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Web links for community currencies and other community trading systems

Ithaca HOURS
Learn about the community currency that started it all! Flagstaff Neighborly Notes is based on the Ithaca HOUR system. The Web site contains listings of businesses that accept the currency, articles, and a contact list for printed community currencies in the U.S.

Transaction Net Currency Page
This is a major article and link site for all types of community trading systems including printed currencies, L.E.T.S., and Time Dollars. The site includes the sections,  “What is Money?,” “Design Characteristics of Currency Systems,” and “Social Implications of Currency System Features.”

International Journal of Community Currency Research
The aim of this journal is to provide a forum for the dissemination of knowledge and understanding about the emerging array of community currencies being used throughout the world both at present and in the past.

Community exchange systems in the global south — Asia, Africa, Latin America
Learn about the numerous community trading and community currency systems worldwide. This site also has numerous articles about the role of community trading systems in the establishment of just and sustainable local economies.

E. F. Schumacher Society
The E. F. Schumacher Society, named after the author of Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered, is an educational non-profit organization founded in 1980. Our programs demonstrate that both social and environmental sustainability can be achieved by applying the values of human-scale communities and respect for the natural environment to economic issues.
Building on a rich tradition often known as decentralism, the Society initiates practical measures that lead to community revitalization and further the transition toward an economically and ecologically sustainable society. The Local Currency pages contains articles, as well as a list of local currency groups in the U.S. and Canada. Flagstaff Neighborly Notes are at the top of the list!