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Tools for life-enhancing economies

Liberating the exchange process is an urgent necessity
for the survival of a free and civil society and the emergence
of a peaceful, harmonious world. - Thomas Greco

Online articles:

Websites:

Money Should Work for Us, Not the Other Way Around Bernard Lietaer (interview Sept. 2005)

Community Currency Systems: Formal mutual aid networks with anti-capitalist potential by Andrew Willis

The Ecology of Money by Richard Douthwaite

Solidarity Economics by Ethan Miller (Feb. 2004)

A Recent History of Local Currencies by Susan Witt (updated Sept. 2003)

It's the Core Economy, Stupid by Edgar Cahn

Everything I Want to Do is Illegal by Joel Salatin

Currency Observatory A user-built directory of "currency experiences"

SANE Community Exchange System Free, online community exchange system. Start one in your neighborhood today!

Nowtopia "self-emancipatory class politics beyond the traditional arena of wage-labor" AUDIO INTERVIEW

The Data Commons Project A comprehensive, public database of cooperative economic initiatives in North America.

Ripple intro • Ripple FAQ An open-source "way to make payments across currencies and allow anyone to issue their own currency."

Reinventing Money A treasure trove by researcher and author Tom Greco

community currencies - an amazing resource (as is the rest of David Ratcliffe's website)

Time Banks UK and London Time Bank

Ecological Economics: Local Currencies • The Holigent Solution

Asset-Based Community Development Building community on capacities, rather than deficits.

Collective Intelligence: The Transitioner • The Blog of CI

New Rules Project

Ancient Lights Patriarchy is pathology.

As Edgar Cahn says...

People are the real wealth of society. Everyone has gifts.	Fair, two-way exchange is the only sustainable kind
Valuable work includes whatever it takes to: • rear healthy children • preserve families • care for the frail • redress injustice • have a democracy • celebrate life	Community is worth investing in

Projects in the oven...

Assignment: Conversion Mills in Maine are closing due to globalization and a some of the military infestation is moving to Florida. Can the Solidarity Economy put these newly freed up talents and resources into more sustainable arrangements?
A Garden of Economies (the varieties of everyday participation in making our future)
Open Source as Dharma (dharma is "a liberating natural law," in this case "pass the gift along")
Healthy Currency Flow community energy distribution and storage, more ; Edgar Cahn: "The core [non-market] economy is our species' habitat")
Currency Abuse (currency trading, usury, issuance bias, planned scarcity, evasion of accountability, misplaced basis, etc.)
Society's Imaginal Cells intentional communitites, convivial tools ("The imaginal wing buds are indeed impractical as components of the caterpillar. They could in no way fly the heavy caterpillar. However, they are well functioning and practical components of the butterfly. Likewise, the spindly imaginal legs." source )
Open-source Tool Chest (complementary currency software; Sahana disaster mgmt.)
Sparking (direct action: economic innervation and enveining)
Arking (direct action: protecting vital treasures)
On-line Ark (scanned images and text)

"The stingy are always poor." - French proverb

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