Slides of our workshop, which will show the root of our need for growth. Part of this workshop is a seperate slideshow, DIY Community Currency.

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Overview
● 5' Movie Impossible Hamster
● 10' Theory "Why money has to grow"
● 10' Movie Story of Solutions – Goal
● 10' Short history of Banking in NL
● 30' World Café Growth or Balance?
● 30' World Café alternative currencies
● 10' The movement in NL, 2014
● 10' Evaluation

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Checklist Materials
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Flip-over sheets
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Pencils / pens
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Beamer / screen / audio amplification / laptop
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4 large tablesfor participants + 1chair for
beamer / laptop

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The Impossible Hamster

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The Impossible Hamster!

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Money is issued as debt
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All money is someone's debt
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Example:
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Mortgage € 100.000.-
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Cash in hand € 5.000.-
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New money: € 95.000.-
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Interest year 1 : € 5.000.-
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€100.000 × (1+0.05)^20= € 265.329,77
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Principle of creation of money

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“The interest amount” is
never issued
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Money is debt
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Debt → interest
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Blue money is never
issued
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Someone will default
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Crisis is built-in
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Only remedy: growth

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Fiat-money
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Fiat = approval
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State fiats
commercial bank
(FED, DNB, ECB) to
issue money
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State borrows this
money
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State pays interest
to commercial banks
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Since Babilonia
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Companies get rich
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Nations are close to
broke
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Bankers &
businesses rule

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Amsterdamse Wisselbank
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1609 -1820
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First real central bank
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Financial center of the World
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100% coverage
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First demand deposits
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“Gulden” not the only coin
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Covered by the City of Amsterdam

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De Nederlandsche Bank
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Silver standard
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1847-1875
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Gold Standard
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1874-1914
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1925-1936
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Since 1814
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Bank notes, credits,
public treasury
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Banking crisis 1920-
ies
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Nationalization in
1948

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Famous opponents of
Fractional Reserve
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Abraham Lincoln
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Greenbacks
– 1861-1862
– 1862-1865
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John F. Kennedy
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Executive Order
11110 op 4 Juni 1963
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Debunked door Bill
Still (?)
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Member of Congress
Ron Paul

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We are a Green Cooperation
● We are a cooperation of green producers
cooperating on a local and regional scale.
● We work energy efficient and close material
cycles.
● A “Green Bank” is supporting us with credit for our
investments
● We want to be sustainable in the long run.
● Question: is this a sustainable model for the
future?

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We are a Green Bank
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We invest in
sustainable
businesses
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They make a healthy
profit and make a
positive impact in
society
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This is how we
contribute to a better
world
Question:
Does this bank
support a society
that will find an
equillibrium (balance)
in the long run ?

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World Café : Growth or Balance
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Each table has 1
of 2 cases
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Turn to the spirit
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Write down
anything that
comes to mind
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20 minutes
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_______________
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World Café : Growth or Balance -
harvest
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What's been written on the sheets?
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Does the bank support a balanced
society in the long run?
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Is the business model used by the Green
Cooperation possible in the long run?

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Break
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until …..

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Currency World Café
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4 tables, 20 minutes
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Which currency supports my
/ our intention ?
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Done => move to the next table

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Alternative Currency in NL
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LETS in NL since 1993
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90 exchange circles on Letscontact
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Time Bank in Den Haag
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STRO and Qoin develop money alternatives
worldwide

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De Blije B
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The Happy B...
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Cooperative community b....
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“B” in oprichting
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No interest, but loan / price
correction
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Own rate-proof coin : URA
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Certificates of Participation
€ 25.- or € 100.-
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http://www.deblijeb.nl

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Ons Geld
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Campaign
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Political pressure
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In need of volunteers
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http://onsgeld.nu

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Gift Economy
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Robbert Vesseur &
Petra Smolders (NL)
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Live without money
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To give without
conditions
→ open heart
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Faith in receiving your
needs
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http://geefeconomie.nl/

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Stichting Kleureneconomie
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Economie = ecologie
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Fix all problems in a new design
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Book, website, presentations, workshops
Online marketplace + bank (3D concept)

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Thank you!
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Final question: what do you take home?
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Thank you for your contribution!