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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BREAK
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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/
08/04/2011
Urban Environmental Management - Localizing Agenda 21
Local Agenda 21 is a local-government-led, community-wide, and participatory effort to establish a comprehensive action strategy for environmental protection, economic prosperity and community well-being in the local jurisdiction or area.
Six Key Elements of a Local Agenda 21
Tools and strategies for preparing a LA21 Plan
Data Collection
Planning and Development
Plan Management
Monitoring and Evaluation
- Involve the widest community: police, business, citizens groups, housing associations.
- Meet local needs: ask people what they want, what are their expectations of LA21.
- Work within the resources of the community.
- Use existing networks.
- Make LA21 a priority for all departments at the municipal offices.
- Allow time - its a long process.
- Make sure there is trust among the stakeholders in the LA21 process before going public.
- MAKE IT FUN!
by Chris Church.
LINKS
Urban Environmental Management
Introduction: Urban Environmental Management
Localizing Agenda 21
THE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH CENTER
Six Key Elements of a Local Agenda 21
Tools and strategies for preparing a LA21 Plan
Data Collection
Planning and Development
Plan Management
Monitoring and Evaluation
- Involve the widest community: police, business, citizens groups, housing associations.
- Meet local needs: ask people what they want, what are their expectations of LA21.
- Work within the resources of the community.
- Use existing networks.
- Make LA21 a priority for all departments at the municipal offices.
- Allow time - its a long process.
- Make sure there is trust among the stakeholders in the LA21 process before going public.
- MAKE IT FUN!
by Chris Church.
LINKS
Urban Environmental Management
Introduction: Urban Environmental Management
Localizing Agenda 21
THE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH CENTER
06/04/2011
37 Ways to Join the Gift Economy - Yes! Magazine
You don't have to participate in a local currency or service exchange to be part of the cooperative gift economy. Any time you do a favor for a family member, neighbor, colleague, or stranger you're part of it. Here are some ways you can spend time in the gift economy, where you'll find fun, freedom, and connection.
1. Start a dinner co-op. Rotate among the homes of friends and neighbors for weekly or monthly potlucks.
2. Help a local farmer with the harvest in exchange for some of the crop.
3. Put up a traveler.
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LINK
1. Start a dinner co-op. Rotate among the homes of friends and neighbors for weekly or monthly potlucks.
2. Help a local farmer with the harvest in exchange for some of the crop.
3. Put up a traveler.
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LINK
17/03/2011
Moffat CAN and GROW ALLOT - Your city CAN too!
Moffat CAN is a community-owned company and charity. Our aims are environmental protection, relief of poverty and, especially, carbon reduction. CAN stands for Carbon approaching Neutral.
CAN's project is GROW ALLOT. Greatly Reduce/Re-use/Recycle Our Waste and Lead Local Organic Trade, Grow Allot, is a holistic project which sees us launch an organic community garden, allotments, and establish a recycling service, while restoring a church in the process. From 2011 onwards we will be continuing to develop as a social enterprise creating green jobs, work experience and training.
And it has a very nice website: LINK
And it has a very nice website: LINK
Community through Collective Productive Activity
Above all, he sees human beings as creatures who have a fundamental need to express and develop themselves through labour or productive activity; as essentially communal creatures who seek to produce collectively; and as rational creatures who ideally should be able to organize their collective productive activity for themselves. So our real interests lie in collectively controlling our labouring activity. This picture is in fact a descendant of Kant's vision of freedom. ...vision of collective liberation, the ideal of collectively organizing our social existence for ourselves.
From the book:
Philosophy goes to the movies: an introduction to philosophy
From the book:
Philosophy goes to the movies: an introduction to philosophy
22/02/2011
Next Meeting
(post sticks at top till due)
The next Edinburgh local currency working group meeting will be on Tuesday 22nd February from 1900-2100 at the Edinburgh Uni Library Cafe.
(directions at About)
Agenda
Report back on Roland and Benny’s trip to the local economy day at the Findhorn Foundation
Report back from Eva and Adam from the meeting with the Council
Possibly play Emma’s local currency film
Try to agree date/venue for the event
Try to film up programme and speakers
Presentations from the Local Economy Day in Findhorn
Minutes from last meeting
The next Edinburgh local currency working group meeting will be on Tuesday 22nd February from 1900-2100 at the Edinburgh Uni Library Cafe.
