This sounds ideal for the set up and financing of <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Phyles">"Phyles"</a> ,<div>by encouraging the remaining 1,7 Billion Euros worth of Peseta's</div><div>to be invested and exchanged for regional currencies based on a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freigeld">Freigeld/Regio</a> architecture ?</div>
<div><br></div><div>I imagine collaboration with existing cooperative approaches,</div><div>enabling the set up and development of local businesses and community owned , operated and managed businesses, for their own consumption.</div>
<div><br></div><div>It may even be combined with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_reform">Landreform</a> towards Freiland ( possibly cooperative based ? ), especially in reclaimed ( abandoned ) spanish villages,</div>
<div><br></div><div>or in municipalities such as Marinaleda ?</div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinaleda,_Spain">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinaleda,_Spain</a></div><div><br></div><div>//</div><div><br>
</div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freiwirtschaft">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freiwirtschaft</a></div><div><br></div><div><i style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="de"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Freiland&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Freiland (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(165,88,88);background-image:none;background-color:initial;background-repeat:initial initial">Freiland</a></span></i><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> (</span><i style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">free land</i><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">)</span><ul style="line-height:19px;list-style-type:square;margin-top:0.3em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:1.6em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">All land is owned by public institutions and can only be rented, not purchased (<i>see also <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George" title="Henry George" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-color:initial;background-repeat:initial initial">Henry George</a></i>).</li>
</ul></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dante.monson@gmail.com">dante.monson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2100565/Spanish-village-goes-peseta-euro-crisis-takes-hold.html" target="_blank">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2100565/Spanish-village-goes-peseta-euro-crisis-takes-hold.html</a><div>
<br></div><div><span style="text-align:left;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b><i><u>"Spanish village goes back to peseta: Residents turn to old money they'd held on to"</u></i></b></span></div>
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:bold">- Thirty businesses have started using old currency<br></span></font></li><li style="list-style-position:initial;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;margin-right:0px;padding-top:0px;list-style-type:none;margin-left:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:bold">- Spain estimated to have saved 1.7bn euros in pesetas</span></font></li><div style="text-align:left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><br>
</font></div></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>"unlike other eurozone countries, pesetas can still be exchanged for euros at the Bank of Spain in Madrid where a deadline for turning in old money was never set."</b></span></div>
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</b></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="1">note : Thanks to Topi for suggesting the article</font></span></div>
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