* Green Routines: Suggestions for the way we live now.

* Not Buying It (New York Times, 6/21/07): Freegans embrace dumpster-diving as a way of recycling.

* Freegan website: "Freegans are people who employ alternative strategies for living based on limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources. Freegans embrace community, generosity, social concern, freedom, cooperation, and sharing in opposition to a society based on materialism, moral apathy, competition, conformity, and greed."

* Craigslist Free Section: Like an online garage sale, but free! A great way to save things that would otherwise end up in a landfill.

* Westport Freecycle Group: "It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns and thus keeping good stuff out of landfills."