CNBC reports that as Europe's financial woes deepen and
depositors increasingly question the safety of their savings, some European
citizens are looking to escape their economic troubles by joining an Italian
commune, replete with its own monetary, political and economic system.
Located in Piedmont in north-western Italy, the
"Damanhur" commune calls itself an "eco-society," operating
with the help of its own social and political structure and money, the Credito.
Since the financial crisis, the community says that there has been a
"significant increase" in ordinary people asking to visit or join its
community, whose economic system is based on "a mix of free enterprise,
solidarity, communal sharing and co-operative trade"….
Read all about it at http://finance.yahoo.com/news/hippie-commune-thrives-europeans-tire-093332899.html
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