History, I need your help
I want to chart the wider history of the Freecycling movement. So if you know the date of a key event please contact me andyswarbs [at) gmail.com. What sparked me to this is a new news article on Mcall.com. This states that Deron Beal sent out the first email which launched TFN in the year 2000. This surprised me since I thought it was 2003. And in fact the latter is true – that’s what the TFN website states – the date May 1st 2003 can be found on their History & Background Information page. I really wish journalists would check their factoids!
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Stemming from my experiences of giving and receiving items through the concept of Freecycling, this blog is a critique of the industry known as the “gift economy”. I started out as just another freecycler, then moderator. Then something happened that propelled me into being a movement activist. Much of what is written concerns the controversy surrounding The Freecycle Network (TFN). There are many articles referring back to the origins of the company, and indeed events that led up to its creation. This is therefore an activists blog.
If anyone sees anything incorrect please let me know and I will do what I can to correct them. Any errors and omissions are mine. All comments are welcome and indeed if anyone wishes to suggest future topics, or other sites related to the subject of the future of freecycling please tell me now, not tomorrow.
Returning freecycling back to the movement.
Andy Swarbrick, UK
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Hi Andy:
I’ve been maintaining a media backgrounder since 2004. I update it daily. Perhaps you can find some useful historical pegs here – http://snipr.com/ofn_backgrounder.
Eric Snyder, Founder
http://ottawafreecycle.org/
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