Entries from Londonist tagged with 'currency'
June 17, 2008
In Brixton, some community-minded souls are taking their movement to a natural extreme — they’re setting up a new currency. The Brixton Brick is modelled on similar schemes in Devon and elsewhere. The idea is that keeping money in a community increases its benefit to locals as it circulates round the houses, rather than going off to a multinational company or somebody’s offshore bank account. The plan has already attracted the attention of the......
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