Resources for a “No Impact Lent”

Week 1:_Buy Nothing New

Websites

• Everything Is Free Arlington, MA Facebook group
  Note: members must be approved
• Freecycle Arlington, MA
  Note: account needed
• TheThriftShopper.com List of Massachusetts Thrift Stores by City Name

Books (all available via the Minuteman Library Network)

• Not Buying It: My Year without Shopping by Judith Levine
• The Moneyless Man: A Year of Freeconomic Living by Mark Boyle
• No Impact Man by Colin Beavan (see “Chapter 7: Conspicuous Nonconsumption”)

For a PDF version of these resources, click on the Week 1 heading above.

Week 2:_Reduce_Waste

Week 3:_Transportation

Week: 4_Eat Local Food

Note for the map resource: Before heading to a farm, farmers’ market, or CSA location, check the website or call to find out whether, how, and when you can access it.

Week 5:_Energy

Other Resources

Learn more about Arlington DPW‘s curbside recycling program – e.g., what’s required, what’s allowed, what’s not – and special programs for composting and textile recycling.