How to Have Stuff without Breaking the Planet, with Sandra Goldmark
Sandra Goldmark, Author of Fixation: How to Have Stuff without Breaking the Planet What Sandra Goldmark learned from a seven year experiment fixing stuff. Sandra Goldmark is the Director of Sustainability and Climate Action at Barnard College. For seven years, she ran Fixup, a popup repair shop for household items of all kinds. It was staffed by theatre artists. “We use our backstage skills to fix people’s broken stuff,” Sandra explains. “and to create an alternative to use and discard.” Sandra has gathered her lessons learned and put them in a new book, Fixation: How to Have Stuff without Breaking the Planet. “We are reinventing repair as a viable part…
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