"Hi Mark, well I've tried Berrett Koehler in the US and a load of UK publishers without success - can't see how to market it! So I am going to feed more and more bits of the book into my website and maybe publish a newer full version when I…"
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I hope I can contribute something of use from my 16 years experience of community currencies and help avoid designers of new systems from repeating the mistakes of thousands of systems around the world that have not…"
"John always has the best info. Thanks, when will we see your book finally published, I've been dying to show it to friends?
Mark Herpel"
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Design Principles for Sustainable Community Currencies
There have been thousands of experiments with community currencies over the last 25 years all over the world. A few have been very successful, many have failed. What lessons can we learn?1. Pay attention to local goals.2. Analyse local operating conditions, problems, needs and assets.3. Design your currency mechanism around the above.4. Create an effective organisation to run the currency with sound governance and efficient management systems.We have created a development process for new…See More
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Alternative commerce, green dollars, hours, local economy, parallel currency, LETS, CES
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- Community Currency consultant and trainer
- What is your motivation for joining this group?
- Share best practice in community currency and local exchange systems design.
- What skills or experience would you share? We need architects, artists, planners, scholars, farmers, web wizards, fundraisers, vintners, vegan chefs, grant writers, carpenters, beekeepers, scientists, dreamers, lobbyists - you get the idea ...
- Training and advice in community currencies.
- What would you like to offer?
- real estate
- What are your areas of interest?
- alternative commerce
- What level of commitment to an intentional community would you consider at this point?
- just curious
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- At 8:03pm on June 12, 2009, Ecolocitizen said…
- Hi John, thanks for joining us and honoring us with your presence. Feel free to customize your page, post questions, thoughts, articles, photos, videos, add cool apps, make friends, message privately, join or create groups that reflect your interests.
We look forward to your participation in anchoring our vision with your energy and expertise as we seek to live more sustainably and equitably. We plan a wide range of programs and your input will be welcome, especially in the community currency area. We may have bitten off more than we can chew attempting to do this in and for the capital of the western world, so we'll need all the help we can get.
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