Sharing & Repairing

UK

The Restart Project is an electronics repair group based in London that focuses on putting people back in charge of their own interactions with technology. By organizing skill-building workshops and providing a do-it-yourself Restart Party Kit for people to organize their own repair-centric gatherings, the Restart Project both creates the social spaces necessary to counteract the alienating influence of digital technology, and resists the corporate-driven message that ‘new’ is always better. Learn more at therestartproject.org.

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https://therestartproject.org/

USA

Transfernation, based in New York City, brings excess, untouched food from corporate cafeterias and events to soup kitchens, churches and homeless shelters. Recognizing that food waste and hunger are more issues of distribution than of supply, the program mobilizes contracted drivers and volunteers to pick up and drop off food on demand, delivering it to local distribution programs. As of June 2018, Transfernation has redistributed more than 230,000 pounds of food to nearly 200,000 people. For more information, visit the Transfernation website and read an interview with the founders in this article by Global Citizen.

https://transfernation.org