[All] Bus Bucks network & similar innovative ideas seem worthy of consideration.

[Robert Milligan]

Hi All,

In reviewing some  of my older unopened emails I came across this interesting one from John Turmel (Brantford Mayor candidate) containing innovative ideas that could increase community good works  and benefits (including recycling rewards). I see this as a small move in the direction of creating robust self-initiated supplementary jobs that remunerate, as part of what I would call an Innovative Sustainable Community Culture. And some of these schemes would enable &/or increase bus use among other effects.

Maybe somebody who receives this might want to initiate a Wat Reg project on this using John Turmel as an advisor. (I have too many projects but would be glad to explore ideas.)

Robert M

PS: Tumel seems the type of creative innovator municipal candidate we  need to run everywhere (and promote) in Ontario in 2018.


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> Ontario Municipal Candidates invited to join Bus Bucks network 
> 
> In 2011, Hong Kong paid students with credits on their 
> Octopus Transit cards. This year, Sydney Australia provided 
> machines to pay for recycling with bus tickets. 
> 
> I'm John The Engineer Turmel running for Brantford Mayor. 
> 
> Youtube "Bus Bond Bucks" http://youtu.be/mlDpxWjncYM for the 
> idea of using the LETS (Local Employment-Trading System) 
> Timebank software to pay students with Bus Buck credits on 
> their Transit cards like Hong Kong or with Bus Tickets for 
> shoveling snow during storms like Sydney Australia pays out 
> bus tickets for recycling. And any other useful municipal 
> service. Transit card-readers can be installed at local 
> recreation centers too!  
> 
> Argentina paid off all their foreign debt in 2006 after when 
> unions demanded payment in small denomination bonds usable 
> by anyone for Hydro, Taxes, Medical and Licenses: HTML, 
> rather than be laid off! I call those Bond Bucks. 
> 
> http://youtu.be/-EWWT9mb32k is the video DIY P2P Better-
> Than-Bank MONEY with an HOUR that explains how UNILETS 
> Timebanking that allows single parents to pay each other 
> with 1-Hour IOUs (worth 12 Timedollars) to babysit each 
> others' kids, or other useful offerings to the network. 
> 
> Supporting Bus Bucks in Brantford with me in 3 of 5 wards: 
> Ward 2: Jennifer MacDonald
> Ward 4: Bob Brown 
> Ward 5: David Swanson 
> 
> Josh Borenstein in Toronto's Ward 40 loved the idea and has 
> since convinced another 7 candidates to support Toronto Bus 
> Bond Bucks. 
> Ward 40: Josh Borenstein 
> Ward 1: Charan Hundal 
> Ward 6: John Letonja
> Ward 13: Istvan Tar
> Ward 20: Mike Andreae 
> Ward 27: Rob Wolvin 
> Ward 29: John Papadakis
> Ward 31: Janet Sherbanowski
> 
> We'll take Toponto's if they'll take Brantford's! Do an 
> internet search to be impressed by the number of LETS 
> community currency experiments going on around the world. 
> But Ontario could be first to combine all three facets, 
> youth jobs paid with Bus Bucks, adult jobs paid with Bond 
> Bucks, and Community Service paid with Timedollars. 
> 
> http://johnturmel.com/busbuckscandidates2014 is where 
> Ontario municipal candidates supporting Bus Bond Bucks will 
> be posted. I urge you to consider the benefit to your 
> community with an online Time-Based Community Currency with 
> Hours exchangeable between any Ontario communities who have 
> spare time to turn into money. Towns without municipal 
> busing but with plenty of available youth labor can also 
> participate with Bond Bucks. 
> 
> I have invited over 2,000 candidates in the following 
> cities: Ajax, Aurora, Barrie, Bracebridge, Brampton, 
> Brantford, Brockville, Burlington, Cambridge, Carleton 
> Place, Cobourg, Cornwall, Sudbury, Haldimand, Hamilton, 
> Huntsville, Kenora, Kingston, Kitchener, Markham, 
> Mississauga, Niagara Falls, Norfolk County, North Bay, 
> Oakville, Oshawa, Ottawa, Owen Sound, Peterborough, 
> Pickering, Port Colborne, Prince Edward County, Quinte West, 
> Sault Ste. Marie, St. Catharines, Thorold, Tillsonburg, 
> Toronto, Vaughan, Welland, Whitby, Windsor, Woodstock. 
>  
> Keep in mind that Bus or Bond Bucks are interchangeable 
> since they're all based on the same Volunteer Hour = $12 
> Timedollars. So I hope to keep adding names right up to the 
> election. Imagine the kids' Bus Bucks usable in all these 
> branches. 
> 
> If you agree installing a Bus Bond Bucks software in your 
> community a great idea, reply so I can add you to the Bus 
> Bucks Candidates 2014 Page. 
> 
> Here's my flyer explaining the community currency programs: 
> 
> VOTE FOR BUS/BOND/TIME BUCKS 
> 
> http://youtu.be/mlDpxWjncYM is the Turmel: 2014 Brantford 
> Mayor Bus-Bucks Bond-Bucks & DIY P2P Money Expositor 
> Interview video explaining in depth: 
> 
> BUS BUCKS 
> johnturmel.com/busbucks has the videos from the 2010 
