This video gets into some excellent points where some ideas pointed to in the presentation are fleshed out.
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“The fundamental problem with our current monetary system is that it is not sufficiently diverse, and as a result it dams and bottlenecks our creative energies, and keeps us trapped in a world of scarcity and suffering, when we actually have the capacity to create a very different reality by enabling our energies to move more freely where they are most needed, including toward cleaning up our environment, building adequate housing, providing good quality health care etc. To ensure such diversity, we need to actively support the circulation of different types of currencies for different types of purposes. 
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Bernard Lietaer is an monetary architect, author and international expert in the design and implementation of currency systems. He was one of the designers of the Euro. He has studied and worked in the field of money for more than 30 years in an unusually broad array of capacities ranging from Central Banker, fund manager and university professor to consultant.
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Humanity and planet Earth are at a crossroads. In the next 20 years we will witness the unrecoverable loss of much of the biodiversity and the deterioration of the quality of life of a vast number of people, or you will enter into a new evolutionary stage. Given the remarkable power motivator of the money, with only modify the monetary system can, gradually, tilt the direction in which we motivate billions of people without trying to control his conduct Bernard Lietaer Si policy to recognize and solve this bug constructive capitalism, soar a broad prosperity, full employment and peace throughout the world, and would also contribute to conservation as a place of life, our wonderful planet. If we introduce the neutral money, will not be more slaves of the economy.
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Rethinking Money points out that there is a way, in fact a thousand ways, to stop our current juggernaut towards global self-destruction. There is a system of solutions already in place in localities throughout the world where terrible problems have existed. The changes came about, not through the redistribution of wealth, increased conventional taxation, bond measures or enlightened self-interest from corporate entities, but rather, by people simply rethinking the concept of money. With that restructuring, everything changed.
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In 1972, the first Report for the Club of Rome – The Limits to Growth – famously spelled out the unsustainable consequences of an economic system that demands infinite growth in a finite world.
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I recently read a pre-release manuscript that has since been published.Rethinking Money: How New Currencies Turn Scarcity into Prosperity is easily the best book I have read this year. Financial systems and currencies are not new topical areas for me but I was pleasantly surprised and then outraged with what I learned from some case studies in this new release by Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne. Many of you reading are already familiar with the Chiemgauer, Brixton pound, and other alternative, local currencies in operation right now in the US, Germany, UK, and elsewhere. We are also regularly informed that a solution to long-term economic stagnation is to go back to gold-backed currency and that devaluation is primarily attributed to the floating currency policies initiated in the 1960s and 70s. However, these authors convincingly argue otherwise with both startling historical precedents and emergent strategies taking place in the present day.
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Specifically, I believe that we need to support the introduction and expansion of three different kinds of currencies alongside our national currencies: (1) an inflation-proof global complementary currency designed to stabilize the world economy;
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New Single Currency For a New World Order , it can work it has already been tested but USA wont let us use new currency or else!; Bernard Lietaer
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Lars Schall meets Bernard Lietaer: In this exclusive video interview, the internationally renowned currency expert Lietaer, who has worked in many different functions in the world of money, advocates an upgrade of our monetary paradigm as a systemic solution to our global financial crisis. The monopoly of a single currency in favor of the banking system must be eradicated. Diversity must substitute monoculture.
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People Money, The Promise of Regional Currencies by Margrit Kennedy, Bernard Lietaer and John Rogers
People Money is a comprehensive guide to the principles and practice of regional currencies.
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Tweet How is the present monetary system affecting the economy and society, and why is it failing? I will summarize the problematic aspects of our current monetary system in ten points.
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