Margrit Kennedy

Margrit Kennedy (born November 21, 1939 in Chemnitz) 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".^[1]

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.

Bibliography

• The inner city (Architects' year book) 1974
• Building Community Schools: An Analysis of Experiences (Educational Building and Equipment Series, Volume 2) 1979
• Interest and Inflation Free Money: Creating an Exchange Medium That Works for Everybody and Protects the Earth, first published in 1987 and updated repeatedly afterward, last time in 2006 (in German anyway). The English 1995 version is available online.
• Designing Ecological Settlements: Ecological Planning and Building: Experiences in New Housing and in the Renewal of Existing Housing Quarters in Euro (Reflektierte Praxis) 1997
• Handbuch ökologischer Siedlungs(um)bau. Neubau- und Stadterneuerungsproj... in Europa 1998
• Regionalwährungen. Neue Wege zu nachhaltigem Wohlstand (with Bernard A. Lietaer), Riemann, München 2006, ISBN 978-3-570-50052-1

References

1. ^ http://www.margritkennedy.de/index.php?modus=CUV&inc=CUV&lang=EN

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 [1]

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