https://grist.org/looking-forward/need-a-new-outfit-try-the-library/
"At a library in Dover, New Hampshire, earlier this year, the shelves of books
and CDs typically available for lending were accompanied by something else —
racks of clothes. Every Sunday and Monday from December through mid-January,
community members could visit a lecture hall in the Dover Public Library to
participate in the pilot of a new type of lending project: a clothing library.
Visitors could check out up to five garments for two weeks at a time. The
collection focused on “occasion wear,” the types of things people might buy for
the purpose of wearing once: a holiday party dress, a wedding outfit, a ski
trip ensemble.
But more than displacing those types of purchases, and the resulting waste, the
real idea behind the project was to facilitate a shift in behavior, said Stella
Martinez McShera, the clothing library’s creator. “How can we bridge the gap
between people buying, whether that’s new or secondhand, to borrowing?”
I met McShera while reporting another newsletter story on the world’s first
degrowth master’s program, run by a university in Barcelona. She’s a recent
graduate of the online master’s, and the clothing library was her thesis
project. In that story, we explored what happens when the philosophical ideas
of a new economic system meet the realities of the one we have. McShera’s
project is one example of what that looks like in practice."
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Reasons to be Cheerful:
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https://reasonstobecheerful.world/what-were-reading-bee-friendly-law-community-paramedicine/>
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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