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DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#California</a>: Need Help Fixing Your Broken Stuff? Volunteers at the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumboldtCounty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HumboldtCounty</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RepairCaf%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RepairCafé</a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArcataCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArcataCA</a> Will (Most Likely) Fix It for Free! by Isabella Vanderheiden / Wednesday, March 26"You know that broken lamp that’s been sitting in the corner of your garage for the last decade? You know, the one with the busted pull chain and persnickety cord your college roommate gave you? Yeah, that one. Do you think it might be time to get that thing fixed?"What if I told you there is a place you can go to have your lamps rewired, your vintage denim mended, your bicycle tires patched, your weed wackers restrung and your great-grandmother’s heirloom necklace soldered — all for free?"Sounds too good to be true, right? Not so! On Sunday, April 6, volunteers and staff with Arcata’s Recreation Division will host the first Humboldt Repair Café, a free event at the Arcata Community Center where people can take their broken stuff (electronics, clothing, jewelry, furniture, crockery, small appliances, etc.) to be repaired by local fixers. If you can carry it, chances are, they can fix it. "'The rule is it has to be small enough that you can carry it in by yourself,' volunteer coordinator Wendy Ring told the Outpost. 'We won’t be able to take in refrigerators and things like that. We’ll have a retired electrician to work with smaller electrical appliances. We also have some IT specialists to help people with their computers. We have experts at putting fancy patches on clothes and another person for bicycle repairs. This is our first Repair Café, but we have quite a variety of people!'"The upcoming event is part of an international movement, which originated in Amsterdam in 2009, to combat '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThrowawayCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThrowawayCulture</a>,' promote <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sustainability</a> and teach people practical repair skills. 'We just bring our skills and fix stuff together,' Ring said."'The Repair Café movement is trying to change consumer culture and say, ‘No, we can’t just throw things away because they don’t just disappear,’ she continued. 'This is a way of making the things that we have last longer and teaching people how to fix things by watching our volunteers as they’re doing repairs. It’s also community building, which is something that we really need right now.'"While the event is free, volunteers may request a donation if they need extra materials for repair. In some cases, it may take volunteers a little longer to diagnose the issue and get the parts needed for the fix."'If we don’t have the part on hand, we may ask you to come back next month,' Ring said, adding that she hopes to host the event once a month. 'Sometimes, it’s going to be a multi-step repair. We do have some people who have 3D printers who will be able to make parts for people. … We’ll also have little handbells around, and when a repair is made, we’ll ring the bell and have a mini celebration.'"Asked what she would be taking to the Repair Café, Ring said she has a Kindle that needs fixing, some clothes her dog has chewed on and a jacket with a broken zipper. 'I put a collection of beautiful beach pebbles in my jacket pocket, and I’ve never been able to unzip it,' she said. 'That was a year ago. I can sew a little bit, but I can’t do zippers!'"Cullen Groom, recreation supervisor for the City of Arcata’s environmental services department, is helping to support the program on behalf of the city, which is allowing the Repair Café to use the community center’s senior room free of charge."FMI: <a href="https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/mar/26/repair-cafe/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/mar/26/repair-cafe/</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RepairCafesCalifornia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RepairCafesCalifornia</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarPunkSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SolarPunkSunday</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RepairCafes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RepairCafes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RepairReuseRecycle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RepairReuseRecycle</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BuildingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BuildingCommunity</a>

Philip StellerIn addition to the free rechargeable Lithium Battery Cells in those disposable Vape-Thingies, they now add to the Trash: USB-C-Charging, OLED-Displays and 32Bit ARM-M0 Microcontrollers like this... running at up to 24 MHz, 20KB Flash:<a href="https://www.lcsc.com/product-detail/Microcontroller-Units-MCUs-MPUs-SOCs_PUYA-PY32F002AW15U6TR_C5291740.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.lcsc.com/product-detail/Microcontroller-Units-MCUs-MPUs-SOCs_PUYA-PY32F002AW15U6TR_C5291740.html</a> 🤯 <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/trashpick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trashpick</a> <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/reuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reuse</a> <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/recycle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#recycle</a> <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/ewaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ewaste</a> <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#electronics</a> <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/diy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#diy</a> <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/throwawayculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#throwawayculture</a>

IT NewsReverse Engineering A Fancy Disposable Vape - Many readers will be aware of the trend for disposable vapes, and how harvesting t... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2024/04/25/reverse-engineering-a-fancy-disposable-vape/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://hackaday.com/2024/04/25/reverse-engineering-a-fancy-disposable-vape/</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/reverseengineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reverseengineering</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/throwawayculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#throwawayculture</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/disposablevape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disposablevape</a>

