All contents on the topic: Currency diversity

4th Collaborative Finance Gathering

from 21. June 2026 to 28. June 2026, Hirschwang, Austria

CoFi Gatherings bring together a vibrant mix of veterans and new voices in alternative economics for a week-long intensive at the Commons Hub in the Austrian alps. We believe deeper collaboration results when people have the chance to engage intellectually as well as unwind and spend down time together—whether by hiking the Rax, soaking in the […]

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8th Biennial RAMICS International Congress in Brazil

from 8. June 2026 to 12. June 2026, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The 8th Biennial RAMICS Conference, entitled “Plurality of Social Currencies: Solidarity Economy, Municipal and Community Currencies for Inclusive and Sustainable Futures,” seeks to deepen and enrich the debate on these initiatives. Through lectures by national and international experts, presentation of academic research and experience reports, and field trips, the event aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and exchange of experiences, contributing to the advancement of discussions on solidarity economy, local development, and financial inclusion.

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Event archive: First International Congress for Networks of Time-Exchange Systems

from 29. January 2026 to 30. January 2026, University of Valencia

Join a unique event that marks a turning point in the journey of time banks and non-monetary exchange systems. This international congress brings together researchers, professionals, and active participants from projects related to the concept of value-time, to share knowledge, experiences, and future perspectives.

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Will Ruddick ‘Grassroots Economics’ | Online Book Presentation

Will Ruddick of Grassroots Economics presents his new book for monneta. Throughout the video Will describes various forms of resource coordination, as does his newly published book (free PDF for download here). This field guide begins with a look at how social systems naturally coordinate their resources like fungal networks (mycelia) – in a symbiotic and […]

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Event archive: First European Meeting on Complementary Local Currencies in Bordeaux

from 27. October 2025 to 28. October 2025, Bordeaux

October 27–28, 2025 | Athénée Municipal, Bordeaux (France) Ahead of the Global Social and Solidarity Economy Forum (GSEF, October 29–31, 2025), the first-ever European meeting on complementary local currencies will take place. Over two days, representatives of local currencies, municipal decision-makers, actors from the social and solidarity economy, and interested participants from across Europe will […]

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Will Ruddick: Grassroots Economics

Grassroots Economics unveils a revolutionary economic model rooted in nature and ancestral wisdom. Drawing from real-world community resilience, it explores how resource pooling—mirroring mycorrhizal and human social networks—creates sustainable abundance. A transformative guide for activists, ecosystem stewards, technologists, economists, and changemakers seeking decentralized, cooperative, and regenerative resource coordination for a thriving future. This book is […]

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Event archive: Collaborative Finance #2 – Serving Local Communities

from 28. June 2024 to 2. July 2000, Banja LuKa, Bosnia

We need to re-organise work, wages, cooperation, food, community, procurement, health, education, even government. Financial innovation is a critical part of the solution, re-imagining investment, ownership, pensions, money, cooperation, supply chains and resilience. There are too many ideas to process, it can be hard to look beyond our specialist bubbles and impossible to coordinate, to […]

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Event archive: Money Futures Workshop

from 15. May 2023 to 17. May 2023, Uppsala Sweden

What may money look like in a sustainable, thriveable society? A survey of innovative economics teaching turned up numerous adjectives: not only doughnut economics but also plural economics, regenerative economics, sustainable economics, intentional economics, quantum economics… …but sadly little new content. One reason: the nature of money is taken as a given.

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