An introduction to energy currencies and accounting. Written by my future NEF colleagues Josh Ryan-Collins and Tony Greeham, and my colleague in Berlin at the time Ludwig Schuster. Download the full PDF here. Modern interest-bearing bank-debt money creates the illusion of exponentially growing wealth and an unceasing demand for economic growth and/or inflation. In return, […]
“But I am not sure that what some people today see as the global renaissance of complementary currencies should be attributed to the global crisis,” Bindewald says. “Other factors like lower transaction costs through technological advancements and a more networked society contribute too.” Read full article here: http://www.globalissues.org/news/2012/10/17/15070
This interview appeared in the Community Currency Magazine (archive link), April 2012 While Madison, Wisconsin had been more in the news for their public struggle against right wing legislators last year, Dane County TimeBank has been constantly setting benchmarks for successful currency-led community developments. We talked to its founder, director and senior activist Stephanie […]
Parts of this interview appeared in the Community Currency Magazine (archive link), April 2012 What are the questions you would most want to explore with fellow movers and shakers in the complementary currency movement? My question is: How to get the currency thinking into the mainstream? But more then talking, I prefer to create examples […]
Dieses Interview erschien im Community Currency Magazine (archive link), im April 2012 Die wichtigsten Themen in der KW Bewegung sind Fragen der praktischen Ausübung. Sowie im Talente System in Vorarlberg als auch im Regiogeld Verband sind wir momentan darauf ausgerichtet den Schwerpunkt weg von der Wissenschaft und hin zur praktischen Umsetzung zu vollziehen.
This interview appeared in the Community Currency Magazine (archive link), April 2012 John Rogers has been working on the forefront of the CC movement for nineteen years, fourteen as a LETS coordinator, Time Bank Developer and researcher in Wales and since 2007 as a trainer, consultant and author based in Germany. There, we asked John […]
by Marc Brakken (University of Wisconsin), Preston Austin (timeFTW.org), Stephanie Rearick (DCTB) , Leander Bindewald This was published in the IJCCR in 2012, download from here Abstract Wealth is limited. We propose that value is infinite. Any currency isolates certain forms of value to transform into wealth, but those other forms of value remain even as they are […]
Dieser Text ist ein Ausschnitt eines Interviews mit Bernard Lietaer, das 2011 im Sammelband “Ende oder Neubeginn” im Flensburgerhefte Verlags erscheinen ist. Leander Bindewald: Herr Lietaer, bereits in ihrem Buch von 1999, “Das Geld der Zukunft”, beschrieben sie unsere heutige Zeit als eine, in der vier globalen Krisen zusammenfallen: Demographischer Wandel, Strukturelle Arbeitslosigkeit, Klimawandel und […]