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Build A Better World Do-it- Ourselves Economic Justice and Community Resilience
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What would you do to improve your community if you could? What if money were no object?
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Is Money an Object? But wait...
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ob·ject Noun: A material thing that can be seen and touched.
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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.
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Greece builds abundance in a collapsing economy with TEMTEM Athens TimeBank’s 1100 members exchange time and goods they produce themselvesens TimeBank’s 11
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The Wall Street Journal recognizes Spain’s 325 timebanks as a buffer against a collapsing economy
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Oakland California’s Public Health Department created a The Sobrante Park Time Bank to increase cooperation and quality of life among diverse residents
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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
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What would you do to improve your community if you could? What if money were no object? What’s stopping you?
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We learn by doing Trial and error DoDo Learn Fail DoDo LearnSucceed DoDo Learn Fail DoDo Learn Fail DoDo Learn Succeed
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We learn more if we share We avoid repeating mistakes DoDo Learn Fail DoDo LearnSucceed DoDo Learn Fail DoDo Learn Fail DoDo Learn Succeed
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Do Better Learn Share We build on each other’s workbuild
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And make new friends in the process
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We all know ways we want our world to be better.
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What are we waiting for?
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