Complementary Currency Systems offer a path towards economic and ecological regeneration on the bioregional and global scale. The idea is to create currency systems that are tied in value to indexes of ecosystem healthy and cultural wealth. These bioregional currencies would be tradable againt global currencies like the dollar and Euro and create incentives for decentralized control of resources and sustainable management of resources.
This is an idea to work towards as we transition our culture away from being one controlled by complacency and consumerism and towards a regenerative culture characterized by a culture of production and cooperation.
This October a group of Gaia U Associates, local towns people and national students of business will be gathering to design the first stage of succession towards a financial ecology that is sustainable and just.
A few resources for following up on Complementary Currency are:
Wikipedia
Transaction.net
ccSyndicator
threebles.com
and articles/videos of interest:
Interview with Bernard Lietaer on You Tube
Transition Perspective with Rob Hopkins
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For a PDF slide show on Complimentary Currency by Bernard Lietaer, an economist and money designer: check out the post on http://www.financialpermaculture.org/?p=79
Hey Greg,
It's great that you're posting about this stuff. You may want to catch this spelling pattern early though.
Bernard Lietaer speaks of "complementary" currencies (spelled with an E after the L) meaning "Mutually making up what is lacking. That which completes or brings to perfection."
Not "complimentary" currencies (spelled with an I after the L) meaning "Costing nothing; provided at no charge."
And BTW, since you are clearly interested in sustainability and healthy feedback loops involved with autopoiesis, you may be interested in triple-bottom-line currencies. I've just put up a web site yesterday starting to tell their story: http://www.threebles.com.
Atremystic,
Thanks for the spelling correction..I was on auto pilot....
I corrected the spelling errors and added a link to your project...looks great...good luck with the triple bottom line currency...excellent project.
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