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Occupy Economy: The case for soft money - Sepp Hasslberger. Money is a tool to facilitate exchange. Money follows, like everything else here on this physical plane, the principles of yin and yang. There is "hard" (yang) money and there is "soft" (yin) money. At this time, the world is dominated by yang money. My purpose with this article is to convince you that we need to find a better balance in matters of exchange and economics. Do we need money at all? There are two systems that have historically been used and that are - to varying degrees - still in use today, that allow us to exchange the fruits of our toil and those we appropriate from nature, without the use of money.

There is the gift, which does not require an immediate return. Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein - A Short Film about the gift economy from Ian MacKenzie on Vimeo. Then there is barter. Money is a placeholder in the business of exchange. How did money develop? As time passed, money was formalized. "Hard currency" And with that independence came a price. The price of money. The Future of Finance | Rebuild 21. Jem Bendell - The Future of Finance What will banks of the 21st century look like? Well not like you think! According to Jem Bendell Rebuild21 speaker we need to rethink the concept of banks and currencies for a more sustainable 21st century.

See his provocative message here: Jem Bendell is a professor and the owner-director of Lifeworth Consulting, providing solutions for systemic change towards sustainable development. For 16 years he has consulted with business, United Nations (UN) and civil society, while writing over 100 publications on the social responsibility of organisations. The world of finance is changing. In the aftermath of the Financial Crisis and the Occupy Wall Street Movement something is cooking. Speakers: Umair Haque, Harvard Business Review, Blogger and Author Jem Bendell, Professor, Management Advisor and Sustainability Activist Richard Kelly, Managing Director, IDEO Shaghai Panelists: Stig Kirk Ørskov, Senior Vice President, JP/Politikens Hus To be announced.

Regional Economic Communities - The Grok trade currency. The market community uses the complementary currency Grok as tokens of trade exchange. The Grok has been crafted to meet the following criteria: The Grok is a currency with as little need of central governance as possible, and it should provide no impetus of its own when the activities of the market participants are balanced. It thus facilitates a truly free market. The Grok is a trustworthy currency, since misuse of the market community is precluded. The market system as a whole cannot be cheated of value by individuals. The value of the Grok in terms of purchasing power (of a mixed basket of commodities) should remain stable, i.e. more or less constant, over time. To ensure this, interest and speculation are not allowed. . * The concept provides a mechanism for storing value which is completely independent of the Grok – as shared ownership of all the assets of a ReeComm, which will mainly consist of local businesses. 1. 2. 3.

The value of the Grok 4. 5. 6. 7. How interest-free banking works: The case of JAK, by Ana Carrie. PDF version Ana Carrie In 2001, Feasta's money group investigated the feasibility of establishing an interest-free bank in Ireland. The most promising way seemed to be to persuade the Swedish JAK Bank to establish an Irish branch. However, since JAK had no experience of running branches in Sweden, its directors turned the idea down.

This is a report from a money group member who went to Sweden to study the bank. Can a bank operate successfully if it does not charge interest on its loans? Savings Points JAK's primary objective is to provide its members with interest-free loans. Given the choice of borrowing without interest or saving without interest, most of us would gladly choose borrowing. For a new JAK member, the first step towards an interest-free loan is to save and thereby earn Savings Points. . €100 1 Month 0.9 = 90 Savings Points The Savings Factor varies with the type of deposit account and is lowest for demand accounts where savings can be withdrawn at any time (about 0.7). Currency Proposals.

Commercial Credit Circuit (C3): A Financial Innovation to Structurally Address Unemployment This paper explains how mutual credit systems can help small and medium-size businesses face the current banking and economic crisis and deal with the problem of cash flow shortage. Businesses can take an initiative to … “Natural Savings: How to Save Forests with Savings for and by the Poor?” “Natural Savings: A New Microsavings Product for Inflationary Environments. How to Save Forests with Savings for and by the Poor?” The Saber: A Currency for the Educational Sector The Saber is the complementary education currency proposed by Bernard Lietaer to help Brazilian schools provide greater educational opportunities despite the lack of available funds.

Complementary Currency Innovation: Self-guarantee in Peer-to-Peer Currencies The WAT system, as used in Japan, allows for businesses to issue their own tickets (IOU’s) which can circulate as a complementary currency within a community. Currency Strategies and Solutions. Create your money. Community currency. Mutual credit. how it works. Many currencies IS better.

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Training We provide weekly online training, certification courses and strategic best practices webinars and resources at a variety of levels so you can customize your education the way you need it. Money: A New Beginning. This essay is the first in a two-part series. An irremediable structural flaw lies at the base of our civilization. I call it Separation, and it has generated all the converging crises -- economic, health, ecological, and political -- of our day.

It manifests as separation from each other in the dissolution of community, separation from nature in the destruction of the environment, separation within our selves in the deterioration of health. Science is its deep ideology, technology is its accomplice, and money is its agent. Money as we know it today is intimately related to our identity as discrete and separate selves, as well as to the destruction that our separation has wrought. A saying goes, "Money is the root of all evil. " But why should it be? For indeed, we live in a world of fundamental abundance, a world where vast quantities of food, energy, and materials go to waste. Money utterly fails to connect gifts and needs. And so it happened. It made sense. Would you like to get rich? Complementary currencies.