Tuesday February 7, 2023 Majority of Manufacturers Keep Repair Manuals Under Wraps

Listen in on Part 3 of the conversation with Dr Peter Erdi about his and Dr Zsuzsa Szsvetelszky's new book, REPAIR. We discuss resilience at personal, object, community, and global levels, capitalism as a possible runaway process, goal-directed systems, and the future of repair.

Towards a Repair Society Part 3 Conversation with Peter Erdi

Approximately 70 percent of agricultural machinery sold in the United States is now covered by memoranda of understanding, or MOUs, to allow for farmers and ranchers the right to repair their own farm and ranch equipment.

5/24/23 - Right to repair equipment MOUs cover 70 percent of industry

What to do when stuff breaks? From a toaster to a tablet, it's often less frustrating and more tantalizing to just buy something new—but a growing number of people around the world want you to pull up to a table at a Repair Café instead.

Screwed. Why DIY Repairs Are So Difficult

This week, MEPs gathered in Strasbourg for the last plenary session of this legislature. They faced a voting marathon – with some 90 legislative dossiers and seven resolutions up for the vote.



Image: EP plenary voting session on 25 April 2024 © European Parliament, 2024

Marc Angel, Member Of The European Parliament – S&D, Luxembourg (in Luxembourgish)

Šarūnas Liekis, Professor Of Political Sciences (in Lithuanian)

Petras Auštrevičius, Member Of The European Parliament – Renew Europe, Lithuania (in Lithuanian)

Omid Nouripour, Co - Chair Of The German Greens (in German)

Evelyn Regner, Member Of The European Parliament – S&D, Austria (in German)

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