Make second hand normal with Guido Verbist of The Bower

The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Brooke McAlary

Education, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.6 • 525 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Brooke chats with Guido Verbist of The Bower Reuse and Repair Centre about making second-hand normal and the different ways we can embrace reuse/repair movement.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the slow home podcast.
0:07.4	This is the podcast all about learning to live a slower, simpler life in a fast-paced world.
0:13.4	My name is Brooke McCallory.
0:14.7	Thank you very much for joining us.
0:16.4	And my name is Ben McCallory and welcome to Epp 191.
0:22.1	191.
0:23.7	Well, we're getting there.
0:24.9	We are.
0:25.2	We're getting there.
0:25.7	Every day.
0:26.4	There is no there, but we're getting there.
0:28.4	This conversation follows on, if you like, from the conversation you had recently with
0:34.5	Justin from Toulow.
0:36.0	It's a sort of a similar theme. It is, yeah. My conversation with
0:40.7	Justin was really popular. I think a lot of people are looking for more specific ways of
0:46.7	tapping into the sharing economy and minimizing our personal footprints. And Hito, our guest today,
0:53.5	is the GM of the Bower reuse and repair center.
0:58.1	So if you live in Sydney, you've probably heard of these guys. They're pretty, how many years?
1:02.5	They're an institution in Marrickville. In Marrickville, yeah. So they've been set up there for a long time
1:07.9	and have recently opened another centre in Parramatta.
1:11.5	And we used to visit the Marikville Centre when we lived in the city and very happy to see
1:16.8	the Parramatta one opening as well.
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