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An Effort to Bury a Throwaway Culture One Repair at a Time
"At Amsterdam’s first Repair Cafe, an event originally held in a theater’s foyer, then in a rented room in a former hotel and now in a community center a couple of times a month, people can bring in whatever they want to have repaired, at no cost, by volunteers who just like to fix things."
Awesome!
Read the article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/world/europe/amsterdam-tries-to-c...
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