DoomsdaysCWWool can be made without killing animals. I think we need to go back to using <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hemp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hemp</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wood</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wool</a> -- and less synthetics. But most of all, make furniture and rugs that last -- so generation after generation can use them!What You Need to Know About <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OffGassing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OffGassing</a>Even after an install, a project’s furnishings and finishes can leach harmful chemicals into the air for years through a process called off-gassing. Here’s how you can combat it.by Audrey Gray"'Okay, I want to tell you about some things,' she recalls telling her client, going on to carefully explain the dangers inherent in both flooring choices—primarily the health impacts of chemical inhalants. Not only would these <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/chemicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chemicals</a> flood a home during the installation of new <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/carpet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#carpet</a> or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/vinyl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vinyl</a> planks, but they would continue to gradually leach into the air for years to come—a more subtle (but dangerous) process referred to as off-gassing. Thompson didn’t want her client’s family exposed to a vapor stew of chemicals every day, least of all in the yoga space, where the whole point was to breathe deeply while near the floor."She offered her client some carefully sourced options such as an all-wool carpet with a natural <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/rubber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rubber</a> pad, and advocated for solid, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sustainably" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sustainably</a> sourced wood downstairs instead of a composite of plastics. 'I thought she’d be excited,' Thompson says. 'But because of her beliefs about animal rights, I learned that wool wasn’t acceptable to her…and there were price point issues too. I thought, ‘Wow, this is a whole new level I hadn’t encountered.’”"Welcome to what materials experts call 'one of the most complicated issues in health and wellness,' the murky and unregulated (at least in the U.S.—Europe is much stricter) relationships humans have with thousands of airborne <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/toxins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#toxins</a> emanating from our building materials, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/furnishings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#furnishings</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CleaningProducts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CleaningProducts</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CarInteriors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarInteriors</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/iPads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#iPads</a>, and even <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/candles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#candles</a>."'Nobody’s telling you what is coming from all those vapors mixing in the air,' says Jillian Pritchard Cooke, the founder of Wellness Within Your Walls, an education consultancy focused on dramatically reducing the dangers of off-gassing in the built environment. 'It’s up to us to understand the individual effects each chemical can have on your <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NervousSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NervousSystem</a>, your <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lungs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lungs</a>, and your cellular makeup. We need to be doing right by our clients.'"Designers have, of course, been aware of the dangers of volatile organic compounds (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VOCs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VOCs</a>) for a long time, and have helped influence some wins in the marketplace, like the rising popularity of low- or no-VOC paints and the 2015 ban Home Depot and Lowe’s instituted in 2015 on toxic <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/phthalates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#phthalates</a> (a class of industrial chemicals that help make plastic bendy) in flooring."But the problem endures, and unfortunately, many of the worst effects of VOCs—showing up in health conditions—accumulate over long periods of time. "One of the best arguments for incorporating <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/vintage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vintage</a> pieces in design, apart from saving space in landfills and decreasing carbon emissions, is that they are far safer from an off-gassing perspective. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Recycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Recycling</a> building materials (for instance, saving the doors during a retrofit) helps too."<a href="https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-you-need-to-know-about-off-gassing?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-you-need-to-know-about-off-gassing?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Recycle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Recycle</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Repair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Repair</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Reuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Reuse</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThrowawayCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThrowawayCulture</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Synthetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Synthetics</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Plastics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Plastics</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pollution</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Underconsumption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Underconsumption</a>

JKN240 million functioning PCs/laptops will be chucked into landfills. Because <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Microsoft</a> has managed to convince consumers that computers cannot exist without <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Windows</a>. 80% of the world's data-centers and infrastructure don't run on Windows. If you're thinking of throwing away a computer, please send it my way. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ewaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ewaste</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/throwawayculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#throwawayculture</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/vendorlockin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vendorlockin</a> <a href="https://www.itpro.com/software/windows/windows-10-end-of-life-could-prompt-torrent-of-e-waste-as-240-million-devices-set-for-scrapheap" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.itpro.com/software/windows/windows-10-end-of-life-could-prompt-torrent-of-e-waste-as-240-million-devices-set-for-scrapheap</a>

anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖Overall, 50% of all items are unopened and still in their shrink wrap. The other half are returns and in good condition. Staff have just become numb to what they are being asked to do."Most of us were already aware of the harm our <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ThrowawayCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThrowawayCulture</a> does to us and our <a href="https://mas.to/tags/planet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#planet</a> -- but this is a whole new level of unnecessary <a href="https://mas.to/tags/waste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#waste</a>, and it needs to stop.5/6<a href="https://www.itv.com/news/2021-06-21/amazon-destroying-millions-of-items-of-unsold-stock-in-one-of-its-uk-warehouses-every-year-itv-news-investigation-finds" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.itv.com/news/2021-06-21/amazon-destroying-millions-of-items-of-unsold-stock-in-one-of-its-uk-warehouses-every-year-itv-news-investigation-finds</a>

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