community currency

Seedstock – Currency for a more connected, sustainable and happier future

Dear allies for a more connected, sustainable and happier future,

Seedbombs being given out at the Great Bear Rainforest Celebration

It may not quite feel like it at the moment, but summer is inching closer by the day, and so too is the day when Vancouver will have it’s first community currency at last! The Seedstock team has been hard at work over the last few weeks, making great strides towards a summer launch of Seedstock. As you know, Seedstock is a community currency initiative for Vancouver and the Lower Mainland that is designed not only to help catalyse a more vibrant, connected and resilient local economy with greater opportunities for the talented people of this region to earn a livelihood by sharing their gifts, but will generate important community-supported resources for non-profit initiatives to boost our local food security, foster a vibrant and supported creative community, and improve health and wellness in this city.

Kinder Currency

Kinder Currency

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 ...

Re-Visioning Hella Delicious

Re-Visioning Hella Delicious

Long, long ago I had a dream to have a magazine with all my friends and family contributing and sharing their experiences as third culture kids (or not) so that others going through the same sorts of things will have something to relate to. Over the past nine months Hella Delicious has evolved to en ...

For Gen X Eyes Only

For Gen X Eyes Only

I am reposting this rather militant article I wrote last year for a local magazine in Los Angeles which has now gone under. Although it was written a while ago, I have to say that I still agree, but now I think that many 'sleeper agents' are already awake - watch out multinational corporations! ...