background preloader

Welcome to the Community Exchange System

Welcome to the Community Exchange System
Press Release World's Largest Free Community Resource Management Software to be Upgraded Community Exchange System (CES), a free software service that helps communities manage and exchange resources, is to be migrated to Drupal in 2014. The network currently consists of 700 more or less active communities in 62 countries and the software has so far been translated into 22 languages. Most of the software will be published open source, as a Drupal 8 distribution called Eserai, and several customised deployments are already planned. In the medium term, more resources will be sought to bring together these deployments into one decentralised network, and to build a free, open source phone application suitable for recording and mobilising community activities.

https://www.community-exchange.org/

Self-Sustaining Aquaponic Greenhouse Coming to Vermont Park The Root Center, a pending non-profit, is building a solar-heated aquaponic greenhouse in Vermont Park. Dubbed “Garden of the Future,” the project will house a sustainable fish pond and aquaponic vegetables. The Root Center’s mission is to provide food, water, shelter, energy and community, and the food the greenhouse produces will supply local food banks and schools. The 45-foot domed greenhouse sits on half an acre of land leased from the National Gardening Association. Using only fish food and seedlings to start, the team will install a fish pond in the center of the self-sustaining dome. Bacteria will act as a pH regulator in the pond, and the water containing fish poo will be siphoned to the plants, providing not just water but also natural fertilizer.

Energy-Backed Currency The problem with money The problem with money is that it either has to have intrinsic value in itself, like gold, or it has to be backed by or exchangeable for something that has intrinsic value. The abandonment of this principle, and the worldwide move to fiat currency, money freely printed and backed only by the soundness of the country or bank that issued it, has been brought the world’s economies to the verge of collapse in short order. The world needs to return to the sound money policy of backed currencies, currencies that either have intrinsic value in themselves or are readily exchangeable for something that has intrinsic value. In addition, this move has to be worldwide.

Edwin V. Gray: Electromagnetic Association Motor (Pulsed Capacitance Discharge Motor, &c: US Patent # 3,890,548 ) {*style:<b> rexresearch.com </b>*} (1 July, 1973, page 5) Facebook-yhteisö Top 40 Platforms for Crowdfunding Social Change Crowdfunding is a new word for an old idea. The Oxford English dictionary defines it as: “the practice of funding a project or venture by raising many small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically via the Internet” Crowdfunding’s poster child, Kickstarter, launched in April 2009. It wasn’t the first online crowdfunding platform (ArtistShare launched in 2003), but it was the first to become widely known and scale. Les monnaies complémentaires & locales : une nouvelle réponse de la société civile à l'industrialisation de la finance ... Cela fait plusieurs fois que l'on me dit que les Monnaies complémentaire et locale (MCL) sont de l'ordre du "gadget" sans intérêt au niveau macro économique ... J'ai donc, depuis peu, modifié mes interventions et ma présentation des MCL en y intégrant leur importance en matière de transition vers un métamorphose de notre système financier toute entier. Les citoyens que je rencontre depuis m'ont dit que cela les avait éclairé et aidé à changer leur représentation des MCL. Ainsi, pour aider chaque volontaire engagé, dans cette expérimentation de la société civile que sont les MCL,à dépasser les arguments de certains "coupeurs d'ailes", j'ai donc rédigé ce texte court issu de mon expèrience personnelleen tant que coordinateur du sol-violette, la monnaie éthique de la ville de Toulouse, et administrateur du mouvement national Sol,initié par PatrickViveret, pour une réappropriation citoyenne de la monnaie. 3- Amplifier la circulation monétaire au sein d'un circuit local court

Eko art centar Eco-Art Centre EIA 2010 Schedule of Events April 2-5; May 8/9 Introduction to Permaculture The word ‘permaculture’ (permakultura) consists of the words ‘permanently’ (continually, perpetually) and ‘agriculture’ (cultivation of the land, farming). 1001 monnaies Open Everything Land Association Chrissel

Chouette, agir localement dans nos quartier semble être une bonne piste. by laurentbar Aug 29

Laurentbar is right, the world is changing, and the concept of money is changing. It will be a tool of our freedom, just like it was a tool for our oppression. by robcayman Aug 26

Il y en a pour toute le monde, c'est évolutif. by laurentbar Aug 26

Free of Money Introduction i seen, yet you explain that we need money. Confusing to anyone. by lovingselfspirit2 Aug 26

Related: