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IJCCR

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International Journal ofCommunity Currency Research

Volume 15 (2011) Special issue

COMPLEMENTARY CURRENCIES: STATE OF THE ARTedited by Noel Longhurst and Gill Seyfang

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Complementary Currencies: The State of the Art

IJCCR 15 (2011) Special Issue (Section D)Edited by Noel Longhurst and Gill Seyfang

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Note from the Editors:The State of the Art Noel Longhurst and Gill Seyfang

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David Boyle is a fellow of the New Economics Foundation, co-founder of Time Banking UK, and the author of a number of books about the future of money including Money Matters and, most recently, he is co-author of Eminent Corporations.

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[email protected]

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Defining, protecting and strengthening a territory

Redistribution or political control

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Community Social space (pre-existing or ad hoc community)

Defining, protecting and strengthening a community

Reciprocity Community currencies / Monedas sociales / Monnaies sociales

Economic Economic space (production and exchange)

Protecting, stimulating or orientating the economy

Market Complementary currencies / Monedas complementarias / Monnaies complémentaires

Outside “CCs”Outside “CCs”Outside “CCs”Outside “CCs”Outside “CCs”

Territorial Sovereign space Sovereignty Redistribution or political control

National currencies / monedas nacionales / monnaies nationales

Economic Clients of a for-profit organization

Profit Purchasing power capture

For-profit currencies / Monedas para lucro / Monnaies à but lucratif

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G1 LETS, trueque, CES

Mostly community

Reciprocity first; various distance to market

Inconvertible schemes; quite small openness to external economic activities

G2 Time banks, Accorderie

Community Reciprocity first; various distance to local governments

Inconvertible schemes with time currencies; frequent partnerships, especially with local governments

G3 Ithaca Hour, Regio, Palmas, BerkShares

Local and complementary

Market first; generally distant from local governments

Convertible schemes; local businesses are included; interest of partnerships with local governments

G4 NU, SOL Mostly complementary

Market first, with links to governments and reciprocity

Complex schemes oriented toward consumer responsibility or / and economic activities re-orientation and other purposes; partnerships are necessary

Table 2: Four CC Generations since the 1980s

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Why Educate about Community Currencies?

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Delivery Mechanisms

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Conclusions

M!*37-*-%+$"/($%)(2!**4%&+/(24""-%2&-'("-3"-'-%+($()-2$)-'C!7);(6!"7)6&)-(*!9-*-%+(+,$+(&'(2!%'+$%+7/(-9!79&%#(%-6()-'&#%'($%)(.!"*'(!.(!"#$%&'$+&!%0B,-(!4+6$")(9$"&-+/(2$%(!8'24"-(+,-(2!**!%$7&+&-'(8-+6--%('/'+-*'<("-7-$'&%#(7!2$7(3!+-%+&$7(.!"(6-$7+,(2"-$+&!%>(',$"&%#(6-$7+,(7!2$77/>(9$74&%#(3-!37-($'($''-+'>("-2&3"!2&+/>(9$74&%#($%)("-6$")&%#(-''-%+&$7(6!"50(B,-'-(2!**!%(9$74-'($%)(#!$7'($"-(-''-%+&$7(*-''$#-'(+,$+(%--)(+!(8-(27-$"7/($"+&247$+-)($%)(2!**4%&2$+-)(+!('3-2&=&2($4)&-%2-'(N(3$"+&2&3$%+';()-'&#%-"';($)*&%&'+"$+!"'($%)()-2&'&!%(*$5-"'(C(4'&%#(9$"&!4'(7$%#4$#-'($%)(*-+,!)'0

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Educational strategy or tool

Audiences Aims Delivery Agents

Books & Articles Decision makers

General public

Persuasion

Information

Various authors:Bernard Lietaer: http://www.lietaer.com/Margrit Kennedy: http://www.margritkennedy.de/Thomas Greco: http://www.reinventingmoney.com/Richard Douthwaite:http://www.postcarbon.org/person/36218-richard-douthwaite

Magazine General public

Designers

Information

Share stories

Community Currency Magazinehttp://www.community currenciesmag.net/dp/

Design Guides Designers

Administrators

Specialist information

Community Currency Guideby Bernard Lietaer and Gwendolyn Hallsmithhttp://www.global-community.org/gc/newsfiles/25/Community%20Currency%20Guide.pdf

The Lewes Pound How To Guide by Oliver Dudok van Heel:http://www.thelewespound.org/assets/docs/Lewes_Pound_How_To_Guide.pdf

Research summaries

Researchers

Decision makers

Policy analysts

Analysis

Specialist information

International Journal of Community Currencies Researchhttp://www.ijccr.net

Bibliography of Community Currencies Researchhttp://www.community currencies-literature.de/1.introduction/

Community Currencies Research Grouphttp://www.complementarycurrency.org/community currenciesResearch.html

