.Author Matthew Slater As a...
View ArticleIn Fifty Days, Payments Innovation Will Stop In Silicon Valley
Go to originalBig players who want to get a piece of the lucrative financial services pie (don't forget the rest of the economy is depressed) are moving into online payment systems. to that end, the...
View ArticleAlternatives to the banksters: local currencies
Go to originalThough connected to social justice issues, monetary reform is not necessarily linked to either side of the political spectrum. This promotion of the questionable 'Transition' currencies...
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The Law of Local Currencies
Local currencies are not an end in themselves. Bruce Colley explains how a local currency is intrinsically connected to the local economyAuthor Bruce Colley Any study of local/community currency...
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“The Occupy Wall Street Movement and Shared Monetary Governance”
The short article explores the Occupy Wall St. movement in the context of recent research on the participatory governance of money and how the two movements together empower community.Author Shira...
View ArticleLocal Money: An American Tradition Is Reborn As Economy Weakens
Go to originalAn overview of the world-wide currency movement.Author Mira Luna Ever since the crash several years ago, Americans have felt precarious about the nation's economy and the value of its...
View ArticleCyclos 3.6 released
hugo@instrodi.org Innovative Open Source On-line Banking Software Counters Economic Crisis with own CurrencyAuthor Hugo van der Zee Today, the Social Trade Organisation released its banking software...
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Big Picture interview with ValueForPeople founder, John Rogers
John Rogers has been working on the forefront of the CC movement for nineteen years, fourteen as a LETS coordinator, Time Bank Developer and researcher in Wales and since 2007 as a trainer, consultant...
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Big Picture interview with the founder of Dane County TimeBank and timeFTW,...
While Madison, Wisconsin had been more in the news for their public struggle against right wing legislators last year, Dane County TimeBank has been constantly setting benchmarks for successful...
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Big Picture interview with Rolf Schilling from Talente Vorarlberg
The western most province of Austria, Vorarlberg, is home to the reputable "Talente" currency system. From its start as a province-wide timebank in 1996 it succeeded to combine different targeted...
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Big Picture interview with the founder of STRO, Henk van Arkel
The track-record of STRO (Social Trade Organization, previously Strohalm) is unrivelad in the currency scene. Since 30+ years they developed currency systems all around the world, today focussing on...
View ArticleFirst International Social Transformation Conference 2012
Only after the fundamental causes of systemic economic failures are eliminated will evolution towards a sustainable and socially just global economy become feasible.The current economic crisis has...
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Get a HANDle on H.A.N.D.S.
A new 130-page book written by 24 members of New Zealand’s most successful Local Employment & Trading System is now available. Get A Handle on H.A.N.D.S. can help anyone better understand and...
View ArticleUnderstanding Zero
Understanding Zero is important for H.A.N.D.S. members, because Zero is the potent essence of a successful community exchange system.Author Christoph Hensch What does Zero stand for?Zero is the sum of...
View ArticleMy life in LETS
After a surge of growth in the 90s, LETS faded away in many parts of the world, but not in Belgium - Marie Ullens writes of her life in LETSAuthor Marie Ullens My small, well-to-do town in Belgium, has...
View ArticleHow to Start a Community Currency
A summary of tips for starting a community currency from the experts with further resources.Author Mira Luna The centralized creation of money and credit has a profoundly negative effect on local...
View ArticleRheingold - microcurrency in Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Rheingold decentralized money, debt-free, interest-free, non-localAuthor Jost Reinert Rheingold is a micro-currency established in 2007 enjoying around 1.000 participants. It is not a local currency,...
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