Your wallet may be stuffed with greenbacks, but they're not the only currency around. Hear about the benefits and challenges of alternative local currencies and investment programs, which offer communities a way to sidestep "big money" and add value to the local economy.

Featuring Susan Witt, Education Director of the New Economics Institute and Co-Founder of the BerkShares local currency program and Trexler Proffitt, Developer of LanX: A Local Sustainable Exchange and Assistant Professor of Organization Studies at Franklin & Marshall College.

Recorded on August 25, 2011. Notes available online at bit.ly/nXPE8S.