[Sosfbay-discuss] Fwd: Green Party Values--at a bank???

[Tian Harter]

On many occasions I've traded one of my stickers for something else.
I don't think that would work for just anybody, and I rarely get repeat
customers. Still, I like it as a low stakes form of barter.

JamBoi wrote:

>I really, really like this idea of community currency!  I was thinking
>about how we could practically put this idea in effect in the short
>run. One form of community currency I thought of that would work for at
>least some people are VTA day pass tokens.  Can anyone think of others
>forms that are available now in Santa Clara County?
>
>Green solidarity!
>
>Drew
>
>--- Tian Harter <tnharter at ispwest.com> wrote:
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>>It is interesting. There was a Berkeley hours program around the
>>turn of the millenium. I took about two Berkeley hours for some
>>consulting
>>work in the summer of '99 and had a hard time spending the money.
>>(Mexican money is MUCH easier to spend than that stuff was.)
>>Not only that, but nobody ever offered me any again. I would have
>>taken it, because I'm always up for an interesting spending
>>experience,
>>but they seem to have gone away at this point in time.
>>
>>Tian
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>>Larry Cafiero Liaison wrote:
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>>>There's nothing like gravity taking its course, Tian (after all,
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>>it's 
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>>>not just a good idea, it's the law . . .), but I seem to recall the
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>>>Ithaca Hours program, which I believe was formed by a Green in
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>>Ithaca, 
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>>>N.Y., in the '90s and seems to be thriving in that upstate N.Y.
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>>town.
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>>>Here's their site: http://www.lightlink.com/hours/ithacahours/
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>>>It's a very interesting concept, to say the least.
>>>
>>>Larry Cafiero
>>>Liaison to the Secretary of State
>>>Green Party of California
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>>>Tian Harter wrote:
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>>>>What's a "community currency"? I had a Mexican 20 pesos
>>>>note in my wallet for a couple of weeks. Spending it had many
>>>>of the same challenges in it that spending some other community
>>>>currency had. I ended up getting a dozen eggs from it at a
>>>>Farmers Market.
>>>>
>>>>I've met people that think a greenback working to aquire
>>>>something is proof the world works. I'm not so sure. I like to
>>>>ground my sense of reality by dropping a coin in a piggy bank
>>>>every now and then. One reason is that most of the communities
>>>>I consider myself to be part of have some respect for the laws of 
>>>>physics.
>>>>The sound of a coin landing is evidence that the laws of physics
>>>>work for me.
>>>>
>>>>I'm going to use A California quarter to push the send button
>>>>for this post, and then drop it in my pink piggy bank. Please
>>>>notice that no laws were broken in the making of this post.
>>>>
>>>>JamBoi wrote:
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>>>>>I note that at the bottom of the page it lists Carol Brouillet as
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>>a
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>>>>>contributer.  I'm not very up on it but I understand that Carol
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>>has
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>>>>>worked for years on the concept of 'Community Currency'.  Before
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>>Carol
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>>>>>got involved in exposing the truth of 9/11 she was into
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>>'Community
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>>>>>Currencies', hence the name of her web site:
>>>>>http://www.communitycurrency.org
>>>>>
>>>>>Here's a clearer description of what community currencies are
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>>about:
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>>>>>http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/cc/CC.html
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