When: Saturday 9th April 10.00 – 16.30
Where: Riddles Court, 322 Lawnmarket, Edinburgh, EH1 2PG
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Lunch: Indoor picnic, bring food to share
Cost: Free!
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Booking
Please book your place via this link
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/R5JLK7Q.
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Programme
0930 – 1000 Arrival and tea and coffee
1000 – 1015 Welcomes and formalities
Chair - Justin Kenrick (PEDAL)
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1015 – 1130 What does money mean to you?
Group workshop with Roland Playle (Transition Edinburgh South)
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BREAK
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1140 – 1230 Localisation and Local Economies
Jonathan Dawson (Findhorn Foundation)
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LUNCH
- indoor picnic, bring food to share -
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1330 – 1400 Local currencies and the Hawick Pound
Andy Maybury (Greener Hawick)
1400 – 1430 Alternative Currency Models in Edinburgh
1 - Greener Leith bag to go city-wide
Alastair Tibbit (Greener Leith)
2 - TimeBanking in Edinburgh
Milind Kolhatkar (EVOC)
3 - Edinburgh Local Exchange Trading Scheme (LETS)
Benny Freiling (LETS)
1430 – 1435 Freeconomy film
1435 – 1450 Q&A
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1450 – 1505 Open Space explanation and set up
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1515 – 1600 Open Space Session
1600 – 1630 Open Space feedback and summary of next steps
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Background Reading/Info
Here are the websites of the organisations involved:
Transition Edinburgh http://transitionedinburgh.org.uk/
PEDAL http://pedal-porty.org.uk/
SEED http://www.transitionedinburghsouth.org.uk/node/363
Bridgend Inspiring Growth http://bridgendfarmhse.blogspot.com/2010/10/bridgend-inspiring-growth.html
Local currencies http://edinburgh-pound.blogspot.com/
Greener Leith Bag http://www.greenerleith.org/greener-leith-news/2010/12/23/bonus-bag-to-go-city-wide.html
TimeBanking http://www.edinburghtimebank.org.uk/
LETS http://www.edinburghlets.org.uk/
Freeconomy http://www.justfortheloveofit.org/
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22/02/2011
Reimagining Money - RSF Social Finance
RSF believes that inquiry and dialogue are essential tools for transforming the way we work with money. We are committed to creating frequent opportunities for our community to engage in exploring the role of money and finance in our lives.
We have hosted events focused on exploring the personal and social dimensions of money and financial relationships. For many years, RSF led an informal network for these events called the Transforming Money Collaborative, which held a series of gatherings on Money & Spirit, Money, Race, and Class, Money & Intuition, and other related subjects.
Inquiry and Dialogue examples
Reimagine Money Blog
An online conversation about the nature of money.
We have hosted events focused on exploring the personal and social dimensions of money and financial relationships. For many years, RSF led an informal network for these events called the Transforming Money Collaborative, which held a series of gatherings on Money & Spirit, Money, Race, and Class, Money & Intuition, and other related subjects.
Inquiry and Dialogue examples
Reimagine Money Blog
An online conversation about the nature of money.
21/02/2011
Towards a 21st Century Banking and Monetary System
Submission to the Independent Commission on Banking (39 Pages)
nef and Positive Money show why systematic reform of the banking and monetary system is urgently needed.
In collaboration with:
Centre for Banking, Finance and Sustainable Development
University of Southampton, School of Management
(Professor Richard A. Werner)
Short insight:
nef and Positive Money show why systematic reform of the banking and monetary system is urgently needed.
In collaboration with:
Centre for Banking, Finance and Sustainable Development
University of Southampton, School of Management
(Professor Richard A. Werner)
Short insight:
This submission outlines a proposal for full-reserve banking, where the transactional function of banking (the payments system) is separated from the lending function. This system would be stable than under the current business model, which is often labeled ‘fractional reserve banking’
HIGHLIGHT - Positive Money
Demanding a banking system that works for society and not against it!
