Mayor Boris Johnson, long-time reuse champion actress Joanna Lumley OBE, and James Cleverly AM have announced £8m funding from the London Waste and Recycling Board (LWaRB) to create the world's largest city-wide 'reuse network', helping household items find a new home rather than being chucked away.

More here: http://www.lcrn.org.uk/projects/london-reuse-network/press-release

Hello all, thank you for joining us at the Skills Market at Camden Green Fair, London's most central green festival. We taught mending and repairing using both donated goods from TRAID, and damaged garments that you brought with you.

Have a look at more of the photos here: http://www.meetup.com/weallreuse/photos/962705/

The Zero Dollar Laptop Project aims to change the way we all think about technology.

Workshops have been running in London since January 2010 with clients of St Mungo’s charity for homeless people. We are recycling hardware, breaking Windows and installing Free and Open Source Software to build media laptops and create music, graphics and video for distribution over the Internet.

Participants will leave the project with street-smart technical knowledge and a wireless enabled media laptop, classier than any shiny power-book.

Once we were a nation of shopkeepers; now we appear to have become a nation of hoarders.

A report today says that we fill our homes with so much clutter that the space occupied by our possessions has doubled in the past 30 years.

From home computers to toys, the growth in consumerism has meant that our belongings now take up nearly half of our homes.

Read the full story here

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7027045.ece

Hi All,

Thank you to those of you who battled the snow and ice to make it to our December meetup. 14 people came swapped, mingled, bantered and feasted and left with wonderful new treasures.

Thank you to Kim Vision for the picture. For future event please join the meetup group at http://www.meetup.com/weallreuse

Young Chilean designers are turning their creative energy to recycling, natural fibres and working with disadvantaged groups as they produce clothing and accessories - but it is an effort that is not free of tensions.

You are cordially invited to a free lunch for up to 5000 people. On the 16th December a free lunch made from delicious ingredients that would otherwise have been wasted will be prepared for 5000 people. Our aim is to highlight the ease of cutting the unimaginable levels of food waste in the UK and internationally. Find out more here: http://www.feeding5k.org/index.php

Immediately afterwards, from 2-5pm we will be hosting a clothes swap in and around the big Climate Camp yurt. Bring fabulous things to swap or donate! www.weallreuse.com

The Institute of Design & Technology of South Dakota wants to help you get rid of them and put them to good use!

"Before you “Fall back” and let the piles accumulate in your closets, basement or garage -- please let us help you to recycle.

Image credit: A Box Life As every good greenie knows, reuse comes before recycle. That's why it's so exciting that Columbia Sportswear Company has started shipping purchases from its online store in reused boxes! (HP's packaging department could learn a thing or too!) But shipping in reused boxes is just the start - the company is also sponsoring an online community that helps folks track the path of their packaging...Read the full story on www.earth-stream.com/outpage.php?s=18&id=206402