Community currencies activism
This article is about community currencies including barter, give or take schemes, LETS - local exchange trading systems, and time banks. Advantages of community currencies include retaining a higher proportion of spend within the local economy, community cohesion and community development. See also: Benefits of local currency
Video
more video: Complementary & Alternative Currency Video Library
News
Bees, Community, and Shared Futures, grassecon.substack.com (Nov 20, 2025) - The Protocol Beneath the Tools, Will Ruddick, willruddick.substack.com (Sep 08, 2025)
- From Kenya to Colombia, Field notes from Mnyumbuni exchange program, Grassroots Economics, Juan Lucio, and Aude Peronne, grassecon.substack.com (Aug 11, 2025)
Community action projects
Commitment pooling
How to's and more
- Rooting Together, Grassroots Economics and Aude Peronne, grassecon.substack.com (Aug 29, 2025) — Life, Culture, and Commitment in Our Village
- Pool. Link. Heal., willruddick.substack.com (Aug 28, 2025) — Coordinated care that keeps us whole.
Other resources
Creative commons or copyleft
- Tradeschool 2009 2019, added 14:34, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
- Complementary Currency Resource Center Resource Center for Complementary Currencies
- Community-Currency.info, available also in other languages
- Complementary Currency Software on p2pfoundation.net
- How to Start a Community Currency, Shareable, Oct 2012
Other
- Cyclos, open source online banking software for Microfinance institutions, local banks (in developing countries) and complementary currency systems like LETS, Barter networks and Time banks.
- the Lewes Pound, (UK) Free Guide to Setting Up Local Currencies, Transition Network, 10 Dec 2009
Research
See also: Community currencies, Community currencies UK, Local currency, category:Local currency, Free stuff, Sharing
local information and news can be found, or shared, via our many location pages
External links
- Wikipedia: Local currency, Time-based currency, Cyclos
- Grassroots Economics, "non-profit foundation that seeks to empower marginalized communities to take charge of their own livelihoods and economic future. We focus on community development through economic empowerment and community currency programs. Beneficiaries of our programs include small businesses and people living in informal settlements as well as rural areas." added 15:46, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
- Credit Commons, "a proposed accounting system to allow users of any local currency to exchange with any other." added 15:26, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
- Listia.com, free online marketplace and mobile app for trading goods between individuals without using money. The platform has a system known as Listia credits to facilitate the trades. Users earn credits for giving away items they no longer need and can then use credits to get items that other users have listed. The marketplace uses an auction system where users bid on each other's items until the auction ends and the highest bidder wins. The user who listed the item then arranges for a pickup or ships the item directly to the winner.
| Authors | Phil Green |
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| License | CC-BY-SA-3.0 |
| Cite as | Phil Green (2015–2025). "Community currencies activism". Appropedia. Retrieved November 28, 2025. |