Someone donated 100k to them recently and they apparently gave it all to their community and didn’t use it to save their own org, so now they’re broke and dying.
Even cash won’t save you if you don’t know how to budget and plan.
their work to date seems like 100K well spent on trying something very few other people would even attempt, no less take it as far as they did.
i'm not sure if people here comprehend how much work it is to do and sustain something like this for almost a decade. a lot of the work is niche community-building, it's a hard slog fought one workshop at a time. its like herding idealistic cats, not easy. i will always appreciate those who hold the line and choose to die on weird hills like this.
while i commend them on their work to date, it's clear that this is a hard problem to solve within our current socio-economic environment. after all, plastic is around us, within us, and inevitably part of us now. as humans we need to stop burying it and confront what we are doing.
This. No matter your stance on economic base model or plastic and recycling in general the decade-long effort of Previous Plastic is very commendable, was a lot of hard work and produced quite a bit of actual output. That doesn't warrant the amount of negativity in this thread, IMO.
It’s a lot harder to be an effective person than a well meaning one. I knew some people who tried to get an intentional community together and it was three or for professionally successful people and a lot of people who could burn up a meeting with talk but not much else.
> We received a €100K donation. Which was amazing, but we decided to give it all to the community so they can continue developing their projects. Not to sustain the organisation itself.
And I see no mention that they have any plans to not do it again
Even cash won’t save you if you don’t know how to budget and plan.