<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div apple-content-edited="true"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Marian Brown <<a href="mailto:mbrown@ithaca.edu">mbrown@ithaca.edu</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">January 24, 2012 9:38:21 AM EST</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Sustainable Tompkins listserve <<a href="mailto:sustainable_tompkins-l@cornell.edu">sustainable_tompkins-l@cornell.edu</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[sustainable_tompkins-l] Fixers Collective... an idea for Ithaca...?</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Sustainability in Tompkins County" <<a href="mailto:sustainable_tompkins-l@list.cornell.edu">sustainable_tompkins-l@list.cornell.edu</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div>I noted this on the Center for a New American Dream e-newsletter today....<br>I LOVE this idea of a "fixers collective"... where people bring their "tired, their poor, their huddled masses yearning to" be repaired....<br><br><a href="http://www.newdream.org/blog/fixers-collective">http://www.newdream.org/blog/fixers-collective</a><br><br>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....<br><br>Whaddaya think....? Perhaps this is something the Ludgate's working group could consider....?<br><br>Marian Brown<br><br><br>For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/<br>If you have questions about this list please contact the list manager, Tom Shelley, at tjs1@cornell.edu.<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>