(directions at About)
Agenda
Report back on Roland and Benny’s trip to the local economy day at the Findhorn Foundation
Report back from Eva and Adam from the meeting with the Council
Possibly play Emma’s local currency film
Try to agree date/venue for the event
Try to film up programme and speakers
Presentations from the Local Economy Day in Findhorn
Minutes from last meeting
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
Alternative to public austere: One Good Cut
Cut Benefits to Bankers, Not Public Services
George Osborne says that we all must pay more taxes and receive fewer public services. According to the chancellor there is no Plan B for the UK economy - but he's utterly wrong.
We could make one simple spending cut that could make all others unnecessary.
Here's Plan B: cut the benefits to bankers!
SIGN THE PETITION
George Osborne says that we all must pay more taxes and receive fewer public services. According to the chancellor there is no Plan B for the UK economy - but he's utterly wrong.
We could make one simple spending cut that could make all others unnecessary.
Here's Plan B: cut the benefits to bankers!
SIGN THE PETITION
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.
More on - CC Open Source Software
First one:
CommunityForge.net
Tools for localisation
Our hosted website makes building and managing your community easier, and it's...
* free
* simple to set up
* adaptable
* scalable
* customisable
Second one:
Open Source Currency
Example: austin time exchange network
Powered by Insoshi
Insoshi is a social networking platform in Ruby on Rails. You can use Insoshi to make custom social networks; see the Insoshi demo site for an example. For support, join the Insoshi Google group.
CommunityForge.net
Tools for localisation
Our hosted website makes building and managing your community easier, and it's...
* free
* simple to set up
* adaptable
* scalable
* customisable
Second one:
Open Source Currency
Example: austin time exchange network
Powered by Insoshi
Insoshi is a social networking platform in Ruby on Rails. You can use Insoshi to make custom social networks; see the Insoshi demo site for an example. For support, join the Insoshi Google group.
14/02/2011
Values for a Great Transition
Stewart Wallis - nef's Executive Director
outlining the need for a radical transformation of the world economy, and the steps we can take to bring that transformation about.
Stewart based his argumentation on 5 PRINCIPALS and HOW to achieve these. Find the main idea of the principals in the linked doc and find the HOW here.There is a lot more to enjoy from his speech, so it is very worth watching the whole video.
The HOW!
Lets dream a bit...
Dreams are vital, because that is what we turn into reality later.
To pull together the brilliant idea work that many people are doing, to aggregate this ideas and to amplify them, put them across to tell the story in compelling and exciting way, that people make to say: YEAH I want to change.
We (us collectively) need to accompany that with campaigning, good research, lobbing, a space to grow the work of tellers, transition town movement, nef, partnerships...
What we got to do is bringing this together and tell a compelling tale with a new language. ...Simple and not misleading
acupuncture campaigning - focus on where acupuncture intervention could shift the system
Movement for change – transition everywhere
Business in transition (arts, education, universities, societies)
Without serious people pressure we can write all the reports, bring the research and do all the lobbing but it would not bring change.
People ignoring the evidence that is in front of their eyes, they are still saying the sun is going around the earth... we know differently and we need a lot more people to know differently!
If not us...who, If not now.... when?
Stewart Wallis - New Economics Institute, Nov. 20, 2010 from Peter Montague on Vimeo.
outlining the need for a radical transformation of the world economy, and the steps we can take to bring that transformation about.
Stewart based his argumentation on 5 PRINCIPALS and HOW to achieve these. Find the main idea of the principals in the linked doc and find the HOW here.There is a lot more to enjoy from his speech, so it is very worth watching the whole video.
The HOW!
Lets dream a bit...
Dreams are vital, because that is what we turn into reality later.
To pull together the brilliant idea work that many people are doing, to aggregate this ideas and to amplify them, put them across to tell the story in compelling and exciting way, that people make to say: YEAH I want to change.
We (us collectively) need to accompany that with campaigning, good research, lobbing, a space to grow the work of tellers, transition town movement, nef, partnerships...
What we got to do is bringing this together and tell a compelling tale with a new language. ...Simple and not misleading
acupuncture campaigning - focus on where acupuncture intervention could shift the system
Movement for change – transition everywhere
Business in transition (arts, education, universities, societies)
- Business would not and can not change without either people buying differently or governments changing the roles of the game.
- Governments would not change the roles of the game without people demanding they do.
Without serious people pressure we can write all the reports, bring the research and do all the lobbing but it would not bring change.
People ignoring the evidence that is in front of their eyes, they are still saying the sun is going around the earth... we know differently and we need a lot more people to know differently!
If not us...who, If not now.... when?
Stewart Wallis - New Economics Institute, Nov. 20, 2010 from Peter Montague on Vimeo.
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