Repair Revolution

How Fixers Are Transforming Our Throw-Away Culture One Broken but Beloved Item at a Time

320 pages

English language

Published Aug. 2, 2020 by New World Library.

ISBN:
978-1-60868-660-5
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Repair Revolution is the first book to comprehensively introduce the wisdom and practice of repair to a larger audience. The authors believe that every town needs a Repair Cafe, Fixit Clinic, Tool Library or something like it, and Repair Revolution is just the empowering guide for readers who want to start a repair initiative of their own.

Authors John Wackman and Elizabeth Knight are long time Repair Cafes hosts in the Hudson Valley. John founded the first Repair Cafe in New York State in 2013 and later described his role as that of coordinator communicator and cheerleader for Repair Cafes in the Hudson Valley, Catskills and Capital District of New York as well as for the repair movement globally. Elizabeth Knight has become a sustainability activist and community organizer. In 2016 she started Orange County New York's first Repair Cafe which many years on serves people from as many as …

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