Information and materials
LETSystems - The Home Page
LETS Homepage owned by the creator of the system.
Local Exchange Trading Systems
by Sidonie Seron : A LETS thesis from the Universite de Bourgogne – Dijon.
Report of the European LETS Seminar
Report of a LETS seminar, organised by the European Youth Forest Action (EYFA) and Aktie Strohalm in 1998. Presentations of LETS from different countries – helps to see ordinary people in LETS.
Global Online Unilets
A website of a clever man who made a 40-days journey through Europe for LETS. Includes information on how to organise it and addresses of LETS in many countries.
Lets what? LETS Travel!
How you can travel with LETS.
Community Information Resource Center
With a link to an online version of Tom Greco’s book, New Money for Healthy Communities.
The Environmental Implications of LETSystems
by Simon Williams : A dissertation about LETS from Department of Environmental Studies in the Mawson Graduate Centre for Environmental Studies University of Adelaide.
BARTER/LETS 101
An online class on LETS. Many interesting materials.
Friendly Favors
A great website.
Miguel's Philosophical Garden
A Japanese site on LETS, Sylvio Gesell and the German writer Michael Ende (author of Neverending Story and Momo). Many philosophical reflections about contemporary society and ideas how LETS may change something. Includes links to Japanese LETS and a report about local economic initiatives in Japan – how the Japanese governmental sector supports such initiatives.
Not Money
A kind of internet barter, includes, among others, information about holiday exchanges. Surely an interesting website, unfortunately not easy to use.
Materialien zur Zinsproblematik
A German site about money. Includes the full text of Margrit Kennedy’s book Geld ohne Zinsen und Inflation and a history of local currencies during the world economic crisis.
Geldreform.net
A German site devoted to the ideas of Sylvio Gesell.
Ithaca HOURs
Local money in Ithaka (USA). One of the most successful projects in the world.
Transaction Net
Money now and in future. Many materials about LETS and the Internet. Specially recommended to sceptics who ask whether LETS is a return to the stone age.
Money - Past, Present & Future
Sources of Information on Monetary History, Contemporary Developments, and the Prospects for Electronic Money.
International Journal of Community Currency Research
A magazine devoted to economics and local community.
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