During the search, by the way, I found plenty of formal intergovernmental management groups between Oerogn and Washignton State and Canada. One of these is actually a democraticaly operated forum, much like the EU.
While international boundaries continue to play an important role in Cascadia, studies have shown that citizens in the Pacific Northwest are the most likely in the United States and Canada to believe that international borders hinder progress, do not protect national interests and should be further eroded.[citation needed] Cascadia already leads the way in binational and regional cooperation, governing bodies as well as crossborder NGO's, and continues to strengthen these ties through the establishment of a crossborder state ID card in 2006, the 'Pacific Coast Collaboration' agreement (PCC) signed by the governors of California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska and the premier of British Columbia in 2008, the bioregional 'Cascadia Mayors Council' founded in 1996 and the establishment of the Pacific Northwest Economic Region in 1991, a regional U.S.-Canadian forum in which all legislative members and governors are voting members, along with a consortium of the regions most powerful non-profit, public and private sector companies.
We would like to see a group like this offer a script, discounted, but recognized as money by the participants, many of which are part of the Cascadia group and offer essential goods and services. This should easily be possilbe if they use Internet based accounting. A possible venture opportunity? A way to avoid the Dollar payments on federal debt?
Facebook runs a money center for their gaming operators. NGO's and business within this Cascadia group could adopt the same prninciple. The concpet could be extended among private groups in Fresno, CA easily. The relative cost of Inernet money is small and maps well to loosely assembled commercial exchange. What the Internet needs is a common money software protocol, one that can be adapted to different regions and groups wanting a money mapped to their particular ecology.
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