[wsfii-discuss] Worldchanging article on Complementary currencies

Tue Oct 4 16:14:31 UTC 2005

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 . . .
>
>
>Mamading Ceesay wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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.)"
>>
>>Systems thinking is exactly what makes me interested in CC as a way of
>>dealing with issues that the market has failed to handle.
>>
>>http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003575.html
>>
>>--
>>Mamading Ceesay
>>
>>"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
>>
>>_______________________________________________
>>wsfii-discuss mailing list
>>wsfii-discuss at lists.okfn.org
>>http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/wsfii-discuss
>>
>>
>> 
>>
>>    
>>
>
>_______________________________________________
>wsfii-discuss mailing list
>wsfii-discuss at lists.okfn.org
>http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/wsfii-discuss
>
>
>  
>