|
Home Page
About us
Who we are
What we stand for
Global/Local Issues
Human Nature
Energy
Wind in PEC
Population
Economic
Growth
Beliefs
Sustainability
The concept
Indicators
Localization
CSG Activities
Future
Recent past
Newsletter
What You Can Do
CSG Membership
LETS money
Local Economy
Question Politics
Further
Information
|
(Web page under construction, some roads closed )
LETS Local Exchange Trading System
Conventional money is created as debt by private financial institutions for
their own profit-making purposes, not as a social service. This is one root
cause of the economic, social and environmental problems that beset us. The
amount of debt determines the quantity of money, which has nothing to do with the amount of money we need to live
decent lives.
With
Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS), 'money' is created by its users so it
can never be in short supply or subject to inflation. So long as you can
offer something of
value you can have from the community goods and services of like value.
County Sustainability Group (CSG), like a growing
number of communities, has started a local exchange system which enables
County residents to open their private account, offer what they have to
exchange —whether it be physical labour, consulting services, goods such as
furniture or farm produce, or anything else you have that someone might
be able to use. Naturally, you can also read what others have to offer that
you may be able to use. It is an easy to use web-based system. However, for
individuals with no internet access, or who need some coaching, we intend to
have individuals in various communities in the county that will help their
neighbours and enter the transactions for them if necessary.
Go
to
http://www.community-exchange.org/, browse the
instructions.
Go
to the register section; find Canada, and Prince Edward County. Follow
instructions, and start trading. LETS are very common throughout the world,
and are increasing in popularity. This is partly because of growing uneasiness
about the national economic monetary systems and the volatility of global
markets.
Find
more information at:
LETS
System Design Manual:
http://www.gmlets.u-net.com/
(This site gives a great introduction to LETS).
Other
good info pages:
For more information
about Prince Edward County LETS, and to join, contact:
csg@kos.net or
sara.huerter@gmail.com
or
donchism@kos.net phone
Don at (613) 476-1700
Links to information
about the nature of money:
Canadian
Organization for Monetary Reform (COMER) http://www.comer.org/
American Monetary Institute (AMI) http://www.monetary.org/
Howard
& Elizabeth Odum, U of Florida: The Prosperous Way Down http://www.unicamp.br/fea/ortega/htodum/prosperous.htm
THE
NEED FOR A NEW, BIOPHYSICAL-BASED PARADIGM IN ECONOMICS FOR THE SECOND HALF
OF THE AGE OF OIL: International
Journal of Transdisciplinary Research Vol. 1, No. 1,
2006 Hall and Klitgaard Pages 4-22 http://www.ijtr.org/Vol%201%20No1/2.%20Hall_IJTR_Article_Vol1_No1.pdf
Global
Justice Movement:http://www.globaljusticemovement.net/index.htm Gerald Brutus
Videos
Banking and the Canadian
Government
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=WPSoQfumzQ0
Money
as Debt:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9050474362583451279
|
|
