[ShareTompkins] Fwd: Fixers Collective... an idea for Ithaca...?

[Shira Golding]

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> From: Marian Brown <mbrown at ithaca.edu>
> Date: January 24, 2012 9:38:21 AM EST
> To: Sustainable Tompkins listserve <sustainable_tompkins- 
> l at cornell.edu>
> Subject: [sustainable_tompkins-l] Fixers Collective... an idea for  
> Ithaca...?
> Reply-To: "Sustainability in Tompkins County" <sustainable_tompkins-l at list.cornell.edu 
> >
>
> I noted this on the Center for a New American Dream e-newsletter  
> today....
> I LOVE this idea of a "fixers collective"... where people bring  
> their "tired, their poor, their huddled masses yearning to" be  
> repaired....
>
> http://www.newdream.org/blog/fixers-collective
>
> Is this something we could do here....? We do have some specialized  
> repair groups locally, like RIBS for bikes and the Computer All- 
> Stars/Finger Lakes ReUse for computers... but it would be great to  
> have a place where folks who know how to rewire old lamps, or fix  
> that finicky toaster, or what-have-you could assemble and fix one  
> another's stuff and keep it in service....
>
> Whaddaya think....? Perhaps this is something the Ludgate's working  
> group could consider....?
>
> Marian Brown
>
>
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