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...
by CES Admin | 22 Apr 2016 | Links, News
The CREDIT COMMONS is a proposed accounting system to allow users of any local currency to exchange with any other. It is an open protocol that builds on 100s of existing initiatives. It is based on sound monetary principles, uses decentralised credit and...
by Tim Jenkin | 25 Jan 2016 | Alternative Exchange Systems
By David Bollier. Photo credit: epSos.de via Foter.com / CC BY. Article cross-posted from Bollier.org. One of the more complicated, mostly unresolved issues facing most commons is how to assure the independence of commons when the dominant systems of finance, banking...
by Tim Jenkin | 22 Dec 2015 | Alternative Exchange Systems
What is a currency? Most of us use the term interchangeably with money, though money is more generic and a currency is the specific money used in a particular country or area. We also tend to think of a currency as the actual physical medium of exchange that...
by CES Admin | 28 Nov 2015 | Alternative Exchange Systems
by The Biomimicry Institute | Nov 4, 2015 | Biomimicry in Business, Blog By Jamie Brown-Hansen “Anytime you want to understand something, [like] why is such-and-such happening, why is there a biodiversity crisis, or why are we drilling for more oil when it’s polluting...
by CES Admin | 19 Nov 2015 | Alternative Exchange Systems
by Graham Barnes Originally from Feasta There appear to be four main ‘flavours’ of motivations driving new currency innovation: a) deprecatory: informed by a view that mainstream fiat money is toxic and a better form can be usefully invented b) economic: driven by the...
by CES Admin | 18 Oct 2015 | Alternative Exchange Systems
Originally published in Feasta by Graham Barnes Introduction Mainstream money, largely because of the way it is issued, rented out and (mis)allocated into first use, is a primary driver of inequality, unfairnesses, poor productivity and environmental damage. Somehow...
