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New money meets the cost of change: how local currencies save economies and communities, and help them flourish

New money meets the cost of change: how local currencies save economies and communities, and help them flourish  In times of crisis and other upheavals, local communities have discovered that one answer to being failed by the mainstream economy is to print your own currency. Responses also range from age-old barter systems to time-banking and […]

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This currency is designed to benefit the local community

This currency is designed to benefit the local community This article was adapted from our latest book, “Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons.” Download your free pdf copy today. The Brixton district in South London’s Lambeth borough has been a bastion of progressive thought and culture for decades. After the financial crisis of 2008, local businesses were struggling […]

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Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Local Currencies

Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Local Currencies The Seven Social Sins of the World: Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Knowledge without character Commerce without morality Science without humanity Worship without sacrifice Politics without principle — given by Mohandas Gandhi to his grandson Arun shortly before his assassination BITCOIN AND BLOCKCHAIN The world is on fire lately […]

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The Currency of Localism

The Currency of Localism Image: Mark Simmons Two or three times a year, I drive back and forth between London and Valencia – a family responsibility that is no less pleasurable for being tiring.  Whenever possible on these three-day journeys I try to spend at least one night at a remote inn I chanced upon […]

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Local Currency–Money For Us, Not the Bankers

Local Currency–Money For Us, Not the Bankers “Back in the 1930s on the Olympic peninsula, people were paying their taxes in alternative money…The banks shut them down. This is an example of the monopoly the banks have, and the level of control they have over peoples’ economic lives… People need to know [local currency] is […]

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