by Grace Rachmany | Mar 3, 2021 | Community Currencies, Intentional Communities, Sustainability
9 Weekly calls are open participation calls where we discuss issues facing communities and individuals who are founding communities, community governance and community currencies. Please feel free to suggest topics that you are dealing with in your community and...
by Grace Rachmany | Jan 22, 2021 | Community Currencies, Intentional Communities
Summary of a Road Trip: Sufficiency Currency Measures Starting out with some assumptions, I returned from 11 weeks of travel including visits to 7 intentional communities (ecovillages) with a more solidified idea of what the “sufficiency currency” might look like....
by Grace Rachmany | Dec 31, 2020 | Intentional Communities, Sufficiency Currency
Weekly calls are open participation calls where we discuss issues facing communities and individuals who are founding communities, community governance and community currencies. Please feel free to suggest topics that you are dealing with in your community and...
by Grace Rachmany | Nov 18, 2020 | Intentional Communities, Sufficiency Currency
Reputation in Community Reputation can be designed as an alternative to centralized coordination. If communities had reputations, they could decide how to interact with one another. Do you want to trade only with communities with a certain carbon footprint? Ones who...
by Grace Rachmany | Nov 11, 2020 | Intentional Communities, Sustainability
Prepayments and Debt: Energy vs. Services When we issue vouchers for future services, that’s a kind of debt or IOU. Some projects and intentional communities are looking at issuing vouchers for future services as a way of funding their current activities. But...
by Grace Rachmany | Oct 28, 2020 | Democracy, Intentional Communities, Sufficiency Currency
Equality and Experience: Balance in Decision-making Intentional Communities make decisions by consensus. However, in any community there are groups of people. Those who founded the community have more experience and have worked longer to create the community. New...
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