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thecompactnyc · The Compact NYC

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  • Members: 111
  • Category: Miscellaneous
  • Founded: Jan 4, 2007
  • Language: English
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Welcome to The Compact NYC.

We are a group of individuals living in New York City committed to a 12-month flight from the consumer grid (starting whenever you join).

The Compact has several aims (more or less prioritized below):

* To go beyond recycling in trying to counteract the negative global environmental and socioeconomic impacts of disposable consumer culture and to support local businesses, farms, etc. -- a step that, we hope, inherits the revolutionary impulse of the Mayflower Compact.
* To reduce clutter and waste in our homes (as in trash Compact-er).
* To simplify our lives (as in Calm-pact)

We've agreed to follow two general principles:

#1 Don't buy new products of any kind (from stores, web sites, etc.)
#2 Borrow, barter, or buy used.

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Participation requested - Volunteers needed for an online research s
For those of you who may be interested... (apologies for any cross-posting) My name is Kirsten Firminger. I am a graduate student in the Social Psychology
Posted - Fri Sep 25, 2009 8:06 pm
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Hello!  I compacted from last June to this past June. I find now that my shopping goes in this order:1. friends and family borrowing or hand-me-down2.
Posted - Wed Sep 9, 2009 4:58 pm
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Hello NYC Compacters, This list has been very quiet for some time; I apologize for my part of that. My Compact Year was 2007. It had a permanent change on
Posted - Tue Sep 8, 2009 1:51 am
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Brooklyn Compacter needed for Brokelyn.com Interview
I just landed a gig as a writer for Brokelyn.com, a new web magazine started by Faye Penn (editor of InStyle and WSJ Magazine). The site's mission is to
Posted - Mon Jun 1, 2009 4:09 pm
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Local Compacter in the latest Mother Jones magazine
Hi NYC Compacters, The "Local Comacter" is actually me. Elizabeth Royte interviewed me a couple months ago for an article on people reducing their waste,
Posted - Thu Apr 23, 2009 10:38 pm
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