Build A Better World Do-it- Ourselves Economic Justice and Community Resilience
What would you do to improve your community if you could? What if money were no object?
Is Money an Object? But wait...
ob·ject Noun: A material thing that can be seen and touched.
mon·ey 1. A medium that can be exchanged for goods and services and is used as a measure of their values on the market, including among its forms a commodity such as gold, an officially issued coin or note, or a deposit in a checking account or other readily liquefiable account. 2. The official currency, coins, and negotiable paper notes issued by a government. MONEY IS AN AGREEMENT.
Greece builds abundance in a collapsing economy with TEMTEM Athens TimeBank’s 1100 members exchange time and goods they produce themselvesens TimeBank’s 11
The Wall Street Journal recognizes Spain’s 325 timebanks as a buffer against a collapsing economy
Oakland California’s Public Health Department created a The Sobrante Park Time Bank to increase cooperation and quality of life among diverse residents
People in struggling West Virginia earn time credits to make and install solar panels and use the savings on energy bills to fund the programWest Virginia
What would you do to improve your community if you could? What if money were no object? What’s stopping you?
We learn by doing Trial and error DoDo Learn Fail DoDo LearnSucceed DoDo Learn Fail DoDo Learn Fail DoDo Learn Succeed
We learn more if we share We avoid repeating mistakes DoDo Learn Fail DoDo LearnSucceed DoDo Learn Fail DoDo Learn Fail DoDo Learn Succeed
Do Better Learn Share We build on each other’s workbuild
And make new friends in the process
We all know ways we want our world to be better.
What are we waiting for?