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With the impending implosion of the usury-based, global money system, now is the time to seek a new way of 'doing' money, one not based on debt and controlled by a global monetary elite that seems happy about destroying our planet in the pursuit of profit.

Conventional money is created as debt by private financial institutions for their own profit-making purposes, not as a public service. This is the 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.

CES money is 'created' by its users so it can never be in short supply. So long as you can offer something of value you can have from the community goods and services of like value.Join the growing community who have discovered a new way of 'doing' money, a healthy money that will create a healthy society. http://www.community-exchange.org/

There are many web sites dealing with alternative exchange systems and related issues. The following are some of the most interesting:

Alternative Exchange Systems

• Alternative Money Systems
• Altruists International
• CC Information Technologies WorldWide (CCIT)
• ccPedia - an open collective knowledge centre on complementary currency systems
• Community Exchange System (CES)
• Crom Alternative Exchange Association
• Local Exchange Systems in Asia, Africa and Latin America
• Community Information Resource Center (CIRC)
• Complementary Currency Resource Centre
• Creating Community Currency
• EF Schumacher Society
• Forum for Stable Currencies
• Free2Exchange - 
  Free2Xchange is a fun way for people to get things without spending money
• Ithaca HOURs Online
• International Journal of Community Currency Research
• LETS Vlaanderen - LETS groups in Flanders, Belgium
• Letslink UK
• LETS-Linkup
• LETS.net
• Living Economies
• Local and Interest-Free Currencies, Social Credit and Microcredit
• Money 2.0 
  Money 2 is a mutual credit concept specifically designed to replace the current money system
• The Money Fix
• Online Database of Complementary Currencies Worldwide
• The Open Money Project
• P2P Foundation
• Reinventing Money.com
• Sensible Money
  A better way to run a digital economy
• Strohalm for a change
• The Terra
  Trade Reference Currency (TRC)
• Time Dollar Institute
• Transaction Net
  Enabling Markets Online
• The Transitioner
  TheTransitioner.org brings together those who want to marry the economy and Collective Intelligence in order to build a fair world.
• UniteDiversity Wiki
• Workgroup on Solidarity Socio-Economy - Social Money

The following resources are to help you understand the nature of money-as-we-know-it and why we need a new money system.

Documents, Books, Publications and Articles

• Altruists International Money-Related Downloads
• Beyond Money
  Devoted to the liberation of money and credit, and the restoration of the commons
• Bibliography of Community Currency Research
• Community Currency Materials, Information and Resources
  Compiled by Appropriate Economics
• Complementary Currency Bookstore
  
• Complementary Currency and Exchange
  The Movement to Reinvent Money
  By Thomas H Greco, Jr. [HTML] [PDF] [PowerPoint]
• Community Currency Guide
  By Bernard Lietaer and Gwendolyn Hallsmith
• Community Currency Magazine. This magazine exists to serve the community of innovators, implementers and users of complementary currencies
• The End of Money and the Future of Civilization
  By Thomas H Greco, Chelsea Green, 2009
• Review of The End of Money and the Future of Civilization
  By Thomas H Greco, Chelsea Green, 2009. Review by Tim Jenkin, November 2009
• Flight from Inflation
  The Monetary Alternative, by E.C Riegel. A posthumous compilation of his essays, Los Angeles, CA, The Heather Foundation, 1978 (PDF 488K)
• Interest and Inflation Free Money
  By Margrit Kennedy
• History of the CES
  By Tim Jenkin, June 2004
• I Want the Earth Plus 5%
  The story of money
• Modern Money Mechanics
  A Workbook on Bank Reserves and Deposit Expansion, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (PDF 1.3Mb)
• Money and its Alternatives
  Strohalm Foundation (PDF 575K)
• Money, Bona Fide or Non-Bona Fide
  By Dr. Edward E Popp, 1970 (PDF 685K)
• Money and the Crisis of Civilization
  By Charles Eisenstein, March 2008
• Money: A New Beginning
  By Charles Eisenstein, April 2008
• Money - Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender
  By Thomas H Greco, Jr. (PDF 893K)
• The New Approach to Freedom
  Together with Essays on the Separation of Money and State. By E.C. Riegel, 1949 (PDF 244K)
• The New Approach to Freedom
  A web site hosting the writings of E.C. Riegel
• Poor Because of Money
  Strohalm Foundation (PDF 941K)
• Private Enterprise Money
  A Non-Political Money System, by E.C. Riegel (PDF 537K)
• Reinventing Money. The emergent path toward peace, harmony, and equity
  Presentation by Thomas H Greco, Jr. [HTML] [PDF] [PowerPoint]
• Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein. Home page of Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
• The Great Cookie Jar
  Taking the Mysteries Out of the Money System, by Dr Edward E Popp, 1978 (PDF 774K). HTML Version
• The Monetary Philosophy of E.C. Riegel
  By Thomas H. Greco, Jr. (MS PowerPoint 35K)
• The Money Myth Exploded
  The Financial Enigma Resolved, by Louis Even
• The Natural Economic Order
  By Silvio Gesell
• The Nature of Money
  By John Kutyn, 5 March 2000
• The Nature of Money
  By John Kutyn, 16 March 2005
• The Nature of Wealth
  By Fred Lundgren, August 2002
• The New Money Text Book
  Economics Made Simple, by Doctor Edward C Hamlyn, May 2007
• The Politics of Money
  By EC Riegel
• Private Enterprise Money: A Non-Political Money System
  By E. C.Riegel, 1944.
• The Credit Theory of Money
  By A Mitchell Innes, The Banking Law Journal, 1914
• What is Money?
  A history of credit by A Mitchell Innes, The Banking Law Journal, May 1913
• Yes! Magazine
  YES! Magazine reframes the biggest problems of our time in terms of their solutions. Online and in print, it outlines a path forward with in-depth analysis, tools for citizen engagement, and stories about real people working for a better world.

