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...
by Tim Jenkin | 30 Aug 2016 | Alternative Exchange Systems
From time to time users of mutual credit exchange systems, such as CES and LETS, raise the questions of ‘saving’ and ‘investment’. These concepts are so much part of the conventional money system that it is assumed there is a place for them in...
by CES Admin | 12 May 2016 | News
A new feature has been added to the CES software that allows you to record the time you have provided to other users. To get to it, log into your account and click on the [Trading] button at top, and then select Record Hours from the drop-down menu. This new feature...
