BerkShares in the News
December 2008 "Local Currencies and the BerkShares Program" Agroinnovations
December 2008 "Alternative Currencies Grow in Popularity" Time Magazine
December 2008 "Artists Design New Money (for real)" Art News
December 2008 GOOD news coverage of BerkShares
December 2008 ABC40 news coverage of BerkShares
December 2008 "BerkShares Holiday Shop-A-Thon" ABC40TV
December 2008 "Buying Time" Ithaca Times
December 2008 "A Plan for Hard Times: Print Cash" Newsweek
October 2008 "When Money Isn't Flowing, Invent your Own" One World US
September 2008 "Town that's printing its own money" Metro, UK
September 2008 "Residents gear up for local currency" Crawley Oberserver
August 2008 "UK Town Creates Own Currency to Beat the Credit Crunch" Money.CO.UK
August 2008 "The Buck Stops Here" Plenty Magazine
August 2008 "Town that gave itself a licence to print money" The Observer
July 2008 "Traders Prepare for Own Currency " BBC News
May 2008 "Are Berkshares and Other Local Currencies Effective?" MetaBoston
May 2008 "It's Like Money, but With No Dead Presidents" Slate Magazine
May 2008 "They don't just shop local in Totnes - they have their own currency" Independent, England
April 2008 "BerkShares--Local Money" Los Angeles Chronicle
April 2008 "Towns to drive local economy with own currency" Western Mail, Wales
March 2008 "The Latest in Money--Go Local" Sanctuary Magazine
March 2008 "Local Knowledge" New York House Magazine
January 2008 ABC40 news coverage of BerkShares in Stockbridge
January 2008 "Mountain Money" Business West
January 2008 "Let's Take it Slow" New Consumer Magazine
November 2007 "Making Cents: Creating a Local Currency Can Help Entrepreneurs Drive Sales" Entrepreneur Magazine
October 2007 Scholastic Magazine article
July 2007 "Buy Local With Town Currency" from BusinessWeek
July 2007 "Buy Local with Local Currency" from Bookselling This Week
July 2007 National Public Radio
June 2007 "How small-town bank notes keep the dollar at Bay" from The London Times
June 2007 "New age town in US embraces dollar alternative" from Reuters News Service
June 2007 "BerkShares Take Hold" from Berkshire Trade & Commerce (Downloadable PDF)
May 2007 CBS News Coverage
May 2007 French news coverage from TF1. (French-language video)
April 2007 Russian news coverage of BerkShares from NTV. (Russian-language video)
April 2007 "Berkshire Bucks " Radio Broadcast on NPR's Here and Now
March 2007 "This Realm's Coin Remains Local" Albany Times Union
March 2007 America Back on Track Radio Interview with Susan Witt
February 2007 "First slow food, now slow money?" Ka-Blog
February 2007 "New England Town Prints Up Its Own Currency" ABC World News
February 2007 "Would you like that in fives, tens, or Normans?" The New York Times
February 2007 Local Currencies in Europe, from 12 Degrees of Freedom
February 2007 "In the Land of the Euro, Towns Adopt Alternative Currencies" NY Times
January 2007 "Germans Take Pride in Local Money " BBC News
January 2007 "Good Deals: Buying with BerkShares" The Berkshire Eagle
December 2006 "Cash, Credit, or BerkShares?" Metroland
December 2006 "Town Bucks a Trend" The Hartford Courant
December 2006 "Berkshire Merchants Create Funny Money" The Hartford Courant (newscast)
December 2006 "Telling Our Stories" The Women's Times (PDF)
November 2006 "Keeping Money Local" Albany Times Union
October 2006 "Buying into BerkShares" Berkshire Trade & Commerce
September 26, 2006 "Free local talent variety show to launch BerkShares program at Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center" iBerkshires.com
September 1, 2006 "This Labor Day, Mulling over Wal-Mart" Christian Science Monitor
August 24, 2006 "Funny money a boost to biz?" Berkshire Eagle
August 22, 2006 "Utopian Visions: A Breath of Fresh Air" Women's Crossroads Blog
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