The repair cafe international7/4/2023 Her team has received certificates of appreciation from county, town, and village officials. That same year she started her County’s first Repair Cafe – today, it enjoys the support of 30 volunteers from 9 different towns and attracts visitors from 13-19 towns in 3 states. For nearly 2 years, she and her husband lobbied county legislators who finally re-funded the position in 2016. Please click here to learn more and register using our pay-what-you-can donation-based system to participate.Įlizabeth Knight, retired marketing and promotion executive became a sustainability activist when she discovered that Orange County, NY hadn’t had a Recycling Coordinator for more than 12 years. This workshop is being offered as part of the 2021 Regenerative Communities Summit. Join Galen Meyers and Elizabeth Knight, Repair Cafe organizer and co-author of Repair Revolution-How Fixers Are Transforming Our Throwaway Culture, to learn how you can participate in a powerful community response to fix a broken world – right at home! These are public gathering spaces where people are feeding their curiosity about how things work, pooling resources, and sharing skills to extend the life of the things they own, reducing waste, making friends, and having fun while strengthening community connections. But convenience is not sustainable, and we’re seeing growing support for Maker Spaces, Fixit Clinics, and Repair Cafes. Since WWII, we’ve embraced a wasteful, throwaway culture that thrives on consumerism. It used to be that people prided themselves on their ability to repair, re-use and repurpose the things they owned.
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