This year the government will decide what to do to fix the banks. We have to make sure they make the right choice.
The Solution (30 second overview):
This year the government will decide what to do to fix the banks. We have to make sure they make the right choice.
The Solution (30 second overview):
High-street banks have been creating up to £200bn of new money every year, causing massive inflation (especially in housing) and saddling the public with debt. We can't trust profit-seeking bankers or vote-seeking politicians to create money, as the temptation will always be for them to create too much. So instead we need an independent, transparent and accountable body that is responsible for creating money and keeping inflation low. We suggest that the Monetary Policy Committee should have this task.Have a look at the very well developed website, loaded with tons of information including a complete proposal for a new national wide currency system. LINK
16/02/2011
Complementary Currency Magazine
This magazine exists to serve the whole community of innovators, implementers and users of complementary currencies. Contributions of stories and material support are invited.
The new issue Februar 2011 is just out and free to download.
Website of the CC Magazine with the last 12 issues full accessible.
The new issue Februar 2011 is just out and free to download.
Website of the CC Magazine with the last 12 issues full accessible.
13/02/2011
Complementary Currency Research Center
The central source of information around alternative currencies.
Of particular interest is the Academic Research Group, which is connected to the IJCCR (International Journal of Complementary Currency Research). On the website of IJCCR you find research papers published from 1997 till present, free to access.
One example: Cheimgauer Regiomoney: Theory and Practice of a Local Currency
Of particular interest is the Academic Research Group, which is connected to the IJCCR (International Journal of Complementary Currency Research). On the website of IJCCR you find research papers published from 1997 till present, free to access.
One example: Cheimgauer Regiomoney: Theory and Practice of a Local Currency
12/02/2011
The Ripple Project - Open Souce Payment System/Concept
Ripple is a project to build a new kind of monetary system based on the trust present in our ordinary social and business relationships.
A peer-to-peer network protocol for making decentralized Ripple payments between users on different computers, a payment system where everyone is a banker.
Connect to your friends, family, and associates and your credit with them becomes a fully-functional currency
Software Implementations of the Ripple Concept
* Ripplepay - the original implementation
* Shire Hours - Ripplepay clone
* Rain Droplet - Open decentralized community credit service based on Ripple
Ripplexchange
Forum for exchange goods and services using Ripple!
Different (more sophisticated) software same concept:
Multiswap.net - Reinventing free trade
A free platform for circular barter exchange. See a flash demo!
Great further multimedia sources about the concept of Ripple.
Very extensive list of ComparisonOfPaymentSystems
What is Money? - A quick intro to the ideas behind Ripple pay
A peer-to-peer network protocol for making decentralized Ripple payments between users on different computers, a payment system where everyone is a banker.
Connect to your friends, family, and associates and your credit with them becomes a fully-functional currency
Software Implementations of the Ripple Concept
* Ripplepay - the original implementation
* Shire Hours - Ripplepay clone
* Rain Droplet - Open decentralized community credit service based on Ripple
Ripplexchange
Forum for exchange goods and services using Ripple!
Different (more sophisticated) software same concept:
Multiswap.net - Reinventing free trade
A free platform for circular barter exchange. See a flash demo!
Great further multimedia sources about the concept of Ripple.
Very extensive list of ComparisonOfPaymentSystems
What is Money? - A quick intro to the ideas behind Ripple pay
Cyclon - Open Souce Currency Software
An interesting complementary currency software project free to use.
Cyclos offers an complete on-line banking system with additional modules as e-commerce and communiction tools. Cyclos is currently available in ten languages and used worldwide by organisations and communities. The Cyclos platform permits a de-centralization of banking services and can stimulate the consolidation of relations through community features and the focuss on local trade.Extract from a article in the guardian:
Transition Town Brixton is working alongside Nef and the Social Trade Organisation to develop a digital platform that will work across the mobile phone network. Users will be able to send a text message to the bank with their account details, the amount and the shop's account number.For more info visit: www.cyclos.org
Local Currency Game - SocialTradeGame
A fun to play economic and management simulation game.
