let’s build a healthy community economy: part i do-it- ourselves economic justice and community...

Let’s build a Healthy Community Economy: Part I

Do-it-Ourselves 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·jectNoun: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

• Backed Regional Currency

• Commercial Credit Circuits

• Community Banking

• Cooperative Ownership

TimeBanking“We have what we need if we use what we have” -- 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

1=$10

Price-Based Mutual CreditPrice-Based Mutual Credit

Euro-Backed Currency

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Commercial Credit Circuits

Community Banking

Cooperative Cooperative Ownership Ownership

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

DoDoDoDo

LearnLearnFailFail

DoDoDoDo

LearnLearnSucceedSucceed

DoDoDoDo

LearnLearnFailFail

DoDoDoDo

LearnLearnFailFail

DoDoDoDo

LearnLearnSucceedSucceed

We learn more if we share

We avoid repeating mistakes

DoDoDoDo

LearnLearnFailFail

DoDoDoDo

LearnLearnSucceedSucceed

DoDoDoDo

LearnLearnFailFail

DoDoDoDo

LearnLearnFailFail

DoDoDoDo

LearnLearnSucceedSucceed

Do Better

LearnShare

We build on each other’s work

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.

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?