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Build A Better WorldDo-it-Ourselves Economic Justice and Community Resilience
What would you do to improve your community if you could?
What if money were no object?
Is Money an Object?
But wait...
ob·jectNoun:A material thing that can be
seen and touched.
mon·ey
1. A medium that can be exchanged for goods and services and is used as a measure of their values on the market, including among its forms a commodity such as gold, an officially issued coin or note, or a deposit in a checking account or other readily liquefiable account.
2. The official currency, coins, and negotiable paper notes issued by a government.
MONEY IS AN AGREEMENT.
What is an Economy?
Distributed system for meeting people’s needs
What Does an Economy Do?
Distribution of Work
Reciprocity
Incentives
Risk-Pooling
We have options• TimeBanking 1=1
• Community-Issued Currency
• Backed Regional Currency
• Price-based Mutual Credit
• Commercial Credit Circuits
• Community Banking
• Cooperative Ownership
TimeBanking“We have what we need if we use what we have” -- Edgar
Cahn
Community Centers
Local Business
Local Food Production
Faith-based
Social Services
Community Justice
Public & Private
Institutions
Artists & Arts Organizations
Dane County TimeBank
1=1
1=$10
Euro-Backed Currency
Price-Based Mutual CreditPrice-Based Mutual Credit
Putting pieces together:Putting pieces together:Talente-Tauschkreis Talente-Tauschkreis Vorarlberg, AustriaVorarlberg, Austria
Commercial Credit Circuits
Community Banking
Cooperative Cooperative Ownership Ownership
What would you do to improve your community if you could?
What if money were no object?
What’s stopping you?
We learn by doing
Trial and error
DoDoDoDo
LearnLearnFailFail
DoDoDoDo
LearnLearnSucceedSucceed
DoDoDoDo
LearnLearnFailFail
DoDoDoDo
LearnLearnFailFail
DoDoDoDo
LearnLearnSucceedSucceed
We learn more if we share
We avoid repeating mistakes
DoDoDoDo
LearnLearnFailFail
DoDoDoDo
LearnLearnSucceedSucceed
DoDoDoDo
LearnLearnFailFail
DoDoDoDo
LearnLearnFailFail
DoDoDoDo
LearnLearnSucceedSucceed
Do Better
LearnShare
We build on each other’s work
And make new friends in the process
We all know ways we We all know ways we want our world to be want our world to be
better.better.
We all know ways we We all know ways we want our world to be want our world to be
better.better.
What are we waiting What are we waiting for?for?