For More Information
Check out these websites and books for more information on time based service exchanges. For audio, video, and print pieces on Hour Exchange Portland see our resource Media page.
- - www.hourworld.org see if there are hour exchanges in your area, get free software and training to start your own. They also work with buy local campaigns, cooperatives, and voluneteer organizations.
- - www.timebanks.org connect with hour exchanges and time banks across the country.
- - www.timebanking.org time banking in the UK with good resources on how to start a time bank.
- - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TimeBanking/ time baking forum.
- - www.neweconomics.org economics as if people and the planet mattered.
- Books:
- - Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam on the importance of social capital.
- - Funny Money by David Boyle
- - Going Local by Michael H. Shuman on Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age.
- - Liberating Economics: Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work and Globalization by Drucilla K. Barker and Susan F Feiner
- - Life Inc. by Douglas Rushkoff
- - Money: Understanding and creating Alternatives to Legal Tender by Thomas H. Greco, Jr.
- - No More Throw-Away People; The Co-Production Imperative by Edgar Cahn, J.D. Ph.D.
- - The Single Global Currency; Common Cents for the World by Morrison Bonpasse
- - Time Dollars by Edgar Cahn, Ph.D, J.D., Johnathan Rowe.
