complementary currency

30 publications

2 thesis

36 Videos

5 pedagogical tools

3 proposals

Solar Dollars – a way to promote renewable energy, while supporting the local economy and providing interest-free financing for utility companies

Thomas H. Greco, August 2016
Proposals for a Fair and Sustainable Economy. Contribution to the theme: production, distribution and consumption: access to wealth, common goods and a transitional economy at the Thematic Social Forum Porto Alegre 24-29 January 2012 in the run-up to the Rio+20 People’s Summit

This document has been put together by Gustavo Marín with the help of Germà Pelayo and contributions from Cândido Grzybowski, Matthieu Calame, Jorge Romano and Paul Raskin. It is based on presentations and discussions that focused on the economy during the seminar organized by Ibase, the Forum for a new World Governance (FnWG) and Euralat in Rio de Janeiro from 10 to 12 August 2011. It is of course a work in progress, and will benefit from further critiques and contributions.

Gustavo Marin, December 2011
Proposal paper for the 21 century : Social Money: Lever of the Economic Paradigm

This Proposal Paper is a summary of the work by the « Social Money as a Lever for the New Economic Paradigm » Workshop.

Heloisa Primavera, November 2001

16 case studies

THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY IN OHIO LOOKS LIKE! Ohio’s democratic/self-determination “infrastructure”

American Friends Service Committee Northeast Ohio Office, January 2017
Stroud Pound: A Local Currency to Map, Measure and Strengthen the Local Economy

Molly Scott Cato, Marta Suárez, 2012
The meanings of social currency on a peripheral neighborhood of a large urban center in Brazil.

International Conference on Community and Complementary Currencies 2011: “Thirty years of community and complementary currencies – what next?”,February 16 – February 17, 2011, Lyon, France

Juliana de Oliveira Barros Braz, Diego dos Santos Veiga Silva, February 2011
Chiemgauer, Germany and Banco Palmas, Brazil

Social money for sound community development

Miguel Yasuyuki Hirota, January 2009
Bia Kud Chum, a Thai Experience in Community Currency

Rajni Bakshi, September 2008

CED
The South African New Economics (SANE)

Rajni Bakshi, September 2008

CED
Residual Barter Networks and Macro-Economic Stability: Switzerland’s Wirtschaftsring

James Stodder, December 2007
Time Banks in the UK: Building Sustainable Communities

The challenge to create sustainable communities is identified as a core priority in ‘Securing The Future’, the UK government’s strategy for sustainable development. Tackling social exclusion and building neighbourhood engagement are seen as principal elements of that objective, and there is an urgent need for tools and initiatives to achieve these aims. Community currencies are a grassroots innovation which claim to meet those goals. They are initiatives which develop and utilise an alternative medium of exchange, to enable people to trade goods and services without using cash.

Gill Seyfang, September 2006

University of East Anglia, UK
Ecological Footprint of the Findhorn Foundation and Community

Stephen Tinsley, Heather George, August 2006
BNB - The alternative currency of the Social Economy Network Cooperative in Basel, Switzerland

2005

BNB
The SANE Community Exchange System, South Africa

Tim Jenkin, June 2004
The Terra TRCTM White paper

Many have a wait and see attitude to innovative proposals of this nature, but they shouldn’t with the Terra. The TRC reduces risk, stabilizes the world economy and is a more cost effective approach for international business.”

Takashi Kiuchi, 2004
LETS get real: constraints on the development of Local Exchange Trading Schemes

Theresa J. Aldridge, Alan Patterson, 2002
Presentation of Tucson Traders , USA

Thomas H. Greco, March 2001
Stories from an Appalachian Community

Twentieth Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures October 2000, Salisbury, Connecticut

Marie Cirillo, 2000

NEI
Cereal Banks: Receipt of Deposit as a Method for Improving Liquidity at the Local Level

Peter Moers, 2000

77 Analyses/working papers/articles

2 Charter/Manifesto

8 public contributions

MULTIPLE MONEYS AND DEVELOPMENT: MAKING PAYMENTS IN DIVERSE ECONOMIES, 2nd International Conference on Complementary Currency Systems (CCS), The Hague, The Netherlands, 19 – 23 June 2013

List of abstracts

June 2013
Complementary currencies for sustainable local economies in Central America

International Conference on Community and Complementary Currencies 2011: “Thirty years of community and complementary currencies – what next?”,February 16 – February 17, 2011, Lyon, France

Erick Brenes M., February 2011
ESF II: Report of the workshop: Money Moves the World

The report of the « Money Moves the World » workshop held at the European Social Forum 2003 on Thursday November 13th in Paris Saint-Denis, France.

November 2003
Community Currencies in Japan

A short report on some CCs in Kyushu, Western Japan.

Miguel Yasuyuki Hirota, September 2003
Wealth, money and power: the ephemeral “Argentinean miracle” of the exchange networks

This text is Heloisa Primavera’s presentation during the introduction to the National Day of Solidarity-Based Barter and Economy, organized on 6 September 2002 by the Instituto del Conurbano, the Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento and the PNUD. It was one of the reports from the panel on the phenomenon of money within barter networks and contributes to an understanding of the Argentine « case » from a more anthropological and predictive perspective.

Heloisa Primavera, December 2002
The Development of Islamic Banking and its Importance in the Emergence of Economic Democracy

In June of 2001, a Symposium on Islamic banking and finance was held in Malaysia. This is the text of a welcoming keynote speech given by former Malaysian Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohamad.

Thomas H. Greco, November 2002
Memorandum from the Social Money Workshop meeting (Santiago, Chile, April 2001)

Report on the seminar on the topics of social money and new forms of economy of solidarity.

Antonio Romero, April 2001
A Pictorial History of Community Currency Systems

Stephen DeMeulenaere, 2000

13 articles

complementary currency

30 publications

2 thesis

36 Videos

5 pedagogical tools

3 proposals

16 case studies

77 Analyses/working papers/articles

2 Charter/Manifesto

8 public contributions

13 articles

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