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Freegans Invade CosmoGIRL! Magazine

Posted by JeanDesiree 08/06/2008 09:00 AM

Tags: trash, dumpster diving, dumpster diver, freeganism, freegan, CosmoGIRL

I stood atop a dumpster outside a housing project in the Lower East Side for this shot.

Everyone's favorite transgender Freegan Wesleyan graduate, Jean Pockrus, is featured in the September issue of CosmoGIRL! Get the full scoop after the jump.

Latest comment by Anonymous: There was a movement in the 60's called Diggerism or "the Diggers," who lived off of the charity of other Diggers and from sharing, and had shops where they gave away things that they found. Read up on them, it's interesting, and applicable to this "Freeganism" idea.

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NYU, UC Berkeley, UCSBEvents

A Greener Move-Out Day

Posted by Susie Cagle 05/16/2008 12:46 PM

Tags: scavenging, dumpster diving, Green MoveOut, ecofriendly, donating castoffs

Move-out week is traditionally a mad dash to the dumpster with the bean bag chairs, broken milk crates and old class notebooks -- resulting in hundreds of thousands of pounds of garbage, much of it reuseable. Now some campuses are making efforts to make the move-out process a little more eco-fr... MORE »

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Alums Dumpster Dinner with the New York Post

Posted by JeanDesiree 08/21/2008 6:54 PM

Tags: New York Post, freeganism, Freegan, dumpster diving, David DeSario

Alums Dumpster Dinner with the New York Post

After I appeared in the September 2008 issue of CosmoGIRL! magazine representing Freeganism and dumpster diving, I was hit up in all directions from media outlets and journalists seeking to produce some sensationalistic copy on where I get my dinner. I took a kind and upstanding freelance j

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