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Alternative currency system

Category: Economy
Responses: 1 (1 in support, 0 neutral, 0 in opposition)
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Work towards a viable alternative local currency, using models like LETS, ripplepay, or Interra, among others.

London ON Community Energy Planning Workshops, Jul 07 2008

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Are there principled reasons for preferring one local currency system to another when size of community is taken into account?

mark, Jul 28 2008

Is it realistic to have a local currency for an entire city, or is a something like collection of federated neighbourhood currencies more realistic?

mark, Jul 28 2008