Will Ruddick has done some great on-the-ground work developing community currencies. I've watched this documentary several time and get excited about the possibility. A lot of work and experimentation has been done outside Bitcoin with local and community currencies. With the idea of a "circular economy" trending with Bitcoiners, this is work checking out.
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Will Ruddick is a founder of Grassroots Economics, an NGO empowering marginalized communities through community currencies. In "Food Forests + Community Currencies" they discuss using community currencies and syntropic agroforestry to lift up marginalized communities.
Syntropic agroforestry uses principles like soil cover, plant stratification, and succession planning to develop sustainable food forests. Community currencies help fund the creation of these forests and circulate value, like nutrients, within the community.
https://www.grassrootseconomics.org/pages/food-forests
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