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POPSFREE piano: A "once in a blue moon" find Have you ever been to Brockville, Ontario? This might give you good reason to make the trip. Every once in a blue moon, offers like this pop up on freecycling groups. This one was posted today on the Brockville Freecycle group.
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POPSWriting PSAs (Public Service Announcements) This will be useful to the many, many volunteer social marketers around the world who run freecycle, fullcircles, reuseit, etc. groups as they struggle to increase membership and participation in these important emerging venues. Eric Snyder Ottawa.FullCircles.org ==================
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POPSNeed FREE Junk??? Some National (Canada) coverage for freecycling, the phenomenon that has been sweeping the planet since 2003. This article appeared in the Ottawa Sunday Sun today, and is featured on canoe.ca/greenplanet
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POPSCommunity Garden Slide Show This is an 8 minute success story slide show featuring a downtown, urban community garden project in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Thanks to Pauline Gabriel, Regina.FullCircles.org, for bringing the project to our attention. /e
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POPSCommunity Fruit Harvesting What a cool idea! I was just this morning thinking about this after reading an Edmonton FullCircles offer to pick unharvested rasberries.
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POPSPrecycling Introduced to freecyclers on the Ottawa, ON Canada Recycling BB. Link to it from the Ottawa "Hub"... ottawa.fullcircles.org =================
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POPSAn imaginative use for your garage: car storage Although this article was written four years ago in 2004, it is perhaps even more valid today in 2008. The article mentions giving things away on Freecycle. Since 2004, the freecycling idea has caught on... big time. There are many other networks now: fullcircles.org; reuseitnetwork.org. Over 5 million people in 88 countries are using these networks to declutter, and simplify their living spaces and their lives.
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POPSGREEN free-for-all Ottawa Sunday Sun article - May 4th. Introduction to Freeganism, Freecycle, carsharing, bagborroworsteal, bookcrossing. The article says... "There is an Ottawa group. In fact, there are almost 30 geographically dispersed local groups in the National Capital area including 25,000+ locals! Check out our regional hub - http://ottawa.FullCircles.org.
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POPS"Stuff" happens A cute 1 minute video which uses an ice buildup metaphor to capture the sense of how "stuff" fills up and eventually overwhelms our living spaces. There are now over 5000 self-help groups of folks in 88 countries dedicated to helping us get rid of that "stuff" in planet-friendly ways. Find them here - finder.overcycle.org /es
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POPSMission: Clutter Control Short video promoting freecycling (ie. Internet-mediated gifting) as a planet-friendly "green" way of getting rid of unwanted stuff quickly and relatively painlessly. There are now over 5000 groups; 5 million people in 88 countries playing the decluttering game. Freecycle, the first, is now one of many networks. Find a group near you here - finder.overcycle.com.
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POPSToo much "stuff" A cute 52 second video which captures the sense of how we accumulate a build up of "stuff" in our living spaces. There are now over 5000 self-help groups of folks in 88 countries dedicated to helping us get rid of that "stuff" in planet-friendly ways. Find them here - finder.overcycle.org /es
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POPSLarger House or dumpster? Humans are shop-a-holics. How much of our "stuff" do we use, need... or even really want? We just keep acquiring more and more and more and more. When is enough too much?
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POPSClustrMaps: Great tool for visualizing website visitors I just stumbled on this tool a few days ago. I've set it up to track visitors to fullcircles.org. Although we set up fullcircles.org primarily to target and serve Canada, we can visually see that ,in just a couple of days, we've had visitors from the US and Europe. /e
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POPSFurnish your place for less We draw your attention to #2 - "Reflect on ways to spend nothing, or almost nothing. " In Canada, you can add www.fullcircles.org to the list of ways you can shop for FREE stuff! /e
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POPSWhy "freecycle"?? We can learn some important, but simple lessons from the story of the travels of this 10 pin bowling ball.
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POPSClutter Busting I just stumbled on WikiHow this morning. What a great resource. WikiHow currently contains 29,945 articles — written, edited, and maintained primarily by volunteers.
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POPSRetire early: Live beneath your means DLM offers 10 suggestions. Here's an 11th and a 12th. 11. Buy Used: Lots of stuff on Craigslist and other resale venues is actually new. Bought and never used! 12. Shop Freecycle / Fullcircles / ReUseIt / or ANY of the gifting / reuse networks springing up all around the world! . Paying nothing means you don't have buy with after tax $$. And a lot of the stuff given away is also unused - new stuff; bought and never used! Think of all the money you can save. Makes it possible to either work less; or retire early. /e
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POPSGrowing Urban Potato "Trees" I just this morning learned that 2008 is the United Nations 'YEAR OF THE POTATO'. The first thing I thought of was this potato tree idea that I used many, many years ago. Growing potatoes locally is good; reusing old tires is good.... Sounds like a win-win in 2008.
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POPSGmail: Simulating folders with Gmail I've been using this approach to manage the VERY high volume of email from the FullCircles, Ottawa group. Properly formatted messages with OFFER, WANTED, TAKEN, RECEIVED never even appear in the in-box. They are labeled and filtered into the archive automatically. We have over 120,000 messages archives since Aug/04... taking up about 20% of the available space that Gmail archives. This is a GREAT tool for any Freecycle / Full Circles / ReUseIt group managers.
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POPSA "FullCircles" lesson: Keep the memories, not the stuff You're probably asking yourself. Is this guy nuts? What can you learn from an old bowling ball. You'd be surprised! Read it for some lessons in sustainability / good stewardship! Every little bit helps. Little bits add up! They really do. What's in YOUR idle assets inventory? /egs
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