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Stephen Scrimgeour
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- Johannesburg, Gauteng
- South Africa
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- How are you currently involved with the Community Exchange Network?
- Considering starting a CES exchange
- What's the full name of your Exchange? Answer N/A if you are not yet an Admin or User.
- N/A
- Describe your Exchange (type of exchange, location, activities, members, how it's going)
- In the pipeline - nothing is set up but i am very interested in integrating it into the everyday operations of my companies. I operate a low impact design firm that does key system design, as well as an involuntary carbon brokerage and have recently begun formalizing a natural weave , hemp and textile clothing brand which is going to be launched in November. I see many opportunities to use this system in tandem with current trade.
- Tell us about yourself, your background, interests, skills.
- I am a 21 year old multi-disciplined designer and manager of Two small but blossoming companies. My main interests are broad but center around intelligent, low impact and inherently passive design principles that combine art and philosophy to create unique creations. This spans from my 'day job' in the fields of the built environment to my passions for all forms of creation, particularly those modeling nature. I believe in the potential to begin co creating resource based communities, living in a decentralized, autonomous sharing structure that recognizes technology as a tool to create efficiencies, while regaining and expanding on the culture and consciousness of our present position globally and bridging the gaps between our History, our Art, our Science, Our Adventure and our Politics.
I believe that money is a representation of our sharing, nothing more than a symbol of energetic exchange, and i feel that our past systems have been flawed and built around the potential for limits and by creating scarcity, not the opportunities to share freely of ourselves and our creations and what this delivers to the overall experience of ourselves and our lifestyles. This can be seen in the state of global economies now. We are in a position to find new ways of driving our communities, and if this could be done with mechanisms that aid progressive growth for each person that contributes to a system, while distributing rewards fairly and in real value, we can begin to power and build new ways of interacting with our immediate and global communities!
- Best Phone/Cell Number Best phone number for CES service calls (Optional and Kept Private, but very helpful when we need to reach you.)
- 0729007272
- Skype address from http://skype.com/download -- add LSquiresSkype to your Contacts.
- SGGS87
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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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