Try these 75 inspiring ideas and enjoy life more while spending and consuming less.
14. Salvage materials for your new home. There are lots of possible sources: Look for someone who’s renovating a house and might let you cart away old materials; check the yellow pages for used building materials; or look for online groups, such as Freecycle, where people trade all kinds of unwanted items.
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“Global warming, cavernous landfills, toxic chemicals, recurring drought, escalating energy costs: What can one person possibly do in the face of such problems? Believe it or not, small changes can make a big difference. So don’t throw up your hands. Instead, pick a few items from this list of 30 ideas and do your part.”
Number 16…Everything’s recyclable: Post it on freecycle.org!
“I’m passionate about recycling,'’ Gowan said. “I have two little kids and the thought of them being hip deep in garbage by the time they are grown up is upsetting to me.'’
As a Freecycle moderator, Gowan spends five hours a week facilitating an Internet group that offers items free to members. Anyone can join to offer items, request needed items, or take items on offer.
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When a concerned mother had reached the ends of her rope on how to help the family of her injured son in Stayton, she turned to FreecycleSalem and LivePracticallyFree-Oregon for advice on how to get help for the family when all leads to govermental agencies were coming up empty.
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IN just over 18 months since its formation, Redditch Freecycle (RF) has grown to more than 3,000 members.
In celebration of reaching this milestone, group administrators have now launched a new website, which it is hoped will lead to a rise in both the membership and number of items kept out of landfill.
Part of the international Freecycle Network, RF matches people who have things they need to get rid of with people who can use them. It is similar to eBay except all items posted are free. The sole aim of the group is to reduce the amount of items discarded by finding new homes for them.
For more details, visit www.redditchfreecycle.org.uk
Reusing products is a major part of her and her husband Kelly’s efforts to cut back on household waste. On the McCauley’s kitchen table is an old Internet router.
“I’m not sure if it still works completely,” she said. “But there’s a man who tinkers on stuff like this and he wants it.”
She found him through Freecycle, an organization that allows members to contact each other with things they want to get rid of — from baby food jars to lawnmowers.
“People give and receive amazing things,” McCauley says. “Someone was giving away railroad ties for landscaping timbers. A lot of people give plants away. Things you wouldn’t sell, but other people would use.”
Pelo mundo afora, o Freecycle (criado no Arizona, EUA) já tem quase 4 milhões de membros, distribuídos em mais de 4 mil grupos. No Brasil, há comunidades no Rio de Janeiro (atualmente com 59 membros), Curitiba (com 33 membros) e São Paulo (195 membros). Impressoras, toca-discos, monitores, um piano, cobertores… e até uma estufa de consultório odontológico já foram trocados aqui por brasileiros. Tudo isso sem usar dinheiro, cheque ou cartão de crédito. O seu bolso agradece e o meio ambiente também.
If the idea of using the internet as a forum to swap unwanted goods sounds like a top idea, then that’s probably because it is. And it’s one that other eco-minded entrepreneurs have already had. Take Deron Beal, who founded freecycle.org in 2003. The daddy of recycling sites, Freecycle boasts 3.6 million members. They are mostly in the US, where the organisation began, but the site also has spin-offs in the UK, Germany and France.
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The founder of a Croydon website where people can trade unwanted items for free has issued a stark warning to members not to trade weapons online.
Nick Skeet, who set up the Croydon arm of Freecycle, has told members of the group that “firearms and weapons” of any sort are not to be offered or requested.
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The Bay of Islands area has been joined to the worldwide gift economy.
Robyn Love of Gillams has spearheaded a local e-mail group through Yahoo in which people can rid themselves of any unwanted possessions by passing them along to others who can utilize them.
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