Threebles - Triple Bottom Line Economics (Also see Tides Foundation)

Threebles - Triple Bottom Line Economics ^ | UNK

[combat_boots]

"(E)conomic sustainability with a localized currency with a triple-credit-rating"

"Triple Bottom Line accounting was invented to try to get at the real costs of business which are often externalized in the normal economy. Instead of internalizing the complexity and attempting to account for all such external effects, we suggest another approach. Set up external feedback loops for people and planetary impacts then create a financial consequences by effecting their cost and availability of money.

Threebles (from 3ble - Triple Bottom Line Economics) are a currency which incorporates a triple-credit-rating so Social, Natural and Financial Capital can all be included in the function of money. Threebles are being launched through local trade exchanges in networks of businesses who are socially or environmentally responsible. Contact us to bring Threebles to your community.

We'll be posting more information on this web site, but here's some more info:

1.A Presentation to an investor group about Threebles: Decent overview with short slides and a few visuals. 2.Initial Project Proposal for Threshold (socially responsible investors) and Complementary Currency Fund 3.Our Google 10^100 Project Submission for best ideas to make a better world"

[combat_boots]

See presentation:

http://www.threebles.com/presentation

Other articles:

"The Triple Bottom Line Economic, Social, Natural Capital - United Nations' 'Global Compact'" UN Chronicle, Summer, 2000 by Klaus Topfer

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1309/is_2_37/ai_66579845/

The Tsunami Fund (now the Tides Advocacy Fund):

(FrontPage article from 2003) "How Ford Funds the Left" By: William Bacon FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, May 15, 2003

http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=18201

Tides Advocacy Fund (Tsunami renamed):

http://www.tidesadvocacyfund.org/about-us/overview/index.html

See summary of the Tsunami Fund here:

http://www.undueinfluence.com/tsunami.htm

[griswold3]

mark

[combat_boots]

Note that the original link to Threebles is to one guy’s company. However, the concept and links to the anti-capitalist goals of the Tsunami Fund/Tides Advocacy Fund are intertwined.

Worth looking into.

[BenLurkin]

The people who come up with this stuff are lunatics, in my opinion.

Think of the Brad Pitt character from the movie “Twelve Monkeys” and that's you r typical reality challenged lefty.