31/03/2019 | Featured, News
MEMBER REWARDS PROGRAM Somebody needs to do the organising for the organisation. ―Josephine Brown BrisLETS has a lot more potential than is currently obvious. The organisation needs to move forward to realise this potential; then it would thrive, rather than just...
29/03/2019 | News, Opinion
Why LETS is crucial to an economics of the soul and thus our children’s future The most important part of economics today is money; 50 years ago, though, it was not. It was the physical economy. Then, the economic focus for us ordinary folks was making goods and...
29/03/2019 | Members Info
My LETS journey I can’t exactly remember when I joined LETS, but it must be a long time ago as my membership number is 0009. I was a single parent with a difficult child. It was hard to function. I had no family and no supportive community network. Life was a big...
18/03/2019 | Members Info
Jessie #1422 I joined Logan LETS in 1998, which was started by a nun who I first met in 1989 – she was involved in a food co-op, building and running the Loganlea Neighbours and friends Centre etc. I took on various committee roles in LETS and 7 other community...
27/02/2019 | Featured, News, Opinion
I’ve been a member of BrisLETS for ten years and I’ve made some wonderful connections. Long before I started volunteering for it, I found something compelling about its beliefs, and my instinct told me it was going to be a big part of my future. But for a long time I...
26/02/2019 | Featured, News, Opinion
To put our unhappy present-day politics of money into perspective, let’s go back about 2500 years to the time of the ancient Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle. Then let’s distinguish between the social and natural resources economies (oikonomia), and the money...
