Community Free Cycle

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By Jenna Hansen

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In honor of Earth Day, I would host a Community Free Cycle all day event. It will bring the community closer together and make them more aware of how to go green.

Preparation

How it works:
Pick a place with enough room to set up shop.
Have community members bring their underused goods and display them for
the taking. Clothes that don't fit, a dresser that doesn't go with your
decor, gift's your ex gave you, the bike you don't ride, the jewelry
you meant to regift, or the crib you don't plan on using again.

You can leave your stuff for the taking and browse others' treasures to see what you might be intersted in.

Have local restaurants donate a few trays of food and see if you can get some live entertainment, make it an all day affair.
You can have raffels and auction off trees (donated by the parks dept), seeds, bulbs, compost, or organic goods.

Have someone giving a compost demonstration and giving tips on how to garden.
Teach the young one how to recycle- make it a game- even have the bring
cans from home and slam dunk them into the right baskets for a chance
to wine a prize.
Ask guests to come to the event with something they recycled- there
will be prizes for the most creative, the most genius, and the most
humorous.

When they day is over arrange for a good will van to pick up whatever has not found a home- so that it can get another chance.
Have any money raised go into planting flowers and plants in the area.

The community will have saved our earth from a whole landfill and walk
away with lessons learned, a great feeling and perhaps some great finds.