OMSTILLING NU EPP 15

Copenhagen 14/11/2015

Money -
a Social Technology:
Community Currency Tools
for Sustainability
Leander Bindewald MSc. M.A.
Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS) - University of Cumbria, UK

From
the beginning...
So
what...!?

Explain me the world

...and what to do about it!?

Who can create money?

Banks
97% of money
in circulation

Governments
Full Reserve Banking
Positive Money
Gode Penge

People
According to their
needs and values

What are community currencies?

Working deniEon:

Currency:

1. A unit system
2. that facilitates collaboraEon
3. in a community.

So what is money then!?

Design follows funcEon

Social Currencies

B2B Currencies

Sustainable behaviour

And what about...?

And what about...?

bitcoins

have no actual
uElity value,
bearing closer
resemblance to
glass beads.
Danish National Bank
March 2014

Once upon a Eme...

1922: I heard it on the Radio

Once upon a Eme...

2012: I paid for it with Bitcoin

So what about it...?

So what about it...?

Learn more...

University of Cumbria courses:

www.IFLAS.info

Money Network Alliance, coming soon:

www.MONNETA.org

Past EU-Projekt 2012-2015:

www.CCIA.eu

Thank you!