91. create a local currency

Print a local currency on the model of the “Ithaca Hours” as a supplement to employees’ current income. This would keep a small percentage of money continually recirculating within the local economy, helping to shore up local businesses, increase the wages of underpaid local employees and be an additional tourist draw.

• The E.F. Schumacher Society Local Currency Program
• Ithaca HOURS

• “Greens Back Local Currency”, Times-Herald Record
• “Communities Print Their Own Currency to Keep Cash Flowing”, USA Today
• “Some Communities Are Printing Their Own Currency”, CNN
• “Local Currencies Aren’t Small Change”, Utne Reader
• “Greensboro Group Explores Local Currency”, Greensboro News & Record

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