by Tim Jenkin | 16 Jan 2019 | Articles
From time to time the CES gets accused of being “just another money system”. Is this the case? Are Talents just another form of money? To be able to answer this question, we first need to be clear on what money is. Then we can make the comparison. According to the...
by CES Admin | 3 Feb 2018 | Usage tips
A new feature has been added to the CES website allowing you to post offerings and wants to Facebook and Twitter. You can post information about your own or others’ offers and wants. To use this feature, view the full details of any offering or want. You can do...
by CES Admin | 31 Oct 2017 | Alternative Exchange Systems
A lot of people are getting very excited about Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies. Some even question the efficacy of Talents now that there is a global ‘replacement’ for regular money in the form of the crypto-currencies. Bitcoin is the first major...
by CES Admin | 19 Oct 2017 | Alternative Exchange Systems
Jukka Peltokoski, Niklas Toivakainen, Tero Toivanen and Ruby van der Wekken: In October 2009, while expecting another futile climate summit in nearby Copenhagen, a small group of friends in the Kumpula neighborhood of Helsinki got together to discuss practical...
by CES Admin | 17 Aug 2017 | Usage tips
Your smartphone or tablet’s home screen isn’t just for apps. Whatever platform you’re using, you can pin the CES mobile website to your home screen so you can quickly access it. Android Launch Chrome for Android and go to http://mobi.community-exchange.org. Tap the...
by CES Admin | 17 Aug 2017 | Usage tips
A new function has been added to allow you to print a sheet of personalised membership cards for yourself. Such cards are useful at markets, where you should present yours to the seller to enter onto the trading sheet. Too often members forget their account numbers...
by CES Admin | 12 Aug 2017 | Articles
In the realm of economics, the word exchange hardly ever appears. This is strange because the economy, surely, is about exchanging what we contribute to it for the things we need, even if this exchange is through the medium of money. Money itself is defined as a...
by CES Admin | 18 Apr 2017 | Alternative Exchange Systems
A new offering type has been added to the options when adding a new offering. In addition to local-currency-only, gift, swap, barter and mixed (local and national currencies), there is now a sixth offering type: shared. Description Shared offerings are where the...
by CES Admin | 13 Mar 2017 | Alternative Exchange Systems
By Matthew Slater In our economic activity – our processes of extracting/ harvesting, processing, manufacturing, shipping, selling, consuming, and disposing of the earth’s resources – we rely on abundant energy availability and assume the atmosphere’s ability to...
by Tim Jenkin | 18 Oct 2016 | Alternative Exchange Systems
There is probably no subject that has been written about more frequently than money and its origins. Usually money is portrayed as a natural phenomenon like gravity, energy or light: one of the constants of the universe. It is assumed to have a unitary understanding...
