This article by Graham Barnes explores the relationship between the values that are implicitly embedded in a currency and the ty… Read more

Elinor Ostrom shared the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009 for her lifetime of scholarly work investigating how communities succe… Read more

Sardex.net is a interest free credit network set up by four lads from Sardinia. Read more

If we inventoried and internalized all the externalities within the value and profit equation, economics would spontaneously inc… Read more

it is then important to realize this debt based money system shapes our relations, basing them on notions of scarcity and compet… Read more

Its time for the independent workers to steer this new marketplace in a more sustainable direction that helps the people who mak… Read more

To come to a different economy in which values of social and ecological sustainability are determining, means we need new forms … Read more

Imagine a forest full of food, free for everyone to harvest. Read more

How is the present monetary system affecting the economy and thereby society and nature, and why is it failing? This article out… Read more

How and why the world is moving from a closed, centralized & top down power toward a more distributed and collaborative way,… Read more

Ecuador is looking into new modes of production, consumption and organization of life and coexistence. Read more

This paper describes means of exchanging without euros identified in Greece. They fall in four main categories: parallel currenc… Read more

Case study about the use of a simple self-produced paper-based currency for community resilience. Read more

The Story of Solutions explores how we can move our economy in a more sustainable and just direction, starting with orienting ou… Read more

In this 8 min video Bernard Lietaer talks about why we need to go from a monoculture of money to a monetary ecosystem Read more

Inspired by the idea of building resilience around local, grassroots economies in response to peak oil and climate change, the t… Read more

OuiShare presentation about Collabortive Economy – at European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) hearing about “c… Read more

Want to boost exchanges in your local community ? Here’s how to organize a Festival of Sharing with low tech means. Read more

After six months of diligent research, Shareable and Sustainable Economies Law Center present our 40 page guide, Policies for… Read more

blog by recent PHD graduate Irene Sotiropoulou from Crete on Greek examples of alternative economies. Read more

Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing a set of blueprints for 50 farming tools that can be built cheaply from scratch. This 5 m… Read more

With these learnings from the Bitcoin experiment, Charles Eisenstein propose a new model for digital currency. The question is h… Read more

A great list of Open Source Complementary Currency Softwares, projects, mailing lists… Read more

Councils in the UK and around the world are starting to recognise how local currencies keep money in their areas, says John Roge… Read more

If you want to know what money is, don’€™t ask a banker. Take a leap of faith and start your own currency Read more

Econophysicists studying the way people accumulate a new form of digital currency say they have observed the famous rich-get-ric… Read more

There are currently over 23 million mobile money subscribers in Kenya, the GSMA recently revealed. This number represents about … Read more

Former Peace Corps volunteer Will Ruddick and several residents of Bangladesh, Kenya, face a potential seven years in prison aft… Read more