Community Currency interview from Transition Towns Kaitaia

I take a certain delight in discovering things that are happening in my own backyard, when they are reported in articles from the other side of the world. In this case the story was part of Rob Hopkin's October roundup.

TTK history:

Transition Towns is a global, grass roots initiative that aims to build sustainable communities that can cope and even thrive when oil gets more expensive, when we are hit with further economic recession and/or when climate change makes it harder to grow food in some areas of the world. The bottom line for transition towners is food security. The Kaitaia TT group started in 2008 after a public meeting at the Little Theatre where then Green M.P. Nandor Tanczos spoke.

Relocalisation is a central aim for Transition Towns and creating local currencies is part of this.

In April last year Rebecca attended a community currency conference in Wanganui where she found out about Time Banking for the first time. She was really inspired by the idea and came back to Kaitaia keen to do something. After a public meeting about community currency, a group of half a dozen people was formed to look at setting up an community currency system in Kaitaia. From all the different community currency systems available, the group opted for time banking. But first, let’s take a look at some of the other options that are available and currently in place around the world.

You can listen to the interview and read the full article here.