berkshares

As Walletpop writer Zac Bissonnette noted yesterday, Great Barrington, Massachusetts has developed a new, regional form of currency. The BerkShares program follows in the footsteps of several other regional currencies, but takes the idea of local economic planning to a new, impressive level.One...

A group here in Portland has taken the eat local movement one step further and started its own currency. Cascadia Commons has developed Community Way Local Exchange Trading System (LETS), "a non-profit, local community currency that more efficiently provides value to traditional dollars exchanged...