Whats Up (or Down) at Freecycle?
Posted by: Rob Hof on August 31 Check out these mostly critical comments on the Freecycle Network. That’s the widely praised Tucson-based group that helps people create local Web sites where they can give away and get stuff that might otherwise end up in a landfill. Sounds like there’s a fair amount of strife at the (apparently) loose-knit group. Says one commenter: “They’re in the midst of a great upheaval, groups right and left are leaving them and starting independent groups of their own. The founder hasn’t gotten it through his head yet, that you can’t “own” this concept, and the control he tries to impose is too much for many of us who just want a grassroots movement.” This is the first I had heard of any problems at the network, which seems a pretty innovative and worthwhile endeavor. Maybe I just wasn’t paying real close attention. One story outlines some philosophical differences among Freecyclers, especially over a grant to Freecycle from Waste Management, to which founder and
