Concept Palette for a circular community currency (money) based on the courgette. Design for Transition Town Totnes. Copyleft CC-BY-SA.

1. Transition Culture is all about
expressing the very thought of
doing and understanding transition
in all possible ways. Colourcash
uses symbols of transition to act as
a language. For Transition Totnes,
the triplet (Yellow Flower, Green
Courgette, Blue Vase) is the basis
for ecological economic appre-
ciation.
Of all the different plants growing
on the plots of Totnes, Courgette is
the one that most fancies tran-
sition. Its Yellow Flower expresses
the warmth of the sun, the love and
the work of the gardener.
Yellow Flower represents living
energy in all its forms. It is the
work, love and energy in one
Courgette Flower. Solar energy
can be paid for using Yellow -using
Area as common gound. However,
crude oil and other non-transition
forms of energy are not Yellow,
because they are in no way related
to the living energies represented
by the Yellow Flower. Vase by
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The Courgette has become
popular thanks to its lovely
taste and bulky produce.
Green Courgette symbolizes
the wealth of minerals, water
and other forms of material in
a closed life cycle. 1 Green
Courgette is 100 gram matter
within its life cycle.
Indeed, that is a little lighter
than average, but easier to
count.
Lives decay faster under poor
conditions. This happens to
cut flowers in vases too.
The Blue Vase represents all
the materials lost from their
life cycles. They end up
unbalancing the delicate
equillibrium of our ecosystem.
To ease counting, we use 1
Blue Vase for 100 gram of
materials lost from life cycles.
the courgette
currency