Our region’s four original Buy Nothing gift economy groups on Facebook emerged from discussions within our community. Many of the volunteer admins of Ithaca’s Buy Nothing groups are also members of Zero Waste Ithaca.
We started these groups to strengthen community connections through reuse and gift exchanges, preventing valuable items from ending up in landfills.
Here are the five active Buy Nothing: Gifting with Integrity groups in our area:
- Downtown/South Hill Ithaca, NY
- Cayuga Heights/East Hill, Ithaca, NY
- West Ithaca, NY
- Lansing, NY
- Danby/Newfield/South Hill, NY
If you’d like to join, please submit a request and answer all three membership questions. Each person may join only one Buy Nothing group at a time.
We are also looking for volunteer admins for Enfield, Ulysses, Dryden, Caroline, and Groton. Administering a Buy Nothing group is a rewarding way to support your community and getting to know your neighbors. If you’re interested in volunteering, please reach out.
About Our Buy Nothing Groups
Our Buy Nothing groups follow the original principles of the Buy Nothing movement and are part of the global volunteer network Gifting with Integrity: Buy Nothing. This network provides essential admin training and support for Facebook-based Buy Nothing groups.
Despite the well-documented problems with a tech giant like Facebook, it remains the dominant public square of our time, and Buy Nothing groups thrive on this platform. We wish Facebook were a public utility.
Gifting with Integrity: Buy Nothing groups operate independently from the Buy Nothing Project, which has abandoned its original mission and the support it once provided for facebook-based Buy Nothing groups in favor of a proprietary and profit-driven phone app.