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Re: Turns out creating circular food systems is not as easy as pie

mwlinton — Mon, 06 May 2019 17:08:24 -0000

I found it particularly exciting that in her presentation Alexis Ludwig-Vogen (Best Buy) described much of the tools and logistics that Merijn Dols (Danone) called for in his, particularly the need for experimentation to develop circularity in the food industry.

There are two parts to this, first that circular money (it goes around within a community) enables and maintains patterns of flows of materials, products and services within that community, where conventional linear money tends to drive import/export economies of extraction and unaccounted externalities. See "Money Patterns Matter" - slides & video - for the basics and Sustainability and Money for some context.

Second that Alexis (20 - 25 min in the webcast) gives details of a "practical application" that show how Best Buy has the installed capacity to test such circuits in practice through any store where their "Recycle and Save" programs currently reward consumer recycling with discounts on future purchases.

Such tests can quickly, in months rather than years, show the metrics and proof points that Ashima Sukhdev (Ellen MacArthur Foundation) cites as critical to development of circular regenerative economies.

At 9 min Ashima refers to the Overton window and acceptability. I wonder - is the window yet open enough for circular money?

Re: The Rise of Digital Technology

mwlinton — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 13:03:15 -0000

http://tinyurl.com/hclxpl7 - a very ruff transkrpt - please feel free to improve

Re: The Rise of Digital Technology

mwlinton — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 12:53:36 -0000

what about money itself?

Re: HullCoin: Government-Backed Digital Currency Designed to Tackle Local Poverty

mwlinton — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 13:42:33 -0000

" .. virtual city money is not taxable .. " - this ruling is apparently down to "the Hull Council".

Don't think so. Are they actually of that opinion, or is this merely journalism beyond belief?

Re: The Irish answer by Michael Linton

mwlinton — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:23:12 -0000

We need to do much more than "passing around each others checks."

Three recommendations follow this quote from Kashklash - 1) change the nature of the checks, what they promise, 2) change how they are used, what they buy and 3) how they come into being, their first use. All necessary and together they are probably sufficient.

And as regards faith - history shows it doesn't thicken thin ice, much less prevent a paper fiat scrip from crashing. The only persistent fiat moneys are those you can use to pay taxes.

Re: Using CommunityWay to save a local community service in San Francisco

mwlinton — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:42:35 -0000

Good call Guillaume, this is all very practical, and can be even more so as other issuers join in. As a solo issue in its own interest, this isn't strictly speaking a community way instance - it's more like the "deli $" described by the Schumacher Society. However, taking Pierre's point, and generalising the project to support a portfolio of causes, projects, ventures etc both makes the new cc$ more wide ranging and thus more attractive to the general public, and also adds to the loyalty benefits for additional supporting businesses. It also increases the likelihood that the new cc$ will persist, rather than quietly dissolve at redemption.