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On Thursday, June 8, there was a conference, Complementary Currencies: Money for Local Living Economies organized by the E. F. Schumacher Society and held on the campus of Champlain College...

Frequent Flyer programs are what are generically referred to as “loyalty programs.” Their primary purpose is to stimulate customer loyalty, that is, to keep customers coming back to make subsequent...

From the desk of Bob Meyer at Barter News… 05/23/06 The World’s Largest Private Currency Continues To Soar! Airline frequent flier miles (FFM) are without doubt the largest private currency...

Thomas H. Greco with Prof. Tobias Studer in Basel, Switzerland in May 2005. The Swiss WIR Bank is the best example we have of a successful large-scale mutual credit clearing...

[This blog entry is based upon recent (April 2006) correspondence between me and several others in the monetary transformation community.] There are a number of developing software systems that can...

A currency is anything that is accepted as a means of payment, i.e., a medium of exchange. Money is first and foremost a medium of exchange.Except for full-bodied coin, every...

I am in the process of writing The Complementary Currency Handbook. This book provides important guidance in addressing critical issues that relate to the creation and management of complementary currencies...

Money is, first and foremost, a medium of exchange, something we use to pay for the things we buy.Money has evolved over time, from:1. commodities that are valuable in themselves,...