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Carbon Trade Exchange (CTX)
With over 145 members in 22 countries, Carbon Trade Exchange offers its members a trusted and transparent electronic marketplace for buying and selling carbon credits.Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) has announced that it will soon cease trading carbon.
Carbon trading | blog| CTE's Wayne Sharpe: why carbon trading has a place in chastened economic times
bitcoin
Bitcoin P2P Virtual Currency
Bitcoin is an experimental new digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network . Bitcoin is also the name of the open source software which enables the use of this currency.
Illustration: Martin Venezky In November 1, 2008, a man named Satoshi Nakamoto posted a research paper to an obscure cryptography listserv describing his design for a new digital currency that he called bitcoin.
The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin | Magazine
L019: Bitcoin P2P Currency: The Most Dangerous Project We've Ever Seen - Launch -
A month ago I heard folks talking online about a virtual currency called bitcoin that is untraceable and un-hackable. Folks were using it to buy and sell drugs online, support content they liked and worst of all -- gasp!
Local currencies the German way: the chiemgauer | Money | The Guardian
It started as a school project by Christian Gelleri, an economics teacher in southern Germany who wanted to teach a group of 16-year-olds about finance in a novel way – by creating their own money, to be used in local shops and businesses.
Local Currency
Total dependence on one currency is like total dependence on one crop, or, for that matter, a single energy source: there’s always the risk that crop failure or a cutoff in supply will topple the whole system. This is the scenario we’re seeing now—credit has dried up and unemployment is soaring.
An acquisition by American Express in Septembergave it a piece of a business that analysts say other lenders should jump into: virtual currencies and virtual commerce.
Virtual Currencies, Real Potential - Bank Technology News Article
The Eco-Pesa (Ecological Money) pilot programme has created a community business voucher to benefit the environment and economy of Kongowea, a [slum] district of Mombasa. The voucher acts as a currency that can be exchanged for local goods and services and redeemed for Kenyan Shillings.
Eco-Pesa Programme - Ecological Money, local/micro Currency
The story of Curitiba in Brazil illustrates how the introduction of a complementary currency was able to help a developing and impoverished city leverage its untapped resources to creatively solve a host of challenges and support environmental clean up, job creation and city restoration.
The Story of Curitiba in Brazil | Currency Solutions for a Wiser World
Monnaies complémentaires & alternatives - Future of money
Pearltree about Tradeable currencies by fer_ananda May 23