You deserve the right to repair your stuff | Gay Gordon-Byrne

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🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

A self-declared "repair geek," Gay Gordon-Byrne is a driving force behind the right-to-repair movement, which aims to empower people to fix their stuff. She describes how the movement is gaining legislative momentum and breaks down how the global shift away from "throwaway society" can literally turn trash into treasure in a circular economy -- so we can all experience that "Yes! I fixed it!" feeling.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:10.8	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily on your host, Elise Hugh.
0:14.4	Especially with same day shipping, it can be so tempting and convenient to buy things
0:19.8	new.
0:20.8	Of course, that means more trash.
0:23.3	Gay Gordon Bern is resisting the churn of consumption with repair.
0:27.9	In her archive talk from Ted Monterey in 2021, the right to repair advocate shares
0:32.8	how mending what's broken can have not just environmentally but socially beneficial ripple
0:39.3	effects.
0:40.3	That's after her short break.
0:44.7	Support for Ted Talks Daily comes from Airbnb.
0:47.4	Maybe you've stayed in an Airbnb before and thought to yourself, maybe my place could
0:51.2	be an Airbnb.
0:52.2	Perhaps your housemates are going to move out and you're thinking about what to do with
0:55.7	that space.
0:57.2	That extra room could be an Airbnb.
1:00.1	Whether you could use a little extra money to cover some bills or for something a little
1:03.7	more fun, your extra room or extra space might be worth more than you think.
1:09.0	Find out how much at airbnb.co.uk-host.
1:15.0	I am a repair geek.
1:18.0	I grew up fixing things with my dad.
1:20.6	It was what we did.
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