With each exchange we build links between people and local resources. And this local economic system has broad implications. By printing our own money and focusing on a local economy, we not only benefit local residents but are also part of a growing local-currency movement. Each of these local-currency systems contributes toward more socially and ecologically just societies.
Local currency is good for our community.
By community, I refer not to people who live in our region, but also the myriad other species and our ecosystem as a whole. In the name of progress, much of the world is turning away from local economies and community self-reliance. What ensues is a process of environmental destruction, labor exploitation, and cultural extinction around the world. The engine driving such devastation is known as economic globalization. There are pockets of resistance to globalization springing up everywhere.