But I'm back - and interested in any ideas for trading for better living. I'm going to order a few business cards with my contact info and a signature line "will trade work for adventure". Should be fun.

Voluntary simplicity and the dollar thing – check out Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money (I got a used copy online) http://www.amazon.com/Your-Money-Life-Transforming-Relationship/dp/0140286780. If you want to borrow my copy, contact me here.See More

http://www.mwsearch.com/GlobalBarterStimulusProgram.html - May be a bit of toungue in cheek going on here, but hey - if they want an office in Beijing, why not a satellite office in Wallowa Arts Center proposed building? Artistic exchange...

For tax purposes, bartering is about equitable trade of one thing for another... but for life purposes perhaps it's not really about the money value. To me at least it seems at least as much about the value of building connections that transcend the value of tit-for-tat, and if you're part of a thriving community, perhaps you already have that. But what if you don't? Or what if "outsiders" threaten that balance? I actually think engaging "others" in a literal trade economy offers the…See More

Barter is a useful currency among nonprofit organizations - assuming your organization is not competing with other organizations for the same resources, there can be some good opportunities for sharing skills and learning from one another.See http://www.nonprofitperspective.com/2008/08/nonprofit-startups-and-the-power-of-bartering/.Bartering is also used similarly in the for-profit world as…See More