Freecycle.org: Internet curbside - Features

That warm fuzzy feeling you get doing something nice for someone without expecting anything in return was an unexpected gift Tara Blanda received from a modern cyber network with old-fashioned values.

Freecycle.org is a Web site anyone can use to find something they need or to give away something they don’t to members of their local community.

“It feels good to give something you don’t necessarily need anymore to someone you know can use it,” said Blanda, 28, a waitress from Westville. “It’s like paying it forward.”

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Plum Telluride | Time to Drop By the Free Box

But the Free Box concept isn’t just a local amenity, now across the globe people are linking up with The Freecycle Network, an online recycling program that facilitates the swapping of goods—people post items to give away, to gather, or post items wanted. Telluride’s own New Community Coalition run by Sustainability Coordinator Kris Holstrom has linked Telluride with Freecycle, expanding on our very own recycling program.

“When you want to find a new home for something—whether it’s a chair, a fax machine, piano, or an old door—you simply send an e-mail offering it to members of the local Freecycle group,” reads Freecycle’s site. “Think globally, recycle locally.”

By Kara Tatone
plumtv.com

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Wisconsin State Journal

Betsy and Gayel Larsen, of Oregon, were able to build a three-stall horse barn almost entirely with stuff obtained from people trying to get rid of the items.

How? By scouring a growing number of new, small nonprofit Web sites. Using these “swap” sites, the Larsens found materials including plywood panels, metal siding and nine new gallons of blue Sears Ultra Weatherbeater Exterior paint

By Chris Martell
madison.com

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fremonttribune.com, Fremont, Nebraska’s Community Newspaper

One day, Susan Ostry of Prague cleaned her garage and hauled everything she didn’t want to the local landfill.

Even some good, reusable stuff.

“I still feel guilty about it,” she said.

Last year, Ostry found a solution to her problem of too much stuff and not enough time to hold a garage sale.

The Freecycle Network is a grassroots, non-profit worldwide organization of small, local groups that give and get items for free, through an Internet Web site.

By Beverly J. Lydick/Tribune Staff
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