Podcast appearances and mentions of edgar cahn

The economy was designed to serve life. At some point, it forgot. This article traces how that happened - through colonial extraction, currency manipulation, and centuries of treating the Earth as an inexhaustible resource - and more importantly, what is already being built in its place. It is also worth naming what is being built against it. Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC), digital identity systems, and the broader technocratic agenda advancing through institutions like the World Economic Forum represent a competing vision of the future - one where economic participation is surveilled, programmable, and ultimately controlled by the few. That is not a regenerative economy. It is the extractive economy in a new interface. The regenerative economy moves in the opposite direction: toward decentralization, sovereignty, reciprocity, and life. From Time Banks in New York to community currencies in Ecuador to worker cooperatives in Spain, it is not a future vision. It is a present reality, waiting to be joined. And while blockchain and regenerative finance are real and important parts of this picture, the regenerative economy is bigger than any single technology. It is a whole-systems redesign - cultural, spiritual, and practical - of how human beings relate to value, to each other, and to all living beings on Earth.A System Feature | Designed to ExtractA president steps up to the podium in Manila, praising the economic progress their country has fulfilled after, what many of us call “ the plandemic”. Outside the auditorium, a young mother carries her child on her hip, knocking on car windows at a red light, eyes down, asking for alms. The applause inside the hall doesn't reach her. It never does.The president says the currency has strengthened. That prices are coming down. Meanwhile, across the city, a farmer named Rodrigo is standing in the field he has worked for thirty years, calculating whether this harvest will cover the loan he took out before the last typhoon swept his crop away. It didn't. This is not an exception to the economic system. It is a feature of it. A reflection of a culture that does not care about those actually in need.Many nations measure their health through GDP - Gross Domestic Product - which essentially dictates whether or not an economy is “progressing.” It runs under one quiet assumption: that the Earth will keep giving. Indefinitely. Without asking anything in return. That before the calculations around supply, demand, and the balance of everything else, all the raw materials are already ideally supplied.The Earth is answering. Typhoons that once came once a generation now arrive like clockwork. Harvests that fed communities for centuries are failing across the Andes, the Sahel, the Mekong delta. The seasons that indigenous peoples read as living calendars have become erratic, unreliable, grieving. None of this is random. It is a response - accurate and proportional - to an economy built on the assumption that extraction has no cost.If we were truly “abundant” financially, we would not have billions of people at risk of starvation, homelessness, and other manifestations of neglect and poverty. The economy was supposed to serve all life. It has forgotten this. And in forgetting it, it has begun to abandon human life itself.The Story We InheritedMoney was supposed to be a promissory note for the gold reserves one actually held. The paper was a symbol - pointing at something real, something held in a vault somewhere, something that could be touched.Then the notes began circulating. And the longer they circulated, the more people forgot what they were pointing to. Eventually, the circulation gave rise to the idea of turning the notes into currency itself. The symbol became the standard. It became backed not by gold, but by story - a story so strong, so repeated, so programmed into every transaction of daily life, that we began to mistake it for the truth.We placed a middleman between ourselves and our needs. And somewhere along the way, we forgot we had done it. Perhaps, by design. Here is what the story never tells you: the gold itself did not arrive innocently.In 1302, Pope Boniface VIII issued Unam Sanctam, declaring papal authority supreme over all earthly power - making the Earth itself, philosophically, ownable. A century and a half later, that claim became economic policy. Dum Diversas (1452) authorized the enslavement of non-Christians across the globe. Romanus Pontifex (1455) granted Portugal the right to colonize and extract across Africa and the New World. Inter Caetera (1493) extended the same to Spain and the Americas.These were the founding economic legislation of the extractive world we live in - all cloaked in religious language.What followed was centuries of forced extraction. Economists Flynn and Giráldez have documented that colonial American silver - mined through indigenous forced labor in Potosí and across Peru and Mexico - became the standard monetary foundation of early global trade. The gold in the vault was never simply there. It was coercively taken.And then, on August 15, 1971, even that material trace was erased. President Nixon closed the gold window, ending the Bretton Woods system and severing the dollar's convertibility to gold. According to the Federal Reserve's own record, the international community was not consulted. From that moment, currency was backed by nothing but the authority of the government printing it.Knowing that we wrote ourselves into this story, we are now remembering that we can write ourselves out of it. Not only by writing new stories, but by reconnecting with stories that existed long before our current economic situation - stories that are still alive, still practiced, still remembered by the communities that never abandoned them.What Has Always WorkedBefore the conquest of certain nations to centralize power into their hands, other societies practiced more communal and regenerative ways of exchanging value. To them, considering other people and the Earth itself was not an ethical add-on. It was integral to the flourishing of their economies.Pre-colonial PhilippinesLong before the Spaniards arrived, the Philippine archipelago was a major hub in the maritime Silk Road - one of Asia's most active trade networks. Communities exchanged with Chinese, Japanese, Arab, and Indian traders at coastal ports and river settlements.The archipelagic geography made it impossible to consolidate wealth in any single place. Different tribes like the Maranao exchanged surplus agricultural produce, textiles, metalware, and forest products through robust barter systems built on kinship ties and alliances among polities. Value moved between two people who chose to relate. No middleman. Mutual trust was the economic infrastructure.Andean PeoplesThe Quechua people organized their economy around a relational foundation that lives in the