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Michael Bresnan
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- How are you currently involved with the Community Exchange Network?
- Want to join a CES exchange
- What's the full name of your Exchange? Answer N/A if you are not yet an Admin or User.
- Costa Rica Earth Trust Global Community
- Describe your Exchange (type of exchange, location, activities, members, how it's going)
- We promote sustainable projects that reflect our commitment to the earth and all of it's inhabitants to share in restoring the concept of natural resources as a Sacred Trust for future generations. We join with all efforts that seek economic and social justice and restoring the values of our indigenous forefathers.
- If your Exchange has its own local website, what is its address?
- http://creatrustcom.ning.com/main/invitation/new
- Tell us about yourself, your background, interests, skills.
- As an x-Peace corps community developer with 40 plus years of experience here in CR and 22 years creating a sustainable business, resort, community using sustainable tourism as a vehicle, we are "all in" to be a part of the creation of a global community of people and entities who want to join efforts to create a new way of classifying abused environments as 'eco-triage' to determine what areas we must address now. Water shed sustainable developments to protect and enhance acquifers and water tables is one of our 'critial point' focuses.
- Your personal website, if you have one:
- http://mikejo@vistadelvalle.com
- Your Favorite Books/Websites/Blogs/RSS Feeds for Information about local currencies.
- Blessed Unrest by David Hawken
- Best Phone/Cell Number Best phone number for CES service calls (Optional and Kept Private, but very helpful when we need to reach you.)
- 011-506-2450-0800
- My Website (1)
- vistadelvalle.com
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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 — 3 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 — 1 Comment
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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