Wednesday, August 31, 2005
freegans
in the inbox from Josie this morning
a bunch of link hopping from freegan.info got me to http://www.livejournal.com/users/nvc_anarchy/
I'm still amazed at how quickly a blog allows me to digest a stranger's life - fairly or not.
I'm a consumer of nvc_anarchy's life (for a while) - kinda against everything that he seems to want.
Also picked up a nice anarchy emblem - green anarchy
following our discussions about communal living out of town, thought this
might interest all of you...
----- Original Message -----
From:
To: ;
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 11:21 PM
Subject: [Ela-discuss] from http://freegan.info/
What is a freegan?
"Freegan" is an amalgamation of the words "free" and "vegan". Vegans are
people who avoid products from animal sources or products tested on animals in an
effort to avoid harming animals. Freegans take this a step further by recognizing that in
a complex,
...
Freeganism is a total boycott of
an economic system where the profit motive has eclipsed ethical
considerations and where massively complex systems of productions ensure that the
products we buy will have detrimental impacts we may never even consider.
After years of trying to boycott products from egregious corporations,
and finding that no matter what we bought we ended up supporting something deplorable,
...
Perhaps the most notorious freegan strategy is what is commonly called
"urban foraging" or "dumpster diving."
This technique involved rummaging through the garbage of retailers,
residences, offices, and other facilities for useful goods. Despite our
society's sterotypes about refuse, the goods recovered by freegans are safe,
useable, clean, and in perfect or near-perfect condition, a symptom of a throwaway
culture that encourages us to constantly
replace our older goods with newer ones, and where retailers plan
high-volume product disposal as part of their economic model.
Some urban foragers forage alone, others in
might interest all of you...
----- Original Message -----
From:
To: ;
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 11:21 PM
Subject: [Ela-discuss] from http://freegan.info/
What is a freegan?
"Freegan" is an amalgamation of the words "free" and "vegan". Vegans are
people who avoid products from animal sources or products tested on animals in an
effort to avoid harming animals. Freegans take this a step further by recognizing that in
a complex,
...
Freeganism is a total boycott of
an economic system where the profit motive has eclipsed ethical
considerations and where massively complex systems of productions ensure that the
products we buy will have detrimental impacts we may never even consider.
After years of trying to boycott products from egregious corporations,
and finding that no matter what we bought we ended up supporting something deplorable,
...
Perhaps the most notorious freegan strategy is what is commonly called
"urban foraging" or "dumpster diving."
This technique involved rummaging through the garbage of retailers,
residences, offices, and other facilities for useful goods. Despite our
society's sterotypes about refuse, the goods recovered by freegans are safe,
useable, clean, and in perfect or near-perfect condition, a symptom of a throwaway
culture that encourages us to constantly
replace our older goods with newer ones, and where retailers plan
high-volume product disposal as part of their economic model.
Some urban foragers forage alone, others in
a bunch of link hopping from freegan.info got me to http://www.livejournal.com/users/nvc_anarchy/
I'm still amazed at how quickly a blog allows me to digest a stranger's life - fairly or not.
I'm a consumer of nvc_anarchy's life (for a while) - kinda against everything that he seems to want.
Also picked up a nice anarchy emblem - green anarchy
// posted by werner @ 1:23:00 pm 
