When Averil needed a place to live, her community came together and helped her build a house. To pay for the labour, she made use of a local off-grid economy that trades in 'sapphires'.
Her beautiful mudbrick home was sourced from local earth 30 years ago when she separated from her partner and needed a new place to live.
"It is really covering that ground between doing things for money and doing things for favours," she said.Ms Fink's home is billed as the house that LETS built. Ms Andrew is one of many rallying the new cohort of LETS members by setting up at markets and making calls to action online. There are nearly 600 groups across Australia that involve people giving away free goods to their neighbours.
"I'm looking for ways to see hope for our future, in terms of sustainability, in terms of climate change, in terms of feeling that we are less atomised as a community," Dr Taylor said.During her research she observed that 80 per cent of the time people were trying to give something away in the group.
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