[wsfii-discuss] Worldchanging article on Complementary currencies

[Paula]

Ooops, god knows how that happened, it was actually addressed to someone
offlist!

Paula wrote:

>You'll prolly think this is bonkers, but you might be interested anyway!
>One of my chums is building software to administer LETS schemes and they
>did a panel at the conference I was at over the weekend . . .
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>Mamading Ceesay wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>One of my favourite blogs has a post on complementary currencies.  I
>>don't necessarily agree with everything that is said in it but it is a
>>good starting point for discussion and introducing people to the
>>ideas.
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>>My favourite quote is "It allows you to take a systems-thinking
>>approach to social engineering, instead of a central-planning approach
>>(which historically requires significant overhead, fails to respond to
>>change rapidly, and has difficulty being comprehensive.)"
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>>Systems thinking is exactly what makes me interested in CC as a way of
>>dealing with issues that the market has failed to handle.
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>>http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003575.html
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>>--
>>Mamading Ceesay
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>>"Isn't a state that keeps files on innocent persons a police state?"
>>-- David Mery - Innocent In London http://gizmonaut.net/bits/suspect.html
>>Radio Interview with David Mery
>>http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/09/6963.php
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