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If any system of economics or value trading system has become corrupted by debit extensions or balance sheet charades, all subsystems invested in its currency, will eventually participate in its re-balancing or collapse.

Corollary #1: Mutual Freedom Those on whom your economic livelihood depends should share an appropriate or equivalent level of economic freedom from the 20th economic system as you do.

Economics & Exchange Resources

Community Exchange Systems


Economics & exchange organization
The Community Exchange System (CES) is a web service that provides the tools for communities to set up and manage exchange and trade in their areas without using money. It also provides communities with a network that permits them to trade with other...

One Community


Community organization
One Community’s purpose is to help people create a better world by creating a solution model that creates solution-creating models for The Highest Good of All. One Community is creating open-source blueprints for a sustainable civilization. These plans...

Ethical Consumer


Economics & exchange directory
Ethical Consumer is a not-for-profit UK magazine and website which publishes information on the social, ethical and environmental behaviour of companies and issues around trade justice and ethical consumption. It was founded in 1989 by Rob Harrison and...

Doughnut Economics Action Lab


Economics & exchange organization
The Doughnut offers a vision of what it means for humanity to thrive in the 21st century - and Doughnut Economics explores the mindset and ways of thinking needed to get us there. First published in 2012 in an Oxfam report by Kate Raworth, the concept...

New Economy Coalition


Economics & exchange organization
The New Economy Coalition is a network of 200+ organizations working for systemic economic change.

New Economics Foundation


Economics & exchange organization
Andrew Simms; author and Fellow at the New Economics Foundation, served as Policy Director for ten years, Communications Director, and established the Climate Change Programme for the foundation. He co-authored The Green New Deal and co-founded the Green...

Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy by David Fleming


Economics & exchange book
Fleming worked for thirty years to produce a massive book Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It, which was finished just before his death in 2010 and published by Chelsea Green in 2016. Many core themes of that book were skillfully...

Happyonomy


Economics & exchange website
Happonomy is built on the idea that scientific research in biology and psychology have shown our existing economic system to be not aligned with human needs. The mission of the organisation is to drive this alignment through scientific research and...

Marketing for Hippies


Economics & exchange company
Ethical marketing for uncertain times. Free resources, core strategies, workshops, and coaching programs to develop appropriate feel-good marketing for values-based businesses.

Enough Is Enough by Rob Dietz and Dan O’Neill


Economics & exchange book
Enough Is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources' is a book that - summarize the scientific evidence that the pursuit of continuous economic growth is not a good idea and looks at what constitutes desirable levels of population...

The Psychology of Inequality


Economics & exchange article
Researchers find that much of the damage done by being poor comes from feeling poor, and that it’s not greater wealth but greater equity that will make us all feel richer.

One percent for the Planet


Economics & exchange organization
1% for the Planet was established in 2002 by Yvon Chouinar and Craig Mathews to bring together companies that wanted to help the environment and to encourage other companies to do the same

World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms | WWOOF


Economics & exchange organization
WWOOF started 50 years ago and has grown to a worldwide community of hundreds of thousands of people today. From the beginning, national WWOOF organisations grew individually in countries but with a shared mission to educate people through hands-on and...

Local Futures Foundation


Economics & exchange organization
Local Futures is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to raise awareness about the root causes of contemporary social, environmental, and economic crises. For four decades Local Futures has been focusing on the new economy movement, raising awareness...

Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy


Economics & exchange organization
CASSE is an organization that explores economic growth in earnest, including its downsides. Conventional economists tend to overlook physical and ecological principles when considering the effects of economic growth. ...Our role is to help people understand...

Life Out of the Box


Economics & exchange organization
Life Out of the Box was founded by Johnathan Button and Quinn Vandenburg. A purchase of a handmade LOOTB bracelet by artisans in either Nicaragua, Guatemala or Morocco gives a child in need school supplies. Every single Life Out of the Box product goes...

R- Future Regenerative Entrepreneurship Conference


Continental economics & exchange event
A conference for business owners and entrepreneurs to make tangible plans for how to launch, refine, or transition their businesses, services and products regeneratively.

The Democracy Collaborative


Economics & exchange organization
Through research, publications, and implementation programs, The Democracy Collaborative works to implement new economic system where shared ownership and control creates more equitable and inclusive outcomes, fosters ecological sustainability, and promotes...

Grameen Bank


Economics & exchange organization
"Grameen Bank has reversed conventional banking practice by removing the need for collateral and created a banking system based on accountability , mutual trust, creativity and participation. Grameen Bank provides credit to the poorest in Bangladesh,...

Schumacher Center for New Economics


Economics & exchange organization
Founded in 1980 the _Schumacher Center for a New Economics_ works to envision the elements of a just and regenerative global economy; undertakes to apply these elements in its home region of the Berkshires in western Massachusetts; and then develops the...

BCAFM Farmers' Markets Tools & Resources Database


Localization directory
A directory of tools and resources to help farmers’ market thrive. The directory includes a wide variety of reports, links, videos, and other documents for market board members, market managers, and vendors.

BC Farmers’ Market Trail


Regional local markets directory
The BC Farmers’ Market Trail, managed by the BC Association of Farmers' Markets, is a directory of Markets that provide fresh local food in British Columbia.

The Festival of What Works


Regional economics & exchange event
The Festival of What Works is a unique, days-long, online celebration of community-led approaches to living well in place here in Salmon Nation—from the northern California coast to the slopes of Alaska and between. We spotlight who and what you need...

Manson's Landing Farmer’s Market


Local localization market
A Farmer’s Market on Cortes Island where local farmers, artisans, and bakers sell their produce, crafts, and delectable goodies. This year-round market runs every Friday from 12:00-3:00pm.

Groundswell


Local business & entrepreneurship organization
Groundswell is an alternative business school where young ideas and budding social entrepreneurs connect and flourish. Through their Explore, Validate, Build and Test Market programs, Groundswell helps new business owners take the leap into entrepreneurship. "There’s...

The Local Good - Edmonton


Local economics & exchange organization
The Local Good helps connect and mobilize people in Edmonton who want to support the local economy and lead more sustainable lives. They provide: - listings of local events - a blog with commentary on sustainable living issues in Edmonton - monthly...



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