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Holland's Repair Cafes aim to reduce waste by encouraging people to fix items rather than throwing them away.

The Nelson Tasman Climate Forum looks at ways to reduce waste and take practical steps to address climate change through their repair cafes.

Repair Cafes are a positive and fun means of waste reduction, community building and personal re-skilling. At the University of Michigan Environmental Psychology Lab, we are exploring the myriad ways in which people are reducing their energy usage while transitioning to a more meaningful life. Stay tuned for other videos from our localization case study series! For more information on localization and transition, visit our website at http://sites.lsa.umich.edu/transitiontimes/.

At the repair cafe, volunteer experts will help you fix items in return for a voluntary contribution. SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR MORE CONTAGIOUSLY INSPIRING STORIES: http://bit.ly/BrightVibesSubscribe Repair cafes are popping up around the world At the repair cafe, volunteer experts will help you fix items in return for a voluntary contribution. Repairing household items Fixing bikes or mending clothes “We repair frayed sleeves, gloves, bags, pyjamas, tabs of tea towels and stuff.” Corporations are deliberately designing items to have short life span. So you have to keep buying new ones. We throw things away, which is wasteful and expensive. “I’ve been doing this for about half a year and it’s just fun. People come with the most diverse things to repair. Most of them return home very satisfied. With something they are attached to, something they just can’t throw away. Which was successfully repaired.” Many villages and towns now offer places where you can take your broken household items to. Toasters, vacuum cleaners, coffee makers, alarm clocks are items that people bring in most. The first repair cafe was initiated in 2009 in Amsterdam, and it caught on! There are now 1,500 repair cafes in 34 countries. It is very easy to start a repair cafe in your area, the organisation helps you step by step: repaircafe.org Share if you agree we should fix instead of waste. ----- Visit BrightVibes.com for more contagiously inspiring stories http://brightvibes.com Other ways to connect with us… FACEBOOK: http://facebook.com/brightvibes TWITTER: https://twitter.com/brightvibes_com INSTAGRAM: http://instagram.com/brightvibesmedia

Repair Café International is a non-profit organization where anyone can have their broken object fixed, for free. Directed by Brett Nicoletti Original Music by Fall on Your Sword and Daniel Brummel “When the Saints,” Arrangement by David Cutter

Kim Tabrum & Polly Griffiths of Sustainability Trust discuss their Community Repair Station and Repair Tool Library trial in this segment of the 2023 Aotearoa Repair Summit, held on 21 October 2023 for International Repair Day

Filmed at the Melbourne Repair Cafe, with fixers and visitors reflecting on the need for repair cafes and how they build connected and resilient communities while reducing landfill and waste. Recorded over two sessions (8 July and 12 August 2019) and edited by Tamia Cotacachi and Eduard Figueres. Thank you both for coming in one day to learn how to repair your broken and torn things, and then offering to share your skills in producing this gift of a video. ❤️🙏 (a heartfelt thank you!) REPAIR CAFES: http://www.melbournerepaircafe.org/ http://www.melbournerepaircafe.org/fixit-aus.html https://repaircafe.org/en/ LIBRARIES OF THINGS: https://www.sharingshedmelbourne.org.au/ https://localtools.org/find/

From toy cars to kettles and lamps, these broken belongings are getting a new lease of life thanks to the Repair Cafe in Asher Hall, Napier. Full story: https://bit.ly/lf1571 Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air. Subscribe and be notified of breaking news: https://goo.gl/LP45jX Check out our playlists: https://goo.gl/Swd249 Like NZ Herald on Facebook: https://goo.gl/tUC4oq Follow NZ Herald on Instagram: https://goo.gl/oLicXe Follow NZ Herald on Twitter: https://goo.gl/Wi6mbv