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In the spirit of moving toward zero waste and stewardship of our planet’s resources, Repair Café Pasadena links local handy people to folks in need of repair of all kinds: clothing, appliances, bikes, furniture, electronics, and more. The Repair Café is inspired by the philosophy of a Sharing Economy. We share our time, skills and talents to build a more vibrant local community … one repair at a time.

~ 2013 Pasadena Green City Award for Waste Reduction ~

Repair Café at Jones' Coffee

June’s Repair Café at Throop Hall was the best ever!

6/27/2013

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We had several tinkers, tailors, paper shredder, knife station, and a table with Carter Wallace from Institute for Urban Ecology. There were approximately 40 attendees and 40 repairs that day.

A popular fun station was Don’s “Repair Your Hair” station, where he did haircut touch-ups and trims. One fellow brought a pair of pants with a zipper problem that Mary fixed in a jiffy. Then he noticed the Hair Repair. When he realized that it was also free he signed up for that, then he took a garden tour with January. After he sampled the potluck array and some of Wafic’s iced tea, he looked delighted and a little incredulous to learn that he was also welcome to help himself to the huge pile of citrus from the Neighborhood Fruit Harvest. He checked out the Seed and Seedling Swap and left with a big smile, repaired trousers, a dapper new hair repair, some fruit, and a seedling.

He also left with a new understanding, a first hand experience of the sense of abundance that can thrive even without money. It is the acknowledgement that wealth can be found in many ways.

If you have experienced this feeling and want to pay it forward, consider volunteering for Repair Café as a repair person or a staff triage person.

Thanks all who turned out to share skills and to all the patrons who came to sample the benefits of an alternate sharing economy and time banking.

— Therese Brummel
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    Therese Brummel
    Ginko Lee
    Ai Kusuhara
    Mary Gothard
    Scoops Adamczyk
    Joanne Siegel
    Greg Marquez
    Yvonne LeGrice

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    Repair Café Pasadena is a registered member of Stichting Repair Café,
    www.repaircafe.org
    www.repaircafe.org
    in partnership with the Arroyo SECO Network of Time Banks.
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