Funny Money: 10 Perfectly Legal Currencies - Nothing but funny business - Chortler

Funny Money: 10 Perfectly Legal Currencies - Nothing but funny business - Chortler: "The euro, franc, pound, yen and dollar may receive most of the attention when it comes to foreign exchange, but scattered across the globe, most commonly in small to mid-sized towns, are regional currencies which hold just as much – if not more – value as the world’s premier forex paper to those who trade in them"

The Solution | Prosperity UK

The Solution | Prosperity UK: "The Solution
How We Got into this Situation and What We Can Do to Get Out
by Alistair McConnachie The following was delivered by Alistair McConnachie at the Thirteenth Annual Bromsgrove Conference on 3rd Oct 2009 and was published in the October 2009 issue of Prosperity. In this presentation I want to talk about three things: How did we get here? What are we doing about it? Where do we want [...]
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Money Reform is Not Inflationary"

The BNote: Green Currency in Baltimore | Reality Sandwich

The BNote: Green Currency in Baltimore | Reality Sandwich: "The energy is building.� Even before we have printed a single note, everywhere we go in Baltimore people have already heard of the BNote, and businesses are signing on to accept them when we launch next year.� We are finding that people are very receptive to the idea of an alternative economic system - one that will benefit people instead of corporations.�"

The Transformational Power of Complementary Currencies: Charles Eisenstein on Money (Part One) | Reality Sandwich

The Transformational Power of Complementary Currencies: Charles Eisenstein on Money (Part One) | Reality Sandwich: "In this clip, RS contributor Charles Eisenstein talks about how creating a new story of money opens up possibilities for new kinds of human connections, as money is a symbol of relationships and coordinated activity.� He points to complementary 'negative interest' currencies as a way of overcoming the crisis inherent in our current story of money, in which the entire plot is dependent on the hoarding and converting of rapidly depleting natural resources into goods."

Time for a New Theory of Money by Ellen Brown — YES! Magazine

Time for a New Theory of Money by Ellen Brown — YES! Magazine: "The reason our financial system has routinely gotten into trouble, with periodic waves of depression like the one we’re battling now, may be due to a flawed perception not just of the roles of banking and credit but of the nature of money itself. In our economic adolescence, we have regarded money as a “thing”—something independent of the relationship it facilitates."

How Lincoln Might Fix Our Economic Mess

How Lincoln Might Fix Our Economic Mess: "As America grapples with the worst economic chain-reaction since 1929 —— and as President-Elect Obama takes time to consider more closely the methods of Abraham Lincoln —— it is time to reconsider a monetary method that Lincoln and the Civil War Republicans used, a monetary method that America’s leading economists attempted to revive in the 1930s.� It’s a method that could work right now, but with a critical revision to adapt it to the methods and techniques of the Federal Reserve."

Films for Action - Local Currencies - Replacing Scarcity with Trust

Films for Action - Local Currencies - Replacing Scarcity with Trust: "Francis Ayley established over a dozen local currencies in the UK before moving to the U.S. He contrasts our standard, scarcity- and debt-based money system with local currencies in which 'there's always as much as you need.' Local currencies like his Fourth Corner Exchange issue money when members trade goods and services. Communities with local currencies will be less affected when recession or depression hits the mainstream economy."

Fourth Corner Exchange Inc

Fourth Corner Exchange Inc: "Fourth Corner Exchange is the original Pacific Northwest USA chapter of the Life Currency Cooperative Exchange. Currently there are over eight-hundred participating members, with branches in Washington, Oregon, Colorado, New Mexico, Ohio, California in the USA and other local chapters in Canada and Sweden. Founded by Francis Ayley and a small group of friends in 2002, Fourth Corner Exchange formally started trading in January 2004. From those small beginnings we have grown to over eight-hundred members, exchanging a large selection of goods & services throughout the Pacific Northwest, centered around Bellingham and Port Townsend."

Video: THE MONEY FIX | The Money Fix: A documentary film about our economy

Video: THE MONEY FIX | The Money Fix: A documentary film about our economy

YouTube - TEDxBerlin - Bernard Lietaer - 11/30/09

YouTube - TEDxBerlin - Bernard Lietaer - 11/30/09

Understanding Advantages of a Complementary

Understanding Advantages of a Complementary: "A currency transaction is an energy exchange, one that has become highly unconscious in our current society. When we buy products produced for the mass market, we generally don’t know what we are really buying, by whom it was produced, or in what corporate coffers our dollars will end up. As a counterbalance hundreds of local currencies are cropping up in the United States and around the world. This is a statement of a universal desire for a more self-empowered, direct and meaningful exchange, in alignment with values we want to endorse."

Films for Action - Local Currencies - Replacing Scarcity with Trust

Films for Action - Local Currencies - Replacing Scarcity with Trust: "Francis Ayley established over a dozen local currencies in the UK before moving to the U.S. He contrasts our standard, scarcity- and debt-based money system with local currencies in which 'there's always as much as you need.' Local currencies like his Fourth Corner Exchange issue money when members trade goods and services. Communities with local currencies will be less affected when recession or depression hits the mainstream economy."

How Lincoln Might Fix Our Economic Mess

How Lincoln Might Fix Our Economic Mess: "Mr. Striner is Professor of History at Washington College and the author of Father Abraham: Lincoln’s Relentless Struggle to End Slavery (Oxford, 2006). He has written on economic issues for the Washington Post.

���� As America grapples with the worst economic chain-reaction since 1929 —— and as President-Elect Obama takes time to consider more closely the methods of Abraham Lincoln —— it is time to reconsider a monetary method that Lincoln and the Civil War Republicans used, a monetary method that America’s leading economists attempted to revive in the 1930s.� It’s a method that could work right now, but with a critical revision to adapt it to the methods and techniques of the Federal Reserve."