[Falkor-info] Ecorates

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forwarded on request of EYFA (eyfa@eyfa.org, www.eyfa.org):


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TAKE PART IN THE ECORATE PROJECT [it takes only 10 minutes]

Dear all,

Maybe you have already used, heard, read and/or complained about the
ecorates system. If not here's a short explanation:

Ecorates are an alternative 'currency' based on the actual cost of
living in each country. The aim of Ecorates System is to enable
organizations which share the concern of economical inequalities
between countries to use a fair exchange rate when they charge people
for participation in gatherings, seminars, magazine subscriptions etc.
It is necessary to create alternative frameworks for our economic
relations that break the profit guided and socially careless dynamics.
Differences in the prices levels, exchange currency rates, purchasing
power might financially discourage or even stop people from some
countries from participating.

The Ecorates system is a grassroots and participatory system. The fact
that we research to have our own rates rather than using official
institutional ones is one of the most important characteristics of the
system. Check out http://www.eyfa.org/ecorates for more info. 

By filling out the ecorates questionnaire you can make the ecorate for
your country (thus for yourself) more accurate and fair. Please fill in
the online ecorate form to help us gather fresh data for the project.
We need as many questionnaires filled out as possible to make this
years ecorates completely up to date. Find the online ecorates form at
http://informal.benn.org/?db=48

And forward this message widely and ask people around you to fill the
form as well.

It is also attached to this e-mail so you can print it and take it with
you when you shop, then you can easily fill in the data to the on-line
form when you return home!

Any comments on how to improve the form or ecorates are always welcome
and we are always looking for Regional Coordinators for the ecorates
project so if you're interested and would like to volunteer please
contact ecorates@eyfa.org!

Thank you!

Greetings,

EYFA Office & the Ecorates team