On Thursday, 7 July at midday, we delivered our Make it our Right to Repair petition to the Minister for the Environment, Hon. David Parker with 12,901 signatures! We were supported by MPs Hon Eugenie Sage, Ricardo Menendez, Chloe Swarbrick and Helen White, as well as Dr Paul Smith from Consumer NZ and James Griffin from Sustainable Business Network . There was a mini-Repair Café on-site, with Bea Lorimer from Heke Designs and Richard Barter from Bike Kitchen. It was a day

This is the third in a three part series of blogs that look at: 1: Why Repairs Cafes Matter; 2. The policy needs for a right to repair; 3. What a repair future would look like. Most of our Repair Café repairers are older people. The little culture of repairing we still have will die out if we’re not careful, and if it doesn’t link up with a younger generation. I’m hopeful that we can change this, as learning to fix something is educational for the individual, and it also gr

This is the first in a three part series of blogs that look at: 1: Why Repairs Cafes Matter; 2. The policy needs a right to repair; 3. What a repair future would look like. As much as I love Repair Cafés, I started this petition because we need policy change to make sure products that are designed to be repairable and durable, not to be thrown away. Our elected representatives can pass laws that require products to last longer and be easier to repair. We’re leading a petit

This is the first in a three part series of blogs that look at: 1: Why Repairs Cafes Matter; 2. The policy needs a right to repair; 3. What a repair future would look like. A huge amount of things these days could be repaired, that just aren’t. Meanwhile, many companies are designing products to become obsolete, a wasteful way of increasing their businesses profitability. It could just be a toaster. When an element has broken, we all have to ask, will I get it repaired or