STOP BUYING STUFF with Diane Cohen, An SCNCC Webinar

Jan 23, 2022

You Can watch the webinar here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJkHFPk_hqg

During our Plastics Pollution webinar in October 2021, audience members requested an event at which solutions are discussed. And so . . . this webinar!

It features Diane Cohen discussing the successful community-enriching (not corporations-enriching!) effort she started in 2007. Diane started the nonprofit Fingers Lakes ReUse with the goals of reducing waste, relieving poverty, and teaching job skills through reuse and repair activities. She has jam-packed this inspiring webinar with remarkable stories and practical information, and she even offers templates for other communities to replicate such centers. Diane is introduced by System Change Not Climate Change member Maura Stephens. The webinar took place on 22 January 2022.

RESOURCES:

FingerLakes ReUse Centers: https://ithacareuse.org/

Fixers Collective: https://ithacareuse.org/fixers/

E-Center: https://ithacareuse.org/ecenter/

There are now more than 2,200 Repair Cafés worldwide; the idea was initiated in the Netherlands by Martine Postma in 2009. Learn more: https://repaircafe.org/en/about/

Fixit Clinics with Peter Mui, in which you learn how to repair your own items. fixitclinic.blogspot.com/

FingerLakes ReUse’s Community ReUse Center Business Plan Template for starting one in your community: https://Template.IthacaReuse.org

Learn about Ecosocialism and System Change Not Climate Change: https://www.systemchangenotclimatecha...

https://www.facebook.com/SystemChange...

Watch all our webinars at: https://bit.ly/SCNCCYouTube

SOURCES and RESOURCES from Diane's talk:

UN Sustainable Development Goals https://sdgs.un.org/goals

Modern-day slavery https://freedomcenter.org/learn/moder...

Charles Lee, Charting a Path Forward for Environmental Justice: https://www.eli.org/vibrant-environme...

Upstream’s Reuse policy tracker: https://upstreamsolutions.org/reuse-a...

Thrift labor issues in the news: https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanada...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/goodwill...

https://revealnews.org/article/salvat...

On Mastery, Mindfulness, and Mattering: https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_grant_...

On the economic, environmental, and social value of reuse https://umaine.edu/reuse/

CROWD (Circularity, Reuse, and Zero Waste Development) https://www.christophersoncenter.org/...

On polystyrene https://www.cdc.gov/biomonitoring/Sty...

A FEW OTHER MODELS AND INSPIRATIONS

Cascade Alliance: https://cascadealliance.us/

Community Forklift: https://communityforklift.org/

ReUSE Minnesota https://reusemn.org

ReSOURCE VT https://resourcevt.org

Building Deconstruction Institute: https://reuseconsulting.com/deconstru...

Email Diane at  diane@fingerlakesreuse.org