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Week 3

Monday July 17, 2006
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Topic: Freecycle.
Guests: Ian Power

Canmore Leader, Canmore, AB
Internet group helps Bow Valley recycle
• Freecycle extends the life of household items in a cycle of gifting

By Tanya Foubert
Wednesday August 16, 2006
Canmore Leader — The Canmore woman who started up a Bow Valley chapter of a world-wide Internet-based grassroots recycling group called Freecycle in 2005 says the group is active and getting stronger.

Montreal Mirror : Restaurants : Pearl of Manila
On a recent expedition to Decarie to collect a bamboo tray I scored from Freecycle, I realized there remain traces of the quarter’s old charm, from the time before it was so brutally divided by the expressway. Among my discoveries was the Pearl of Manila on Decarie proper, between Côte-Ste-Catherine and Van Horne. A Filipino joint like this is a rare find in Montreal…..

Fire leaves family homeless

Members of Chappel’s family have already started to help replace the Jacobs’s belongings. They’re posting requests on the Freecycle Saint John website asking people to donate what they can.

In praise of plastics
In praise of plastics
Once derided, plastic products now have a cool cachet

Paula Brook, Vancouver Sun
Published: Friday, June 30, 2006

Lakeshore Advance, Grand Bend, ON
Freecycling take on three ‘Rs’
Don’t throw away, give away

BY CRYSTAL STEWART
Wednesday June 28, 2006
Lakeshore Advance — So you have a few items you want to get rid of – but there’s not enough to hold a yard sale, you don’t know if anyone would actually pay for them or you just want to keep things out of landfill.

Try “freecycling” and wait for people to come to you. You might even find something you need in the process.

BCNG Portals Page
Cowichan Valley residents can also use the web to connect themselves through an Internet exchange system that puts donors and receivers together electronically. Operating under the international freecycle movement umbrella at www.freecycle.org, hundreds of Valley residents have found items they need and people have found homes for items no longer required at: www.groups.yahoo.com/group/cowichanvalleyfreecycle/.
Their motto is “Changing the world one gift at a time.'’ That’s not a bad idea!

Vulcan Advocate: Help protect our environment

media mention

… a bandwagon of my own choosing–Freecycle. It is a group of people who are dedicated to keeping useful items out of the landfills. People offer and take items that are no longer needed by one and make use of them instead of having them cluttering our landfills. Someone’s trash is someone else’s treasure, as they say.

… join Freecycle to get rid of the wares you no longer have use for instead of throwing them away.

canadaeast.com - TP Life - One person’s trash - another’s treasure

One person’s trash - another’s treasure
Thousands of New Brunswickers are helping save the environment by getting and giving free merchandise over the Internet.

maisonneuve :: eclectic curiosity : April’s Fools

Even better is freecycle.org, an international online community that trades items instead of trashing them. It has over two million members worldwide; its thriving Montreal chapter boasts 7204 members.