Margrit Kennedy
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Margrit Kennedy is a German architect, professor, environmentalist, author and an advocate of complementary currencies
and an interest and inflation-free economy.
Kennedy is an architect with a Masters Degree in Urban and Regional Planning and a Ph.D. in Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh
, and has worked as an urban planner in Germany, Nigeria, Scotland and the United States. In 1991, she was appointed Professor of Ecological Building Technologies at the Department of Architecture, University of Hanover.
She has stated that her work on ecological architecture in 1982 led her to the discovery, that it is "virtually impossible to carry out sound ecological concepts on the scale required today, without fundamentally altering the present money system or creating new complementary currencies".
Her most famous book, Interest and Inflation-Free Money, Creating an Exchange Medium that works for Everybody and Protects the Earth was originally published in 1987 and has been revised several times and translated into 22 languages.
She is married to Irish architect Declan Kennedy. They live in the eco-village of Lebensgarten in Steyerberg, Lower Saxony, and have one daughter, Antja Kennedy.
Complementary currency
Complementary currency is a currency meant to be used as a complement to another currency, typically a national currency. Complementary currency is sometimes referred to as complementary community currency or as community currency...
and an interest and inflation-free economy.
Kennedy is an architect with a Masters Degree in Urban and Regional Planning and a Ph.D. in Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh
The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787 on what was then the American frontier, Pitt is one of the oldest continuously chartered institutions of...
, and has worked as an urban planner in Germany, Nigeria, Scotland and the United States. In 1991, she was appointed Professor of Ecological Building Technologies at the Department of Architecture, University of Hanover.
She has stated that her work on ecological architecture in 1982 led her to the discovery, that it is "virtually impossible to carry out sound ecological concepts on the scale required today, without fundamentally altering the present money system or creating new complementary currencies".
Her most famous book, Interest and Inflation-Free Money, Creating an Exchange Medium that works for Everybody and Protects the Earth was originally published in 1987 and has been revised several times and translated into 22 languages.
She is married to Irish architect Declan Kennedy. They live in the eco-village of Lebensgarten in Steyerberg, Lower Saxony, and have one daughter, Antja Kennedy.
External links
- Margrit Kennedys Website
- Margrit Kennedy: Die Krise kam nicht überraschend
- Das Geldsystem ist wie Krebs
- Audio interview in WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service http://previous.ncra.ca/exchange/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=75029