The Shopping Village has Shops, Services and Swap Shop where members can buy, sell, barter or swap goods, services and skills using combinations of £s + Ls in the process.
Essentially:
- buyers can find L-Bargains, save money and pay instantly on-line from their L Bank account
- traders can build shops, offer their services and skills and manage their businesses on-line
- full e-commerce systems are available with shopping baskets, shipping and payment systems
- owners of websites can install L-Pay to receive L payments from computer or mobile phone
- business owners can buy or lease an L Bank card reader for point-of-sale payments (EPOS)
- our EPOS units connect to thermal printers, enabling pre-paid orders for collection or delivery
- Swap Shop increases ways and opportunities to find, barter for and swap goods or services
The Skills Exchange provides 3 platforms where members can earn L:
- 'Courses':
- find courses where you earn L as a student
- set-up a course, earn L as a tutor, display your curriculum and fees
- 'Projects':
- search for projects and get paid L as part of a team while you create, collaborate and learn
- a project, find a team to assist, manage and map the progress with multi-media links
- use all the banking, communications and other platforms of tgl to support your progress
- learn how to use L, alongside traditional currencies, to support and sustain your project
- 'Volunteer':
- find volunteers able and willing to help you develop your ventures while you all get paid in L
- get paid L by offering your time and skills so other members can find you to help them
Media Libraries
Media Libraries is where members can present multi-media content that they recommend or have produced:
Media Libraries is where members can present multi-media content that they recommend or have produced:
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- help build a entertainment and research platform as an ever-expanding member resource
- expand it as an evolving resource to inspire the activities, projects and ideas of the membership
- upload and present video, audio, photo and literature content - self-produced or favourite links
- post 'Ideas' for discussion and development:
- to find other members with common interests and vision
- as a test-bed to explore, plan and develop new projects
- to bring together people with relevant skills and experience
Personal Quarter
This is the tgl social network where:
This is the tgl social network where:
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- you can find friends or other members based on their interests, talents, activities and location
- your MYtgl public profile is produced automatically as you present your interests, talents, activities and offers across the site
- you can build a secure personal area available only to the members that you enter in your 'friends' address book
- tglmail is your intranet mail system for secure, spam-free communications with other members
- you can help to improve and develop the facilities of the Quarter by suggesting additional functions that will assist you, your friends, family, projects and community
Banking
This is a platform to host alternative banking systems and L-Bank is the first one to offer all the facilities of a High St. Bank on a debt-free basis. Here, you can:
We invite other alternative debt-free banking systems to join us and collaborate. We can provide a 'mirror' of our banking systems to extend the variety of alternatives that can operate within our 'Village' and in the world outside.
We can work together for a debt-free world here and now!
This is a platform to host alternative banking systems and L-Bank is the first one to offer all the facilities of a High St. Bank on a debt-free basis. Here, you can:
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- access your on-line banking services including statements, payments and standing orders
- choose your 4-digit pin number for your L Bank card and to login to your account
- add L-Pay to your website to enable L transfers within your e-commerce system, if applicable
- use the service on your mobile phone, find L-Bargains and make L payments anywhere
We can work together for a debt-free world here and now!
The L Currency
Alternative currencies are exactly what the name suggests, an alternative means to account for, enable and supplement exchanges of goods and services. Having regard to L:
We can work together for a debt-free world here and now!
Alternative currencies are exactly what the name suggests, an alternative means to account for, enable and supplement exchanges of goods and services. Having regard to L:
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- L50 is paid into the account of each member when they sign-up to tgl and accept the Charter
- thereafter L is earned in the Skills Exchange by members choosing to teach, give or learn
- L is debt-free because it is not lent into existence and is not repayable to the L Bank
- its value comes because it is created by the choices of members to collaborate and learn
- when accepted in a community, it provides increased liquidity to boost local activities and trade
- e.g. when traders accept 20% in L for goods, local prices reduce by 20% in conventional money
- naturally, people earning L10 an hour in the Skills Quarter will choose to shop for L-Bargains
- so, trade is attracted to local businesses and away from supermarkets and large businesses
- as L increases in acceptability, traditional money stays in and supports the local economy
- similarly, the cost of local public services can reduce in line with the % acceptable in L
- local people can collaborate to deliver their own local services as projects for hands-on learning
- any increase in supply and circulation of L is founded on the creative choices of the local people
- thus, L supports 'bottom-up' self-empowerment and hands-on, collaborative life-long learning
We can work together for a debt-free world here and now!
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