I have a new piece in Metromode on a new movement that I'm calling Exchange Culture. It's everything from resale shops - which are actually doing better in the recession - to bartering between larger businesses to recycling movements like Freecycle. This was one of those nice story assignments where most of the topic was new to me so the act of research came from real curiosity and was as simple as scratching an itch.
Chzek it out if you'd like.
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Great article. Here's my favorite paragraph.
What all these signs could point to is not so much a new type of thinking as a new shape. The old model was linear - an item is manufactured, shipped to a store, taken home buy the consumer, discarded and left on a giant pile of trash. It was a straight line, and one with a dead end. The new form is the more circular, more spiritual even, like yin swirling into yang. After all, the icon for recycling does resemble a snake eating its own tail. And as more and more businesses are finding out, this approach is not just more wholistic, it's more profitable.
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