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

[JamBoi]

I've been doing further research to understand 'Community Currencies'. 
Here are some valuable links:

Community Currencies:
* http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/cc/CC.html

* About All Sorts of Community Currencies in General:
http://www.ratical.org/ratitorsCorner/03.20.99.html#p1a

LETS, Local Exchange Trading System, "the most advanced form of local
currency in circulation."
* http://www.transaction.net/money/lets/

* This lays down the LETS basics:
http://www.gmlets.u-net.com/design/home.html

More LETS
* http://www.gmlets.u-net.com/

* Especially see this one which gives an Economist's analysis of LETS:
http://www.gmlets.u-net.com/zips/foundatn.zip

Resources including software for LETS:
http://www.gmlets.u-net.com/zips/

Green solidarity!

Drew

--- Andrea Dorey <andid at cagreens.org> wrote:

> 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
> > Latest change: Added 12 reasons to Impeach Bush.
> > http://tian.greens.org


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JamBoi
Jammy The Sacred Cow Slayer

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