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local currency innovation in the Berkshires Earlier this year, Executive Director Susan Witt delivered a new presentation on local currency innovation in the Berkshires. Her remarks were given during a roundtable on Credit Design & Community Development at Harvard Law School's Money as a Democratic Medium 2.0 Conference in June. In it, Witt looks back at the history of local currency in the Berkshire region. And she envisions a transformative future in which place-based money, like our region's own BerkShares, is issued through low-cost, productive loans. https://centerforneweconomics.org/publications/community-issued-currency-a-tool-for-relocalizing-economies/