The blockchain provides the foundation to design complementary currencies that embellish community relationships, drive regional economic growth and encourage self-sustainability. The local multiplier ...

Image: Wikimedia/JLogan. Some rights reserved.Since the outset of the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, there has been much talk about the future of the single ...

Ann Lapenna always felt buoyed by a sense of belonging when she walked into the West End Food Co-op in Toronto’s Parkdale neighborhood. She would head to the kitchen, don an apron, then begin slicing ...

On paper, it was a brilliant idea: encourage people to buy from independent businesses by printing pound notes bearing the name of the town or city where they are accepted and help to save local high ...

D-CENT (Decentralized Citizens ENgagement Technologies) is a Europe-wide project to create digital tools for direct democracy and economic empowerment. The project, which received €1.9 million funding ...

The comedian John Oliver dedicated a recent episode of Last Week Tonight to discuss cryptocurrencies, “the virtual currencies that combine everything you don’t understand about money…with everything ...

In a back room of the Tenino Depot Museum, a modest sandstone building in a city of less than 2,000 in Washington State, there is a rickety old machine that officials believe could help save the ...

Community currencies are monetary instruments issued and managed at a local or regional level, circulating alongside national legal tender to foster economic resilience, social cohesion and ...