UNMASKED ECONOMIST: Design Tools for Creating Community Currencies

martedì 4 maggio 2010

Design Tools for Creating Community Currencies

On The Money
Design Tools for Creating Community Currencies
A Vision Quest to the Heart of Local Money

with John Rogers & Jonathan Dawson
featuring eminent guest speakers Richard Douthwaite,
Margrit Kennedy & Bernard Lietaer by teleconference
plus other local money practioners

14th to 18th August, 2010, The Park, Findhorn, Moray, Scotland

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Our money system is in crisis. We can try to reform a broken system or we can design new ones to support the transition to a sustainable and resilient society. Local money gives us a proven tool to deal with the effects of financial crises, community breakdown, climate change and peak oil. It supports communities to use their own assets to solve local problems, meet local needs and achieve local goals: everything from community gardens to renewable energy and local economic regeneration.

This course is about how to design more resilient community currency systems that will stand the test of time. Together we’ll discover the wealth that lies at the heart of our communities and learn how to mobilise that wealth for the benefit of all.

Come and learn the essential design skills to create local money systems that last, in the company of eminent international designers who have done it.

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Cost

£450/£525/£650 low/medium/high income (residential)
£360 (non-residential)

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Presenters

John Rogers has worked with community currencies since 1993, bothas volunteer organiser and professional development specialist. He cofounded the Wales Institute for Community Currencies at the University of Newport and now directs the consulting and training practice Value for People, supporting emergent community currency systems. He runs the internet course 'Let's Make Money' for local currency designers

Jonathan Dawson is a sustainability educator based at the Findhorn Foundation. He is involved in the management of Findhorn’s own community currency, the Eko and has published widely on issues of local economic sustainability. He is co-author of the Gaia Education sustainability curriculum that has been welcomed by UNESCO as a valuable contribution to the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.

By video link

	Richard Douthwaite is helping to develop the Liquidity Network, a debt-free electronic currency system, in Ireland. He is the author of the Schumacher Briefing The Ecology of Money (Green Books).
	*Margrit Kennedy* is the author of Interest and Inflation Free Money and has been instrumental in the creation of more than 70 regional and sectoral complementary currency initiatives in Europe.
	Bernard Lietaer is author of the widely acclaimed The Future of Money. He is Chairman of the ACCESS Foundation, an educational non-profit organization relalang to monetary innovations aiming at re-aligning sustainability and global financial interests (www.terratrc.org).