language itself. Ayni - sacred reciprocity. Minka - collective community work. Randi-Randi - generalized reciprocity, the understanding that what circulates returns. All three connect to the broader principle of Sumak Kawsay: good living in right relationship with community, land, and the living world.Sumak Kawsay does not separate prosperity from the wellbeing of ecosystems. It understands them as one thing. This recognition runs so deep that Ecuador enshrined it as the central guiding principle for its national development in its 2008 constitution - the living legal inheritance of an ancient economy that knew how to stay.Haudenosaunee in North AmericaIn their 1981 formal statement to the United Nations, the Haudenosaunee Council of Chiefs articulated what their communities had practiced for centuries: that the earth was created for all to use, forever - not for the present generation to exhaust. Under their law, land is held by the women of each clan, who farm and care for it for the benefit of future generations.The Haudenosaunee saw land as a responsibility to be stewarded in trust. Anthropologist Kurt Jordan from Cornell University documented their economic practices and described them as “a reasonably sustainable, localized economy” even under intense external pressure. They had embodied communal stewardship long before theories about such things were written down.Southern Africa“I am because we are.”This is Ubuntu - the philosophy at the core of both social and economic life across Southern Africa. Communities in South Africa and Mozambique relied on mutual aid networks, intergenerational knowledge systems, and participatory rituals as practical economic infrastructure. These systems enhanced community cohesion and collective resilience precisely in the moments when extractive economies failed them. They understood, bone-deep, that no human being thrives in isolation.Diversity of Regen Economic SystemsMany communities across continents are actively rebuilding economic systems beyond the extractive model. The following are not theoretical. They are actively running. Hence, the more diversity of economic systems each person and community practices, the more abundant, unbreakable and independent we are from degenerative systems from governments and corporations that want to control it all. The Commons FoundationOne body of research forms the intellectual foundation for nearly all of them: the life's work of Elinor Ostrom, the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Economics. Ostrom spent decades documenting over 800 cases of communities successfully governing shared resources - in Switzerland, Kenya, Guatemala, Nepal, and beyond - without either privatization or state control.Her conclusion was simple and radical: communities do not inevitably destroy what they share. Given the right institutional design, they protect it and pass this duty to the next generation. And her eight design principles for successful commons governance - the framework that emerged from all that fieldwork - describe, as she herself acknowledged, the same governance systems that indigenous communities had been practicing for centuries.Her work is not a new idea. It is a confirmation of ancient ones.Regenerative Economics | Beyond ReFi - The Whole-Systems VisionWhen most people first encounter the term “regenerative economy,” they arrive through crypto. Through ReFi - regenerative finance - and the promise of blockchain as a tool for funding ecological restoration, decentralizing power, and making impact transparent. These are real contributions. They matter.But John Fullerton, founder of the Capital Institute and one of the most rigorous thinkers in this field, spent two decades on Wall Street before arriving at a different and more fundamental question: what if the entire framework of modern finance is running in conflict with how life actually works?Fullerton's work focuses on building an economic framework that supports the long-term health of people, communities, and the planet - not by tweaking the existing system, but by replacing its underlying logic. His core argument is that we are running our society in conflict with the patterns and principles that explain how life works.His answer is what he calls regenerative economics: eight principles drawn from living systems science that describe how healthy economies - like healthy ecosystems - actually function. Diversity. Balance. Circular flow. Robust circulation. Surplus financial capital, in his framework, needs to be recycled and regenerated into other forms of capital - natural, social, and cultural. Not hoarded nor extracted. Composted back into the living system that produced it.ReFi, in Fullerton's framing, is one tool within this larger architecture. Blockchain can decentralize power. Tokenized nature credits can make ecological value legible to markets. Community currencies can circulate value locally. But the technology is only as regenerative as the values underneath it. A crypto project built on extraction logic is still extraction, regardless of the chain it runs on.Regenerative economy is not a financial product. It is a civilizational shift - in how we measure wealth, in what we decide to protect, in whose voices count when decisions are made. ReFi is welcome in that shift. It is one current in a much larger river.Time BanksIn Jackson Heights, Queens, a retired nurse named Gloria hasn't touched the formal economy in months for the things that matter most to her. She spends three hours teaching English to a recent immigrant. Those hours become credits. She spends them on home repairs from a neighbor who knows carpentry. He spends his credits on childcare. The loop keeps moving.This is a Time Bank - a community exchange system built on one radical premise: everyone's time is worth the same. One hour of legal advice equals one hour of gardening equals one hour of emotional support. The hierarchy of market wages disappears. What remains is a web of people who need each other.Edgar Cahn, who developed Time Banking in the 1980s after surviving a near-fatal heart attack, called it “co-production” - the idea that the economy needs what the market can never price: care, community, civic participation, the work of raising children and holding elders. Time Banks make that invisible labor visible, and circulate it back into the community that produced it.Today there are over 500 Time Banks operating in more than 30 countries. Some have formalized into neighborhood institutions. Others run through apps. All of them rest on the same foundation the Quechua called Ayni - sacred reciprocity - translated into the language of modern urban life.Mondragon CorporationThe Mondragon Corporation in Spain's Basque region remains the most studied proof that democratic ownership functions at scale. Founded by six worker-owners in 1956, it now comprises 96 cooperatives employing over 70,000 people, with annual revenues