Who Creates Money?
with Bernard Lietaer & Jacqui Dunne
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co-authors of
Rethinking Money
March 10th, 2013
6:30pm-8:30pm
Santa Barbara Central Library, Faulkner Gallery
FREE with pre-registration ($20 donation at the door if not
pre-registered)
pre-register contact: Ben Werner:
sb@monetaryecology.com
More Info:
Spend an evening with international currency expert Bernard
Lietaer and award-winning journalist Jacqui Dunne as they share their
new book Rethinking Money, How New Currencies Turn Scarcity Into
Prosperity.
Learn about our power as communities to create money through exchanges
that improve our quality of life in tangible ways. Complementary
Currencies will be presented as a proven out-of-the-box solution to the
rapidly growing international fiscal and economic crises, and as a means
to create new community liquidity and sustainability. Local
entrepreneurs Faye Cox and Ben Werner will share an opportunity to
participate in a new Community Forum, whose purpose is to design and
implement a Monetary Ecology in Santa Barbara and beyond. This event will
be of particular value to locally-minded entrepreneurs, non-profit
groups, companies, and all culturally-creative folks interested in new
forms of community economic exchange and value creation.
Bernard Lietaer is a former Belgium banker and the author of several
highly acclaimed books including The Future of Money: Beyond Greed
& Scarcity; and Creating Wealth; Growing Local Economies with
Local Currencies, and , New Money for a New World. He
has been active in the realm of money systems in a wide variety of
functions for almost 40 years, including being one of the principle
architects of the European euro. Formerly a professor of
international finance at the University of Louvain, Lietaer was a fellow
at the Center for Sustainable Resources at the University of California,
Berkeley. Lietaer co-founded one of the largest and most successful
currency management firms, GaiaCorp. He is co-founder of ACCESS
Foundation, an educational non-profit organization whose goal is the
re-alignment of sustainability and global financial interests.
Business Week magazine named him "the world's top currency
trader" in 1992.
Jacqui Dunne is an award-winning journalist from Ireland, founder and CEO
of Danu Resource, and an emerging leader in helping entrepreneurs develop
technologies and initiatives that restore the earth’s equilibrium
globally. She is a principal strategist with the launching of the
business to business currency, the terra, that is designed to create more
stability and predictability in the financial and business sectors by
providing a mechanism for contractual, payment and planning purposes
worldwide. She is currently writes for the Huffington Post’s Business
section.
To pre-register for this event please send an email to
"sb@monetaryecology.com
" with the subject line "registration request" and you
will receive the event invitation with registration instructions.
The evening talk takes place on Sunday March 10, 6:30-8:30pm, at
the downtown Santa Barbara Public Library, Faulkner Gallery,
40 E. Anapamu St, 93101. For more info contact: Ben
Werner sb@monetaryecology.com
Sponsored by SB Monetary
Ecology
Event Co-sponsors: The Fund for Santa Barbara, SBCC
Center for Sustainability,
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, & the World Business
Academy
Event Contact: Ben Werner,
sb@monetaryecology.com
MORE DETAILS:
"Rethinking Money". "How New
Currencies Turn Scarcity Into Prosperity" Bernard Lietaer and
Jacqui Dunne:
http://www.lietaer.com/writings/books/rethinking-money-by-bernard-lietaer-and-jacqui-dunne/
Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne explore the origins of our current
monetary systembuilt on bank debt and scarcityrevealing the surprising
and sometimes shocking ways its unconscious limitations give rise to so
many serious problems. But there is hope. The authors present stories of
ordinary people and their communities using new money, working in
cooperation with national currencies, to strengthen local economies,
create work, beautify cities, and provide educationand so much more is
possible. These real-world examples are just the tip of the icebergover
4,000 cooperative currencies are already in existence.
Article in Santa Barbara Independent:
Money Ain't a Thang
http://www.independent.com/news/2013/jan/23/money-aint-thang/
Rethinking Money by
Jacqui Dunne, Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacqui-dunne/rethinking-money_b_2268797.html
Event Contact: Ben Werner,
sb@monetaryecology.com