Ficar com objetos parados dentro de casa, sem uso algum já há vários meses (às vezes anos) é atraso de vida para qualquer um! Doar, trocar, reciclar o que não se quer mais faz bem não só para si, mas para o próprio planeta!

Com a circulação de objetos, roupas, calçados, livros, eletrodomésticos etc. economiza-se a produção de materiais novos e com alguma sorte ainda faz-se novos amigos.

Baseado nisto é que cresce no mundo todo o movimento “Free is Good”. Ele se baseia em redes de trocas e doação. Quem quer doar algo anuncia na rede - que se organiza por cidades - e quem precisa de algo também lança o chamado ali.

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Marina Braga Gentile nasceu há 17 dias no Hospital Metropolitano, na Pompéia. Para enfrentar o inverno paulistano, a menina, de 50 cm e 4 kg, saiu da maternidade vestida com casaquinho e sapatinhos de lã. O modelito, novinho em folha, foi presente de desconhecido, via internet. E, atenção, não foi caridade!

A mãe de Marina, a psicóloga Rosângela Braga, 36, participa da Freecycle (www.freecycle.org), rede que reúne internautas doadores e receptores de tudo o que se imagina. Pode ser livro, gato, equipamento odontológico e até piano.

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The number of British users of Freecycle, a website that allows members to trade goods and services, has more than doubled to 1.2 million in the past year.

Households are discovering they can collect second-hand toys, furniture and even cars for a token gift of a chocolate bar or bottle of wine.

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2. Cut corners

From the grocery store to your local mall, prices are increasing across the board. To cut your food shopping costs, go for store brands over name brands. The quality is the same, but you’ll cut costs significantly. Visit Web sites like coolsavings.com or valpak.com. And get a store card. This way you’ll get automatic discounts. And of course, never shop on an empty stomach - chances are you’ll be more vulnerable to temptations.

To avoid the markups at the mall, take advantage of local resources. Check out yardsalesearch.com to find sales in your area. You can also check out freecycle.com. This is an Internet-based group that links up people who are getting rid of stuff with people who want it. All of the items are given away for free.

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[prMac.com] Seattle, WA - Black Pixel Luminance announces updates and two new plugins for Agent Craig, the internet search agent for OS X Leopard. Agent Craig, which already provides automated background searches of Craig’s List and Ebay, now adds Freecycle groups to the list of sites available to tech savvy bargain hunters. In addition, a new patent search plugin allows for extensive intellectual property research campaigns via the US Patent office website.

The first follows in the “bargain hunters” theme of the core application, and adds background searches targeting the sites in the Freecycle network (hosted by Yahoo! Groups).

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Free commerce

Before hitting the mall, find out whether someone in your city is getting rid of the thing you want, says Deron Beal, 40, founder of Freecycle.org, a Web site built on the premise that “one person’s trash is another’s treasure.”

Here’s how it works: As in the “free” section of Craigslist.org, users post what they’re giving or seeking, then coordinate the details. On thousands of Freecycle message boards, the dialogue looks like this: OFFERED: Two Pez dispensers. TAKEN: Krups espresso machine. WANTED: Garden hose that works. OFFERED: Adult diapers, size small.

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Another man’s garbage is your treasure
The old adage that beauty is in the eye of the beholder gets new life via a grassroots, online community called The FreeCycle Network (http://www.freecycle.org/). The network exists to make people’s unwanted items, like furniture, musical instruments, really anything, available free of charge to other people. They want to keep perfectly good stuff out of landfills and get it into the hands of people who will make good use of it. There are groups across the country that post items they want you to take, and all items posted must be entirely, honestly free. From the main site you find your local group, and register to receive their updates. You also post your own castoffs, of course. After all, what goes around comes around.

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Grass is Always Greener – top 10 environmental searches

1. Recycling

2. Global Warming

3. Freecycle

4. Earth

5. Pollution

6. Al Gore

7. Environmental Protection Agency

8. Live Earth

9. Hybrid Cars

10. Solar Energy

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The Freecycle Network™ (Freecycle.org)
Need a ski rack, fertilizer spreader or ferret cage? You might be able to nab it for nothing at the online bulletin board Freecycle.org. The Freecycle Network™ is a community-based service made up of 4,182 groups with 4,130,000 members across the globe. It’s a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving and getting stuff for free in their own towns. Each local group is moderated by a local volunteer. Membership is free, and you join a specific community group that includes your geographical location. People in your area will post items they want to give away.Click here to read the article in full

Three pairs of women’s shoes. A box of record albums. Stereo equipment. A stovetop. A quill and ink bottle. A wicker basket. An acoustic guitar. A dehumidifier.

As I write, all those things and more are being offered for free on my local Freecycle Network. By the time you read this, they’ll be taken. As the saying goes, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.

“What is really interesting about Freecycle,” says Daniel Ben-Horin, the founder of a nonprofit Web site called TechSoup, “is that unlike a lot of virtual communities, something very concrete happens.”

“It appeals to people’s thrift, to their green impulses and to their sense of community,” Ben-Horin says. “I think that’s brilliant.”

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