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Local Currency

Complementary Currency Resource Center

Information, resources, step-by-step instructions, online assistance, and forums

Starter Local Currency Kit for your community

Hometown money book and samples of money

Community Currencies

How local currency can help solve the problems of unemployment, the environment, and community breakdown. The philosophy, history and potential for the 21st century.

Complementary Currencies

Extensive information and resources on complementary community currency systems and local exchange networks

E.F. Schumacher Society Home Page

Linking people, land, and community by building local economies. Named after the author of Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered

E.F.Schumacher Society's Local Currency Page

Fair Trade

On community currency and other systems

Grassroots Economics

Local currency in Ithaca, New York

Ithaca HOURS

Detailed information on the Ithaca community currency

Ithaca HOURS Online

Locally issued paper money from a well established community currency project in Ithaca, New York

LETSystems

Lets (Local Employment Trading System) is a trading network supported by its own internal currency. It is self-regulating and allows its users to manage and issue their own "money supply" within the boundaries of the network.

Barter/LETS 101

Usury-free software information for LETS and LETS communities around the world.

Let's Go Global with Barter

But actually about LETS

More on LETS

From Transaction.net ncluding links to communities using the system

Self-sufficiency Economy by Own Money

Community barter [currency] system in Thai village

Time Dollar

A time-based currency where one hour spent helping another earns one Time Dollar