TC Economy

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Our Local Economy Action Group

fostering local economy
highlighting locally owned businesses
introducing Time Banks

What we've done:

Researched best practices and are developing criteria for locally owned green businesses with a feature of environmentally friendly practices
Began Green Pages listing locally owned businesses in Cheltenham, Abington Jenkintown and nearby .
If you know of one that qualifies, please let us know so we can add to our Green Pages and promote this enterprise.
Researched mutual job credit system called TimeBanks, which refers to a reciprocal service exchange that uses units of time as currency and is an example of an alternative monetary system.

What we'd like to take on:

Encourage more locally-owned businesses, in partnership with the Downtown Glenside Community Partnership,
and other similar efforts

Please contact us if you would like to share your time and ideas towards sustainable economy measures

"Our first task is to
create a shadow economic, social, and even technological structure
that will be ready to take over as the existing system fails."
David Ehrenfeld, p141 of Transition Handbook

"The hope for change resides in the people
who are engaged in rebuilding their local economies."
David Korten, p15 of Yes! Magazine, Fall 2010