May 2012 Blog Posts (539)

Due to demographic change every fifth person on earth will be over 60 years by the year 2050. In Japan, probably the oldest society in the world, people started an initiative, where you can get credits for time spent caring for elders in the community. Those elder-care units might serve as complimentary currency while doing the community a service.

I like the idea of Prema Salgaonkar. It shows what can be achieved by some small …

In 2020 I will celebrate my 33 birthday but hopefully I will also celebrate the roofing ceremony of my zero energy house. I'm not sure where, but I dream about a zero energy house since I was a teenager.

As my sister is an architect I sometimes traveled with her to companies supplying materials for zero energy houses and it always fascinated me to see how a…

I thought about this for a time. Then I started gathering information of what I could do. In the beginning I found a website called Kiva.org where you can lend 25$ or more to people in a developing country. I read about this system and also found a review about the system Kiva uses and the MFIs. The author recommended another lending platform called Zidisha, where you can lend your money directly to the borrower and don't have the MFIs between you and the borrower.

I have already lent…

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To find a suitable solution for the problem, I've immersed myself in the direction of social bakning. During my research I have discovered something new for me, one good idea that is practiced in Germany since 1980. This is a Ökobank. Objectives of Ökobank were the provision of funding for the…

This week I exanged clothes with two of my friends instead of doing shopping with them... It was so funny, we meet each other, the two girls brought some clothes which they don't like anymore... we drunk some wine and tried the clothes and exchang them...
Now we all habe new special clothes and are happy, we saved money and we don't have to put something to containers for used garment collection :)

Basically there are three ideas or innovations in relation to money or future money that I really appreciate.

The first one is about talents. Talents that can be used like money for every kind of service. I first heard about this just one or two month ago. It's a system based on the special abilities every single person has and that can be offered to others. Someone might be very good in solving computer problems, while another one is great at reapairing cars, or baking, or perhaps…

I think microsavings are a good idea to help the citizens of Mumbai. Just a little of many people and a citizen of Mumbai can start its own business. I also think that a barter systemcould be beneficial. It would ensure that people receive their goods not only immediately but they also will use these items for every day use.

I don't know much about money or how it work... But I know, that the system of our money is not the best...

I think we should go back to the reason for the money to solve this problem... Money has been created for the reason to excange goods and services with others... Now I guess the reason of money is to became rich...

We should use more "exchange rings as an alternative" for using money.

Futher informations you can find on:…

I think also in nearly 10 years the issue to save warter in daily life won't be solved. Therefore I imagine,there will be a big "saving the water festival" which take place in the h*** world... with diffrent activaties... it should be a big party so that nobody could oversee the tast to save water...

Bernard A. Lietaer wrote in an article about complementary currency. Complementary Currency is a alterntive currency to money. A country or society can choose an alternative to money that everybody in this country or society has to accept as well as money. It should not replace original currency, but ot might fulllfill social functions that the official currency system cannot.

According to Lietaer complementary currency provides new jobs, like it already did in the New York, USA.…

I believe that the trend goes in the direction of fictitious currency. Whether PayPal or credit card through enjoyment it is difficult to say. Currently I have a feeling that in Germany, anyway all the money transfer agents are networked with each other.

Perhaps it creates an organization who reduce all of paymant methods to one. And perhaps we will don't have cards,…

Money is a widely distributed machine whose purpose is to compute the value of goods and services. In order to function, money needs certain vital qualities.

Money has to be mobile, so as to move from hand to hand with ease. Money needs to be flexible: incarnating itself as coins, paper, bonds, stocks or zipping electronic impulses. Money needs psychological acceptance: The population must unblinkingly accept the fact that a plastic card or flimsy paper is of great value.

Money…

In my opinion, the system of "Mahila Milan" is a very good idea. Normally people in this social level would never save an even small amount of money daily. Without savings, people are never able to build up a capital stock which can keep them from poverty. They are not able to offer their children a perspective regarding their education because they do not have money for school or university, for example. Mahila Milan focuses on women which is another positive point, because women in poor…

In the future the money will be worth a lot more and will be exchanged differently when you buy something the money will somehow automatically come out from your account with a special card.

I started an experiment in my residential community, with time as currency. I really enjoyed the idea of "Time Banking" and wanted to test how it works under real life conditions.

We are using minutes as the basic currency unit. We planned to cover reciprocal services between friends which should stay unaffected by money, for example cooking, dish-washing and various helps between friends. Time passed over a service will be recorded and added to the helpers time account. So every…

Have you ever heard of the new paying system for german railroads? You have to register for it, for example at the following webpage:

http://www.touchandtravel.de/

After that you can check in useing your cellphone at the railroad station where you want to take off. When u arrived at your final destination you just check out in the same way useing your cellphone. After that you automaticaly pay for your travel. I belive that these types of…

This week i tried out paypal. Paypal offers an online payment and money transfer system. The advantage, as a micropayment-capable system is, that payments are instantly credited to the recipients account. Furthermore you only need to know the email-address of the person you want to send money to, global transactions = no problem.
I myself used it to donate a few dollars to path.org - a great entrepreneurial approach for global health.