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Educational strategy or tool

Audiences Aims Delivery Agents

General advice & information

General public

Information Complementary Currency Resource Centerhttp://www.complementarycurrency.org/

Time Banks USAhttp://www.timebanks.org/

Time Banks UKhttp://www.timebanking.org/

Time Banking Waleshttp://www.timebankingwales.org.uk/

LETSystems Home Pagehttp://www.gmlets.u-net.com/

LETS in Australiahttp://www.lets.org.au/

LETSLink UKhttp://www.letslinkuk.net/

LETS Link-Uphttp://www.lets-linkup.com/

Videos General public

Persuasion The Money Fixhttp://themoneyfix.org/

La Double Face de la Monnaiehttp://mareauxcanards.ouvaton.org/films.php?choix_film=25

Search for “community currencies” and “complementary currencies” on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com

Videos about Time Banking:http://www.timebanks.org/videos.htmhttp://www.timebanking.org/

Lyttleton Time Bank, New Zealand:http://www.lyttelton.net.nz/timebank

Oliver Dudok van Heel talks about Lewes Poundhttp://transitionculture.org/2010/01/22/oliver-dudok-van-heel-on-local-currencies-transition-and-the-lewes-pound/

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Educational strategy or tool

Audiences Aims Delivery Agents

Conferences Designers

Participants

Dissemination

Networking

Various organisations e.g.USA, 2004http://www.smallisbeautiful.org/local_currencies/2004_conference_report.html

Germany, 2004http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/COMMUNITY CURRENCIESurrencies_in_Europe2_2004.pdf

New Zealand, 2009http://www.transitiontowns.org.nz/node/1470

Annual Time Banking congresses c/oTimebanks USA and Timebanks UK

Webinars(internet seminars)

Enquirers

Designers

Training

Specialist information

Value for Peoplehttp://valueforpeople.co.uk/letsmakemoney

Internet discussion groups

Enquirers

Participants

Designers

Researchers

Advocates!

Share knowledge, experiments, updates and inquiries

CC Open Collective is a moderated online forum (skype chat): contact Les Squires (skype name: LSquiresSkype)

Time Banks Forumhttp://forums.timebanks.org/

Training Enquirers

Participants

Designers

Training

Specialist information

Time Banks USAhttp://www.timebanks.org/

Time Banks UKhttp://www.timebanking.org/

Value for Peoplehttp://valueforpeople.co.uk/training

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Introduction

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What is Regiogeld?

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Complementary Currencies in Germany:The Regiogeld System

Christian Thiel

University of Augsberg, Germany

[email protected]

International Journal of Community Currency Research

IJCCR

Abstract

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How did Regiogeld originate?

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What have Complementary Currencies in Japan really achieved?Revealing the hidden intentions of different initiatives

Yasuyuki Hirota

[email protected]

http://www.olccip.net

International Journal of Community Currency Research

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Abstract

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Japanese promoters and practitioners have pursued different goals than their Western counterparts, resulting in a range of different - and sometimes bizarre - objectives and consequences.

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Alternative Exchange Systems in Contemporary Greece Irene Sotiropoulou

Department of Economics, University of Greece

[email protected]

International Journal of Community Currency Research

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Complementary Currencies for Sustainable Local Economies in CentralAmericaErik Brenes

PhD Candidate, Universita dellas Calabria / Regional Advisor Andean Region - STRO

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aComplementary currency methods

The Commodity Backed Currency (CBC) methodology aims at substituting and/or complementing the outflow of national currency of an institution or enterprise with a flow of vouchers. The vouchers are backed by the institution/enterprise who accepts them as means of payment for its own sales (goods, services). This financial and commercial instrument used to be common in large agricultural farms like banana plantations of multinationals and coffee plantations in Central America. The methodology has been updated by STRO with:

- More diversified strategies of use of vouchers by the organization / enterprise, not only salary payroll but as well as purchase of production inputs, contracting of local services, loans to peasants, bonus system and others;

- The creation of local networks of commerce and small business who accept the vouchers. This improves the spending options of the vouchers and hence must raise the demand for vouchers and improve the time of local circulation;

- Offering a bonus system for users of vouchers which is financed by an expected rise in sales of the organization and reduction of financial costs due to the substitution of “expensive” working capital in national currency by vouchers (with almost no financial costs).

The Loan Backed Currency (LBC) methodology aims at stimulating local economic and social development of communities by rising their liquidity through the local circulation of vouchers, emitted through loans administrated by the communities or a third party like a microcredit organization. The loans can be paid back by the community by vouchers, national currency or eventually goods and services, depending on the methodology. Interest rates of loans in vouchers are lower then interest rates for loans in national currency since they do not have financial costs (interests over savings, cost of borrowing money, inflation or other opportunity costs). As such the methodology provides fresh liquidity to the community at a fair price. By creating a local network where the vouchers are accepted as a means of payment for the purchase of goods and services, the methodology incentives local “purchases” and improves the sales of the participants of the network. The methodology has been strengthened and updated by STRO with:

- Integration of loans in national currency with loans in local currency.

