A 700-Member Time Bank in Central Vermont
ACTIVISM, ANGLO AMERICA, ECONOMICS, JUSTICE, COOPS-COOPERATION-SHARING, DEVELOPMENT, SHORT VIDEO CLIPS, 13 May 2013
Olivier Asselin – TRANSCEND Media Service
The Onion River Exchange is a 700-member time bank where members exchange goods and services instead of money. Exchanges are not reciprocal, meaning that one hour spent baking, cleaning, doing plumbing work or driving someone to the airport, can be exchanged for an hour of service provided by any other member of the time bank. In this video, we meet different members and learn about how they use the services of other members, and how they give back of their own time.
This article originally appeared on Transcend Media Service (TMS) on 13 May 2013.
Anticopyright: Editorials and articles originated on TMS may be freely reprinted, disseminated, translated and used as background material, provided an acknowledgement and link to the source, TMS: A 700-Member Time Bank in Central Vermont, is included. Thank you.
If you enjoyed this article, please donate to TMS to join the growing list of TMS Supporters.
This work is licensed under a CC BY-NC 4.0 License.
Read more
Click here to go to the current weekly digest or pick another article:
ACTIVISM:
- Why Learning from Each Other’s Struggles Is Vital to Long-Term Movement Success
- How Movements Can Maintain Their Radical Vision while Winning Practical Reforms
- Russians Resist War
ANGLO AMERICA:
- Indigenous People Push Back Against US 'Thanksgiving Mythology'
- SAMs for Uncle Sam
- Their Children Struggled with Addiction—Now They're Fighting against the War on Drugs
ECONOMICS:
- While Crypto Bro Scammed Clients, Reporters Scammed Readers
- US Aid to Ukraine Invested in Crypto FTX Scheme
- FTX: The Joke of Democracy
JUSTICE:
- Interpol Arrest Warrant Issued for Angolan Billionaire Isabel dos Santos
- Attempt to Try Russian Leaders for War Crimes Is Part of the West’s Weaponization of the ICC
- PayPal: Rule of Power
COOPS-COOPERATION-SHARING:
- Formerly Incarcerated Women Launch Chicago Worker Cooperative
- The Boss Who Put Everyone on 70K
- Cuban Compassion: Training Doctors for a Pacific Island Nation Running Out of Time
DEVELOPMENT:
- Why Climate Change Is an Irrelevance, Economic Growth Is a Myth and Sustainability Is Forty Years Too Late
- Is Growth Passé?
- The Threat 5G Poses to Human Health
SHORT VIDEO CLIPS: