TRANSPORT IMPACTS

Even though we are moving further and further towards a cashless society - we are still pretty familiear with the strange faces and pictures featured on our money.  These faces are probably engrained somewhere in our subconscious, but they are probably not doing a lot - the majority of people wouldn’t know who we are looking at and what they did. 

It’s all very nice to try and make us reminisce about poets, social campaigners, writers and politicians, but maybe we could use this space very wisely…. I think that this space on these bits of plastic and metal could be used to remind us what we can do to help save the planet, what the world could look like and also just a few reminders about how beautiful our world is - there are some cute Australian animals on Australian coins but we can always have more nature on our money.  We could have wind farms and solar panels, bikes, buses and trains, eating fresh, saving power, community etc. as all themes of our “sustainable” money.

Everytime we are partaking in a monetry exchange that involves cash - we may get a little reminder about what our consumption patterns are doing to the earth and how we can improve them.  We would then have to work on getting credit cards and debit cards to also have little reminders on them.