Very excited to work with the talented @misnina ! Looking forward to this very exciting next few months on this project. Her art and software skills are invaluable.
We're looking forward to doing big things to help save the #repair industry!
#repaircafe #righttorepair #righttorepairmovement #RighttoRepairEurope
The stats in this make me feel a lot better about keeping my phone. Especially this one: "Manufacturing a phone takes as much energy as 34 years of using it."
#RepairCoaches needed for #RepairCafes in #RedHookNY
Sunday, December 29, 2024
"Repair Café Red Hook is a neighborhood initiative that promotes repair as an alternative to tossing things out. We host a Repair Café about four times a year in the Red Hook Community Center on a Saturday (event open to the public for 3 hours). Community members can bring their broken items to fix them on the spot with the help of voluntary repairers. Repair Café Red Hook could use more handy volunteers in the area. Join us!
"Repair Café Red Hook looking for local residents with different skills who can be present as repair experts during the Repair Café meetings. We are especially looking for people who are handy with:
* clothing / textiles * bicycles
* electrical appliances * wooden objects
* computers (hardware / software)
*jewelry
and more!
"And who enjoy sharing their knowledge with their neighbors. We’ll take as many people interested in repair as are interested in being on our list. You can reach out if you’d like to “apprentice” alongside a more experienced coach, too!
"Want to sign up as a volunteer? Send an email to Supervisor@redhookny.gov and cc lauriehusted@gmail.com with the Subject: Repair Cafe volunteer coach. Tell us what you like to repair, your name and email, and we’ll add you to our Coach list. You’ll get an email each time a cafe is scheduled asking if it works for you to participate.
See you soon at a Repair Café!
https://www.thedailycatch.org/opportunities/repair-coaches-needed-for-repair-cafes/
Want to know more about the Repair Café? Look at www.redhookny.gov/307/Red-Hook-Repair-Cafe and www.repaircafehv.org/
#RepairCafesNY SolarPunk2024 #RightToRepair #RightToRepairMovement #DIY
#WashingtonStateRepairCafes - #RepairCafes & #FixIts
The What
- Repair Cafes & Fix-its (or Fix-it Fairs/Repair Fairs/Repair Cafés) are free community gatherings in which people with repair skills share their time and talents to fix their neighbors’ belongings.
- These gatherings can be organized by friends, a neighborhood group, a nonprofit organization, or even a city or county entity. They range in size from a handful of people to a few hundred!
The How & Why
- Organizers designate a time and place for people to gather and community members bring items that are broken, torn, or otherwise non-functional.
- Then, volunteer fixers do their utmost to get the items back in working order (at no cost to the community member) while sharing information about the repair process with the item’s owner.
- When feasible, a fixer may invite the owner of an item to participate in the repair in order to boost knowledge and confidence that anyone can fix things!
- This not only creates an opportunity to spark meaningful connections with others and help community members get new life out of beloved possessions, it saves items from going to the landfill!
Common services
- Bike repair
- Sewing and mending
- Small appliance and electronic tinkering
- Woodworking
- Knife and tool sharpening
- Jewelry repair
- Computer and device repair
Other Services
Groups may choose to add other “stations” that draw on unique talents, interests, or needs in their community. These may include things like:
- Plant and Seed Swap
- Gardening advice and soil analysis
- Paper and Fabric Crafting
- Free Table (where you can bring things you no longer need and pick up items you do)
- Haircuts
- Instrument repair
- Word-Smithing (advice on resumes, creative writing, and more)
Learn more:
https://dev.repaireconomywa.org/fix-repair/
#RepairCafe #RepairCafes #StartingARepairCafe #SolarPunkSunday #RepairCafesWashingtonState #BuildingCommunity #FixIt #DIY #RightToRepair #RightToRepairMovement #CircularEconomy
2025 Dates - #RepairCafe
1175 Chapel Hills Drive | #ColoradoSpringsCO | 80920
(719) 531-6333
Admission: Free admission - registration recommended (but not required)
January 9, 2025 5-7pm @ Library 21c CreateSpace
February 13, 2025 5-7pm @ Library 21c CreateSpace
March 13, 2025 5-7pm @ Library 21c CreateSpace
May 8, 2025 5-7pm @ Library 21c CreateSpace
June 12, 2025 5-7pm @ Library 21c CreateSpace
July 10, 2025 5-7pm @ Library 21c CreateSpace
September 11, 2025 5-7pm @ Library 21c CreateSpace
October 9, 2025 5-7pm @ Library 21c CreateSpace
November 13, 2025 5-7pm @ Library 21c CreateSpace
Acceptable Items to Bring:
- Bikes
- Clothing
- Small Appliances
- Small Electronics
- Jewelry
- Wooden Items
Our Guidelines:
Carry-in items only (no stoves, refrigerators, or other large items)
Repair Trainers will offer a diagnosis and suggested remedies for broken items, repairing items when possible and otherwise explaining what parts the patron may need to obtain to complete the repair.