exceeding €11 billion. Workers own the company collectively, vote on strategy at general assemblies, and operate under a constitutionally capped pay ratio of 6-to-1 between the highest and lowest earners.Traditional Dream FactoryIn a 25-hectare village in Alentejo, Portugal, Traditional Dream Factory is a living prototype of the self-sustaining regenerative community - blending collective ownership, ecological restoration, intentional community, and decentralized economy in one working place. They have raised over €1.25 million in total capital across 280+ token holders. Their 2026 build phase is completing co-living rooms, artist studios, a farm-to-table restaurant, a mushroom farm, and a biopool wellness space.AtreyuInvestment, as most of us have encountered it, prioritizes short-term financial returns above all else. Atreyu challenges this at the root by approaching investment through living systems principles and deep relational due diligence. They support their investees to ensure that both the enterprises and the ecosystems they steward realize their potential - together. They focus on early-stage businesses and actively encourage steward-ownership models that enshrine self-governance and purpose orientation.Muyu CoinOne of the first social coins in South America, Based in Ecuador - Muyu serves as an alternative exchange system rooted in community trust and an understanding of sacred economy. It protects the sovereignty of communities in their production, distribution, exchange, consumption, and post-consumption - keeping the loop of value inside the community rather than extracting it outward. It uses Cyclos, an enchrypted platform, a base.It first did an attempt to start in 2015, but not many people showed interest. It then came back very strong in 2020, due to the “plandemic”. People felt the need to have alternative ways to transact that was not controlled by limiting governments. Giving communities complete independence. Currently with over 150+ members who are exchanging goods and services in different nodes throughout the country. From food produce, clothing and art -to- car mechanic, dentists and school teachers serving to the community.Grassroots EconomicsFounded in Kenya, Grassroots Economics supports communities in building their own self-sustaining economies - even when national currency is scarce - through a model called Commitment Pooling.Consider Wanjiru, a vegetable seller in Mombasa's Bangla Pesa network. During a slow week when Kenyan shillings are tight, she issues a Community Asset Voucher - a commitment to provide vegetables - and deposits it into a communal pool. Her neighbor, a carpenter named Kamau, redeems it. He offers his own labor in return. The loop closes. Food reaches a family that needed it. A roof gets repaired. No national currency changes hands.This is not a workaround. It is a return to how value was always supposed to move.Since Grassroots Economics was established in 2010, they have supported 26,600 people across 290+ communities, issuing over 2,140 vouchers. Their protocol is inspired by indigenous Rotational Labor Associations similar to Kenya's mwethya and harambee traditions. It is open-source and blockchain-agnostic - meaning any community, anywhere, can deploy it.The Choice in Front of UsThese regenerative endeavors share one answer to the core assumption of the extractive economy: the economy does not need to extract in order to function. Value can circulate and regenerate rather than accumulate. Ecological health, community resilience, and the wellbeing of the next generations are not costs to minimize - they are the actual metrics that demonstrate economic success.The question is no longer whether it is possible. It is happening. The question is whether enough of us choose to participate in building it, and whether we remember our roles as stewards of the Earth that has always sustained us.We get to choose the future we want for ourselves, our children, and the seven generations that come after.Your Role in the Regenerative EconomyReading this is already a kind of remembering. The question that follows is simple: where do you begin?The regenerative economy is not waiting to be invented. It is waiting to be joined. Every one of the models described here started with a small group of people who decided to practice a different relationship with value - before it was proven, before it was popular, before it was funded.Here are real entry points, available now:Start with your immediate circle. Identify three skills or resources you have in excess - time, knowledge, food from a garden, tools sitting unused. Offer them. Ask for what you need in return. This is Ayni. It requires no platform, no signup, no permission.Relocalize your spending. Every dollar (fiat currency) that circulates inside a local economy multiplies its impact without leaving the community. Farmers markets, community-supported agriculture, local cooperatives, regenerative small businesses - these are not lifestyle choices. They are votes for a different system, cast weekly.Find or start a Time Bank in your area. hOurworld.org and TimeBanks.org maintain active directories. If nothing exists near you, starting one requires little more than a spreadsheet and a Telegram/Whatsapp group.Join a community working on this. It can be our Regenerative Leadership Community from www.regenerativeculture.life is one place. There are others - transition towns, ecovillages, commons networks - in most regions of the world. Find your people. The regenerative economy is, at its root, a relationship economy. It does not work alone.Learn the language. Permaculture design, commons governance, cooperative economics, sacred reciprocity - these are not abstract concepts. They are practical skills with deep traditions behind them. The more fluent you become, the more useful you are to the communities building this.The scale of what needs to change can feel paralyzing. It is not meant to. The models described in this article did not begin at scale. Mondragon began with six people. Grassroots Economics began in one neighborhood in Mombasa. The Quechua did not design Ayni for a movement - they designed it for a harvest.Start where you are. With what you have. With whoever is near you. That has always been enough to begin. It's not easy, but it is possible.Written by Gertie Farenas and Yoshi Pantera - 90% by us humans and 10% AI assisted.This Audio is recorded by a true voice - Yoshi PanteraThis article is part of the Regenerative Culture Chronicle - a publication exploring the ideas, practices, and communities building a world that benefits all life.Learn more at RegenerativeCulture.LifeThanks for reading Regenerative Culture Chronicle! This post is public so feel free to share it.Regenerative Culture Chronicle is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Thank you! Get full access to Regenerative Culture Chronicle at regenerativecultureworld.substack.com/subscribe

