Escaping our problems, whether in our homes, our marriages, our careers, or elsewhere, is easier than remaining where we are and doing the hard work of repair.
Repair Culture: Learning to Fix Instead of Replace – Wayfinders Now – Living small to gain abundance.
Repair culture is the growing mindset of choosing to fix what’s broken instead of immediately replacing it. It challenges a habit that has become almost automatic in modern life: when something stops working, we discard it. A new phone, a new appliance, a new chair, a new everything. Repair culture asks a quieter question: What […]
Home - Right to Repair Europe
We believe products should last longer and be easy to repair. We are asking for the right to repair in Europe. Join the movement!
Innovation is overvalued. Maintenance often matters more | Aeon Essays
Capitalism excels at innovation but is failing at maintenance, and for most lives it is maintenance that matters more
Bridges & scruples
For your own sanity, you have to remember that not all problems can be solved. Not all problems can be solved, but all problems can be illuminated. —Ursula Franklin
Opinion | The Tyranny of Convenience (Published 2018)
All the personal tasks in our lives are being made easier. But at what cost?
The Disappearing Art Of Maintenance
The noble but undervalued craft of maintenance could help preserve modernity’s finest achievements, from public transit systems to power grids, and serve as a useful framework for addressing climate change and other pressing planetary constraints.
Repair Café - Fixing Together, Worldwide
Repair Café is a global initiative that promotes the culture of repair. Join us in fixing things together and contribute to a more sustainable future.
The solution to (nearly) everything: working less | Rutger Bregman
Excessive work and pressure are status symbols. But overtime is deadly. If we worked less we’d make fewer errors, address inequality and have a better life
America’s housing was built for a world we no longer live in
The United States is turning 250. Everything we want for the next 50 years starts with fixing housing.
Repair Wars: Cory Doctorow on the State of Right to Repair - Make:
They’ve stacked the decks against servicing your own purchases; The community is now resisting — and winning.
How remote work is quietly remaking our lives
Working from anywhere: the good, the bad, the lovely.
Freeing Ourselves From The Clutches Of Big Tech
Right to repair and other efforts to liberate technology from monopolistic corporations is a precondition for winning many vital societal battles.
