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Archive for “Economics” category
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12 Mar 2009
Here is a fantastic story from Transition Southampton. How about a city-wide local currency, with each note adorned by well-known local-people-made-good? The proposed Southampton Pound would feature Benny Hill, Matt le Tissier and Craig David. Sounds like a great idea to me… we were musing here today about towns and cities running some kind of a process (a bit like Walkers Crisps daft one at the moment about which ridiculous new flavour people prefer) to get people to choose who they want on their notes. Personally I am waiting for the Manchester Pound, George Best on the £5 note, Joy Division on the £10, Bernard Cribbins on the £20 and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the £50… Anyway, here is the full newspiece on the story…
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12 Mar 2009
A couple of weeks ago I was in London, and I visited Coin Street Community Builders (CSCB) on the South Bank. CSCB are a fascinating initiative, one that can teach a great deal to Transition Initiatives. For me, a Transition initiative, once it has created its EDAP, needs to morph, and become in effect, a relocalisation agency, a developer, a housing association, a bank. CSCB have done many of these things, and their experience is invaluable.
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11 Feb 2009
Last week, Colin Hines spoke at St. John’s Church in Bridgetown as part of an evening event called ‘Money, Money, Money’. Colin is the convenor of the Green New Deal, advisor to Caroline Lucas MEP and author of ‘Localisation: a global manifesto‘. In spite of it being a foul night, cold, wet and wild, and it being an evening about economics, over 80 people turned up. I present here a record of his talk, compiled from my scrawled notes. Any mistakes here are entirely due to my never having learned shorthand as a child.
“This is the best of times, and it is the worst of times. For some sections of our society it is already becoming the worst of times, with people losing their homes and being deeply worried as things becoming more and more dire and insecure. It is the best of times in that dramatic change only comes at times of economic instability.
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28 Jan 2009
We are often asked whether the Transition model should be adapted to explicitly reflect what is happening in the global economy at the moment. This is an ongoing discussion, and one I will return to in subsequent posts, but of course, the intertwining of what is happening in the economy and the peaking in world oil production have been explored by others, as well as the recent observation that peak demand seems to have arrived in advance of peak supply, although peak supply is, of course, not far behind. One of the tools that I personally have found extremely useful over the last few weeks in terms of really getting my head around how economics works, has been Chris Martenson’s ‘Crash Course’.
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20 Jan 2009
Every Christmas one of my children gets a copy of the Guiness Book of Records, which offers a fascinating insight into the more demented and extreme aspects of 21st century life. Today of course is the day when Barack Obama is inaugurated as President Obama, the something-or-other-th President of the USA. I think the question the world should be asking though, on this historic day, is how would President Obama deal with a 7 tonne rotten whale?
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Here is a fantastic story from Transition Southampton. How about a city-wide local currency, with each note adorned by well-known local-people-made-good? The proposed Southampton Pound would feature Benny Hill, Matt le Tissier and Craig David. Sounds like a great idea to me… we were musing here today about towns and cities running some kind of a process (a bit like Walkers Crisps daft one at the moment about which ridiculous new flavour people prefer) to get people to choose who they want on their notes. Personally I am waiting for the Manchester Pound, George Best on the £5 note, Joy Division on the £10, Bernard Cribbins on the £20 and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the £50… Anyway, here is the full newspiece on the story…
