Trade
"eCache is an anonymous bank operating through interfaces in the Tor network. The bank issues cryptographic certificates, digital bearer certificates, that can be exchanged among the bank's users. The certificates can be bought and sold for real money through the bank. The owners and operators of the bank are unknown, and the bank is said to operate outside the laws of any country. The name eCache was suggested by Steven Schear to eCache's operators from a prior bearer digital money venture." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECache)
- Text from: http://p2pfoundation.net/ECache
- Text from: http://p2pfoundation.net/ECache
The Freecycle Network™ is made up of 5,119 groups with 6,640,693 members around the world. It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills. Each local group is moderated by local volunteers.
- Text and Image from: http://www.freecycle.org/
- Text and Image from: http://www.freecycle.org/
Craigslist (styled craigslist) is a classified advertisements website with sections devoted to jobs, housing, personals, for sale, items wanted, services, community, gigs, résumés, and discussion forums. Craig Newmark began the service in 1995 as an email distribution list to friends, featuring local events in the San Francisco Bay Area, before becoming a web-based service in 1996 and expanding into other classified categories. It started expanding to other U.S. cities in
2000, and currently covers 50 countries.
- Text from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist
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2000, and currently covers 50 countries.
- Text from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist
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Freegle is a British organisation with free-of-charge membership similar to the international Freecycle. The organisation's aims are to increase reuse and reduce landfill by offering anInternet Web-based forum where people can give away and ask for things that would otherwise be thrown away.
- Text from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freegle
- Image from: http://www.ilovefreegle.org
- Text from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freegle
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The Streetbank website states "Streetbank is a movement of people who share with their neighbors". Accounts are free to set up. To set up an account the new member must offer at least one item, which can be something to give or lend, or a skill or service to offer. Members can also make requests and provide information ("notices").
- Text from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetbank
- Image from: http://www.covoiturage.fr/blog
- Text from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetbank
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The Freeconomy Community was started by Mark Boyle, (Moneyless Man). "There are four main ways to use and participate in the Freeconomy Community:
-Skillshare is a tool that enables you to learn the skills you haven't had the time or money to learn in life yet. With the economic crisis in full swing, climate change occurring more rapidly than most expected and peak oil looming, we believe that being part of a closely knit community with a diverse group of skills could well be the security of tomorrow. Skillshare provides brilliantly for such a scenario.
-Toolshare is an initiative that enables members to have access to every tool under the sun without it costing the earth. Members of this scheme in each local community get to name the tools they are willing to lend to other freeconomists, which then means that they also have access to the tools of fellow freeconomists. Not only do all freeconomists then have access to a huge pool of tools, it costs both you and the environment a lot less. And as a pleasant bonus you get to meet more of your neighbors. We do highly recommend however that anyone borrowing a tool / electrical appliance ensures it complies with safety regulations first and also knows how to use it safely as we want this to be an accident free community!
-Spaceshare is ideal for people who haven't got enough time or money to support projects they really believe in, but who have got some space to offer. This may come in the form of a room offered to a volunteer worker to enable them to continue to do their work unpaid for longer, but it may also be a small bit of office space you can lend to an ethical organisation or a space for your local community to hold courses. It's completely up to you, but if it has got a roof and is being unused, then make use of it for the benefit of our world.
-The Forum is a great place to share your ideas, advice and experiences and to learn the same from others. So come on in, introduce yourself and get posting!"
-Text and Image from: http://www.justfortheloveofit.org/freeshare
-Skillshare is a tool that enables you to learn the skills you haven't had the time or money to learn in life yet. With the economic crisis in full swing, climate change occurring more rapidly than most expected and peak oil looming, we believe that being part of a closely knit community with a diverse group of skills could well be the security of tomorrow. Skillshare provides brilliantly for such a scenario.
-Toolshare is an initiative that enables members to have access to every tool under the sun without it costing the earth. Members of this scheme in each local community get to name the tools they are willing to lend to other freeconomists, which then means that they also have access to the tools of fellow freeconomists. Not only do all freeconomists then have access to a huge pool of tools, it costs both you and the environment a lot less. And as a pleasant bonus you get to meet more of your neighbors. We do highly recommend however that anyone borrowing a tool / electrical appliance ensures it complies with safety regulations first and also knows how to use it safely as we want this to be an accident free community!
-Spaceshare is ideal for people who haven't got enough time or money to support projects they really believe in, but who have got some space to offer. This may come in the form of a room offered to a volunteer worker to enable them to continue to do their work unpaid for longer, but it may also be a small bit of office space you can lend to an ethical organisation or a space for your local community to hold courses. It's completely up to you, but if it has got a roof and is being unused, then make use of it for the benefit of our world.
-The Forum is a great place to share your ideas, advice and experiences and to learn the same from others. So come on in, introduce yourself and get posting!"
-Text and Image from: http://www.justfortheloveofit.org/freeshare
A local exchange trading system (also local employment and trading system or local energy transfer system; abbreviated to LETS or LETSystem) is a locally initiated, democratically organised, not-for-profit community enterprise that provides a community information service and record transactions of members exchanging goods and services by using the currency of locally created LETS Credits. LETS are generally considered to have the following five fundamental criteria:
- Text from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_exchange_trading_system
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- Cost of service: from the community for the community
- Consent: there is no compulsion to trade
- Disclosure: information about balances is available to all members
- Equivalence to the national currency
- No interest
- Text from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_exchange_trading_system
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