Building Community an Hour at a Time!
The night of 18 March Cinemopolis was a hotbed of alternative currently. The SEEN hosted Community and Currency. The independent film Money and Life was screened, as well as a section of Fixing the Future that profiled Hour Exchange Portland (the time bank that so many others look up to…
Source: http://www.holtlaborlibrary.org/images/MayDayCartoon%20lg.JPG May 1st is International Workers’ Day, a celebration of working classes. What better way to celebrate working classes than joining Tompkins Time Traders, an exchange that values all of the work that people do. What: May Orientation + Potluck Where: Cornell Cooperative Extension, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca, NY. …
At the end of December did you make your New Year’s resolutions? How is is going sticking with your intentions for the new year? Establishing new patterns and habits can be challenging. This is similar to joining Tompkins Time Traders, as this is likely a very different way of getting…
WOW! This was the best way to start the New Year. We had an incredible turnout for the January orientation with 15 people in attendance. The mix of members, applicants and people interested in learning more about trading time was delightful. People talked about wanting to be a part of…
Tompkins Time Traders is 6 months old! And a busy baby we’ve been. All last weekend we were soaking up the last (possibly) warm days at the Annual Apple Harvest Festival. We talked with a lot of people and were re-invigorated to meet so many people who think this is…
Tompkins Time Traders is in the newspaper! A thousand thank yous to member and writer Eric Banford for his engaging and informative article about our local time bank. Nothing I can say could can top Eric’s article, so read it for yourself! Tompkins Weekly September 23-29, 2013. For all…
A big shout out to Alice and the folks at Cornell University’s Hasbrouk Apartments Community Center for hosting our September orientation. It was wonderful to be back up on the hill and connecting with this very international community and Ithaca residents who live on East Hill. We had a great…