Leah Dorzweiler reports on Freecycle’s very own Iowa City group.

Now that the commotion of the holiday season has died down, many people might be wondering, how am I going to make room for all this new stuff?

Iowa City Freecycle Network offers a moderated, online system to reuse all items locally. “Sign up to post items to give away or watch the boards for that treasure you’ve been seeking,” Jordan says of the Web site at www.freecycle.org/group/UnitedStates/Iowa/IowaCity.

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David Deans reports on Climate change clicks…Yahoo has declared 2007 the year people stopped talking about climate change and started doing something about it. The internet search firm has ranked the top ten environmental searches.

Top search queries included Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth”, “carbon footprint” and “stop global warming”. Hybrid cars, solar energy and recycling programmes were also on the end of many a finger tip, as was the recycling site Freecycle.org.

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Emily Main reports that “Donating your used clothing to charities has always been the right way to keep clothing out of landfills. After all, Americans collectively trashed 9 million tons of reusable clothes, footwear, towels and bedding in 2005, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Solid Waste…If you choose not to donate, trade them on sites like www.freecycle.org”

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“Another really good option is to try the Freecycle network, which has a group based in Ipswich serving this area. Freecycle groups match people who have things they want to get rid of with people who can use them. Just visit www.uk.freecycle.org to find out more.”

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Shannon Davidson reports on a”Freecycle Angel” from Lebanon County, PA

The gift of giving is extending well beyond the holidays in one Lebanon County community.One woman helped brighten the spirits of dozens of kids for Christmas, and her generosity is spilling over into the New Year.

Etzweiler with some help from her little elves went onto the Freecycle website to find out whom in her area needed toys for Christmas. And thanks to the eight truck loads of new and gently used toys and stuffed animals donated by her mother, she was able to put a smile on many faces.

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Come to the Santa Cruz Freecycle Free-For-All weekend hosted by Paula Revere for Santa Cruz Freecycle

The Motto: Bring something, get something for free.

Where: Aptos Academy - 1940 Bonita Drive Aptos,
Calif. 95003
Take the San Andreas exit off 1 and make a right
onto San Andreas -
toward the ocean and Seascape. It’s the first right after that.

When: January 26th and 27th, 2008

Time: 10am - 3pm

Hope to See You There!

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Amber Wells discusses ways to green-up your life in the New Year.

Give reusable items away instead of trashing them - visit www.freecycle.org

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Don Nelson reports that Freecycle is also flourishing in a town by the name of Athens, U.S.

“I have a little bit of the ‘green,’ hippie chick in me, and this makes me feel a lot better,” said the 26-year-old Bishop, who lives in Winder and has been involved with Freecycle for about a year and a half. “If you think long term about the planet and where we’re headed, this fulfills a need without everything going to landfills, because we’re not always going to have room for landfills.”

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Alison Brower from Redbook says…

Visit Web sites that can help you save - For example, Freecycle.org, where more than 4 million people list items they no longer need — everything from TVs to bicycles — and are giving them away for free.

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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - In a Dec. 29 story about The Freecycle Network, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the international recycling program keeps more than 300 million tons of trash out of landfills every day. According to the group’s founder, the amount kept out of landfills last year is equivalent to 300 million pounds, or 400 tons per day.

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