The game has been developed in cooperation with STRO (Social Trade Organisation)
I have played the whole game (18 month) in the name of Edinburgh Pound and end up at seventh in the high score list, with 5034 points.
Drop a comment If you beat me!
"In the Social Trade game you are the manager of one of STRO's transaction networks and your tasks include hiring staff, starting marketing campaigns and setting the height of bonuses."socialtradegame
The game has been developed in cooperation with STRO (Social Trade Organisation)
I have played the whole game (18 month) in the name of Edinburgh Pound and end up at seventh in the high score list, with 5034 points.
Drop a comment If you beat me!
Brixton Pound Report - Guardian
The "Brixton Pound" has just celebrated its first year in circulation.
Analysis, electronic/digital trading platform , transaction costs, media coverage, democratise money
electronic local currency examples:
mpesa - Kenya
charrua - Uruguay
Link to the report
Analysis, electronic/digital trading platform , transaction costs, media coverage, democratise money
electronic local currency examples:
mpesa - Kenya
charrua - Uruguay
Link to the report
31/01/2011
Plugging the Leaks - Website
Local Economy development as if people and the planet mattered.
Plugging the Leaks was created to support people in communities to take a different approach to local economic development, one that can have a greater, more sustainable impact on their local economies than traditional regeneration initiatives.
Plugging the Leaks goes further than simply getting more money into the local economy through tourism, inward investment or funding. It re-generates the local economy from within, and takes advantage of the resources that a community already possesses.
LINK
Plugging the Leaks was created to support people in communities to take a different approach to local economic development, one that can have a greater, more sustainable impact on their local economies than traditional regeneration initiatives.
Plugging the Leaks goes further than simply getting more money into the local economy through tourism, inward investment or funding. It re-generates the local economy from within, and takes advantage of the resources that a community already possesses.
LINK
28/01/2011
Event Planning Meeting - Announcment
To arrange the next meeting please fill in doodle via the link below to give you availability so I can find a date for the next meeting. Please complete by 2pm on Monday 31st January.
http://www.doodle.com/mieaqsxse2tshi35?newDesign=true
(Instructions for filling in a doodle: Click on the link above, fill in your name in the blank space provided on the far column on left, then scroll across the row ticking all the times and dates you are able to attend a meeting, once this is done click 'save' button underneath chart.)
This is an interesting post about transition currency online banking
http://www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/josh-ryan-collins/2010-11/transition-currency-20-online-banking-system-local-money
This is an interesting article by Chris Martenson about how the bank might change the rules instead of admiting their bad debt.
http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/dont-worry-theyll-just-change-rules/50568
http://www.doodle.com/mieaqsxse2tshi35?newDesign=true
(Instructions for filling in a doodle: Click on the link above, fill in your name in the blank space provided on the far column on left, then scroll across the row ticking all the times and dates you are able to attend a meeting, once this is done click 'save' button underneath chart.)
This is an interesting post about transition currency online banking
http://www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/josh-ryan-collins/2010-11/transition-currency-20-online-banking-system-local-money
This is an interesting article by Chris Martenson about how the bank might change the rules instead of admiting their bad debt.
http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/dont-worry-theyll-just-change-rules/50568
08/11/2010
Rob Hopkin's article on local currencies
Here's a link to Rob Hopkin's article on local currencies and the like:-
http://energybulletin.net/stories/2010-11-08/ingredients-transition-strategies-plugging-leaks
http://energybulletin.net/stories/2010-11-08/ingredients-transition-strategies-plugging-leaks
27/10/2010
Existing Projecs and Academic Resources
I just looked up my knowledge collection and found two very comprehensive dissertations about complementary currencies. (unfortunately both in german)
1. Potential of regional complementary currencies for promoting a endogenous regional development (2004 - 130 pages -department geosciences)
2. An experimental review of the statements of the "freiwirtschaft-" theory (2003 - 90 pages - department economics)
(for Freiwirtschaft have a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freigeld)
The first one mentioned in the introduction a local currency in scotland, the EKO.
