CNNMoney: 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.
With more than 4,000 Freecycle networks operating in 75 countries, and with more than 3.5 million members signed up to give things away and take them, that’s lot of trash or treasure, all of it kept out of landfills.
The Freecycle Network is an amazing Internet phenomenon. In four years, it’s become one of the most effective environmental groups around. It’s also an example of how social networking – the connections between people made on such Web sites as MySpace and Facebook – can be used to address social and environmental problems.
The amazing Freecycle story [CNNMoney]
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It is very true that this is an amazing story, however it is not one without its growing pains. More info on my blog to the many controversies surrounding this phenomenon.