320 pages
English language
Published Aug. 2, 2020 by New World Library.
Repair Revolution
How Fixers Are Transforming Our Throw-Away Culture One Broken but Beloved Item at a Time
5 stars
(1 review)
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 …
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 nineteen towns in two states. She and her team have received certificates of appreciation from county town and village officials. She moved to Jersey City in 2023 and, of course, promptly started a Repair Cafe there which is opening up on April 23rd.
Elizabeth and John believed 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. The book is about much more than Repair Cafes--it is about the way repair initiatives of all kinds build community and awareness about the larger challenges facing our planet.
The Forward Indies Awards are annual awards given to independent publications. Thousands of books are entered each year, and a panel of over 100 librarians and booksellers took part in the judging, narrowing it down to a group of finalists and winners that represent the best books, all independently published, in 55 categories. Repair Revolution received the bronze award in the Hobbies & Home category. Read the announcement HERE.
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