One idea for adding to the skills bank concept, courtesy of bank teller Ran Prieur:

Another good idea would be a “skill wish list” — not skills you want to have, but skills you want other people to have, or that you would highly value in other people. There are all kinds of things that people like doing and are good at, and they might be inspired to get really good if they knew it would be appreciated. Yesterday I mentioned a big one: Now that the dollar is collapsing, there’s a huge need and opportunity for Americans to start making things again, not just hand-forged axes, but frying pans and coats and bicycles and glass jars and mattresses. And we’re going to need a lot of gardeners and orchardists and wild-food foragers. Unfortunately, in the dominant culture, knowing what weeds you can eat is considered much less valuable than, say, investment banking, which is what got us in the position where we’re going to have to eat weeds to survive.