A Local Currency?

[Darren]

A local currency would seem to empower a community concerned with local reliance. Local reliance is the logical realization of, what politicians sloganize as, "energy independence." Ironically, the very same leaders are in on a racket entirely antithetical to local reliance. Such that, playing it out, to foresee and strategize for the intrinsic antagonism from stakeholders in the centralized, global, corporate thing-would be worth doing. I recall that the big Permaculture book had some scoops on a local currency. Regardless of the currents of independence from distant maligned systems that would call attention, I think a community health (essentially) oriented local currency, functioning alongside the greenbacks is way sensible. (Somebody once said, "The devil is in the details.")