Kootenay Barter–Banking on Every Different
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Make jobs doing what you love to do
Any neighborhood whose residents are unemployed, underemployed or need to create a neighborhood
economic system to maintain the cash residence can use a barter system like Kootenay Barter.
And anyone who can get up within the morning has one thing to supply others. From art work
to yardwork, in case you have a bit of time or initiative, you possibly can earn spending energy.
This is the way it works: Kootenay Barter was patterned after the Ithaca
HOUR in Ithaca, New York. On the core of the system is native scrip, which we name Kootenay
HOURS. We did not print {dollars}, we printed time. An HOUR trades for $10, a half HOUR
trades for $5 and 1 / 4 HOUR trades for $2.50. We additionally name them barter bucks.
SAMPLES AT BOTTOM OF PAGE
This does not imply you’re employed for $10 an hour. It means we’ve printed
native $10, $5 and $2.50 notes that equal a minimal wage within the area. If , for instance,
you earn $20 an hour for what you do, you’d cost two HOURS, or the equal in
money, commerce or barter buck combo.
First determine what it’s important to supply or what you want.
While you listing your affords within the bi-monthly Kootenay Barter Bulletin,
you might be given 4 HOURS value $40. That is the way in which we slowly get our cash into
circulation. It isn’t cash backed by gold or debt. It’s backed by our personal manufacturing.
A list prices $6 and is nice for six months or three problems with the
bi-monthly listing, known as the Kootenay Barter Bulletin. You obtain one HOUR once you
renew your itemizing after six months.
After you listing your items or providers within the Bulletin, you are in your
personal. Kootenay Barter doesn’t preserve monitor of your transactions or act as a go-between different
than to offer the names of these keen to barter. You spend your HOURs similar to you
would federal {dollars}. The one distinction is that you aren’t getting wealthy by hoarding them;
you get wealthy by spending them!
The Kootenay HOUR is the one cash it’s important to work twice for—once to earn it and as soon as
to spend it! There are numerous methods to earn HOURS.
- Obtain calls via your itemizing within the Bulletin
- Name the “wished” listings within the Bulletin
- Convey your wares to the bi-monthly potlucks and faires
- Name individuals who have supplied a “buying listing” with Kootenay Barter.
- These are individuals who have earned numerous barter bucks and need to spend them.
- Put up an indication that claims “We settle for Kootenay HOURS”
- You needn’t listing within the Bulletin to earn and spend HOURS.
Financial institution on Every Different
Kootenay Barter information:
* Based in Could 1994, in Nelson, B.C., Canada
*Issued 3,200 HOURS ($32,000) within the
larger Nelson space
(pop. 15,000) since Could, 1994 for two
loans, 4 grants,
financial institution committee conferences first 12 months,
potlucks first 12 months and 540 listers plus
renewals.
*Holds potlucks each different month from
5-7:30 p.m. to barter
items and providers, vote on grants and
loans,
present a community for neighborhood occasions
and enroll
new listings.
*HOURS should buy eggs, butter, bread,
all types of hemp
products—from clothes to paper—,
brakes,
mufflers, equipment restore, most
all the pieces from
accommodate even a Inexperienced Social gathering
membership!
*Greater than 40 companies in Nelson
take HOURS for all or half
of their items and providers. The listing is
rising.
There are greater than 600 items and
providers listed
within the Could 96 problem of the Bulletin.
*We now have a Barter Retailer positioned in
the Nelson EcoCentre
the place individuals should buy and promote their items
for all or
half barter bucks. This permits farmers
to promote their
surplus for barter bucks, and folks to
work for meals.
*Kootenay Barter is a part of the West
Kootenay Group EcoSociety,
a non-profit group “Merging
financial, environmental and
political motion.”
Kootenay Barter affords a starter package for $20 (to offset printing and mailing prices) to
enable you to begin your individual barter system utilizing native forex. There are a number of dozen
comparable methods going within the U.S.
Presently there are HOUR methods in Salmon Arm, B.C., Nelson, B.C., Calgary,
Alberta, and Halifax, Nova Scotia; Prince George, B.C., Kingston, Ont
Subscribe to the Kootenay Barter Bulletin and the
EcoCentric: 6 points $20 U.S. or Cdn.
Ship your order or additional inquiries to: Suzy Hamilton
Kootenay Barter
P.O. Field 843
Nelson , B.C. V1L 6A5 Canada
250-354-1909
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An HOUR trades for $10, a half HOUR trades for $5 and 1 / 4 HOUR
trades for $2.50. We additionally name them barter bucks.
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