Intentional communities
We need a barter market. First, watch this seminal YouTube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsn_cCXHAvE
Assuming that some of the pundits are right about the meltdown of Main Street in 2012, we need to start a barter market for the greater [your] region. Actually, we need several market locations to reduce transportation costs of fuel and time.
I'll do the legal work “under the direction” of a currently licensed attorney who is a member of the state bar in the state of legal organization of the barter market. We need an accountant to set-up the books and a printer to print he coupons. We need a real estate broker to find and negotiate ON BEHALF OF THE TENANT, the vacant spaces in the five or so locations. We need a credit union which is very friendly to the church and to the idea of a barter market to act as a bank card company for the entity and we need to establish a checkng account in the CU. We need to contract with MERCHANT ONE for the bank card processing.
While we will need to transact business in side the barter market with our own coupons, the entity will need USD for payment of rent, utilities, fixtures and some administrative operations and general overhead.
Once the details are mapped and agreed upon by the organizing committee, then we can attract the attention of all of the churches and philanthropic organizations for initial funding. The funding will be a loan by the local Credit Union, secured by pledges on the numerous $100.00 savings accounts opened by supporters of the barter exchange. In order to become a member of the “....... Barter Market”, the $100 deposit is the “buy-in”. For those unable to make the deposit, some alternative needs to be arranged with the CU.
YouTube has well over 140 video clips on “barter market” and Google lists over 22 million hits.
See the BBC documentary (1980) of the Mondragon Experiment: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7565584850785786404&hl=en#
Jim Miller
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The mission of this website is to emplore folks to creat their own Locavore Barter Market for the purchase, sale, exchange of locally produced goods and services to serve the needs of their communitites
All legal goods and services
