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 | 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...
