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Beyond Money: The Growth of Community Currency

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Last month Tom Greco appeared as the keynote speaker at the national Community Currencies Conference in Wanganui. He is well known globally for his work on the topic of money. He described his attendance at the conference below

“The national Community Currencies Conference (April 17-19) brought together well over 100 enthusiastic participants who convened at the Quaker Settlement in Wanganui to share information and discuss new possibilities. My Keynote presentation delivered on Saturday morning (April 18) was titled, Reclaiming The Credit Commons: The Key to Sustainability and Relocalization. Prefaced with a brief outline of my vision of societal metamorphosis, I argued that liberating the exchange process from monopoly control by means of localization and popularization of credit is a necessary prerequisite to achieving a steady-state economy and the devolution of power to local communities”.

He also gave talks in Auckland entitled Money, Power, Democracy, and War: Finding the path toward global peace, harmony, and prosperity, on Waiheke Island entitled Community Economic Development: A Comprehensive and Innovative Approach and in Wellington entitledThe Political Money System: The Story of Central Banks, Inflation, and Legal Tender.

He was also interviewed by Kim Hill and that is available here

If anyone is interested in getting copies of those talks you can contact Tom through his website or blog.

I provided sponsorship for 3 people to attend the conference and they have written about their experience of the event in the following post.

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