Peacewarts: Dept. of Living Roots - Barter & Sharing (Class 12) We explore how local economies built on barter, time banking, and gift systems provide security during financial instability. This class examines the Argentine economic collapse, the global TimeBank movement, and how local currencies like BerkShares insulate communities from global shocks. Homework: Look up the work of Edgar Cahn or research the Hureai Kippu system in Japan to see how different cultures value labor. Write down one question about any of this episode's topics. If you don't have a question, write “no question.” Optional: Journal for five minutes. If all the money in your bank account vanished tomorrow, what skills or items do you have that you could trade for a week's worth of food? Learning Topics: The 2001 Argentine Barter Clubs (nodos); Hureai Kippu and Time Banking in Japan and the UK; Edgar Cahn and the TimeBank Mahoning County case study; The Potlatch as wealth redistribution; Local currencies and the BerkShares model. Get the book Peace Stuff Enough: AvisKalfsbeek.com/peace-stuff-enough Join the Community / Get the Books: www.AvisKalfsbeek.com Podcast Music: Javier Peke Rodriguez “I am late, madame Curie” https://open.spotify.com/artist/3QuyqfXEKzrpUl6b12I3KW

It's not oil or water or plutonium — it's human hours. We've got an idea for putting them to use, and for building a more human-centered economy. But we need your help. SOURCES:Nathan Dietz, research director at the Do Good Institute at the University of Maryland.Al Roth, professor of economics at Stanford University.Krista Wyatt, C.E.O. of Timebanks.org.Andrew Yang, co-chair of the Forward Party and former U.S. presidential candidate. RESOURCES:"Where Are America's Volunteers," by Nathan Dietz and Robert T. Grimm Jr. (Do Good Institute, 2018)."Believe in People," talk by Edgar Cahn at TEDxAshokaU (2010).The Pencil, by Allan Ahlberg (2008).No More Throw-Away People: The Co-Production Imperative, by Edgar S. Cahn (2000).Time Dollars: The New Currency That Enables Americans to Turn Their Hidden Resource-Time-Into Personal Security and Community Renewal, by Edgar S. Cahn and Jonathan Rowe (1992). EXTRAS:"Why Don't We Have Better Candidates for President?" by Freakonomics Radio (2024).“Andrew Yang Is Not Giving Up on Politics — or the U.S. — Yet,” by People I (Mostly) Admire (2021).“The Future of New York City Is in Question. Could Andrew Yang Be the Answer?” by Freakonomics Radio (2021).“Why Is This Man Running for President? (Update),” by Freakonomics Radio (2019)."Make Me a Match," by Freakonomics Radio (2015).

