Let’s build a Healthy Community Economy Here and Now
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Let’s build a Healthy Community Economy Here
and NowDo-it-Together 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·ject
Noun: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
Resource Allocation
We have options
TimeBanking
Community-Issued Currency
Price-based Mutual Credit
Commercial Credit Circuits
Community Banking
TimeBanking“We have what we need if we use what we have” -- Edgar
Cahn-- Edgar Cahn-- Edgar Cahn
Community Centers
Local Business
Local Food Production
Faith-based
Social Services
Community Justice
Public & Private
Institutions
Artists & Arts Organizations
Dane County TimeBank
Economy
MarketCommunity
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Price-Based Mutual Credit
Commercial Credit Circuits
Community Banking
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
DoDo
LearnLearnFailFail
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LearnLearnSucceedSucceed
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We learn more if we share
We avoid repeating mistakes
DoDo
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And make new friends in the process
We all know ways we want We all know ways we want our world to be better.our world to be better.
What are we waiting for?What are we waiting for?