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Contents

Foreword by Ed Mayo and Helena Norberg-Hodge

Preface

Introduction

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Chapter 1: Out of Control

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Chapter 2: Creating enough Elbow Room

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Service sector jobs may be in decline

Japanese banks may cause financial meltdown

Bioregions or spatial fields?

Chapter 3: Cutting the Monetary Tie

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Differences between local and national currencies

How LETS earnings are treated for tax

Paper currency replaces LETS in America

Cash attitudes vs LETS attitudes

The dollar that does not want to be money

Mutual currency business provides businesses with cheap capital

Why do governments let banks create money?

Chapter 4: Banking on Ourselves

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Grameen lending methods successful in Chicago

Novel ways of raising small loans

How a bank can transform a neighbourhood

Rural bank offers interest-free loans

Going Dutch keeps insurance payments local

Back to basics with building societies

Chapter 5: Energy makes the World go Round

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Contact information for Chapter 5

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Balancing external costs against local ones

Town installs turbine to cut old people's power bill

A bluffer's guide to wind turbines

How three families started a movement and created an industry

Can horse transport make a comeback?

Car pools cut motoring cost and energy use

Chapter 6: Life from the Land

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Last-minute hunt to save lost Irish apple varieties

Pure no more? Seed mixtures cut chemical use

Animal genes at risk too

Rural refineries required to replace oil-based chemicals

A farm where food is free

Solving the land problem

Pubs brew their own beer for only nine pence a pint

Strict rules make produce markets work

Chapter 7: New Attitudes for New Times

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Throwing rural de-population into reverse

Epilogue: The Future, and It Works

2002/3 Updates

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