I was a virtual attendee last week at an inspiring and humbling memorial for the late EDGAR CAHN, on what would have been his 88th birthday. Cahn, an unsung hero of 20th century America, authored articles and books that intentionally led to national policy, including The War on Poverty (1964) which led to the establishment of Legal Aid, Hunger, U.S.A (1968), Our Brother's Keeper: The Indian in White America (1969), and Time Dollars (1992). He and his late wife, Jean Camper, co-founded Antioch School of Law, now the District of Columbia Law School. Here's my 2012 conversation with Edgar and THOMAS FRANK, influential social critic and author of What's the Matter with Kansas? and One Market Under God.

Anitha Beberg, an alumni of the Silicon Valley Founder Institute, is the Founder and CEO of Seva Exchange, which is a platform using machine learning technologies to galvanize global volunteerism by reinventing timebanking and other mutual reciprocity-based services for the modern digital economy. Seva means “selfless service”in Sanskrit. When she met Dr. Cahn who pioneered timebanking, where you give an hour of service, get a time credit redeemable for an hour of service for yourself, she knew that emerging software technologies could help the alternative time-based currency to scale globally. Seva Exchange was formed after Edgar Cahn, (the creator of timebanking) asked her to start a for-profit benefit corporation to mainstream the original sharing economy movement.

