Buy Nothing groups are hyper-local online communities where people give away items they no longer need and request things they do. It’s like Santa’s workshop, except you’re the elf—and ...

Every year volunteers for the Buy Nothing Day Coat Exchange collect and distribute winter coats to people in need on the day after Thanksgiving outside the Rhode Island State House in Providence.

Buy Nothing Day offers a radical alternative to Black Friday’s consumer chaos. The movement, which started in the 1990s as a quirky protest against overconsumption, has evolved into a desperate ...

Every year volunteers for the Buy Nothing Day Coat Exchange collect and distribute winter coats to people in need on the day after Thanksgiving outside the Rhode Island State House in Providence.