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Craft production, prices and mutual credit: weaving

Low Impact

So the mutual credit advantage is that you don’t actually need any money to trade. But it’s not money, it’s just numbers in accounts. It works even if there’s no money in your community. Lowimpact is not advocating compulsory purchasing of craft goods – it’s entirely voluntary.

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What kind of work do we want to do? Is working with our hands passé?

Low Impact

The ideal exchange medium for this new, mutually-owned, decentralised, healthy and nurturing economy is without a shadow of a doubt, mutual credit – especially if money is in short supply when the effects of Covid lockdowns really kick in. Here are a few to start with (although future interviews will include a video too): Natural builder.

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Career change? Making a living from weaving

Low Impact

At Lowimpact.org we’re interested in helping to bring production back to communities, and so we’re talking with craftspeople, smallholders, natural builders, renewables installers and small business owners in our range of topics. I think we have that video on the Lowimpact site. This is the first of a three-parter. How do you sell?