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"On the subject of money - Money allows the exchange of goods and services and, in doing so, becomes one of the most genial inventions of humankind.

We don't have a traditional hierarchical structure, but we're an international not-for-salary network of friends who communicate with one another mainly through the internet. We deliberately try to ignore money ; we generally cover our own costs and help others to cover theirs by giving stuff away whenever possible. We are privileged to have time and energy to work as altruists and are trying to extend this freedom to the rest of humanity by offering a way out of wage slavery.

It was started in 2001 by Robin Upton , an internet consultant, under guidance from Clive Beresford, a community activist. Our first media attention was in 2002 when our innovative Bengali typing system was applauded in the Bangladesh national press. Since 2004 we have advised various institutions on the subject of altruism. After a presentation in 2004 at the horizontal European Social Forum, we have been focussing on developing Altruistic Economics.

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The impoverishment of the developing world is understandable once one learns how “plunder by trade” locks the world into violence and war.

Eliminating poverty is not philosophically complicated;

• Eliminate the monopolization of land, technology, and finance capital and equalize pay for equally productive work, both within internal economies and between trading nations.
• Once all nations and all people have access to technology and their labor is paid equally for equally productive work, the buying power of labor in different nations, and within nations, will equalize.
• Eliminating those monopolies will instantly distribute a share of the wealth to all members of society even as economic efficiency increases and produces more wealth.

This is a more cooperative and democratic capitalism that will assure all rights for all people.

• Current communities that are building and using community currencies will become successful and sustainable on the condition that they are smarter, better learners, more flexible and more creative than the current pyramidal intelligence that shapes most organizations in our societies (those that are strongly resisting to such a change);

• Collective Intelligence can evolve on the condition that there is a monetary system that is not scarce but sufficient and issued by democratic, open and transparent process (see holopticism).

The intention of this project is to provide general access to the best ideas and sources of information about transcending the limitations and dysfunctions of conventional structures of money and banking.

PROUT is an acronym for PROgressive Utilization Theory, a socio-economic philosophy that synthesizes the physical, mental and spiritual dimensions of human nature. The goal of PROUT is to provide guidance for the evolution of a truly progressive human society.

PROUT is an alternative to the outmoded capitalist and communist socio-economic paradigms. Neither of these approaches have adequately met the physical, mental and spiritual needs of humanity. PROUT seeks a harmonious balance between economic growth, social development, environmental sustainability, and between individual and collective interests. Combining the wisdom of spirituality with a universal outlook and the struggle for self-reliance, PROUTist thinkers and activists are creating a new civilizational discourse and planting the seeds for a new way of living.

The organisation was launched in Dublin in October 1998 to explore the economic, cultural and environmental characteristics of a truly sustainable society - and to disseminate the results of this exploration to the widest relevant audience.

The position Feasta has adopted is that many of the world's problems are caused not by bad people but by dysfunctional systems and it sees its purpose as designing better systems. For example, the economic system demands continual growth if it is not to collapse into a catastrophic depression, and this leaves politicians with little alternative but to pursue short-term economic growth more-or-less regardless of the damage that that pursuit might be doing to longer-term environmental and social sustainability.

This field deserves serious study because while attention is usually focused on the elections of presidents, prime ministers, and representatives, the real outcomes in society - whether there will be general economic justice or special financial privileges for the few - are often quietly determined behind the scenes by the structure of a society’s monetary system.

Article on the need for a monetary reform Read here>>

BALLE is an international alliance of 42 independently operated local business networks with more than 12,000 members dedicated to building Local Living Economies.

We envision a sustainable global economy made up of Local Living Economies that build long-term economic empowerment and prosperity through local business ownership, economic justice, cultural diversity, and environmental stewardship.

Money lies at the heart of all our activities, and it lies at the heart of all political policies.

Our present money supply is responsible for so many of the country’s and the world’s economic, social, political, environmental, medical and other problems that only a reform of the money supply itself has any hope of addressing these problems. Without money reform, any other political or campaigning activity will never go anywhere near solving these problems.

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ISEE is a not-for-profit, member-governed, organization dedicated to advancing understanding of the relationships among ecological, social, and economic systems for the mutual well-being of nature and people

Ecological economics exists because a hundred years of disciplinary specialization in scientific inquiry has left us unable to understand or to manage the interactions between the human and environmental components of our world. While none would dispute the insights that disciplinary specialization has brought, many now recognize that it has also turned out to be our Achilles heel. In an interconnected evolving world, reductionist science has pushed out the envelope of knowledge in many different directions, but it has left us bereft of ideas as to how to formulate and solve problems that stem from the interactions between humans and the natural world. How is human behaviour connected to changes in hydrological, nutrient or carbon cycles? What are the feedbacks between the social and natural systems, and how do these influence the services we get from ecosystems? Ecological economics as a field attempts to answer questions such as these.

Ecological fiscal reform (EFR) is "a strategy that redirects a government's taxation and expenditure programs to create an integrated set of incentives to support the shift to sustainable development."¹ EFR includes the use of such policy tools as taxation, tax exemptions, permit trading, tax rebates, direct expenditure, program expenditure and tax credits.

EFR includes reforms or redirections of subsidy, credit and direct expenditure programs, as well as what is commonly called ecological tax reform (ETR), or environmental tax shifting. ETR involves adjusting existing taxes to make them sensitive to environmental impacts, or levying new ecological taxes to offer incentives to reduce environmental impacts and "recycling" the revenue from the new taxes. ETR revenue can be recycled in numerous ways - for example, by using it to fund reductions in existing taxes, new credit or subsidy programs, or refunds to taxpayers.