{"id":15288,"date":"2013-01-14T08:24:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T14:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=15288"},"modified":"2013-01-14T08:24:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T14:24:37","slug":"local-currencies-token-exchange-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/local-currencies-token-exchange-system\/","title":{"rendered":"New Approaches to Finance Sustainability: Local Currencies and the Token Exchange System"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By John Boik<\/strong><\/p>\n

America may be an optimistic country, but these days public sentiment has soured. Gallop polls indicate confidence in Congress and big business is dismal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But the good news about debt, deficits, unemployment, billion dollar bank fines<\/a> and rising concern over climate change<\/a> is that they seem to have sparked receptivity to new ideas that could make our economic system more sustainable and fair.<\/p>\n

New corporate models, such as L3Cs and B-corporations<\/a>, are gaining steam. In these dual-purpose models<\/a>, executives balance the need for profit with a social mission. Co-operative businesses are becoming more popular, as are business models based on sharing, open-source development and Creative Commons property. Indeed, much of the Web already runs on an open-source software product, the Apache server.<\/p>\n