November 1st, 2011 | Currency, D.I.Y., currency, debt, economy, exchange, guerrilla, LETS, money, open-money, Vancouver
This guest blog is from Vancouver’s own open-money champion, Jordan Bober, who just recently did a detailed and thoughtful presentation: Community Money For Community Food last week, which I sadly missed, fortunately we have the internet so this presentation is available. For anyone who is interested in getting involved, Michael Linton, the founder of LETSystems, Open Money and Community Way – and probably the man who understands money (conventional and alternative) better than anyone else in the world – will be speaking at Occupy Vancouver on Wednesday, Nov. 2nd at 3pm, followed by an Open Money teach-in. More info here. I can’t make it tomorrow, but I hope to be there on the 3rd. So I have a request and please talk about my idea for an art project so kids can get involved in creating a currency.
October 3rd, 2011
This is a very exciting movement, people coming together in Greece creating ways to network, exchange goods and services and support each other. The movement for alternative currencies is growing in North America and other western countries as well. There is a group here in Vancouver BC called Vanco ...
May 14th, 2011
A comment on one of my posts about the student loan scandal lead me to this post: Edumacated, what a great cartoon too. Very true, I have reposted that as well. Another very important article about the whole issue of what is going to happen when the student loan bubble finally bursts as well as some ...
May 12th, 2011
About a month ago we took a quick trip to Portland to check out the food cart scene there that is just off the hook! We had a glimpse of it in November last year when I helped an Uncle move south--we were just there overnight. It was raining so hard at the time we couldn't stop for any photos of the ...
March 2nd, 2011
In February we spent the month buzzing about Real Food to support our local communities. We had great success with that, and so now, although I will never stop buzzing about Real Food, it is time to focus on another topic. I just finished watching a very informative interview with Woody Tasch talkin ...
January 20th, 2011
Well, I have been getting a lot of encouragement about my writing of late, which is making me too bold perhaps. I used to never show my writing to anyone as I was writing it as an outlet for myself and no-one ever seemed to really get what I was on about. I just have to say thank you guys for readi ...
January 14th, 2011
I have finally put together a list of some of my favorite reads of late. I am sure there could be a ton more books added to this list, and I will most likely make another one some day. These books have helped me to shift the way I view the world and the potential of mankind. We are very intimately i ...
November 14th, 2010
I have been following Ellen Brown's articles ever since reading her book Web of Debt about a year ago. I highly recommend it as it is enjoyable--following the story of the Wizard of Oz--as well as a very eye-opening read. In the meantime, she has just posted this revolutionary article about money as ...
November 12th, 2010
"The centralisation of our food system is currently the greatest danger to the food security of our nation."
Since I am on the topic of raw milk this week I have to post this very important statement from Michael Schmidt. It was presented at a news conference on the steps of the Alberta Legislatu ...
January 16th, 2010
I have had quite the exciting, travel-filled, and busy month which I will regal you all with presently. However, I have been thinking for the past few months that I need to talk about the generosity of the culture here. It really is quite remarkable the extent to which this generosity is a part of t ...
