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Let’s build a Healthy Community Economy: Part I Do-it- Ourselves Economic Justice and Community Resilience

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Page 1: Let’s build a Healthy Community Economy: Part I Do-it- Ourselves Economic Justice and Community Resilience

Let’s build a Healthy Community Economy: Part I

Do-it-Ourselves Economic Justice and Community Resilience

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What would you do to improve your community if you could?

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What if money were no object?

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Is Money an Object?

But wait...

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ob·jectNoun:A material thing that can be

seen and touched.

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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.

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What is an Economy?

Distributed system for meeting people’s needs

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What Does an Economy Do?

Distribution of Work

Reciprocity

Incentives

Risk-Pooling

Resource Allocation

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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

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Economy

MarketCommunity

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Euro-Backed Currency

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Putting pieces together:Putting pieces together:Talente-Tauschkreis

Vorarlberg, AustriaVorarlberg, Austria

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Cooperative Cooperative Ownership Ownership

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What would you do to improve your community if you could?

What if money were no object?

What’s stopping you?

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We learn by doing

Trial and error

DoDoDoDo

LearnLearnFailFail

DoDoDoDo

LearnLearnSucceedSucceed

DoDoDoDo

LearnLearnFailFail

DoDoDoDo

LearnLearnFailFail

DoDoDoDo

LearnLearnSucceedSucceed

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We learn more if we share

We avoid repeating mistakes

DoDoDoDo

LearnLearnFailFail

DoDoDoDo

LearnLearnSucceedSucceed

DoDoDoDo

LearnLearnFailFail

DoDoDoDo

LearnLearnFailFail

DoDoDoDo

LearnLearnSucceedSucceed

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Do Better

LearnShare

We build on each other’s work

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And make new friends in the process

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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.

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What are we waiting for?What are we waiting for?