Freecycle: Green and Free!

Recycle, Reduce, and Reuse... a phrase synonymous with the green arrows of the recycling triangle, and you'd be hard pressed to find anyone under the age of 40 not familiar with this mantra; but the newest trend going along with this phrase involves one of my favorite words... FREE!

Freecycle is an easy-to-use system that allows us to unclutter your house, find sweet new-to-you items, and help help the environment all in the same fell swoop. So here's the basic concept: You have something you no longer want, but is still usable... instead of throwing it away-you use an online social network to offer it to others in your area. Its kinda like the Internet version of putting your stuff on the curb to let others pick it up. The best part is this is one way that you can reduce trash, while donating goods that others can use! Its environmentally friendly and a great way to donate to other who may be in need.

Want to try it? Go to www. freecycle.org; or you can just Google "freecycle". Another cool option is to check out craigslist... its basically a huge free classified online database. You can search and post free items there too!

Wondering about me.... Thanks for all the emails, comments, and facebook messages asking me what I'm doing next year. Not trying to build the suspense any longer, but I hope to be able to share the details of my move within the next week or week and a half. I just want to work out all the details before I post to the world my decision. I do know this much I will be moving out of Western PA in a couple of months.

Green Thought of the Day:

Extra! Extra!

If every newspaper reader in the United States

recycled just one typical Sunday Paper,

they could help create 212 million pounds of

cellulose insulation! That's enough to insulate 118,767

Habitat for Humanity houses; which is nearly twice as many

houses as all the Habitat homes build in America so far.

the whole WORLD is going GREEN

Its not just the seasonal change that has prompted the vitalization of my blog, in keeping with the coming spring I wanted to start sharing some cool easy information about ways that we can Go Green, in our everyday lives. I'm also hoping that having some deeper purpose than my own life's ramblings will spark many posts with some sort of regularity.

I was recently on a flight back from DC and came across a Sky Magazine (this one was Delta's) that caught my eye. The entire magazine was oriented toward everything Green. Everything I noticed except for the advertisements; but hey, I guess that have to make money some how.

As I began to read the first few articles, I found myself completely absorbed by the information. The articles really were completely green. The magazine had taken all of their normal areas of focus and concentrated everything from food reviews, to vacationing, to business and politics through the lens of energy conservation and environmental stewardship. I was captured by this adventurous move and deeply impressed with this moral move... whether a terrific PR move or an artless concern for humanities future-I like it!

So, green thought for the day: Can it!

One soft drink can recycled by each elementary student

in America would save 24.8 million cans. That would be

enough aluminum to create a 21 Boeing 737 airplane.