SageTheRage
Membership Revoked
Here's something I think the readers here would really be interested in!
One person's trash can truly be another's treasure!
Grassroots at its best!
Its called "FREECYCLING" and everything must be FREE in order to be posted.
Whether it's a chair, a fax machine, piano, or an old door to be given away, it can be posted on the network.
Or, maybe you're looking to acquire something yourself?
Respond to the posting directly and you just might get it.
After that it is up to the giver to set up a pickup time for passing on the treasure.
I saw it in this past Sunday's edition (9-12-04) of "USA Weekend" pg 18: "NEWS 'N VIEWS"
Wanted: New homes for old stuff.
Think of it as eBay without the price tags. How else can you explain a web-based forum that finds loving homes for everything from old socks to pets?
Deron Beal of Tucson, who runs a non-profit that workd to reduce the junk put into landfills, came up with the idea last year after businesses began asking him to take non-junk items, like computers. "I wouldn't refuse," Beal says.
"Otherwise, they'd haul it to the dump."
He created freecycle.org and began listing items; "I thought if I gave it a nifty name, it just might take off." Did it ever! The forum now has nearly 400,000 members in
27 countries.
How it works: Local chapters filter listings; members email each other to schedule pickups. A woman who ran a day-care center posted a need for socks with holes, to
make puppets; someone else advertised a pile of dirt. Beal is talking with charities about net-working during catastrophes: "If charities posted to every freecycle group,
385,000 people could donate blankets or batteries."
http:// www.freecycle.org
The worldwide (!) Freecycle Network is made up of many individual groups across the globe.
It's a grassroots movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. Each local group is run by a local volunteer moderator (them's good people).
Membership is free. To sign up, find your city by clicking on the region on the right.
It will generate a automatic e-mail which, when sent, will sign you up for your local group and send you an response with instructions on how it works.
Or, go directly to the webpage for your city's group by clicking on your city's link on the left. Can't find your city? It takes about ten minutes to start your own (click on "Start your own" for instructions).
Have fun and keep on Freecyclin'!
The Freecycle Network is a project of RISE, Inc.,
a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization whose mission includes reducing waste, generating employment training, and fostering cooperation between other nonprofit organizations and the public.
RISE started the Freecycle Network in May 2003 to promote waste reduction in Tucson's downtown and help save desert landscape from being taken over by landfills. Freecycle provides individuals and non-profits an electronic forum to "recycle" unwanted items.
One person's trash can truly be another's treasure!
How does Freecycling work?
One rule: everything posted must be free.
Whether it's a chair, a fax machine, piano, or an old door to be given away, it can be posted on the network.
Or, maybe you're looking to acquire something yourself?
Respond to the posting directly and you just might get it.
After that it is up to the giver to set up a pickup time for passing on the treasure.
Non-profit organizations also benefit from the Freecycle Network.
Post the item or items you want to give away and a local organization can help you get it to someone in need. Who can Freecycle?
As Abe Lincoln once said, "Think globally, recycle locally."
The Freecycle Network is open to all cities and to all individuals who want to participate.
Freecycle groups are run by local volunteer moderators from across the globe who facilitate each local group -
Grassroots at its best!
http://www.freecycle.org
One person's trash can truly be another's treasure!
Grassroots at its best!
Its called "FREECYCLING" and everything must be FREE in order to be posted.
Whether it's a chair, a fax machine, piano, or an old door to be given away, it can be posted on the network.
Or, maybe you're looking to acquire something yourself?
Respond to the posting directly and you just might get it.
After that it is up to the giver to set up a pickup time for passing on the treasure.
I saw it in this past Sunday's edition (9-12-04) of "USA Weekend" pg 18: "NEWS 'N VIEWS"
Wanted: New homes for old stuff.
Think of it as eBay without the price tags. How else can you explain a web-based forum that finds loving homes for everything from old socks to pets?
Deron Beal of Tucson, who runs a non-profit that workd to reduce the junk put into landfills, came up with the idea last year after businesses began asking him to take non-junk items, like computers. "I wouldn't refuse," Beal says.
"Otherwise, they'd haul it to the dump."
He created freecycle.org and began listing items; "I thought if I gave it a nifty name, it just might take off." Did it ever! The forum now has nearly 400,000 members in
27 countries.
How it works: Local chapters filter listings; members email each other to schedule pickups. A woman who ran a day-care center posted a need for socks with holes, to
make puppets; someone else advertised a pile of dirt. Beal is talking with charities about net-working during catastrophes: "If charities posted to every freecycle group,
385,000 people could donate blankets or batteries."
http:// www.freecycle.org
The worldwide (!) Freecycle Network is made up of many individual groups across the globe.
It's a grassroots movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. Each local group is run by a local volunteer moderator (them's good people).
Membership is free. To sign up, find your city by clicking on the region on the right.
It will generate a automatic e-mail which, when sent, will sign you up for your local group and send you an response with instructions on how it works.
Or, go directly to the webpage for your city's group by clicking on your city's link on the left. Can't find your city? It takes about ten minutes to start your own (click on "Start your own" for instructions).
Have fun and keep on Freecyclin'!
The Freecycle Network is a project of RISE, Inc.,
a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization whose mission includes reducing waste, generating employment training, and fostering cooperation between other nonprofit organizations and the public.
RISE started the Freecycle Network in May 2003 to promote waste reduction in Tucson's downtown and help save desert landscape from being taken over by landfills. Freecycle provides individuals and non-profits an electronic forum to "recycle" unwanted items.
One person's trash can truly be another's treasure!
How does Freecycling work?
One rule: everything posted must be free.
Whether it's a chair, a fax machine, piano, or an old door to be given away, it can be posted on the network.
Or, maybe you're looking to acquire something yourself?
Respond to the posting directly and you just might get it.
After that it is up to the giver to set up a pickup time for passing on the treasure.
Non-profit organizations also benefit from the Freecycle Network.
Post the item or items you want to give away and a local organization can help you get it to someone in need. Who can Freecycle?
As Abe Lincoln once said, "Think globally, recycle locally."
The Freecycle Network is open to all cities and to all individuals who want to participate.
Freecycle groups are run by local volunteer moderators from across the globe who facilitate each local group -
Grassroots at its best!
http://www.freecycle.org
