tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15585808.post6722500307327797054..comments2024-03-28T02:14:52.545-07:00Comments on Have Fun • Do Good: Changing the World One Gift at a Time: An Interview with Deron Beal of the Freecycle NetworkBritt Bravohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02134123127272499735noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15585808.post-24204403941898090712007-08-09T20:02:00.000-07:002007-08-09T20:02:00.000-07:00Thank you for participating in the conversation. I...Thank you for participating in the conversation. I appreciate hearing other sides of issues that I post about since I try to focus on the positive.<BR/><BR/>I guess it makes me sad that people are spending energy focusing on the negative side of Freecycle (all light things have a shadow so I'm sure it does too) when ultimately good things still happen because of it. I feel like critical energy should be focused these days more towards things like why genocide is allowed to continue in Darfur, why polar bears are drowning, why places that are supposed to be hot are cold and places that are supposed to be cold are hot, and why we are still in Iraq causing more terror than preventing it.Britt Bravohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02134123127272499735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15585808.post-60629525234080097232007-08-02T05:00:00.000-07:002007-08-02T05:00:00.000-07:00Britt, please do a little research on your choice ...Britt, please do a little research on your choice of "good guys". You will find that Mr. Beal is not one of them. Start with the Grist or Business Week. Sorry to burst your bubble.<BR/>PatriciaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15585808.post-11609487962319876922007-08-02T01:05:00.000-07:002007-08-02T01:05:00.000-07:00This man needs to keep his stories consistant, fro...This man needs to keep his stories consistant, from this article - <BR/><BR/><BR/>But at any rate, we filled up an entire warehouse full of stuff. My boss at the time said, "You need to get rid of this stuff." I was driving around to other nonprofits as fast as I could, trying to give stuff away. But one won't take monitors, the other one won't take CPUs, they'll charge you. I figured there's got to be another way. So basically what we're doing is free recycling. What should I call it? [laughs] And it was a small step to say, "Well, let's call it Freecycle. I was a member of my neighborhood association at the time, and that was a Yahoo group, so I said, "Why not just set up a Yahoo group? I'll call it Freecycle." So, bang, the idea was born."<BR/><BR/>From http://potw.news.yahoo.com/ , posted this week<BR/><BR/>Freecycle began in 2003 when Tucson resident Deron Beal got married and needed to get rid of an extra bed. The former Procter and Gamble executive and self-proclaimed "tree hugger" says Goodwill wouldn't take it. So instead Beal sent emails to 30 other people asking if they or anyone they knew wanted it. <BR/><BR/>This is but one example of the kind of misinformation that is behind the growing exodus of groups away from Freecycle to other recycling organisations.<BR/><BR/>Dave<BR/>www.realcycle.co.ukDavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12660601520070326466noreply@blogger.com