On this week's podcast, we try to tie three different sets of federally collected numbers together in regard to child welfare during the earliest phase of the COVID-19 pandemic between March and September 2020, when lockdowns were ubiquitous, schools were mostly closed and vaccines were still in the offing. We also talk about some well-timed research on the nexus between income support for poor parents and child well-being.Later in the podcast we talk what could be the first collateral consequence of last year's Supreme Court decision on faith-based discrimination in child welfare; where things stand with a court challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act and auditing L.A.'s child welfare agency. We end with a discussion of Edgar Cahn, a giant in the legal community whose legacy includes two innovative ideas in juvenile justice. Reading RoomChild Maltreatment 2020https://bit.ly/3rdgets2020 Child Maltreatment Data: A Breakdownhttps://bit.ly/3u5vfiIAdoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting Systemhttps://bit.ly/3udG5n0Trends in U.S. Emergency Department Visits Related to Suspected or Confirmed Child Abuse and Neglecthttps://bit.ly/3rdEuvJCash Aid to Poor Mothers Increases Brain Activity in Babies, Study Findshttps://nyti.ms/3KVYGtFPublic Investments and Class Gaps in Parents' Developmental Expenditureshttps://bit.ly/3GcwqzAMichigan Settles Lawsuit with St. Vincent Catholic Charities over Same-sex Adoptionshttps://bit.ly/32I7RwyJews Have Been Rejected by Adoption Agencies for Years. This Couple Hopes to Force a Changehttps://bit.ly/3KVqjDdEdgar Cahn, Pioneer of Time Banking, Passes Awayhttps://bit.ly/3KNvAMYA Perfect Combination of Chutzpah and Soulhttps://wapo.st/35AGINfA Novel Approach on Litigating Racial Disparities in Juvenile Justicehttps://bit.ly/3g9BWYZ

Ralph welcomes Donald Cohen, the founder and executive director of “In the Public Interest” and co-author of the book “The Privatization of Everything” to discuss the many different ways corporatism has corrupted so many of our public goods. Also, constitutional scholar, Bruce Fein, joins us to give us his take on the constitutional ramifications of U.S. involvement in the conflict between Russian and Ukraine. Plus, we wish a happy hundredth birthday to legendary journalist, Morton Mintz and say a heartfelt goodbye to the innovative law professor, who created programs to provide legal representation to low-income Americans and devised the concept of Time Banking, Edgar Cahn.

Full Episode 1-25-22 - In this episode, we remember Edgar Cahn, foundational thinker and innovator in the field of Timebanking, who recently passed. We discuss more student organizing for COVID safety, and Amy's Kitchen which is cruelty free to four-legged animals. Hold up I just had a wild thought. Do liberals think animals are white? YOOOOOOOO. Anyways. Dave continues his history of the Spanish Civil War and discusses the contribution of women.

Dr Dee Gray - Director grays & Director of the Young Carers Academy CiC. RSA Councillor for Wales, RSA Fellow. Co-production is it a holy grail or something to guide our practice? In this conversation Dee and Nicoline discuss the merits of co-production and how important it is to be realistic about how we both introduce it and utilise it in our coaching practice. Dee shares some insights into her own coaching practice, the influence Edgar Cahn has had on her work, and the development of co-production in Wales.

黃國瑞博士來到節目中,啟發我們思考做志工做好事的動機，並介紹由Edgar Cahn 創建的時間銀行。他告訴我們如何以“賺取和花費”時間幣提供和接受幫助並落實社會公義，如何懷抱“不再有人被遺棄”的胸懷以及運用先服務再享受的模式，實踐“我為人人，人人為我”的理想，為什麼發展個人的社會價值是重要的，志工服務和時間銀行的差異，並鼓勵人人成為幫助者也接受幫助。時間銀行不但適用於各個年齡層，也有助弱勢族群發展個人社會價值並成為幫助者。Dr. David Huang inspires us to rethink the motivation for volunteering and doing good deeds and introduces us to the time banking model created by Edgar Cahn. He talks about people can "earn" and "spend" time credits to give and receive help in the pursuit of a more equitable society. He discusses how to embrace the "no more throw-away people" mindset and how by paying it forward, the ideal of "I help others and others help me" can be actualized. He talks about why developing individual social value is crucial, the differences between a volunteering model and the time banking model, and encourages people to both receive help and be helpers themselves. Time banking is applicable to all age groups and can help the underprivileged develop individual social value to become helpers as well.