http://www.ekopia-findhorn.org/eko.shtml
http://www.ecovillagefindhorn.com/news/onthemoney.php
Follwing some links of the most successful local currency project in germany, the "chiemgauer" (with cashless payment system)
http://www.chiemgauer.info (homepage)
http://www.chiemgauer.info/252.0.html (map of the circulation)
http://www.chiemgauer.info/uploads/media/Chiemgauer-Statistik_01.pdf (some statistics)
Again, unfortunately all in german, but maybe u can get an idea about the projekt.
1. Potential of regional complementary currencies for promoting a endogenous regional development (2004 - 130 pages -department geosciences)
2. An experimental review of the statements of the "freiwirtschaft-" theory (2003 - 90 pages - department economics)
(for Freiwirtschaft have a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freigeld)
The first one mentioned in the introduction a local currency in scotland, the EKO.
http://www.ekopia-findhorn.org/eko.shtml
http://www.ecovillagefindhorn.com/news/onthemoney.php
Follwing some links of the most successful local currency project in germany, the "chiemgauer" (with cashless payment system)
http://www.chiemgauer.info (homepage)
http://www.chiemgauer.info/252.0.html (map of the circulation)
http://www.chiemgauer.info/uploads/media/Chiemgauer-Statistik_01.pdf (some statistics)
Again, unfortunately all in german, but maybe u can get an idea about the projekt.
13/10/2010
Transition Edinburgh - local currency?
The cuts in Child Benefit announced by George Osborne amount to a saving of £1
Billion.
Meanwhile bankers have received bonuses totaling £7 Billion, although more than
half of this will be taken in tax (see
http://www.cebr. com/wp-content/ uploads/London- and-the-City- Prospects- Press-Release- 5-October- 2010-City- Bonuses.pdf
for details).
And now, just when everyone else is about to be hit by spending cuts, they
expect bigger bonuses.
How is Transition Edinburgh getting on with plans for a localcurrency?!
Billion.
Meanwhile bankers have received bonuses totaling £7 Billion, although more than
half of this will be taken in tax (see
http://www.cebr. com/wp-content/ uploads/London- and-the-City- Prospects- Press-Release- 5-October- 2010-City- Bonuses.pdf
for details).
And now, just when everyone else is about to be hit by spending cuts, they
expect bigger bonuses.
How is Transition Edinburgh getting on with plans for a localcurrency?!
12/10/2010
First proposal by Adam
Edinburgh Alternative Currency Models Event
The aim of the event is to run through the different alternative currency models that currently exist in Edinburgh and hear what other options there are. The ideal outcome of the event would be the formation of a group to look at taking ideas forward.
What is happen in Edinburgh
· West Edinburgh Time Bank http://www.edinburghtimebank.org.uk/
· Greener Leith We love Leith bonus bag http://www.greenerleith.org/a-z/s-is-for/shop-local-shop-smart.html
· others?
Other ideas
· Expand the Greener Leith bag from 10% off items at 25 shops in Leith to cover local shops across Edinburgh
· Complimentary currency - speakers could include:
Findhorn, Eko currency http://www.ekopia-findhorn.org/eko.shtml
Greener/Transition Town Hawick, Hawick Pound http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/8559637.stm
Other relevant ideas:
· no-interest banks http://www.feasta.org/documents/review2/carrie2.pdf
· others?
What is needed to take this idea forward:
· need to form a group of people to plan the event
· find out if there is any potential funding available
· prepare program, invite speakers
· book a venue
· publicise the event
· run the event on the day
· hopefully meet regularly after the event to take ideas forward
· anything else?
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