The
Directory:
• Welcome!
• Children's Services
• Clothing
• Food
• Health, Body and Spirituality
• Home and Garden
• Language and Travel
• Music, Art and Craft
• Odds and Ends
• Office and Organization Services
& Supplies
• Student
Services & Education
• Transportation and Recreation
• Personals
• Events
Welcome to the Humboldt Exchange!
The Humboldt Exchange is Humboldt County's own local
currency project.
Individual participants agree to accept half payment for their goods and services in a local currency made just for Humboldt. Over 60 local businesses also accept Community Currency.
Local currencies, common during the Great Depression, have recently
been initiated in dozens of communities around the country. Because
the currency must be used locally, and because it has local community
backing, it promotes the exchange of goods and services and increases
local purchasing power while avoiding the danger of government currency
depreciation.
By facilitating production and trade, these currencies encourage local
self-reliance and increase local economic autonomy.
The Humboldt Exchange project is sponsored by Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County, a local grassroots organization dedicated to creating genuine democracy in Humboldt County.
This website is an online version of the Humboldt Exchange Community Currency Directory that we print every other month. In the directory we list all the items our participants are offering or wanting to exchange using Community Currency. On the website you can browse the listings for the current issue and past issues as well and sign up to participate in the project.
Signup for submission deadline and pancake breakfast reminders!
Would you like to receive a phone call and/or email reminder before the pancake breakfast and deadline for submissions to the Exchange directory? Click here to sign up for the Democracy Unlimited outreach list and we will give you those reminders so you don't miss a single deadline for fun event. Make sure you include a note that you want the Humboldt Exchange reminders in the additional comments field.