alternative currency - giving & receiving
EASTBAY TIMEBANK
Why not consider gifting your time to a friend in the community?
TimeBanking is a FREE time exchange system that strengthens community by building relationships. It gives you access to the time, energy, knowledge and skills of others For more information you can download a brochure here.
DONATENZ
Donate to deserving organisations in your community, using our unique match maker service – It’s like online dating for donating! If you have something to give, we can put you in touch with worthy organisations who are waiting to receive. Save time & money and give your unloved things a new lease on life, whilst helping the environment and supporting your local community.
FREECYCLE
The Freecycle Network™ is made up of 4,852 groups with 6,724,000 members across the globe. It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills. Each local group is moderated by a local volunteer (them's good people). Membership is free.
TRADE & EXCHANGE
Welcome to New Zealand’s largest free classifieds - Free ads - No success fees - Even for businesses!
WASTE EXCHANGE
A unique service that helps businesses connect their unwanted materials and recyclables with new owners through a free online exchange. Register as a member of the Waste Exchange if you have material you would like to divert from landfill or if you are looking for material and resources for yourself or your business.
LIVING ECONOMIES
We are working for healthy economies for Aotearoa/NZ - balanced, sustainable and empowering - based on and respecting the living systems of our planet.
Changing the global money system is not an immediate option. Establishing complementary means of exchange is. They already exist in a small way as green dollar schemes, barter schemes and the like. The next step is the creation of regional currency-based systems that are both interest free and incur a circulation fee. MORE....
THE BANK OF REAL SOLUTIONS
The Bank of Real Solutions was proposed at the Transition Towns national forum on Waiheke in March 2009. Originally called "The Bank of Living Models", the project has come to fruition as a partnership between Transition Towns and the Anew NZ Trust, and by the goodwill of an individual's donation. The Bank of Real Solutions aims to help bring forward the successful working models being used today to overcome social, economic and environmental challenges in New Zealand. The focus is that which makes us more; resilient, vibrant, healthier, happier and better connected - in our households, our neighbourhoods, regions and as a nation. It brings forward the success stories of the individuals and communities who are; using resources more wisely, reducing financial overheads, fixing social ills, restoring ecosystems, creating jobs, enhancing the aesthetics of where they live, becoming more self-determining.
The Bank of Real Solutions is all about the Kiwi can-do attitude, "Out-thinking the problems because we can". It aims to capture the excitement and inspiration of working by creative determination to overcome that which challenges us. The Bank of Real Solutions has a primarily New Zealand focus but is inevitably global in its nature of seeking and sharing best practice and may develop to help promote New Zealand to the world as a centre for solutions for the future
Local Exchange Trading Systems
LETS are local community trading groups where members exchange their goods and services with each other in a spirit of harmony and a genuine desire to help each other. Read More...
