Transfernation
Transfernation, based in New York City, brings excess, untouched food from corporate cafeterias and events to soup kitchens, churches and homeless shelters. Recognizing that food waste and hunger are...
View ArticleThe Restart Project
The Restart Project is an electronics repair group based in London that focuses on putting people back in charge of their own interactions with technology. By organizing skill-building workshops and...
View ArticleThe Edinburgh Remakery
With funding from Zero Waste Scotland, the Edinburgh Remakery works to create jobs, reduce waste, and limit people’s dependence on the consumer economy. They do so by fixing textiles, computers, mobile...
View ArticleThe Catalan Integral Cooperative
The Catalan Integral Cooperative is a financial co-op, a food pantry, a legal-aid desk, an open-source tool workshop, a local currency (the “eco”) and a bed-and-breakfast for tourists in a medieval...
View ArticleThe Bower Reuse and Repair Centre
From their two shop locations in the suburbs of Sydney, The Bower works to reduce landfill waste by fixing and reselling furniture, electronics and more. In addition, they offer ‘Tricks of the Trade’...
View ArticleStop Planned Obsolescence
Stop Planned Obsolescence (or HOP, after their French name Halte à l’Obsolescence Programmée) is a French organization committed to “promoting alternative economic models around reuse, repair and...
View ArticleSmarta Kartan
A collaboration between nonprofit Kollaborativ Ekonomi Göteborg and the Gothenburg city government, this digital map of the city connects people with more than 100 sharing initiatives throughout the...
View ArticleiFixit
Kyle Weins founded online repair community iFixit as part of his work to campaign against “programmed obsolescence.” In a time when companies like Toshiba sue users for sharing manuals, and companies...
View ArticleClub de Reparadores (Repairers’ Club)
Members of the Club de Reparadores meet on Saturday afternoons in parks, plazas, or donated workshops to have fun, share knowledge, and repair broken household goods. Some members are repair experts;...
View ArticleBrisbane Tool Library
The Brisbane Tool Library is one inspiring example of a trend that has swept the world – grassroots hubs (or ‘libraries of things’) which loan out tools that people may want to use occasionally, but...
View ArticleL’Atelier Paysan
L’Atelier Paysan is a French cooperative that helps farmers design machines and buildings appropriate to the needs of small-scale farms practicing agroecology. The group makes plans for its tools...
View ArticleEdventure Frome
Edventure Frome empowers cooperative community enterprises by hosting free 10-week courses that teach groups of young adults to design and create a place-based start-up venture together. An early...
View ArticleThe Edinburgh Remakery
With funding from Zero Waste Scotland, the Edinburgh Remakery works to create jobs, reduce waste, and limit people’s dependence on the consumer economy. They do so by fixing textiles, computers, mobile...
View ArticleThe Catalan Integral Cooperative
The Catalan Integral Cooperative is a financial co-op, a food pantry, a legal-aid desk, an open-source tool workshop, a local currency (the “eco”) and a bed-and-breakfast for tourists in a medieval...
View ArticleThe Bower Reuse and Repair Centre
From their two shop locations in the suburbs of Sydney, The Bower works to reduce landfill waste by fixing and reselling furniture, electronics and more. In addition, they offer ‘Tricks of the Trade’...
View ArticleStop Planned Obsolescence
Stop Planned Obsolescence (or HOP, after their French name Halte à l’Obsolescence Programmée) is a French organization committed to “promoting alternative economic models around reuse, repair and...
View ArticleSmarta Kartan
A collaboration between nonprofit Kollaborativ Ekonomi Göteborg and the Gothenburg city government, this digital map of the city connects people with more than 100 sharing initiatives throughout the...
View ArticleiFixit
Kyle Weins founded online repair community iFixit as part of his work to campaign against “programmed obsolescence”. In a time when Toshiba is suing users for sharing manuals, and Apple makes it...
View ArticleClub de Reparadores (Repairers’ Club)
Members of the Club de Reparadores meet on Saturday afternoons in parks, plazas, or donated workshops to have fun, share knowledge, and repair broken household goods. Some members are repair experts;...
View ArticleBrisbane Tool Library
The Brisbane Tool Library is one inspiring example of a trend that has swept the world – grassroots hubs (or ‘libraries of things’) which loan out tools that people may want to use occasionally, but...
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