Repair Trainers offer no guarantee of items being repaired by them or with their assistance and are not liable if objects repaired do not work properly at home.
Repair Trainers are not obliged to reassemble disassembled appliances that cannot be repaired.
*Disclaimer: Please know you bring your items to be repaired at your own risk. Because repairs are made by unpaid volunteers there may be risks. Neither the facilitators of Repair Cafés nor the Repair Trainers are liable for any loss or damage that may result from advice or instructions, for the loss of items handed over for repair, for indirect or consequential loss, or for any other kind of loss resulting from repairs made during Repair Café.
Registration suggested. Click here to register and FMI:
https://www.visitcos.com/events/repair-cafe/
#ColoradoRepairCafes #SolarPunkSunday #RightToRepair #RightToRepairMovement #CircularEconomy #ColoradoSpringsRepairCafe #RepairCafes #RepairCafesColorado
#RepairCafés breathe new life into broken household items, teach people to fix on their own
November 20, 2024
"Twice a month in #EvanstonIllinois, volunteers sit face-to-face with people troubleshooting and diagnosing the symptoms of a beloved but broken household gadget.
"Much like a hospital for all things broken, they're trying to find a way to mend and breath new life into the item.
"The Evanston Repair Café is held every fourth Tuesday and every first Saturday at the Robert Crown Center.
"'The most popular item is our lamps, people always have broken lamps,' said Anne Opila, a co-coordinator of the cafe. 'In the summer, we'll have a lot of fans, we get toasters, we get clocks, we get vacuum cleaners.'
"There are more than 3,000 similar Repair Cafés around the world, with a mission to reduce waste, promote community, and preserve traditional repair skills.
"'Patrons come in and they work together to repair their item. It prevents us from throwing things away that fills up our landfills so that we can continue to use them, and they go on to live a happy life,' said Opila.
"Known as a volunteer #RepairCoach, John Martin is a retired maintenance mechanic working in the general repair section of the café.
"'People are not aware that they can fix things, they figure, the philosophy in this country is buy, buy, buy, if it's not working get rid of it,' explained Martin.
"But with a little help from a handy neighbor or a retired and skilled volunteer almost anything can be fixed.
"'What we're doing here is trying to encourage people to fix stuff themselves and give them the skills and knowledge to be able to not only do it themselves and maybe pass it on to somebody,' said Martin.
"'I have this Smeg toaster, and I dropped it,' explained customer Coco Colin. 'It's such a nice piece I don't just want to throw it away.'
"Beyond general repair, they also have #sewing coaches to help #mend or #hem clothing.
"'On Saturdays, which is our busier day we also have #JewelryRepair, #KnifeSharpening, plant advice, paper conservation, musical instrument advice. So we really bring in all the skills that people are willing to volunteer for and then people can take advantage, they're all free and all available,' said Opila.
'"It's like a mission because there's so many things need to be done for the environment this some little thing i can do,' said Martine."
Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-59135413
Evanston Repair Café
https://www.epl.org/repair/
#SolarPunkSunday #RepairCafes #RightToRepair #FixIt #DIY #RightToRepairMovement #CircularEconomy #RepairCafesIllinois
#ShelterIslandNewYork ‘#RepairCafé’ meets on December 28
By Julie Lane, December 20, 2024
"Two years ago, Kyle Karen, Ph.D., launched a Repair Café on Shelter Island believing the ingredients for success here were natural factors to be tapped.
"Repair Café is a program that invites those with items that need to be repaired to be bring them to those who know a thing or two about how to restore them.
"In many cases, the items are returned to the original owners, but others bring items they no longer want, but recognize in able hands they can be repaired and find new owners, rather than landing in the trash heap.
"It’s not a program unique to Shelter Island, or even other East End communities, but one that was launched first in the Netherlands and has carried forward to areas around the world.
"Summer saw the program on hiatus as the group’s regulars had schedules that were too busy to volunteer. But as of September, they were back and resumed their efforts.
"Through September, October and November the program was active and is poised for its next open session to get underway on Saturday, Dec. 28 between 10 a.m. and noon, with people meeting at the #ShelterIslandLibrary’s temporary quarters.
"Other dates through the winter and spring months are scheduled for Saturdays [in 2025], including Jan. 18, Feb. 15, March 15, April 19 and May 17, all from 10 a.m. to noon.
"If you want to get involved and/or have questions, email Ms. Karen at kkaren @ optimum.net."
#RightToRepair #RepairCafes #RightToRepairMovement #NewYorkState #RepairCafesNewYork #Libraries #SolarPunkSunday
[Listen] #RepairCafe helps solve $13 billion worth of problems
By Cameron Carr, 16 December 2024
"Experts are warning #Australia is becoming a dumping ground for up to $13 billion worth of household electrical equipment imported each year.
"Much of it cannot be easily repaired, if it breaks down. A small movement is trying to change that.
"The repair cafe community continues to grow steadily, with 112 cafes operating across Australia."
#RightToRepair #RightToRepairAustralia #RightToRepairMovement #RepairCafes #SolarPunkSunday
#Maine #RightToRepair Law Poised to Remain in Flux Even After January 2025 Effective Date
December 19, 2024
"The Automotive Right to Repair Working Group convened by the Maine Attorney General will review proposed legislation that would substantially amend provisions of the Maine Right to Repair Law concerning access to mechanical data from #telematics-equipped vehicles. Meanwhile, it appears provisions of the law requiring manufacturers of vehicles that 'use a telematics system” to comply with standards imposed by an “independent entity' designated by the Attorney General will take effect on January 5, 2025, even though neither the 'independent entity' nor standards for telematics systems will exist by that date.
"In November 2023, Maine voters approved a ballot initiative to require that, within one year of the effective date, vehicles using a telematics system sold in that state be equipped with an interoperable, standardized, and owner-authorized access platform across all of the manufacturer's makes and models. The statute requires that this platform be able to 'securely communicate' all 'mechanical data' emanating from the vehicle; make this data 'directly accessible' by the vehicle owner through a mobile-based application; and, upon authorization of the vehicle owner, 'all mechanical data must be directly accessible by an independent repair facility.' The statute gives vehicle owners and independent repair facilities denied access to mechanical data a private right of action to recover treble damages or $10,000, whichever is greater.
"The ballot initiative further requires the Attorney General to designate an 'independent entity' to 'establish and administer' access to vehicle-generated data that is transmitted by a 'standardized access platform.' The 'independent entity' is empowered to refer violations to the Attorney General, who in turn can 'institute an action' to 'enforce' the law, although no remedy for such a violation is defined in the statute. The requirements for telematics-equipped vehicles are supposed to take effect January 5, 2025—one year after the effective date of the ballot initiative—but to date the Maine Attorney General has not designated an 'independent entity' to develop standards or otherwise regulate data access platforms."
