New Money Systems and Financial Innovations

Best Ideas

1. Regional currencies insulate against speculation
2. Ithaca HOURS - better than dollars
3. Channel Islands model of debt-free money
4. Money is for saving not spending
5. Individuals hedging against changes in earnings or house prices

Social Inventions

1. A Plant-Labour Theory of Value

Book of Visions

1. Money as a social invention
2. Abundance without money value
3. Green Dollar LETSystem
4. The Electric Pound
5. Energy Dollars
6. Interest and inflation free money
7. Depreciating community- owned currencies
8. The need for regional currencies
9. Zoo-Zoo Vouchers
10. Loans that can only be spent at local stores
11. The Commodity Pound
12. Private monetary systems and no Bank of England

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