Updated for OHM2013, july 2013

1. circulaire currency voor een circulaire economie
a circulaire currency
for a circular economy

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Who we are
● Barry Voeten
● 40
● Information science
● Designer
Kleureneconomie
● Teacher IT

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In Short
● Lineair economics
● Circular economics
● Paradigms of linear
and circular
economics
● Paradigms biology
● Design errors linear
economics
● Kleureneconomie
● Questions
● Exercise “Which
Colour is it?”
● World Café
“Which shift does this
colour elicit?”

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Linear economics
Uit: “The story of stuff”

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Linear economy is a
tapeworm
Design Error!

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Money and produce go in
opposite directions

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Linear economics
● Material shortage
● Waste surplus
● Recycling not a
built-in feature
● Need to buy a new
product

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Cycle?

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Circular economics

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Mud Jeans

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Circular economics
● Optimal production and reduction
● Infinate recyclability
● Production and reduction for minimal
energy cost
● Biomimicry

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Linear / Euro economy Circular economy
Depletion Resilionce
Possesion Use / Responsibility
Waste Cycle
Euro Euro
Max profit Keep balance
Competition Cooperation
Large Scale Small Networks
Darwin Sahtouris
Paradigms

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Trapped in the economic web

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A circular business in a linear
economy
● Required to grow in
order to pay back
loan / interest
● Supplyers and
resellers are also
required to grow
● Needs to be
balanced financially
● Compete on a market
where the lowest
price wins
Hopping on 2 thoughts
economy or ecology

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Myth
● Economy is competition. Just like nature.

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Paradigma's in biology
● Charles Darwin
● 1859
● Life is an endless
competition for scarce
resources
● Elisabet Sahtouris
● 2005
● Life is continuing self-
creation

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Conclusions part 1
● We need a circular
economy
● The linear system is
not designed to
support circularity
● Use euro ->
money drain
● Circular economy is
part of a new
paradigm
● This new paradigm is
also found in biology
● Economy =
Darwinism :
short-sighted.
Why is there a money drain?

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Design Error 1
Creation of Money

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Money is a debt

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All Money is born as a debt
Principle of money creation
● Example:
● Mortgage € 100.000.-
● Money in tell € 5.000.-
● New money: € 95.000.-
● Interest 1st year: € 5.000.-
● €100.000 × (1+0.05)^20= € 265.329,77

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When is the interest money
created?
● Money is a debt
● Debt → interest
● The blue money is
never being created
● Pay interest = fetch
money from newly
created debt
● Someone will be
screwed.

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Fiat-money
● Fiat = approval
● State fiats private
bank (FEB, ECB,
DNB) to create
money
● And borrows it
● State pays interest to
private bank
● Since Babilonia
● Companies fill
pockets
● States are broke

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No definition of Monetary Unit

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Value of money

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“Free” market / euro-economy
● Money creation with
interest
● Competition
● Forced growth
● Cheapest possible
production
● Definition of money.
What's money worth?
● Stock markets
● Consumer confidence

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Kleureneconomie
● Attempt to set Economy = Ecology
● Distinguish energy, material and waste in
3 dimensions : R G B
Red = Energy
Green = Material within its cycle
Blue = Material lost from its cycle

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Paradigm Colour Economy
● Economy = ecology
● Defined Units of
Currency
● Holistic systems
approach
● Life Cycle
● Strive for balance
● Transparancy
● Responsiblity
● Local / regional
● Self organisation

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Retailer
Raw Materials
Supplier
Producer
Consumer
Destructor

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Definition
● 1 red = energy in 100 gram sun flower oil
= 3400 kJ
● 1 green = 100 gram material within the cycle
● 1 blue = 100 gram material lost from its cycle
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Where to apply Kleureneconomie
● Consciousness /
reclection
● Product Labeling
● investment – indexing
● Barter (b2b)
● Material exchange
● Energie swap
● Complementary
currency
● Education
● Community
● Cmmercial business
● Banking
● NGO
● Governments
● …. !

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Exercise: where to put ...

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World Café “Shift by Colour”
Pick a table.
● Fysical Tables Red Green Blue in the tent
● Irc.xs4all.nl
– #redtable pass: red
– #greentable pass
– #bluetable pass: blue
Which shift does this colour elicit?
+- 15 minutes until ….

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Which shift does “Red” elicit?

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Which shift does “Green” elicit?

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Which shift does “Blue” elicit?

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Stichting Kleureneconomie
● Founded 2003
● Bookds:
● Een evenwichtige
Economie (2006)
● Colourcash (2010)
● kleureneconomie.nl
● Everything copyleft /
Creative Commons
● Workshops
● Courses
● Custom Projects

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