Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Hippy shopping..

www.hippyshopper.tv is the green equivalent to my gadget fix shinyshiny.tv and it showed me two super cool things today. One was a new site that's being launched www.swapaskill.com which I see as part of how the internet is helping a whole self-reliance, and old-fashioned craft/ skill, revolution- I'm not sure on how it will all work but basically people will barter their skills so we won't have to call an extortionate plumber or IT man, but maybe will find065 someone a couple of streets down who'll do it in exchange for Spanish lessons.. It sounds all lovely and communal as opposed to our spendthrift selfish world.

I didn't hear Ben Bradshaw tell everyone to rip off supermarket excess packaging at the till but it sounds like a hilarious and great idea- very guerilla. And the guy is the Environment Secretary so you couldn't be thrown out- but the embarrassment of annoying people might be harsh enough as this guardian article shows..
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/waste/story/0,,1948065,00.html

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