Ryan Is Hungry » swaporamarama http://ryanishungry.com Hacking Everyday Life. Exchanging Notes on Survival. Compost, Vermicompost, Biofuels, SVO, Green, Solar, Electric Vehicle, DIY, Gardening Sat, 16 Jul 2011 21:01:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Making vs Consuming: A Conversation with Wendy Tremayne http://ryanishungry.com/2007/07/23/making-vs-consuming-a-conversation-with-wendy-tremayne/ http://ryanishungry.com/2007/07/23/making-vs-consuming-a-conversation-with-wendy-tremayne/#comments Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:12:46 +0000 ryanne http://ryanishungry.com/2007/07/23/making-vs-consuming-a-conversation-with-wendy-tremayne/ Making vs Consuming: A Conversation with Wendy Tremayne
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We are constantly bombarded with images and advertising pushing us to buy more, buy better, buy often. What happens when we stop buying so much and start making? More innovation, more creativity and more knowledge can be shared.

Wendy, founder of Swap-O-Rama-Rama, explains her thinking on consumerism aptly:

It’s easy and even mundane to say, ‘This is as good as it gets.’ It is such a more exciting place to say ‘We can do so much better with everything.’ This should be a never ending thought.

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You might recognize Wendy Tremayne from our Green Acre Series here on RyanIsHungry. Wendy founded Swap-O-Rama-Rama as a way to break out the consumer cycle of shopping for clothes. Utilizing the abundance that just a few people’s closets can bare, adding a little creativity with fancy sewing machines and silkscreen artists for custom modifications, Swap-O-Rama-Rama makes recycling clothes fun and social. This particular swap was part of Maker Faire, an event to celebrate makers of all kinds from robot artists to crafters to computer hackers.

As Wendy says here:

There is no creativity in consumerism…makers don’t make good consumers. The less you know, the less you can make, the more you’re going to buy.

Want to produce a Swap-O-Rama-Rama where you live? You can! Because it’s Creative Commons licensed! Contact Wendy through the site and she’ll get you started!

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