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Jen Goodman
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- How are you currently involved with the Community Exchange Network?
- CES User
- What's the full name of your Exchange? Answer N/A if you are not yet an Admin or User.
- Cape Town Community Exchange
- If your Exchange has its own local website, what is its address?
- http://www.ces.co.za
- Tell us about yourself, your background, interests, skills.
- Animal activist,ex-farmer (but not ex for much longer), Vegetarian but almost Vegan, Nature lover, Mom of 5 grown kids, Poet, Writer, Nutritionist, Psychotherapist, Teacher. Love animals, kids, animals, animals...did I mention Animals? I do also like coffee shops where I can meet with friends and discuss animals...and men ( who are animal like)...and kids...and animals. I joke! I'm throwing out a lifeline in an attempt to connect with a clan I can relate to.
- Your personal website, if you have one:
- http://www.radiantliving.co.za
- Your Favorite Books/Websites/Blogs/RSS Feeds for Information about local currencies.
- Most recent: Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. Women who run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. The Gate of Happy Sparrows; The Dancing Woo Lee Masters; Three Men In a Boat (not to mention the Dog);
- Best Phone/Cell Number Best phone number for CES service calls (Optional and Kept Private, but very helpful when we need to reach you.)
- 021 712 2983
- Skype address from http://skype.com/download -- add LSquiresSkype to your Contacts.
- No Skype
- Suggestions you have for improving these Registration questions.
- Don't ask so many questions!
- My Website (1)
- http://www.radiantliving.co.za
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Blog Posts
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
The Method by which the Federal Reserve creates money out of nothing;
Interested? Read more here.. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/888963/posts
Posted by Richard on July 30, 2009 at 7:30pm
Credit and Debit Limits
What are credit and debit limits and why do we need them in a community of givers and receivers promoting the notion of abundance? Surely limits create a shortage of the currency, taking us back to debt-based conventional money where those of us who are short of the stuff have to borrow it from those who have a surplus?
Credit and debit limits are absolutely essential for the health of an exchange. In the CES we do not impose 'hard' limits where the system stops… Continue
Posted by Tim Jenkin on July 28, 2009 at 11:35am — 2 Comments
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Jochi
You like coffee; I'm the chef at Millstone Farmstall & cafe'; great coffee!