The 2010 Generation Europe Youth Summit is employing an interesting complementary currency to their common European currency, the Euro. The new currency is meant to quantify the contributions volunteers make to this year’s projects, mostly in the form of blog posts and comments. We want you to experience and learn about different kinds of currencies. [...]
The Community Forge is making their community currency software available to the public on a donate-only basis. The software, which I had the opportunity of testing this morning, is a very basic transactional system, with a very bare search and find function. Probably not a great software for a barter exchange, but for a small [...]
Hugo Chavez, in a 2006 speech encouraged barter as a means of combatting the forces of capitalism. “I exchange one cachama (a fresh water fish) for three bunches of bananas,” the Venezuelan President said. He immediately warned his ministers: “I want to see results: (The establishment of) community and barter markets.” Apparently the demand had [...]
I read an article on the history of barter which included a list of ancient barter problems including: Barter has many difficulties which are briefly described below: 1. Lack of Double Coincidence of Wants: In order for act of barter to take place, it is necessary that the persons with matching requirements are brought together. [...]
The organizers of the Auburn TradeNotes put a video up on YouTube over the weekend. The video is the details of their mission statement, which includes fairly lofty goals like, “the lasting betterment for all”, “live life deeply”, “fly our truth above us”, and more. For me, it’s waaaay to long and wordy to be [...]
A LETS community currency is planned for appearance in Ballona California in the near future. The Daily Breeze.com reports that, “The Ballona trading network, which is similar to others around Los Angeles and nationwide, is a new initiative for Westchester’s Environmental Change-makers, the group that partnered recently with Holy Nativity Church to build a community [...]
The Asheville Currency project, an alternative paper currency for the Asheville community, is seeking input on the proposed name of their currency. Votes are accepted until April 16th. Instructions for voting can be found at http://www.avlcurrency.com
According to a story appearing on AnnArbor.com, the Think Local First organization has experienced some major problems garnering interest from local businesses for the community currency initiative in the works for months. Ingrid Ault, executive director of Think Local First, is quoted saying, ” It’s been a little sad. What we really hoped to accomplish [...]
According to Pat Shannan of the American Free Press.net, struggling towns are using community currencies, printed and electronic, to pick up the slack that the U.S. dollar has right now.
I dug this up via Twitter this morning, “I have been thinking about the long term approach to community exchanges and how they could work in a large city on the same scale as they work in smaller communities. I have come up with several ideas; tell me what you think.
