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'For-later' or 'for-whoever' drawer. Free resources. Because it's just simpler.

'For-later' or 'for-whoever' drawer.
Because like many people I have too many ideas for the time lived.
Because someone might pick up on something.
Because someone else is better than never.

So here are some of the things I'd like to do one day, or thought of once in the shower:

• An app to connect people to fruit trees and other free resources, in public but especially private spaces.
  Resource-owners tend to have too much of one thing and all at once. And lots of people have nothing to eat. I imagine something similar to Falling fruit but more user-friendly, structured, and feature-rich; more focused on things that grow and go to waste in private spaces, as opposed to public ones, which is the focus of Falling Fruit. "Come on in by the back gate between 8am and 5pm to pick the apples from our tree!" — private spaces come with their own set of constraints and would therefore need a special address.
  
  
• An illustrated picture-book on natural movement.
  It's a necessary conversation to have with children, so that they can value what they have and hopefully be encouraged to keep it. And a conversation which might make parents think twice too.
  
  
• A "Goodreads of second-hand objects".
  I find it very interesting to be able to keep lists of things which you are on the lookout for and which are visible to other people. When you try to rely as much as possible on second-hand objects rather than new ones, availability is the main issue: what you are after surely exists, but maybe not now and maybe not here. In that optic, a system which enables you and others to know what each other are after (obviously not the first necessity stuff, but the would-be-nice-to-have stuff), would maximise objects finding new, loving homes. Thanks to my Goodreads "to-find-to-buy" bookshelf, anyone can get me something I'm keenely looking for in some random Oxfam bookshop or car-boot sale, if they come across it, but they have no way of knowing that I might also be after that risty 19th century kitchen tool which was lying on a stand as well… I have excellent returns from my Christmas present to some very good friends to whom I gave a silver ladle which cost 1€ ; I knew they didn't have one, but how many other chances have I missed of pleasing them as much?
  

And free resources I have created, because why not.
And because I enjoy so many wonderful free things online created by other people.

/ List of "Ideas for creativity on a daily basis that doesn't require any extra time"
if ever you were wanting to "include creativity in your life" and can't think how

/ Zero Waste Event PDF (FR, "Évènement zéro déchet"):
a handbook to send out to anyone organising a public event

/ "Carton vélocypède" side A and side B:
an ID for bikes, to keep of things and to trace them. [in progress]

/ The game to get people speaking about deep shit:
inspired by Vertellis®, for a customisable and cheap home version; just need to print on card and cut out. [in progress]

/ French cooking book from 1830, formatted and edited
[rich text format (.rtf) download] or [PDF view]
"Manuel du cuisinier et de la cuisinière", par P.Cardelli. Made available by the BNF (bibliothèque nationale de France) on Gallica using optical character recognition and edited and formatted by me for research purposes. Offered back to them but there is no process in place to accept contributions.

/RECIPES:

• Pain récupéré à la banane
  [update: you can include the mashed banana peel to this, or include it in the weight of the "banana" entry — it's edible and very nutritious]

And a few random things from elsewhere:

/ Pourquoi 'moyen-âgeux' devrait être tout sauf péjoratif (en alimentation) [extrait de "l'authentique cuisine du moyen âge"]

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“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.” ― H.D. Thoreau