Earth Day 1994 is focused on the need to change the score card. Some communities have fought the gap between macroeconomic indicators and the community reality by inventing alternative local currencies and systems of exchange. This is a leading indicator of the failure of the macroeconomic system. When the national government and central banks that don't manage that well, you get local banks vacuuming out people's deposits. The local communities end up with a currency deficit when their local return on investment can't compete with the return elsewhere in the world.
Some places keep track of exchange credits on local computer bulletin boards.
The dentist does trades with the accountant, and so on. This enables a community to have an alternative, complimentary economy. People have their community accounts in one pocket, pounds or dollars or francs in the other. Ithica, New York has good working model of this going. Joe's Restaurant says it will accept 30 percent of the tab in Ithica money and 70 percent in U.S. dollars.