Ithaca Hours: An Interview with Paul Glover

If there ever was a father of local currency it would be Paul Glover. In 1991 He started a local currency in Ithaca
N.Y. called Ithaca Hours. It is the largest and longest running complementary currency in the
country. 

Abundance and the Generative Logic of the Commons

The growth of the information economy has made it imperative to deal with the phenomenon of abundance. Unlike the long history of commons research, studies of abundance are few; thus, we are just starting to build theories about it.

The BNote: Green Currency in Baltimore

Even before we have printed a single note, everywhere we go in
Baltimore people have already heard of the BNote, and businesses are
signing on to accept them when we launch next year. We are finding that people are very receptive to the idea of an
alternative economic system – one that will benefit people instead of
corporations.

Sacred Economics

From at least the time that Jesus threw the moneychangers from the temple, we have sensed that there is something unholy about money. At the same time, no one can deny that money has a mysterious, magical quality as well, the power to alter human behavior and coordinate human activity. [An RS Encore Presentation]

The World After Abundance

In a contracting economy, it becomes easier to notice that the less
you need, the less vulnerable you are, and the
more you can get done of whatever it is that you want to do. Not many people learn this lesson during times of material
abundance, but in the world after
abundance, it's hard to think of a lesson that deserves more careful attention.

The Twilight of Money

Economic abstractions keep
functioning only so long as actual goods and services exist to be bought and
sold. The
movement toward abstraction goes so far that the concrete realities are
neglected. In the end the realities trickle away unnoticed, until a shock of
some kind strikes the tower of abstractions built atop the void the realities
once filled, and the whole structure tumbles to the ground.

Talk to Charles Eisenstein

[Backstage] Here's your chance to ask RS contributor and Ascent of Humanity author Charles Eisenstein your questions about the power of the gift, miracle consciousness, and restoring the sacred in our world. (Wed, Feb 24)

The End of Money and the Future of Civilization

If the global economy were broken up into local units, would there be any need for national governments? Would it not make more sense for governments to scale down to the size of the economic units? The decentralization and democratization of the exchange process can only be achieved through traders establishing their own mutual credit clearing circles and independent private and community currencies.

Reflections on the Economics of Peace Conference

In sorting out which strategies and innovations are actually getting us closer to a peace economy, we've got to be more discerning about what constitutes fundamental change, and recognize when "sustainability" is actually referring to the sustaining of capitalism at the expense of life on earth. 

Beyond Life Inc: Talking with Douglas Rushkoff

Media ecologist Douglas Rushkoff tells how the corporation has made us over into its own image, and how we can take it back. He also illuminates the Dark Ages, reveals why there's a God on our money, and explains what we're really buying into when we buy that mortgage.