Recycling
How the underground barter economy is transforming the ways we connect
The Facebook-based trading phenomenon with the dubious name Bunz was unknown to me until a couple of weeks ago when its local chapter turned up in my newsfeed. A network with dozens of chapters, like its close cousin, Freecycle, the Halifax Bunz has 8000 local members and is growing weekly. Clearly, this is an idea…
Read MoreThe Joy of Grease: How to make soap out of what’s sitting in that soup can on the back of your stove
There’s a tin can on our kitchen counter that no one goes near, filled with congealed bacon grease. It’s been collecting for months, and I really don’t know what to do with it. Except I DO know and just haven’t gotten around to trying what everyone alive in any century prior to ours would have done: make soap from scratch.
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