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

[Andrea Dorey]

I think bartering has the potential to shake up the economy in the  
same way that local currency would--it's outside the system that  
tracks and taxes.

On Dec 17, 2006, at 11:40 PM, Tian Harter wrote:

> 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:
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> Larry Cafiero Liaison wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> There's nothing like gravity taking its course, Tian (after all,
>>>>
>>>>
>>> it's
>>>
>>>
>>>> not just a good idea, it's the law . . .), but I seem to recall the
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ithaca Hours program, which I believe was formed by a Green in
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Ithaca,
>>>
>>>
>>>> N.Y., in the '90s and seems to be thriving in that upstate N.Y.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> town.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Here's their site: http://www.lightlink.com/hours/ithacahours/
>>>>
>>>> It's a very interesting concept, to say the least.
>>>>
>>>> Larry Cafiero
>>>> Liaison to the Secretary of State
>>>> Green Party of California
>>>>
>>>> Tian Harter wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> 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:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I note that at the bottom of the page it lists Carol Brouillet as
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>> a
>>>
>>>
>>>>>> contributer.  I'm not very up on it but I understand that Carol
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>> has
>>>
>>>
>>>>>> worked for years on the concept of 'Community Currency'.  Before
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>> Carol
>>>
>>>
>>>>>> got involved in exposing the truth of 9/11 she was into
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>> 'Community
>>>
>>>
>>>>>> Currencies', hence the name of her web site:
>>>>>> http://www.communitycurrency.org
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Here's a clearer description of what community currencies are
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>> about:
>>>
>>>
>>>>>> http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/cc/CC.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>
>
> -- 
> Tian
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