Pound notes
And you thought Totnes’s bid to become The Nut Tree Capital Of Britain was kooky.
Now, as part of the Transition Town Totnes wheeze, a limited number of Totnesian ‘pounds’ are being put into local circulation to launch the Economics and Livelihoods group on Wednesday, March 7 at St Johns Church, Bridgetown.
Two hundred and fifty of the individually numbered ‘pounds’ will be given out at the event which features Molly Scott Cato, a lecturer and author speaking on ‘Local Money, Local Skills, Local Power… the role of money in building resilience’. Her talk will be followed by a bit of a yap exploring some of the issues raised.
The Totnes pounds will be given out to people who attend the evening and will be accepted by some local businesses and at TTT events in lieu of sterling.
Rob Hopkins, the originator of TTT, told PRSD (enough acronyms already!): “This is just a small experiment designed to get people thinking and talking about money. Totnes used to issue its own money and one side of the Totnes Pound is a facsimile of an old Totnes banknote. One day in the not to distant future Totnes might have its own local currency again.”
The talk will be followed by an Open Space event on Saturday, March 10 to be held at the Methodist Hall in Totnes on the theme of ‘The Economic Revival of Totnes’.
Posted by Thin White Duke
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