Some more interesting links on community currency:   BusinessWeek:  Buying Local with Town Currency CBS News:  That'll Be Ten BerkShares Please  ABC News:  BerkShares Calgary Dollars at the Arusha Center  The Small-mart Revolution  Local Currencies:  Replacing Scarcity with Trust 

Here is Relias123:    Thanks, Tom E.R. for this topic. I was previously unaware of the work being done exploring alternatives to government-run currency. I too have libertarian leanings and am uncomfortable with the idea that we need to take away money from the wealthy in order for the rest of us to prosper. And that's not ...

Starting tomorrow. <g>

A thought has been blossoming within my mind to start four different threads with each dedicated to a different theme: 1.       Scarcity 2.     Abundance 3.   Opposing 4.    Allowing So what i suggest is that each thread be using to record only examples ...

Thank you, Greybear, for sharing that conversation with us.  It seems quite pertinent to me at the moment as i too am experiencing my own challenge with a proper balance between hard work and abundance.  I would like to hit that proper stride where everything is flowing in and out with ease.  There is something among runners and ...