--- title: Stop Carrying Cash description: Stop carrying cash, now every city can have locally-grown shrimp and more. canonical: https://time.com/4464255/stop-carrying-cash/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-24T16:00:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:34.693Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Stop carrying cash. og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4464255/stop-carrying-cash/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Stop carrying cash. twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Stop Carrying Cash by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 24, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 24, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Stop carrying cash.**](http://theweek.com/articles/641663/case-never-ever-carrying-cash) By Lisa Rabasca Roepe in The Week **2\.** [**Now every city can have locally-grown shrimp.**](http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/08/18/490377190/shrimp-grown-in-tanks-make-a-splash-coming-to-a-market-near-you) By Allison Aubrey at NPR’s the Salt **3\.** [**If consumers know a product’s carbon footprint, they pick the option that’s better for the planet.**](http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/08/consumers-seem-to-like-environment-friendly-options-if-theyre-available/) By Roheeni Saxena in Ars Technica **4\.** [**Is the future of law enforcement human police officers who — literally — never forget a face?**](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/22/londons-super-recognizer-police-force) By Patrick Radden Keefe in the New Yorker **5\.** [**One way to boost attendance at low-income elementary schools: install laundry machines.**](http://www.citylab.com/cityfixer/2016/08/school-attendance-washing-machines/496649/) By Mimi Kirk in CityLab  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4464255/stop-carrying-cash/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4464255/stop-carrying-cash/"},"headline":"Stop Carrying Cash","datePublished":"2016-08-24T16:00:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:34.693Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4464255/stop-carrying-cash/","keywords":["Innovation","Education","carbon emissions","Law Enforcement","cash"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4464255/stop-carrying-cash/","name":"Stop Carrying Cash"}}]}] ```