November 2011
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Guest post - National Swap Day a huge success!
Open Shed met our friends The Clothing Exchange via PlanBig and we are super excited that the second annual National Swap Day (17 October 2011) was another fabulous success!
We are delighted to pronounce this year’s National Swap Day to be a huge success. We had over 250 swappers across 4 states swapping simultaneously to raise the profile of swapping in the place of wasteful shopping. It was...
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Guest Post - Wrap up of Buy Nothing New Month...
Open Shed is really pleased to kick start our guest blog series with a post from the Buy Nothing New Month crew.
In 2011, Buy Nothing New Month somehow blasted out internationally!
We were thrilled that as well as local Aussies pledgers who signed up to Buy Nothing New in October, we magically attracted pledgers from Portugal, USA, UK, France and South Africa! We were also over the moon to...
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Happy 1 month birthday Open Shed...
Yep that’s right on Tuesday we were 1 month old – and what a month it has been!!
I have been extraordinarily busy spreading the word about Open Shed and Collaborative Consumption in general, meeting our new members and organising our official Sydney launch.
Unfortunately doing all the above has meant this blog has been a little neglected. But I do hope to come back and do a blog post on each...
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