1) The document discusses ways that communities can build a better world through economic justice and resilience by creating alternative economic systems that are not dependent on money as the sole object or medium of exchange. 2) It provides examples of alternative currency and credit systems that communities have implemented, such as timebanking, community-issued currencies, and commercial credit circuits. 3) The key message is that communities have the power to improve themselves by developing local economic solutions that allow people to exchange goods and services without full reliance on traditional money.

1. Build A Better World
Do-it-
Ourselves
Economic
Justice
and
Community
Resilienc
e

2. What would you do to
improve your community
if you could?
What if money were no
object?

3. But wait...
Is Money an
Object?

4. ob·ject
Noun:
A material thing that can be
seen and touched.

5. 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.

7. What is an Economy?
Distributed system
for meeting people’s
needs

8. What Does an
Economy Do?
Distribution of Work
Reciprocity
Incentives
Risk-Pooling

9. We have options
• TimeBanking 1=1
• Community-Issued Currency
• Backed Regional Currency
• Price-based Mutual Credit
• Commercial Credit Circuits
• Community Banking
• Cooperative Ownership

10. TimeBanking
1=1
“We have what we need if we use what we have”
-- Edgar Cahn
Social
-- Edgar Cahn
Services
Community Community
Centers Justice
Public &
Local
Private
Busines Dane County TimeBank
Institution
s
s
Artists &
Local Food Arts
Production Organizations
Faith-based

11. 1=$10

12. Euro-Backed Currency

13. Price-Based Mutual Credit

14. Putting pieces
together:
Talente-Tauschkreis
Vorarlberg, Austria
Talente-Tauschkreis
Vorarlberg, Austria

15. Commercial Credit Circui

16. Community Banking

17. Cooperative
Ownership

18. What would you do to
improve your community
if you could?
What if money were no
object?
What’s stopping
you?

19. We learn by doing
Do Do
Succeed Learn Fail Learn
Do
Succeed Learn Do
Do
Fail Learn
Fail Learn
Trial and error

20. We learn more if we
share Do Do
Succeed Learn Fail Learn
Do
Succeed Learn Do
Do
Fail Learn
Fail Learn
We avoid repeating mistakes

21. We build on each other’s
work
Do Better
Learn
Share

22. And make new friends
in the process

23. We all know ways we want
our world to be better.

24. What are we waiting
for?