Mid Maine TimeBank

Stacey Jacobsohn, primary coordinator of the Mid-Maine TimeBank, was the guest speaker on Envision This! on Wednesday August 1st. Stacey provided a very good introduction to time banking during her first visit to the radio program, and over 10,500 visitors downloaded the first archived show! WOW! She returned again on August 1st to dive deeper into the concepts of time banking; this show has also proven to be very popular.

 In case you missed them, these and other programs are archived for your listening pleasure at www.blogtalkradio.com/envision-this -- scroll down to “on demand” episodes, or go to these links:

Show 1: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/envision-this/2012/07/13/time-banking-a-more-equitable-currency

Show 2: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/envision-this/2012/08/03/revised-version-of-time-banking-supports-equitable-community

For future programs on “blogtalkradio,” which are every Wednesday night at 8 pm, you can listen to the live broadcast two ways. On your computer, go to the link above. There you can listen to the show as well as send in comments and questions by email. If you would prefer, you can listen to live broadcasts by telephone by calling (646) 652-2235 just before 8 pm. You can call in questions and comments during the program by following the directions given at that phone number. Isn’t this new technology amazing! You can also listen only by calling on Skype!

 A final thought:    ENVISION THIS...a community held together by exchanging hours of service instead of $$! Timebanking provides an alternative economic system that pays people, no matter who they are or what they are doing, in accordance to the time they invest in a job. In timebanking the currency of exchange is time, accounted for by the hour, instead of money or direct barter. This is a very egalitarian system, valuing everybody’s hour the same, breaking down the class, age, and gender inequities in our current monetary system.