Permis

= complementary currency project for the permaculture movement

Background

Stella:

"we're experimenting with a new currency to aid gift-apreciations amongst the permaculture network, we've called the new currency Permis, for 'permission' (to do thing for the good of everyone) and for 'permaculture' too.

It is an integral part of the design of the new Chaordic Permaculture Institute pilot http://permacultureinstitute.pbwiki.com/ThePermis - not translated from the spanish yet, sorry .... hopefully soon!

this flowed out of several other projects we've been working on from time, and keeping in mind a very old network currency which was developed by our permaculture pioneers in England (in the 80s I believe)which was called the Stars system. We've improved on the design to try to avoid the pitfalls it had and came up with the Permies.

We now have 72 profiles started in this new initiative (58 on the english site, 14 on the spanish site)! and we are also applying for a Global Voices fund as we heard that some of our youngsters want to go travelling across Spain to visit permaculture projects and pioneers, and they could multi-function their visits with giving wiki workshops whilst setting up new profiles. We're asking some cash towards travel and admin costs, but the bulk of the costs will be payed in Permies.

I don´t remember if I wrote about this initiative, but basically the idea of the Chaordic Permaculture Institute started in 2003, when a proposal for a new design was made because we realized that our massive world-lab of permie activists was thriving through personal friendships where it worked well .. and stuck where people failed to get introduced ... amongst other things." (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/holistichelping/message/1546)