Dr Zieve explores new ways to store and trade value with Dr Edgar Cahn of Timebanks USA, who is working to create a new kind of money that values people's time and social involvement. Dr. Edgar S. Cahn is the creator of Time Dollars and the founder of TimeBanks USA, as well as the co-founder of the National Legal Services Program and the Antioch School of Law (now the David A. Clarke School of Law). He is the author of "No More Throw Away People: The Co-Production Imperative," "Time Dollars" (co-author Jonathan Rowe, Rodale Press, 1992), "Our Brotherís Keeper: The Indian in White America," (1972) and "Hunger USA." Read more at timebanks.org. If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/n6VBz26sQ_8 Guest's Bio: Anitha Beberg is the Founder and CEO of Seva Exchange, which works with organizations supporting blockchain for social impact and universal basic income, including TimeBanksUSA, Community Exchange System, Mannabase, and Andrew Yang's 2020 Presidential Campaign. Anitha uses her years in managing software app development to galvanize global volunteerism by reinventing timebanking services for the modern digital economy. Hashtags: #timebanking, #humanityforward #yanggang Links: Company website https://www.sevaexchange.com Website to download our SevaX App https://www.sevaxapp.com Dr. Edgar Cahn and Anitha Beberg discuss the future of timebanking https://youtu.be/1KY7b-C-HHA Humanity First App https://www.humanityfirstapp.com Andrew Yang talking about Digital Social Credits and Seva Exchange https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ti9az7GrxA&feature=youtu.be Andrew Yang & Anitha Beberg on Freakonomics Radio https://freakonomics.com/podcast/andrew-yang/ Support this channel: https://www.patreon.com/ZachSacher Email: theliberalconservativereport@gmail.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rule8politics/support

This brief video discusses what a time bank is and some of the philosophy behind the idea, including the ideas of its founder Edgar Cahn. I became interested in the idea after reading Walter Brueggemann's Another Kingdom. Time banks already exist in a lot of cities and towns. The URL below will take you to TimeBanks.org, which has everything you need to find out if you have one nearby or to start one up if you don't. Time banks are one way that we can cooperate with each other without relying on the money economy. https://timebanks.org/ … More What’s a Time Bank (Audio)

This is the 50th and final episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the 49th episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the 48th episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the 47th episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the 46th episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the 45th episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the 44th episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the 43rd episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the 42nd episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the 41st episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the 40th episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the 39th episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the 38th episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the 37th episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the 36th episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the 35th episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the 34th episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the 33rd episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the 32nd episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the 31st episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the 30th episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the twenty-ninth episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the twenty-eighth episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the twenty-seventh episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the twenty-sixth episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the twenty-fifth episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the twenty-fourth episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the twenty-third episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the twenty-second episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the twenty-first episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the twentieth episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the nineteenth episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the eighteenth episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the seventeenth episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the sixteenth episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the fifteenth episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the fourteenth episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the thirteenth episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the twelfth episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the eleventh episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the tenth episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the ninth episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

Seva Exchange is reinventing volunteerism. As a B corporation, their mission is to connect, motivate and retain valuable volunteers for community-minded organizations. SEVA is an official spin-off of Timebanks.org, the organization that pioneered giving volunteers time credits redeemable for reciprocal volunteer help. If you know of Dr. Edgar Cahn's work, you'll dig this conversation. Anitha is kind and driven; just the person to lead the time banking charge

Seva Exchange is reinventing volunteerism. As a B corporation, their mission is to connect, motivate and retain valuable volunteers for community-minded organizations. SEVA is an official spin-off of Timebanks.org, the organization that pioneered giving volunteers time credits redeemable for reciprocal volunteer help. If you know of Dr. Edgar Cahn's work, you'll dig this conversation. Anitha is kind and driven; just the person to lead the time banking charge

This is the eight episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the seventh episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the sixth episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the fifth episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to see the series.

This is the fourth episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to find the story and the podcast

This is the third episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Read it on the blog at https://timebanks.org/tdiblog/

This is the second episode in a weekly series of 50 timebanking stories with reflections by TimeBanks USA founder Edgar Cahn. Go to www.timebanks.org/tdiblog to find the story and the podcast

Join us to celebrate the first annual International Timebanking Day! The global timebanking movement is growing, spreading goodness around the world in its own unique way. What could be better than to hold an annual Celebration of International Timebanking on March 23, the birthday of Edgar Cahn, who has done so much to get the timebank movement going. Edgar will be 84 years old. Help celebrate this new tradition by doing any of the following (please use #timebankingday): Share a photo on Facebook Ask your members to share a photo Share one of your stories on Facebook Ask your members to share a story Encourage members to make exchanges on this day Do as many exchanges as possible Tweet a comment Create a mini-video on FB or Instagram Link to an article on timebanking on social media Consider doing a small (or large) community project on that day Use the hashtag: #timebankingday A written version of Edgar's commentary can be found on the Timebanks blog at: https://timebanks.org/edgar-cahns-reflections-on-the-50-stories-in-50-days-an-introduction-to-the-series/

