From April 20 through May 4, Yahoo! will help inspire people to join groups and recycle by placing eco-friendly prizes, such as a “Smart car”, eco-trips and green cleaning services, in randomly selected reuse groups. Yahoo! created a microsite to make it easy for users to find a reuse group in their community. The site will be promoted on Yahoo!’s homepage and throughout the network. Yahoo! will also host reuse events at many of its campuses worldwide for employees.

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FREECYCLE.ORG

Have you outgrown your Chucks or your favorite Abercrombie T-shirt? Have a bunch of CDs you no longer listen to? Want to redecorate your room for cheap? Need 100 bottle caps for an art project? Offer good but no longer wanted stuff for free on Freecycle and get cool, gently-used stuff for free. Free membership required.

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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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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

Though TreeHugger prefers Buy Nothing Day to the sheer madness of Black Friday, that doesn’t mean you have to live with less or even that you can’t acquire stuff; a great way to do this is with something like The Freecycle Network (it really works!). The big day has passed, but the Network rolls on, and remains a good way to both find and get rid of stuff without having to involve any money.

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Instead of spending $15, $20 or more on your child’s (or your own) Halloween costume, you can save both money and resources by creating your own. Dig through your closets or browse local resale shops and flea markets for vintage clothes that could make fun costumes. Or put out a request through your local Freecycle or craigslist for used costumes. You’re probably not the only person in your neighborhood to have a few costumes from Halloweens past buried in the back of your closet.
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3. Freecycle. If you’re unfamiliar with Freecycle, it’s a way to give away items to those who need them (or, find something you’d like yourself). It reduces waste and the depletion of natural resources.
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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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Deron Beal is the Executive Director and Founder of the Freecycle Network, and he was recently interviewed on Netsquared, which is a site dedicated to news and interviews relating to NGOs and nonprofits using the web for social change.

During the 2nd NetSquared Conference in May 2007, 21 projects that use the web for social impact presented their work and received feedback and support from the NetSquared Community - Freecycle was third place winner!

Congrats Freecycle Network!!

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London – Not as expensive as you thought : Moneyweb

Living in the UK- especially London – is expensive compared to many places in the world.

It was ranked 5th among 144 cities in the Mercer’s Human Resource Consulting’s Cost of Living Survey. But what does this mean for your savings if you are moving across to the UK?

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When furnishing your house, look out for an internet site www.freecycle.com. Here people from all over the local area post adverts for stuff they want to get rid of, such as desks, chairs, old TV’s, all for free. All you have to do is collect it yourself. I know it might sound dodgy but it works.