Corvallis Group Builds Community through Alternative Currency
Corvallis Group Builds Community through Alternative Currency
5/6/2009
By Jes Burns
Communities across Oregon are feeling the crunch of the recession. With more than 12-percent of the state’s residents out of traditional work, an organization in Corvallis thinks there’s no better time to institute a drastic change to the current way we do business. Their idea: a local alternative currency backed by the people themselves.
KLCC’s Jes Burns has the details.
goto:
http://www.klcc.org/Feature.asp?FeatureID=1096
Summer Folk Festival
June 21, 2009 - 1:00pm
Fire Works Restaurant - 1115 SE 3rd St (Beside South Co-op)
HOURS Folk Festival
Mark your calendars and be sure to join us at the start of summer for the eight annual Summer Folk Festival, Sunday, June 21, outside at Wildfire Restaurant, next to the First Alternative Co-op in South Corvallis.
It is a celebration of All Things Local: artisans, music, activities, community, and fun.
Other organizations working towards sustainability are invited to set up booths to share their information with the community. Space is also available for local artists, crafters, and musicians for a small booth fee of $15.
For more information please contact Keri at 929-5678.
Harvest Gathering
September 20, 2009 - 2:00pm
101 NW 23rd St, Corvallis
Join us on Sunday, September 20for our Annual Harvest Gathering, from 2-5pm in the McLean Room at 101 NW 23rd Street in Corvallis. Our quarterly gatherings provide the opportunity to meet people who are a part of the HOUR Trader network and see first-hand some of the wonderful offerings available in exchange for HOURS.
Everyone is welcome at our events. This September check back at our website www.hourexchange.org for a full schedule of activities. For more information about the event, to volunteer to help out at our events, or to reserve table space contact Keri at 929-5678.
Board of Trustees meeting
July 6, 2009 - 6:00pm
Location TBA
Board of Trustee meetings are held the first Tuesday of every month, 6pm, in Corvallis. During the summer months locations TBA. Members are welcome and encouraged to attend, for locations contact Courtney at 766-8229.
Communities print their own currency to keep cash flowing
Communities print their own currency to keep cash flowing
read online at:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2009-04-05-scrip_N.htm
By David Coates, The Detroit News, via AP
In Detroit, three downtown businesses have created a local currency, or scrip, to keep dollars earned locally in the community.
By Marisol Bello, USA TODAY
A small but growing number of cash-strapped communities are printing their own money.
Borrowing from a Depression-era idea, they are aiming to help consumers make ends meet and support struggling local businesses.
The systems generally work like this: Businesses and individuals form a network to print currency. Shoppers buy it at a discount — say, 95 cents for $1 value — and spend the full value at stores that accept the currency.
A Plan For Hard Times: Print Cash
MONEY/NEWSWEEK Magazine, December 1, 2008
A Plan For Hard Times: Print Cash
By Tony Dokoupil
People nationwide may start hoarding their cash as recession fears grow. But in Riverwest—a progressive enclave of Milwaukee—residents have another answer to their money trouble: they'll print their own. The proposed River Currency would be used like cash at local businesses, keeping the area economy humming whatever the health of the country at large. "We can create our own value," explains Sura Faraj, 48, one of the plan's organizers.
..... read more at:
> http://www.newsweek.com/id
TV Spot: Hour Exchange keeps currency local in Corvallis
Hour Exchange keeps currency local in Corvallis
KMTR 16 - NBC. Aired on April 16, 2008.
http://www.kmtr.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=D1A2E2F0-B1E0-4B95-A1CB-5575D830F159&gsa=true
HOUR Trader Deadline
August 31, 2009 - 6:00pm
A mailbox near you!
Submit your listings now before the next HOUR Trader deadline September 1, 2009. Send your new member listings, renewing member listings, articles, and display ads for the FALL 2009 HOUR Trader.
Short articles and items of interest are welcome.
To become member click "membership" >> "How to Join" link on this website, or pick up a copy of the HOUR Trader, available for free at locations in Corvallis. The HOUR Trader is regularly stocked at the Corvallis Public Library and First Alternative South Store.
MEMBERS CAN NOW POST LISTINGS OF GOODS AND SERVICES
Members: You can now post offers of goods and services you are providing or looking for in exchange for HOURS.
Follow the "Offers of Goods and Services" link on the menu to the left of the screen and follow the instructions.
Buying time? No, they're spending it...
Buying time? No, they're spending it
Local members use local currency made by Hour Exchange ...
By Mary Ann AlbrightGazette-Times reporter
For more of this story, type the URL below:
http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2005/02/18/news/community/fri02.txt
Buying time? No, they're spending it
Local members use local currency made by Hour Exchange
By Mary Ann Albright
Gazette-Times reporter
Want to learn how to make sushi? Looking for homemade chutneys to give as gifts? Need fire dancing lessons?
Instead of laying down U.S. dollars, Hour Exchange encourages consumers to use its alternative currency to acquire local goods and services.