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David Wechsler
- Saint Louis, MO
- United States
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- How are you currently involved with the Community Exchange Network?
- CES Exchange Administrator
- What's the full name of your Exchange? Answer N/A if you are not yet an Admin or User.
- The Saint Louis Community Exchange
- Describe your Exchange (type of exchange, location, activities, members, how it's going)
- An local trading system for the Greater Saint Louis Metropolitan Area, using the "Favor" as the name of our currency.
As of October '08, after being around since the beginning of February, we have about 25 members and growing.
Our members offer a wide range of goods & services ranging from chiropractic, clothing, gardening/permaculture, home-made products, massage and more! - come join and see what we have to offer!
- If your Exchange has its own local website, what is its address?
- http://stlcommunityexchange.com
- Tell us about yourself, your background, interests, skills.
- I started this exchange hoping to bring about an alternative means for St. Louis locals to help each other out, to create community, and to express lofty yet attainable goals like the creation of CES-based food purchases, rent payments, medical/health treatments, legal support, etc.
Aside from my interests in making our communities more close-knit & sustainable, I am interested in the local food movement, organic agriculture and animal husbandry, homesteading, appropriate technology, computers / electronics / engineering, & practical metaphysics.
- Your personal website, if you have one:
- http://mysticalgrafitti.com
- Skype address from http://skype.com/download -- add LSquiresSkype to your Contacts.
- david_winnow
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Sean K. Liebel
Posted by sean liebel on December 14, 2009 at 6:35am
Book review of "The End of Money and the Future of Civilization", by Thomas Greco
By Thomas H. Greco, Jr
Published by: Chelsea Green Publishing, White River Junction, Vermont, USA (www.chelseagreen.com), 2009. ISBN 978-1-60358-078-6
Thomas Greco is the most radical writer on money today. The very title of the book suggests that the future of civilization depends on abandoning money-as-we-know-it. What could be more radical and revolutionary than that? Yet on readin… Continue
Posted by Tim Jenkin on November 24, 2009 at 10:30pm — 1 Comment
Introducing COGS
COGS stands for Circle of Gifts, and is a complementary currency specifically designed to help local communities re-localise activities. The aim of re-localisation is to provide inhabitants with the possibility of an acceptable quality of life when traditional economic development fails, or their circumstances are against them.
We believe complementary currencies will become more important as energy supplies dwindle and impact the economic growth so essential for inter… Continue
Posted by Stephen Hinton on October 5, 2009 at 9:00am — 4 Comments
Mobilising The Real Wealth of Community - An Article by Alana Tobin
Posted by Alana on September 15, 2009 at 3:18am
US National Debt Clock: Real Time
Posted by Tim Jenkin on July 31, 2009 at 3:45pm — 2 Comments
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