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5th Annual Repair Economy Summit: Repairing Community

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Join your colleagues working in repair, share, and reuse across North America and around the globe for two days of inspiration and rich conversation!

Summit Highlights Include:

  • Asheville Tool Library and Western North Carolina Repair Café’s inspiring joint community disaster response to Hurricane Helene
  • The latest on Right to Repair from Nathan Proctor of U.S. PIRG and Gay Gordon-Byrne of Repair.org and what you can do!
  • Shareable’s public unveiling of the Library of Things Co-Lab Tool Kit!
  • Dr. Sabrina Chakori, joining us for the first time since the inaugural 2020 Summit(!), to demonstrate how tool libraries, repair, and degrowth can create a path to a more just economic transition
  • Updates on collaboratively developed resources like the reuse impact calculator, US repair groups database, and research library
  • Incredible projects like repair voucher programs supporting local repair business, mobile tool libraries and peer-2-peer lending, and a free pre-apprenticeship program offered through the MN Tool Library that’s introducing participants to a variety of trades and tool education
  • A Get-to-know-your-Repair-Economy-colleagues networking session facilitated by Reuse Minnesota
  • Open space discussion breakouts on hot topics like scalability, repair & share models, youth repair education, legal matters, and more!

…plus a ton of other great sessions and conversations thanks to this amazing, creative, and resilient network!
Don’t miss it!

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This event is hosted by Repair Economy WA.

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