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Today's Date
July 31, 2010
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NEW!
You can now pay online for your trade directory listings, subscribe to get the RiverHOURS Trade directory mailed directly to you, or order a collector's set of uncirculated RiverHOURS currency. Go to the Join the GLCC page for more details.
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The next steering committee meeting is Wednesday, June 23. Contact the GLCC for more information.
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The Summer 2010 issue of the RiverHOURS Trade Directory will be available after June 21. If you haven't checked it out lately, see how we've evolved!
WELCOME!
The Gorge Local Currency Cooperative (GLCC) administers a formal barter and trade system for the Columbia Gorge region. RiverHOURS is the name of the currency we use to make trading more convenient.
RiverHOURS is a complementary currency. There are already many complementary currency systems in America and throughout the world. Complementary currencies do not replace federal currency. Instead, they supplement it.
Many people throughout the Gorge region already trade goods and services. For example, someone might trade soap for candles, a chiropractic adjustment for a massage, art work for landscaping etc. The major obstacle to this type of trade is that each trader must have something the other wants.
With a local currency, traders can now trade with anyone at any time because there is no longer this limitation. The candle maker can now trade RiverHOURS for the soaps, and the soap maker can take those RiverHOURS to the chiropractor for an adjustment, and the chiropractor can take the RiverHOURS to the landscaper for lawn care, who then takes it back to the candle maker for candles. RiverHOURS always stay in the community and continue to circulate, backed by the goods and labor of our friends and neighbors.
The RiverHOURS Trade Directory
The GLCC publishes a quarterly trade directory, listing all the goods and services of providers who are currently signed up to advertise.
You do not have to be an advertiser to accept or use RiverHOURS. Anyone can use RiverHOURS, but advertising has its advantages. To learn more about advertising your goods or services in the GLCC trade directory and web site, click here.
Pick up your own copy of the Trade Directory here.
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