Restoring the Art & Culture of Repair: A Local Movement

Sarah Wilson, Chair, Sierra Club Lower Hudson Group & Organizer, Yorktown Repair Café, and Suzie Fromer, Repair Cafe Hudson Valley Coordinator will present.

In such a troubled time, here’s a very simple idea: restoring the art of repair. Increasingly, we live in a throwaway culture, where everything from shoes and socks to chairs, appliances and lamps are tossed when broken. The art of repair is being lost and many of us no longer know the satisfaction and fun of doing simple repairs, such as mending a torn garment or darning a sock.

Sarah Wilson and Suzie Fromer will also discuss the importance of the circular economy, in which raw materials are reused and waste is reduced. They’ll talk about the growing local Repair Café movement, in which people in the community come together to share their skills and teach each other these dying skills. And they'll discuss legislation around protecting the "right to repair".

We’ll also leave time for discussion of the gutting of climate and climate energy programs in the federal budget and local issues.

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