Veggie Trader is a nifty site that helps you swap all kinds of produce (not just veggies!) with others in your area.
The concept is simple – just create an account, post what you have (veggies, fruit, nuts, seeds, starts, or other goodies), and indicate what you’d like to trade for. And you can [...]

It was a surprise to me that there are so many good alternatives to federal currency. Here’s a roundup of links that can introduce you to concepts like bartering, local currencies, and LETSystems, many of them from excellent Wikipedia pages:

Barter: simply trading goods or services without the use of money. Interesting point about [...]

Transition Towns are communities who are responding to peak oil by organizing, assessing, and taking action on relocalizing the way they live.

Transition towns were started by permaculture designers Louise Roone and Rob Hopkins. Their ideas and recommendations were adopted their home towns of Kinsale, Ireland and Totnes, England and have received significant attention. [...]