The Ecologist: Make money positive again

It’s up to all of us to educate ourselves and seize the opportunity to make money positive again. What part will you play?, asks The Ecologist in the recent article entitled “Economic Recovery: Modernising Money”

Here is a short extract:

“Positive Money’s message appeals to wide sectors of political and social thinking. It is not cluttered by other agendas but has huge consequences for us all,” says Neil May who volunteers for Positive Money as Chair of their board of directors. Neil has been running a small sustainable construction business for 15 years and chose to invest time and energy into supporting Positive Money after realising there were bigger issues limiting the impact he could make in the workplace and elsewhere,

“Aside from my main job I’ve been involved in a number of environmental campaigns. A few years ago I started to question why there are so many good-hearted people struggling to make a positive change through the work they do. I realised that it is the flawed economic paradigm that is holding us back. We cannot be successful in useful businesses or in sustainability campaigning unless something is done about this.”

There are, of course, lots of groups in the arena of new and alternative economics all with designs for a new monetary system that our society could adopt. Yet, so often it is the gulf between where we are now and the construction of a completely new system that feels like too mammoth a task to take on board. Whilst Positive Money’s campaign to change legislation is still a big ask (and will be viewed as a threat to parts of the banking industry), it is well within the realms of possibility. As Neil May stresses,

“People who understand the deep-seated problems of modern economics and their intimate connection to our dysfunctional money system need to come together to resolve this issue – otherwise a lot of other big issues cannot be addressed. We have shown that we can still address the problems with the current money system but only hrough the clear actions outlined by Positive Money.”

Read the whole article here.