USEFUL LINKS
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List of World Currencies
also includes games, articles, book reviews
http://www.tipsofallsorts.com/currency.html#list
Groups Working for Social Change
The Albery Foundation
The Nicholas Albery Foundation acts as an incubator for innovative small-scale projects to inspire and empower the public to participate directly in social change
http://www.alberyfoundation.org/
LETS and Alternative Currencies
Underthrowing the System
article that describes how Madison Hours, the city’s community currency, works; by Jana Fortier, from the September/October 1996 Conscious Choice.
http://www.consciouschoice.com/issues/cc095/underthrowing.html
LETSystems
Provides current information and a point of contact for those interested in LETSystems worldwide
LETSystems FAQs Page
http://www.gmlets.u-net.com/faq.html
LETSystems Home Page
http://www.gmlets.u-net.com/home.html
LETSystems List of Downloadable Material
http://www.gmlets.u-net.com/zips/
Theories of Money
Alternative Money Systems
related articles and links
http://www.newciv.org/ncn/moneyteam.html
Lets Linkup – James Taris
FREE linkup to local community exchange groups worldwide!
Links to Resources.
Local and Interest-Free Currencies, Social Credit, Informal Credit and Microcredit
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/local.html
Project Lets List
worldwide census of community currency groups.
http://lentils.imagineis.com/letslist/
Links to Members Sites
Lets Linkup – James Taris
International LETS Groups Directory – Your guide to over 1,500 LETS groups from 38 countries.
Local Currency Systems
Alternative Money Systems
related articles and links.
http://www.newciv.org/ncn/moneyteam.html
Community Exchange Systems
exists to facilitate the global development of parallel currencies and the reconstitution of local economies.
International Journal of Community Currency Research
features archives of past issues, and notes for contributors.
http://www.geog.le.ac.uk/ijccr/
Ithicahours Online
HOUR Resources – We have gathered together many resources here to make getting information on Ithaca HOURS as convenient as possible.
http://www.lightlink.com/hours/ithacahours/
Local Currency Movement
articles and resources, including a directory of local currency programmes in operation in North America.
http://www.schumachersociety.org/local_currencies.html
New Money Systems and Financial Innovations
collection of articles on topics related to local currencies and credit exchange systems.
http://www.globalideasbank.org/money.html
New Money for Healthy Communities
describes the essential features of equitable and dynamic exchange systems, and shows how they can be set up by voluntary local associations.
http://www.ic.org/market/money/
The E. F. Schumacher Society, named after the author of Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered,
includes articles and details about various local currency experiments.
http://www.schumachersociety.org/frameset_local_currencies.html
Time Dollar Institute
nonprofit corporation that creates and sponsors initiatives so that the beneficiaries of social programmes can become co-producers of education, justice, self-sufficiency, opportunity, community development, and social change.
Transaction Net
presents an overview of how such systems work, and the different models currently in practice.
http://www.transaction.net/money/community/index.html
Community Programs
Alternative Economy / Community Currencies in Japan
Another study on the alternative economy, proposed by Silvio Gesell, so that we can get rid of both communism and capitalism. Including local money movements in Japan, RGT in Argentina and Community Currencies Interactive.(James Taris) Miguel Yasuyuki Hirota – author of AlternativeEconomy
http://www3.plala.or.jp/mig/econ-uk.html
Maine Time Dollar Network
dedicated to rebuilding community through service credit exchange.
Time Bucks
Francis Ayley established over a dozen local currencies in the UK before moving to the U.S. He contrasts our standard, scarcity- and debt-based money system with local currencies in which “there’s always as much as you need.”
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Welcome to Carlisle LETS
Carlisle Local Exchange Trading System (LETS) is one of many localised non-profit making, non-religious, non-political organisation. Its aim is to create a new type of local economy which enables the people of Carlisle to use their resources to help each other and build a friendly, caring community
http://www.cittr.demon.co.uk/c_letsin.html
Womanshare
Community of urban women who share their skills, interests, and heritage by participating in a service exchange programme
http://www.angelfire.com/ar2/womanshare/
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If you are interested in joining our LETS Group in the Diamond Valley / Northern Suburbs area please CONTACT US
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