This is a blog where I (Roy) pontificate grandly on the subject of Mutual Credit, more specifically Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS), more specifically again using the platform of the Community Exchange System (CES) as I negotiate my way through *Brislets Committee
I’m done now, it was a trip 🙂
* please note
I am not, under any circumstance attempting to “administer nor create a Facebook group or page, web page or other online location or email list associated with or in the name of BrisLETS for the purpose of trading LETS units”
I’m just blathering on, you can’t trade from here and elsewhere there is no mention of BrisLETS
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I don’t think that our Committee members should be paid UNITS.
Because: We are a Not For Profit and it is really unusual to pay committee members. We are NOT BP If committee members are unpaid volunteers they have a lot of legal protection under Queensland law It is a very bad look when traders are selling soap at 1UNIT and Committee members are billing the…
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Endgames of Bad Faith Communiction
Some people enter into a conversation `for productive and honest reasons, “Good Faith” Some people come for mischief, in “Bad Faith” How do we tell the difference and what can we do about it?
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We all know that calling someone an “idiot” is unaceptable
I would like to suggest that saying “some people here are idiots” is also unacceptable
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Original LETS design manual
LETSystem Design Manual This version was supported and published by the Birmingham Co-operative Development Agency. Written by Michael Linton and Angus Soutar for Landsman Community Services Ltd of Canada.
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Participatory Democracy
We are told that states and the dominion they impose, however dysfunctional and destructive they may be, are an inevitable and irreplaceable form of human organisation. Bookchin and those he has inspired help us to challenge this claim.
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Playing on good feelings: when ‘eudaimonic’ social media goes bad
https://theconversation.com/playing-on-good-feelings-when-eudaimonic-social-media-goes-bad-187074
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Offers and Needs Market
Imagine you had… A simple way to build trust, community, and confidence. A joyful way to help people connect, build partnerships, and meet each other’s needs. An inclusive way to guide communities through challenging times. An effective way to reduce environmental impact. … there is a way. The Offers and Needs Market (OANM) is a…
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Nonviolent Communication – the ‘Language of Life’
According to researchers, being a compelling communicator boils down to projecting two qualities: warmth and strength. Being compelling is important, but it doesn’t help you to navigate potential conflict. Nonviolent communication does. In fact, practicing NVC can lead you to completely rethink your values, but more on that later. Perhaps the biggest benefit of the…
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The Guerrilla Gardening HomePage
Guerrilla Gardening Is it relevant, looks to me as if someone owns this an they don’t want to share?
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Graham’s Hierarchy of Disagreement
I like this: I like that I can identify some of these patterns here I like how it is clear and jargon-free, it doesn’t need an explanation I like that it is concise and nicely structured I think that good communication is fundamental P2P