Energy independence and currency sustainability
Chris Skinner just posted a new post on “Social Money” in which he writes about the challenges of online currencies or real-life complementary currencies. I commented at length and making a connection...
View ArticleStudy finds that shopping near you is better for you
In May 2007, Civil Economics, an economics research company specialized in sustainable prosperity has issued a research note titled San Francisco Retail Diversity Study (Full Study Executive Summary...
View ArticleInteracting with Digital Money
Chris Woebken has created some pretty curious new ways of interacting physically with digital or plastic money.
View ArticleBrazilian community currency helps generate local wealth and jobs
From the Untergunggenberger Intitut Wörgl blog in Germany Austria, here is a video on the Palmas community currency in Nord-east Brazil, launched several years ago, which has enabled this impoverished...
View ArticleUsing CommunityWay to save a local community service in San Francisco
Like many community services, Access SF, San Francisco public access station might close its doors because of a $500K budget cut. I think Community Way might be a good model for them to raise these...
View ArticleThoughts on a Twitter Time Bank with multi-currency support
Today, Eiso Kant, the co-founder of Twollars announced that he had been working lately on a multi-currency version of Twollars, and that “soon everyone can start their own currency on Twitter”. This...
View ArticleStriving for Meaningful exchanges
I spotted an ad for some photographic equipment for sale on Craigslist this morning that had the following post-scriptum: I have to make rent and times are tough. So make an offer. And this morning in...
View ArticleWhat is a currency?
This is the basic question that came up on a Flash Meeting titled “Open Money for Beginners” organized by Christophe Ducamp last Sunday. This is also a question that Eric Harris-Braun, Art Brock and I...
View ArticleFunding public art with community currency?
Last week, Interactive Architecture ran an article about the Singing-Ringing Tree sculpture in Burnley, Lancashire, UK. The video resonated very much with some of my recent thinking on how public art...
View ArticleUnderstanding the consequences of quantitative easing
Lately, there has been a lot of talks about Quantitative Easing, the Fed’s purchase of assets, as a way to fight disinflation or deflation. People talk about it as the Fed printing money, and the media...
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