Local Currency Web Links

Here are links to information about local currency in general and specific sites for communities using local currencies.

The sites below are arranged under the following topic names. Some sites are listed under more than one topic name.

Local Currency

Local Currency

*Creating Community Currency

Lots of links to articles and web sites other information about local currencies. This is the great web page of Carol Brouillet, co-founder of International Media Project, which seeks to connect people, vital ideas and important information to nurture healthy social change, economic justice and ecological sustainability.

Community Currency in Santa Barbara

Local Currency that values local people, local skills, local products, and local economic relationships

Community Information Resource Center

This is the web site of Thomas H. Greco, one of the local economics thinkers and "gurus". His book New Money for Healthy Economies is a must-read for groups organizing local currencies. It and other articles and resources are available online from this web site.

Ithaca HOURs Online

Here in Ithaca, New York, we've begun to gain control of the social and environmental effects of commerce by issuing over $63,000 of our own local paper money, to over 1,300 participants, since 1991

Links to other local currencies

An impressive contact database of the local currency efforts taking place around the U.S.

Local Currencies: Catalysts for Sustainable Regional Economies

Information about local currencies, including an article detailing the highly successful local currencies and micro-credit programs initiated by the Schumacher Society.

Money: Print Your Own - Yes Journal #2

Articles from Issue of "Yes - A Journal of Positive Futures" devoted to the topic of money, how federal money adversely affects our lives and how communities are coming up with alternatives which promote sustainable economics and lifestyles.

Sound HOURS

South Puget Sound has its own currency! Nearly 500 individuals and businesses are already taking part in this invisible revolution by using local currency to get what they really need. We call our currency Sound HOURS.

Transaction Net - Ithaca HOURS

A look at how Ithaca hours, the first successful local currency system, works. Different than the "official" Ithaca HOURs online site (see other link in this list).

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