Lessons From The Global Field - San Francisco USA

University of California, Berkeley

May 31, 2007, 8:30 a.m - 5:00 p.m. Full Schedule Now Available (click on 'Read More')

A day filled with speakers and practitioners from the field of complementary currencies. Practitioners from around the World will represent diverse efforts and best practices. Building on last years success and evolving our collective wisdom, please join us for a day of learning, collaborating and practical application in support of your current or anticipated community development efforts.

Special attention will be given to proven, working models covering a wide range of specific community implementations. We will have opportunities to address in a practical and realistic manner the challenges that have been faced and the strengths and weaknesses of various system types.

This seminar will be participatory and experiential, intended to provide you with new ideas, tools and the information that you need to be successful in your own community or just increase your understanding of this fast growing field.

Co-sponsored by Current Innovations and BALLE.

Conference Pricing (including lunch): Pre: $125.00, Door: $150.00

Please Register through BALLE Website: http://www.livingeconomies.org/ (cache)

Please direct suggestions and questions to Annette Riggs at info@currentinnovations.org

Please register early - this event sold out last year!

Reports Coming Soon

• Stephen DeMeulenae
• John Rogers
• Miguel Hirota
• Tim Jenkin
• Annette Riggs
• Chris Lindstrom

ccPedia (cache), the Encyclopedia for CCs is now for you!

http://www.complementarycurrency.org/ccPedia/ (cache)

It's now ready in 12 languages(English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Thai and Indonesian) where you can both learn and write about complementary currency systems all over the world as well as related topics. Don't miss it!

AVAILABLE NOW! VideoDVD documentation on the most important CC-Events 2006.

The international conference "Monetary Regionalisation" (http://www.monetary-regionalisation.com) and the 4th Regiogeld Summit, Weimar, Germany (http://www.regiogeldkongress.de (cache))

Content of the DVD The film material on this DVD includes subtitles and a dubbed English version.

1) Documentary „Monetary Regionalisation“ (34min.)

2) Documentary „4th Regiogeld Summit“ (45min.)

3) all speeches of the conference and the summit as audo files (OV); most of them in English

Price: 15 Euro plus packaging and postage (all incl: 16.80 Euro Germany; 19.85 Euro other countries in Europe; 21.35 Euro other countries worldwide)

Please order here: Order Form (cache) or write an email to: vosshenrich@livingcity.de

Margrit Kennedy:

In retrospect, the international conference „Monetary Regionalisation“ and the 4th Regiogeld Summit, which took place from 28th of September to 1st of October 2006 at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, mark an important milestone in the history of the local currency movement in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Compared to earlier conferences, the number of participants has risen and their diversity has increased significantly. For the first time, a meeting of international academic experts was twinned with a summit of practitioners.

The atmosphere and exchange of information which came out of this combination had a stimulating effect on both sides. Especially the cooperation and numerous new projects – particularly those deriving from discussions with politicians – are of incredible value to the young movement.

In my opinion, it is an essential move to release both events on DVD, especially to give those people who were not there the chance to listen to the speeches and discussions. The DVD is full of content and highly recommendable for educational purposes. I hope this DVD will serve to give further impetus to running initiatives and reach many people.

The material gives some idea of the feeling of new departures which we felt during those four days. I believe we stand at a turning point, where the subject of local currencies is moving more and more into public awareness. This can be attributed to the growing number of initiatives, practical examples and events like the ones just staged in Weimar. This is why I would like thank all participants, speakers and last but not least the conference team in Weimar, among them the three main organisers Iris Dähnke, Ludwig Schuster and Kay Vosshenrich, for their contribution to the events. They have given valuable input to all initiatives and initiators. I wish you a pleasurable multi medial experience with this DVD and hope that you will receive valuable new ideas, knowledge and material for inspiring discussions.

Margrit Kennedy