Monetary Reform

• The American Monetary Act and the Monetary Transparency Act, 21 September 2006, American Monetary Institute
• The American Monetary Institute
• British Association for Monetary Reform
• COMER - The Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform
• Forum for Stable Currencies
• Foundation for the Advancement of Monetary Education (FAME)
  FAME is a not-for-profit educational organization whose sole mission is to educate people about the benefits of honest monetary weights and measures and the harm caused by our current fraudulent fiat money monetary system
• Global Research.ca. Centre for Research on Globalization
• The International Institute of Monetary Transformation (IIMT)
• James Roberston, working for a sane alternative
• The Money Reform Party
• The New Zealand New Economics Party
• People for Mathematically Perfected Economy
• Positive Money
  A simple solution to the debt crisis
• Prosperity. Freedom from Debt Slavery
  Prosperity is a monthly Money Reform journal based in Glasgow, Scotland, which is dedicated to spreading understanding about the nature of our debt-based money system, and campaigning for publicly-created debt-free money.
• Richard C. Cook - Articles and book on monetary reform

Monetary History

• American Monetary History
• FX Micheloud Monetary History
• Gold: prices, facts, figures & research
  Monetary episodes from history
• Monetary history documents
• Money - Past, Present & Future
  Information on Monetary History, Contemporary Developments, and Electronic Money
• Money, Value, and Monetary History after Milton Friedman

Miscellaneous

• The Global Debt Clock
  World debt comparison. An interactive overview of government debt across the planet
• Money, Banking and Credit
  This site is devoted to the issues of money, banking, fiscal, and monetary policy and their impacts on families and the nation as a whole
• The People vs The Banks
  Class action suit on behalf of the people of Canada alleging that financial institutions are illegally creating money.

Peak Oil

• Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas
• EnergyBulletin.net
• Peak Oil Clock
• Post Carbon Institure
  Founded in 2003 Post Carbon Institute is leading the transition to a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable world
• The Oil Drum
  Discussions about Energy and our Future 
  
• The Wolf at the Door

Audio & Video

• CC Video
• Collection of videos on complementary currency systems
• ChrisMartenson.com Crash Course
• The Crash Course is the world's most concise video seminar on how our economy, energy systems, and environment interact, and how they will impact the future.
• Community Exchange System. Interview with Tim Jenkin, the designer and programmer of the CES, with Adin Van Ryneveld, the "No Money Guy". [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4]
• Money as Debt [Google video] [Transcript (PDF)]
  Paul Grignon's animated presentations of "Money as Debt" tell in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it is being created. It is an entertaining way to get the message out
• Documentary Wire
  Money & Banking documentaries
• Living Without Money
  Imagine no possessions. I wonder if you can.
• The Money Masters [Google video]
  How International Bankers Gained Control of America
• Monopoly Men
  Federal Reserve Fraud (1999)
• Renaissance 2.0
  Documents the conversion of the US into a monolithic financial empire as the Federal Reserve Act created a monopolized cartel of private interests, "Wall Street", that controls all money in the system
• The Story of Stuff
  How Things Work, About Stuff. Website
• The Wizards of Money
  MP3 Audio and Transcript Downloads

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