This is the shit.
What is FreeCycle?
Besides being a damn good name, FreeCycle is the "brainchild" of Deron Beal, who started it as a listserv in the dry, hot town of Tucson, Arizona in May 2003. Now it is a full fledged online community (Freecycle.org) and newsgroup (Yahoo). It is a little like Craiglist with one key difference: everything must be offered for free. The idea is that there is too much stuff going into landfill and that connecting finished users with new users is an easy, positive solution to part of the problem.
Jim just told us that he recieved a message (everyone did, apparently) from the NYC Dept. of Sanitation recommending FreeCycle as an alternative for disposing of household items such as computers. Good for them.
In the past year, FreeCycle "has spread to more than 1,400 counties, cities and towns worldwide with nearly half a million members." In New York City there are 6,699 members as of five minutes ago, who have posted 443 "messages" in the last week alone. A message can either be something you are giving away or something you need. Items run the gamut, from the entire Simpson's collection on VHS to five Gmail invites (!) to a 1994 Plymouth Sundance. (Thanks, Jayme! - via Newsday)
MGR
RECYCLING LINKS
- Recycle Your Electronics Day Sunday, October 2
- RecycleThisNYC.org
- RecycleBrooklyn.com
- PerScholas.org (computer recycling)
In August I donated my computer to World Computer Exchange which tried to bridge the computer/internet/broadband gap between the developed and developing worlds.
http://www.worldcomputerexchange.org/
And don't think it's only quirky stuff that comes across FreeCycle -- I scored a 200 disc Sony changer a few weeks ago from someone who went the digital jukebox direction.
Halo Dear Ones ;-)
Where can I finde the Email-Adress from Deron Beal? I have an Idea and like to share it with him...
Love light and joy
Sylvia from Germany
Another mans trash is another mans treasur
I think it is a great idea to recycle I do it and think everyone should
freecycle was great, in the beginning when it was grassroots, now they are just another corporate pig, stepping on the little guy and feeding their greed. Don't freecycle, there are pleanty of locally owned and community based free groups that need your support more then the lying two-faced profitable freecycle corporation.
www.freesharing.org
www.freeshare.savethisplanet.com
www.sharingisgiving.org
to name a few, under corporate attack