<
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/got-broken-stuff-the-tool-library-has-a-fix/>
"I showed up to my first Dare to Repair Cafe with a notepad and a shopping tote
full of holey sweaters.
The pad I needed to take notes on the event — a roving ministry, of sorts, for
broken household items.
The sweaters, on the other hand, I took as mea culpas: I had said I’d bring a
faulty Bluetooth speaker in the hopes a volunteer could make it play again. But
my husband had already tossed the speaker in the trash. We were, in other
words, part of the problem.
“You won’t do that again,” said Don Winkelman, 71, a long-time volunteer for
Dare to Repair. “We have people come in one time, with a lamp or something, and
then we see them again and again.”
Dare to Repair exists to reprogram wasteful consumers like my husband and me.
Since 2017, the roving monthly cafe has traversed Buffalo, New York, and its
environs, helping attendees repair broken electronics, household goods and
small appliances.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, Americans throw away nearly
40 million tons of such items each year. Repair cafes — of which there are now
more than 3,000 across the world — offer an economical and environmentally
friendly solution: Fix your broken stuff, instead."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
