LETS and Time Banks Archive

Since meeting Margrit Kennedy in 2004, our network expert Stephanie Rearick from Wisconsin, USA, has been working with complementary currencies and building, from the ground up, a social and solidarity economy that is true to its name. To take local learning and tools into the world, and being ever curious about what work elsewhere, she […]

This article was published on our German site in September 2020. Now, in January 2022, we mourn the passing of Edgar Cahn, father of timebanking across the US, distinguished professor of law in Washington D.C. and most-valued and tireless advocate for social justice globally. Since this article calls for the idea of timebanking in times […]

Thirty questions to Bernard Lietaer – A MONNETA interview recorded in 2016

The 4th International Conference on Social and Complementary Currencies will take place from Wed 10th to Sun 14th May 2017, at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya UOC (www.uoc.edu, Castelldefels, Barcelona-Spain). More information, call for papers, registration here. UOC will organise the event together with Research Association on Monetary Innovation and Community and Complementary Currency Systems […]

Veranstaltungsort: University of Bahia, Salvador (Brasilien)

Infos und Anmeldung: http://socialcurrency.sciencesconf.org/

Every two years, a dedicated international conference for research into complementary currencies and for exchange between academics and practitioners takes place. The first event of this kind was in Lyon, France, in February 2011, followed by a second conference in the Hague, Netherlands, in June 2013. In 2015, researchers from around the world met in […]

The “Community Currencies in Action” project was a collaboration between English, French, Dutch and Belgian partner organizations between 2012 and 2015, cofunded by the EU Interreg programme. (Original project website archived here) Goals of CCIA The main aim was to promote different types of complementary currency and to bring together and expand the […]

The Dutch foundation STRO (Social Trade Organisation or Strohalm) was founded in 1970 by Henk van Arkel. Its original focus on environmental issues has shifted in the last twenty years ever more in the direction of activities in the area of alternative economics and particularly complementary currencies – always following the conviction that economic and […]

When talking about alternative money systems, the Fureai Kippu system in Japan is often mentioned as an example of how to deal with the challenge of an ageing society. It provides a ‘caring currency’, which one receives when one supports an older person or someone needing care with their everyday activities. Credits are units of […]

The New Economics Foundation (NEF) is a British ‘think tank’, which promotes economic and ecological justice. NEF has been the UK’s leading research organisation for money, credit and complementary currencies since 1986. www.neweconomics.org

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The wealth of time –
in memoriam Edgar Cahn

Interview: Bernard Lietaer

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Event archive: 3rd International Conference on Complementary Currencies in Salvador, Brazil

Report from 3rd International Research Conference on Community Currencies, Brazil

Community Currencies in Action – CCIA

Social Trade Organisation

Fureai Kippu – ‘caring currencies’ in Japan

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