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/maine-right-to-repair-law-poised-to-3403488/
#BigAuto #RightToRepair #RightToRepairMovement #SolarPunkSunday
U.S. Senators Call Out #AutomotiveExecs for Opposing #RightToRepair
Story by Beverly Braga, December 21, 2024
"The rich get richer, except this time Big Government is fighting for the little guy. Yes, you read that correctly and, no, it makes no sense to me either. Apparently, the exception is right-to-repair laws which are being pushed by—wait for it—a #bipartisan effort that is literally scolding #automakers to quit gatekeeping everything and give consumers access to parts, services, and their own personal vehicle data."
Dear Friends of Mineral, Olive Oil and plastic societies, 🦞
As we may know, "Landman" is a series about 'Dreamers and Failures'. A sort of updated Dallas Dynasty.
1. Sipping my green matcha tea, made from its allegedly recyclable teabag (partly plastic) and feeling ready for the morning ahead 💪
2. Lit two doop dhoop cones incense, to placate the foxes screaming over urban bin rites... 🦊
3. Put a dish of mainly used to make massala Jaffna coffee cardamon pods. cloves and star anise, near front door. May add orange peel. This has created spare space under our indoor blank wall, 'sunny windowsill'. The windowsill is in fact LED grow-lights which may be ideal for those with seasonal sad, growing weed (where legal) or in our case parsley, sage and song seeds :success:
#gratitude #3GoodThingsToday
#RepairCafes #RightToRepairMovement
#HackerSpace
What Are #RepairCafes & How They Can Protect The Planet
January 26, 2022
"We live in a throwaway society, one which creates vast amounts of waste while using up valuable resources for mass manufacturing. This can lead many to start reducing their waste on an individual level, in particular moving away from #plastic, but did you know there are also vital community-run initiatives that can make a huge difference to our global waste problem?
"Alongside #LibrariesOfThings, which reduce consumption, there are also repair cafes, which help items last longer. Here’s why they’re vital to a sustainable future.
"What is a Repair Cafe?
"Repair cafes are free meeting places where people come together to fix things. Unofficial community repair groups have likely been around for a long time, but the model as we now know it was created by #MartinePostma. Postma organised the very first repair cafe in Amsterdam in October 2009, which was a resounding success. She then founded the Repair Cafe Foundation in 2011, a non-profit providing professional support to local groups wanting to start repair cafes. There are now over 2000 repair cafes in over 35 countries around the world.
"In a repair cafe you can usually find tools and materials needed to fix items such as electrics, clothes, bikes, furniture, and more. You can also find expert volunteers, with repair skills in different areas, to help you. Most repair cafes also teach essential mending skills such as sewing buttons, fixing zips, and wiring plugs, helping people learn something by watching and working with volunteers.
"Repair cafes focus on making things last, saving people money and helping the environment by reducing consumption, manufacture, and use of raw materials."
Read more:
https://ethicalunicorn.com/2022/01/26/what-are-repair-cafes-how-they-can-protect-the-planet/
#SolarPunkSunday #RightToRepairMovement
#HackerSpace #Repair #CircularEconomy #RightToRepair #ReduceReuseRepair
@iFixit Welcome to Mastodon!
#RightToRepair #RightToRepairMovement #FixIt #DIY
#RepairCafes Are the Beating Heart of the #RightToRepair Movement
"To date, our #DareToRepair Cafes in #BuffaloNY have led to the repair of more than 800 items, 7,554 pounds diverted from #landfills, and more than $40,000 in savings for community members."
by Darren Cotton
Published on Mar 20, 2024
"While such right-to-repair legislation is crucial to broader systemic change, it’s the patchwork of local repair movements independently popping up — in New York state and across the country — that is changing hearts and minds when it comes to waste and giving us hope that a different world is possible."
https://nextcity.org/features/repair-cafes-are-the-beating-heart-of-the-right-to-repair-movement
#SolarPunkSunday #RightToRepairMovement #HackerSpace #Repair #CircularEconomy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IZe7KjIJg4
How Companies Profit off Unfixable Devices (ft. Louis Rossmann)
