Successful examples of successful local vouchers be found throughout history. One of the most notable was in Europe during the Great Depression where the small Austrian town of Wörgl issued its own vouchers called stamp scrip (a common form of currency also used throughout the U.S.). That effort was so successful in lifting the town’s economy that it became known as the Miracle of Wörgl. Hundreds of communities across Europe flocked to Wörgl to learn the secret. (See the full Wörgl story and other examples in history here.)

The key for all of us is that we can apply the methods used in Wörgl and elsewhere to break free from the stranglehold that the global banking consortium currently has over us and create a new paradigm outside of their control and influence. We can look to the futurist Buckminster Fuller’s aphorism that “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” That’s what the folks at the US based non-profit  Sustainable Communities Corporation (SCC) did and developed a program called the Sustainable Communities Framework (SCF), managed in Nigeria by the Michael Sauvante Care Foundation.