“We have what we need, if we use what we have.” - Dr. Edgar Cahn.I first read about Time Banking, an alternate currency based on reciprocity, ten years ago in Time Magazine. I joined the Echo Park Time Bank and not only met my neighbors but had doors opened and tried many new things from acupuncture to drum lessons, vegan cooking and even square dancing. In return I helped with social media, philanthropy, and music biz advice in the Time Bank. Inspired - I once attended a conference to hear Dr. Edgar Cahn speak and recently got the magical opportunity to do a fireside chat with him in my living room. Ying is taking the Time Banking concept to a new level and I got to dig deeper with one of my modern day heroes.

Ralph talks to Edgar Cahn about the Legal Services Corporation, which makes thousands of lawyers available to low income Americans; and Leda Huta executive director of the Endangered Species Coalition joins us to tell us why we should care about endangered species.  Plus, Ralph answers your questions!

We speak to legendary legal thinker, Edgar Cahn, who explains how we can make the world a better place through a concept called "Time Banking."  We also discuss the terrible pass interference non-call in the Cowboys/Lions game, the legacy of the late Mario Cuomo and answer more listener questions.

Today we focus on using local currencies and economies to opt out of Wall Street and build resilient and sustainable communities. Alternative currencies are founded on principles that value all types of work, reciprocity, interconnection and building community. Our guests are Jeff Dicken of Baltimore Green Currency, Paul Glover who started Ithaca Hours and Edgar Cahn, author of “No More Throw Away People.” For more information, visit ClearingtheFOGRadio.org.

Aired 01/08/12 This will be a conversation about the state of things as we embark on 2012. I will be joined by TOM FRANK (What's the Matter with Kansas?) and EDGAR CAHN (founder of Legal Services and Time Dollars). We will talk about their passions and projects. http://www.tcfrank.com/ In his new book, PITY THE BILLIONAIRE, Frank examines how the crash that has hurt so many millions of Americans has delivered wildly perverse political results. He gives us a diagnosis of the cultural malady that has transformed collapse into profit, reconceived the Founding Fathers as heroes from an Ayn Rand novel, and enlisted the powerless in a fan club for the prosperous. Edgar Cahn was a serial social entrepreneur before the term was invented. In 1974, he and his wife co-founded the Legal Services Program to deliver legal services to the poor, then co-founded Antioch School of Law, where students learned through providing legal services to the poor. Two decades later Cahn created TIme Dollars, a system to bank and exchange services rather than currency. In the larger conversation, I want to take a fairly big picture, historical, and forward-looking perspective. While I assume we will talk about global economics and international conflicts, the emphasis would be on the US. Though I assume we will talk about the fall election, I want to look more broadly. Questions like: Where are we as a society - socially, culturally, economically, and politically? What's working and why is it working? What are your fears and hopes for the year ahead? What stories and narratives will you be paying attention to in the next year? Maybe something about the battle over the narrative of America's founding and the American dream. Is there a story in which humanity turns things around? THOMAS FRANK, a former opinion columnist for The Wall Street Journal, is the founding editor of The Baffler and a monthly columnist for Harper's. He is the author of The Conquest of Cool; What's the Matter with Kansas? One Market Under God; and his newest, PITY THE BILLIONAIRE. EDGAR CAHN teaches Law and Justice, and directs the Community Service Program at the University of the District of Columbia School of Law. A co-founder with his late wife Jean Camper Cahn of the Antioch School of Law, UDC-DCSL's predecessor; the first law school in the United States to educate law students primarily through clinical training in legal services to the poor. In the late 1980s, Professor Cahn began the Time Dollars project, a service credit program that now has more than 70 communities in the US, UK and Japan with registered programs (www.timebanks.org). He's the author of several books, including Hunger USA, Time Dollars and No More Throw-Away People.