> Brantford mayoral election where dozens of youth including 
> the mayor's son Connor Friel offered to work for 12 Bus 
> Bucks an hour on their Brantford B-Cards worth 6 bus 
> tickets. In 2011, Hong Kong Octopus Bus credits were used to 
> pay students. It works. Their students do. Card-readers used 
> on buses could be adapted for use in recreational centers. 
> 
> "Elderly Man Dies Shoveling Snow" was a Hamilton headline. 
> Do we wait until it's a Brantford headline too? Having a 
> useful function in the community and some spare spending 
> money could reduce youth suicides too. 
> 
> BOND BUCKS
> Youtube "Argentine Solution." In 2001, Argentine banks shut 
> down. Rather than be laid off, unions were paid in small-
> denomination provincial bonds anyone could use to pay HTML: 
> Hydro, Taxes, Medical, Licenses. By 2006, all foreign debt 
> was paid off. During the 1990s Russian bank crash, 750 
> States and Municipalities paid employees with Bond Rubles! 
> City workers who leave the city's cash in the bank by taking 
> Bond Bucks may receive a 10% premium for saving the city the 
> interest. The more local they spend, the more they get.  
> 
> With a Brantford Timebank account, you'll be able to afford: 
> public transit, community centers, part of your taxes. 
> 
> FLUORIDE (DONE HERE ALREADY! — my advocacy for it in 2010 election may have helped)
> World's most prestigious medical journal The Lancet 
> Neurology, March 2014 Volume 13, Issue 3 just said: 
> "Since 2006, epidemiological studies have documented 
> additional developmental neurotoxicants.. fluoride"
> We will ban fluoride neurotoxin from Brantford's water with 
> free tooth-brushes for those worried about cavities. 
> 
> John Turmel for Mayor
> Jennifer MacDonald for Ward 2:jennie4732 at hotmail.com 
> David Swanson for Ward 5: david.michael.swanson84 at gmail.com 
> 
> UNILETS TIMEDOLLARS 
> 
> A LETS (Local Employment-Trading Software) Timebank provides 
> a Directory of members' Goods & Services Offered & Wanted 
> ("Wish List"). If I double-duty baby-sit your kids with mine 
> and you later double-duty baby-sit mine, we pay each other 
> with 1-Hour notes owed validated by our online ID. Everyone 
> starts at zero. 
> 
> In 1999, I paid for 39/40 nights in Europe with IOUs for a 
> night back in Canada worth 5 Hours of volunteer time valued 
> at 60 TimeFrancs in France, 6 TimePounds in UK, 20 TimeMarks 
> in Germany, 10US and 12CA Timedollars. Outside trading is 
> accounted with HOURS. Skilled trades and professions may 
> command more Hours/hour and charge part-Cash to cover their 
> cash costs while taking their profit in part-Timedollars. 
> 
> PAPER LETS TIMEDOLLARS
> "Argentina Creditos" http://youtu.be/EO79TevS5Jc details 7 
> million Argentines who joined thousands of barter clubs 
> using paper time creditos to trade when they couldn't get 
> any money during their bank crash. 
> Julio Archet: "Unlike the IMF, we don't lend you 100 and say 
> pay back 150. We say we'll lend you 100 and then you pay 
> back 100 in goods and services to the network." 
> 
> Like huge yard sales, people could drive a car-load of their 
> goods to one location and use their paper "creditos" to 
> trade. Companies paid people in product who went to barter 
> fairs to trade. 
> 
> UNILETS Timebank works the same except everyone runs our own 
> online account for large transactions and uses our own 
> Facebook or Website ID on our own Timedollar IOU notes for 
> small transactions. 
> johnturmel.com/unilets has instructions for DIY P2P MONEY 
> 
> I O U v I THANK U 
> A Timedollar can be used for Hours owed or Hours of 
> Community Service. I do nursing home accordion concerts. 
> Volunteers for Salvation Army, Humane Society, St. Johns 
> Ambulance should publish their useful time served like I do. 
> Just document them proudly like I did. Make up your own 
> civic job cleaning a park, your nearest, with your friends. 
> 
> VALIDATE WISH LIST 
> Once you've printed your Timedollars and prepared your Wish 
> List, post a selfie with your announcement at UNILETS 
> Brantford Facebook Group and your FB Info (About) page. 
> Your FB IDed P2P DIY Timedollars are now good at Timebanks 
> around the world to accept. Or not. Just ask. I did, 
> everyone said yes. So post your past hours and start getting 
> Thank U notes from now on. Any Disabled or Elderly person 
> can witness your service to them. 
> 
> Minuteman printer will print up your T$8700 for $2. 
> 
> For snow removal network contact David Swanson. 
> For the baby-sitting network, contact Jennifer MacDonald. 
> 
>  
> John C. "The Banking Systems Engineer" Turmel, KingofthePaupers, Great Canadian Gambler, TajProfessor, Author of the UNILETS interest-free time-based currency United Nations Millennium Declaration C6 in the http://www.un.org/millennium/declaration.htm See http://johnturmel.com

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