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Date: Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 8:38 PM<br>Subject: 2013 – Spring Newsletter<br>To: Thomas Greco <<a href="mailto:thg@mindspring.com">thg@mindspring.com</a>><br><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;color:green">2013 –
Spring<span> </span>Newsletter<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b>In this issue:<u></u><u></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:green">Crowdfunding my 2013 Summer
tour<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.25in"><b>Articles and
Projects<u></u><u></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span>
</span></span></span>New chapter with Prof. Jem
Bendell is now
published and online.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span>
</span></span></span>My new article in IJCCR.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b>Recent events & Presentations<u></u><u></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span>
</span></span></span><b>Money
& Life. <u></u><u></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span>
</span></span></span><b>DEBTx
prsentation <u></u><u></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><u></u> <u></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:green">Crowdfunding
my 2013
Summer tour<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><img src="cid:part1.02060305.01030309@mindspring.com" height="236" hspace="12" width="310" align="left">I’m pleased to announce
that I’ve been invited to the EU and UK for a multi-stop tour on
the power of
currency for people and communities. My itinerary is still
evolving but so far
I am slated for presentations, workshops and consultations in the
Netherlands,
Sweden, England, and Greece. I will be hosted for a few days by <a href="http://www.socialtrade.org/" target="_blank">STRO (Social Trade
Organization</a>, then attend the 2nd International <a href="http://www.iss.nl/research/conferences_and_seminars/periodic_conferences_debates_and_seminars/complementary_currency_systems/" target="_blank">Conference
on
Complementary Currency Systems</a> in the Hague, where I will
make a
presentation <span>titled <i>Reinventing
Money:
How Complementary Currencies and Mutual Credit Clearing Can
Create a
Sustainable, Regenerative Economy</i><span>,
and sit on two panels: <i>The Future of Currencies</i>, and
another which will
consider the legal and regulatory aspects of complementary
currencies. <u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span>As
you’ve probably
noticed, </span>travel is becoming increasingly expensive. The
CCS organizers
will be providing a travel allowance, but it will not be enough to
cover even my
trans-Atlantic flight, much less living expenses and travel to
other stops on
my tour. That is why I have launched a Crowdfunding campaign on
Indiegogo to
help cover the costs of this tour. I need $4,000 to make it to all
the places
on the tour and cover the costs of food and lodging. I hope you’ll
help me make
that goal by going here: <a href="http://igg.me/at/tomstour/x/31801" target="_blank">http://igg.me/at/tomstour/x/31801</a>
and chipping in whatever you can. Please also help me get the word
out and
share the link with your networks! Thank you!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">This
is an
investment in a sustainable future and, as <strong><span style="font-weight:normal">Swami Beyondananda says:<u></u><u></u></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span> </span>“It’s time to shift our karma
out of reverse
and get our assets in gear.”</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">As
a quick
reminder, on my previous tour last October I gave a total of 15
presentations
and workshops to various groups in three different countries. If
you’d like a
review, you can read my brief report of that tour at <a href="http://beyondmoney.net/2012/11/30/newsletter-november-2012/" target="_blank">http://beyondmoney.net/2012/11/30/newsletter-november-2012/</a>.
Your help with this Indiegogo campaign will make all the
difference in building
on that success and extending this good work to other communities
in need! Here’s
that link again: <a href="http://igg.me/at/tomstour/x/31801" target="_blank">http://igg.me/at/tomstour/x/31801</a>.
Thanks in advance for your support in getting me to all these
exciting
engagements and spreading the word about the campaign!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b>Articles and Projects<u></u><u></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><u></u> <u></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><img src="cid:part7.01000502.07020807@mindspring.com" alt="The
Necessary Transition" height="164" hspace="12" width="109" align="left">Following
our participation last October in the <i><span>International
Sustainability Summit</span></i><span> </span>at the <i><a href="http://www.eurosustainability.org/en/esa.htm" target="_blank">European
Sustainability
Academy</a></i> in Crete, Prof. Jem Bendell and I decided to
collaborate on
certain projects. One of these was to co-author a chapter for a
new book, <i>The Necessary
Transition: The Journey
towards the Sustainable Enterprise Economy</i>, edited by
Malcolm McIntosh. Our
chapter titled, <b><i>Currencies of transition: Transforming money to
unleash sustainability</i></b>,
is now online and can be downloaded at: <a href="http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com/content/pdfs/TNT_bendell.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com/content/pdfs/TNT_bendell.pdf</a>.
This chapter elaborates on topics I covered in the anthology, <i>The Wealth of the Commons</i>,
which I
announced previously. You can find that chapter at <a href="http://beyondmoney.net/monographs/reclaiming-the-credit-commons/" target="_blank">http://beyondmoney.net/monographs/reclaiming-the-credit-commons/</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal">My newest article, <b><i><span>Taking
Moneyless Exchange to Scale: Measuring and Maintaining the
Health of a Credit
Clearing System</span></i></b>, has just been published in
the <a href="http://ijccr.net/" target="_blank">International Journal of
Community Currency Research</a>
(IJCCR). You can download it at <a href="http://ijccr.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/ijccr-2013-greco.pdf" target="_blank">http://ijccr.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/ijccr-2013-greco.pdf</a>.
This article provides some very important guidance for operators
and organizers
of credit clearing systems like LETS and commercial trade
exchanges. Please
take the time to give it your attention.<b><span><u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">_______________________________________________________________________</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b>Recent events &
Presentations<u></u><u></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><u></u> <u></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In March, Katie Teague’s documentary film, <i><a href="http://moneyandlifemovie.com/" target="_blank">Money
& Life<span style="font-style:normal">,</span></a></i> in
which I make an
appearance, premiered in Tucson at the historic Fox Theater. That
event also
included short presentations by myself and Bernard Lietaer (with
Jacqui Dunne).
The mayor of Tucson, Jonathan Rothschild, was on hand to introduce
us. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">In
April, I
gave a presentation at the DEBTx conference that was held at the
University of
Michigan Law School. My presentation titled, <i>Debt, Interest, and the Growth Imperative</i>, was
delivered remotely
from Tucson via Skype, which worked very well. I’m told that the
presentations
were recorded and will soon be posted to the web, but I don’t yet
have the
link. It may appear at <a href="http://www.law.umich.edu/multimedia/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.law.umich.edu/multimedia/Pages/default.aspx</a>.
</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Finally, I’d like to remind you that if you
sign up to
follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you’ll be notified every time I
add a post to
my website (which isn’t that often, so you won’t be overwhelmed).
And please check
out <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/economic-empowerment-2013-speaking-and-educational-tour/x/31801" target="_blank">our
campaign
on Indiegogo</a>. Your support will be greatly appreciated and
all
donations are tax-deductible through NEST, Inc.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wishing you a pleasant Springtime,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thomas</p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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Thomas H. Greco, Jr.
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PO Box 42663, Tucson, AZ 85733
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