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Community Currencies & Barter Networks

Groups organized to facilitate exchange of goods and services without the use of national, government-issued currency.

Local Money Creates Local Wealth Outside The Bubble

By Mira Luna, Shareable.net

Local currencies generally develop for one of two reasons — the desire for local economic control (for a variety of reasons, from democracy to sustainability to social justice,) and a scarcity of national currency. In the current situation, both reasons weigh heavy.

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What can 2,500,000 Berkshares Buy

The real economy is people.
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David Roach's Mo' Better Food - Building Healthy Economics newsletter

David Roach is doing incredibly important work in Oakland with Mo' Better Food, schools, intergenerational learning, farmer's markets, and other things.  He was our incredible improvisational tour guide of Oakland.

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Slow Money for a New Economy

What if money wasn't so fast and slippery?
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When Money Isn't Flowing, Invent Your Own

Alternative currencies can keep an economy afloat
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Cascadia Hour Exchange Goes Public

Better Than Barter
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Community Stability & Climate Change

Toronto's community currency suggests possibilities for building community economic security in the face of the destabilizing effects of global climate change.
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In Each Other We Trust

The Humboldt Exchange Community Currency
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Surviving The Depression With Community Money

A pictoral history of Depression-era scrip. Fascinating information about the historical uses of community currency in the U.S.
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The Slow Money Revolution

Local currencies and the "Slow Money" Movement. By Cliona O Conaill.
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