Right to Repair
Right to repair is, put simply, the right to fix the things you buy, or the right to take things to an independent repair shop. Recently, John Deere settled with the Federal Trade Commission, securing farmers' right to repair John Deere farming equipment over the next ten years. According to iFixit, the right to repair is a global movement with three goals: 1) have parts and tools needed to fix stuff, 2) have access to the same manuals and diagnostic tools that manufacturers use, and 3) have access to software to reset security locks and pair new electronic parts. Learn more from the links below. The books on this list explore the topics of fixing things, circular economics, and deep dives into the equipment that keeps our daily lifestyles running. If you're interested in repair and mending clothes, there's another list for that! It's linked below, too.
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Repair Revolution
How Fixers Are Transforming Our Throwaway Culture
The Art of Tinkering
Meet 150+ Makers Working at the Intersection of Art, Science & Technology
Total Garbage
How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World
No New Things
a Radically Simple 30-day Guide to Saving Money, the Planet, and Your Sanity
Waste Wars
the Afterlife of Your Trash
Frostbite
How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
Pipe Dreams
the Urgent Global Quest to Transform the Toilet
Hands of Time
a Watchmaker's History
Things We Make
the Unknown History of Invention From Cathedrals to Soda Cans
Girls Garage
How to Use Any Tool, Tackle Any Project, and Build the World You Want to See
Thriving
The Breakthrough Movement to Regenerate Nature, Society, and the Economy
The Serviceberry
Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
The Regenerative Landscaper
Design and Build Landscapes That Repair the Environment
Fixation
How to Have Stuff Without Breaking the Planet
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