How would your columnist fare as a freegan amid the consumerist excesses of Hampstead? |
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Your columnist is clearly no match for Weissman, a New Jersey freegan who claims to have subsisted on a largely dumpster-based diet for a decade. |
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But the Adjunct was a borderline freegan, so it pained him to see anything short of a full assault on their suite's reliably refreshed mini-bar. |
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Whatever the value of this sort of freegan survivalism, its appeal is probably limited. |
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A wheelchair technician by day, Caffrey is the band's go-to guy for discarded goods and modified gear, but his freegan finds aren't limited to the medical industry. |
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The author is Tristram Stuart, a British environmentalist, freegan and admitted Dumpster diver. |
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Stuart, who is also an activist, does not identify himself as a freegan. |
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He is a squatter, a right-wing version of the dreadlocked freegan who sets up living quarters in an abandoned building in Brooklyn. |
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The members of the New York freegan movement have gathered by a subway entrance in west Brooklyn, New York. |
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Other notable additions include freegan, fracking, and Yooper, a nickname used for a native or resident of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. |
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Going freegan might be a bit much for most of us, but we can all take action to minimize food waste. |
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The one place that I felt safe, welcomed, and resonant was a freegan, eco-activist, bike-loving, Zen meditation community in Portland, Oregon, which I joined for seven months. |
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Freegan Someone who eats thrown away food as they hate waste. |
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