Read the full story in GreenBiz. This is an excerpt from “Fixation: How to Have Stuff Without Breaking the Planet” by Sandra Goldmark. It is reprinted
Category: Repair
Skip fall shopping and do this instead to refresh your wardrobe
Read the full story at Fast Company. In her new book, Mend! A Refashioning Manual and Manifesto, author and fashion historian Kate Sekules makes the case
The case for never buying new clothes again
Read the full story at Fast Company. Mending has baggage. Patched clothing speaks of shame and poverty and drudgery, even of slavery. But mending is
Apple Tells Congress You’ll Hurt Yourself if You Try to Fix Your iPhone
Read the full story at Motherboard. In July, Congress pressed Apple on its repair policies, which Motherboard and others have repeatedly shown to be anticompetitive
Circular Economy & Product Design Mandates: EU Bans Halogenated Flame Retardants in Electronic Components and Imposes Reparability Obligations
Read the full story from JD Supra. The European Commission (EC) has adopted a new set of eco-design requirements for ten categories of energy-consuming products,
Everyone’s AirPods will die. We’ve got the trick to replacing them.
Read the full story in the Washington Post. We shouldn’t let Apple turn headphones into expensive, disposable products because of bad battery design.
