MoE contributor Moriah Lee reads Michael H. Shuman’s The Local Economy Solution.
What does it mean for a town to be stable economically? Why do we care as consumers where we get our beef, our jewellery, our […]

How did you first hear about the concept of a community currency? Denise Hearn writes.
After playing a local music show 6 years ago, I was handed something akin to monopoly money – 25 Calgary Dollars. “Great,” […]

Were money to ever become entirely digital, would the piggy bank makers go out of business? 
Piggy banks: discuss. When I was little, I remember putting pennies into my grandmother’s bright orange piggy bank, […]

Most of us are familiar with the rules of Monopoly, but what about a game that incorporates ideas taken from the new economy, such as car sharing or crowdfunding? A Kickstarter project, the ‘Smart Money Maker’, […]

Are you interested in technology, community, the sharing economy and how we might promote better understanding and economic co-operation among neighbours, communities and neighbourhoods? If so, Means of […]