- Diversification of strategies for raising the demand for local currency.

- Setting up of a permanent system based on daily transactions and not only periodic local markets.

Finally, in some cases, these first two methods can be design further spread into the third method called C3 (Commercial Credit Circuit) where businesses, employees or persons in general have a virtual barter system through internet. Businesses in a C3 network use some of their internal liquidity to make transactions among them. This internal liquidity can be backed by cash or financial guarantees. In this way, financial guarantees (including credit insurance) become a sort of commercial liquidity opening the market penetration of the financial institutions.

Appropriate technologies

The focus is to stimulate circulation of local currency by developing local bio-energy (biodiesel, bio-ethanol, biogas) and/or ecohousing. Also, some strategic alliances exist with organizations specialized in organic agriculture. In all cases, the objective is to substitute “imported” products (i.e. from outside the region) for locally produced products, using as much as possible local resources. Preferable, the products are also locally consumed, to reduce transport and distribution costs. For further details on the subject, please see: www.gotaverde.org, www.ecocasas.org

Apreciando Lo nuestro (APLN)

This method is adapted from the Local Alchemy method of the New Economics Foundation (NEF). Starts with a workshop to raise awareness among local actors about the impact of their spending and investment behavior on the local economy. In Central America, some 5% of the participants, mostly (prospective) entrepreneurs continue in a coaching trajectory which bring their entrepreneurial project idea in practice which consequently will stimulate local currency circulation. The coaching has proven to be very effective with informal sector entrepreneurs (who are generally too small to qualify for mainstream business advisory services like credits).

Table 1: STRO-CA approaches to sustainable local economic development

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Name of the project Country Year established Type of scheme Details

Suchitoto El Salvador 2007 LBC Wide network of local businesses accepting UDIS.

PuntoTransacciones El Salvador 2009 C3 Private enterprise, design and partially fund by STRO-CA. www.puntotransacciones.com

Gota Verde Honduras 2007 CBC Backed by biodiesel production.

Comal Honduras 2002 CBC No longer under STRO-CA supervision.

Coopesilencio Costa Rica 2007 CBC Backed by palm oil production.

Coopebrisas Costa Rica 2007 CBC Backed by dairy products.

Coopevictoria Costa Rica 2007 CBC Backed by Coffee, sugar and other businesses.

Cooperativa Sigchos Ecuador 2010 LBC Fund and supervised by Pachamama Foundation

Cooperativa Integral Ecuador 2010 LBC Fund and supervised by Pachamama Foundation

Cooperativa Coopera Ecuador 2010 LBC Fund and supervised by Pachamama Foundation

Red Compras Brazil 2005 C3 Design and supervised by STRO-office in Brasil (Instrodi). www.circuitocompras.com.br

C3-Uruguay Uruguay 2010 C3 National in scope, designed and executed by STRO-Uruguay office. www.c3uruguay.com.uy

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Founded 2002 1998

Part of a larger network

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Official goals The alleviation of poverty and social exclusion; solidarity

To provide a universal exchange system; solidarity

Model State model, legal non-profit status Grassroot model, no legal status

Type of organisational structure

Formal society; boards of directors; executive board

Horizontal, acephalous and informal

Legal status Registered non-profit Unregistered; no legal status

Human resources Full-time staff Volunteers

Budget Funding, $100,000 Minimal, shoestring

Transaction system Centralized records Decentralized records

Office space Yes No

Microcredit Yes No

Social activities Regular, Monthly Sporadic

Activity rooms Yes No

Buyer’s group Yes No

Medium of exchange Based on time Arbitrary point system

Values of exchange Fixed on time; one hour of any work equals one hour, no exception

Recommendation that 60 points should equal approximately one hour of work.

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Covinus University of Budapest Department of Business Economics

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Introduction

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The SOL:A Complementary Currency for the Social Economy and Sustainable Development Maries Fare

University of Lyon 2, Institut des Sciences de l’Homme

[email protected]

International Journal of Community Currency Research

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2. Commitment SOL

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Building Local Resilience: The Emergence of the UK Transition Currencies Josh Ryan-Collins

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International Journal of Community Currency Research

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Figure 1: Vermont Public Radio employees at their 2010 listener picnic wearing t-shirts purchased through the VBSR Marketplace

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Time Banking in Social Housing:A Toolkit for Co-production in Public ServicesRuth Naughton-Doe

University of Bristol, School for Policy Studies, 8 Priory Road, Bristol, BS8 1TZ

[email protected]

International Journal of Community Currency Research

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The Colours of Money:

Artmoney as Community CurrencyMark Banks

CRESC (ESRC Centre for Socio-Cultural Change) Department of Sociology, Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA

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