All Blog Posts Tagged 'exchange' (8)

Deadline 1/4/2020

Place: Paris



La Bourse de Poisson



Fish has become such a rare and precious commodity that now a special exchange for fish has been opened in a Paris market place. Mme. Angelique de Lyon, the President, has today cut the green ribbon to open the exchange. Mssr. Soulon, Mayor of Paris remarked that "Cet bouse quands excitement pour tous les chefs de Paris".

The key market prices include 272 Yen for fine haddock, £300 for best cod and a remarkable $45… Continue

I really tried to convert virtual money into actual currency - greeny dollars. Continue

The barter system is a very old system indeed. For centuries humans have used it to trade for goods and services all over the world. I think that this is an excellent system should the money system fail us. We all have talents to share for services or goods. Under the barter system though, we as a community will become closer as we realize that everyone is connected and that we need to take care of our weak and elderly. We will come together as a community and then as a world wide system with a… Continue

Try Living on $2 a day.

I think its important that more people are encouraged to spend time in a developing nation. I think we can create a system here in the US that offers compensation for doing volunteer work in a developing nation.

I think we can have more exchanges going on of people coming here and people going there. I think that universities can take the lead here. Universities seem to be looking for a place to spend their money. Many universities profess social justice and…

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Today marks the opening of the first UK Baby Swap Shop, in Shoreham high street. No - you don't swap babies, but you do swap baby clothes and baby toys.



Created as part of the empty shops scheme, unused space on the high street has been made available for a fun and functional community project.



The idea is simple - simply bring along clothes and toys your baby has…

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Here at the Kiva Virtual Office on Aloft Nonprofit Commons Island there's a quiet before the next day of active trading and loans. Over 48000 came in according to the counter at the door and there's no sign of stopping as peer to peer microloans become the standard for middle class development.

Virtual…

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Hi Guys and Gals....

Barter Exchanges Can work, and are not always subject to straight swapping:

This is a working example, called BarterCard:

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TRANSACTION…

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I read a bunch of personal finance bloggers - I have ever since the pre-recession media frenzy because I felt it was a more positive step than absorbing the body blows of constant media despair. The frugality folks may be a little anal about washing Baggies for reuse, more exacting than a lot of us, but they usually give off the energy of "can do" around the nation's fiscal issues.

So I'm no stranger to sites like freecycle.org - which I've used to give away things - and as a…

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