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Coverage of the Repair Café Palo Alto

Big thanks to volunteers Todd and Sandy Smith and their work with Ecumenical Hunger Program. Their wonderful work fixing EHP donations was highlighted in the EHP Cares Summer 2019 newsletter!

Alta Online - Summer 2018
Getting Their Fix For Free

KPIX news - Februrary 25, 2016
Repair Cafe Volunteers Fix Broken Household Items

San Francisco Chronicle: SFGate - Februrary 25, 2016
Don't toss that broken toaster! Palo Alto's Repair Café aims to combat throwaway culture 

Wall Street Journal - August 6, 2015
We Need the Right to Repair Our Gadgets by Geoffrey A. Fowler

This Week on Houzz - August 25, 2015
Don't Throw Away Another Household Item Before Reading This by Mitchell Parker

IEEE Spectrum - October 10, 2013
Repair Cafe: Fixing the World, One Broken Toaster at a Time by Tekla Perry

Adweek - May 27, 2013   
Marketers Need to Embrace Peer-to-Peer Activities The sharing economy By Joan Voight

Fixing Community - Video interview with Peter Skinner, Founder of Repair Café Palo Alto. March 5, 2013

Here is a link to a video posted on the East Bay Fixit Clinic's Facebook page showing visitors streaming into the Repair Café Palo Alto on Sunday, February 24, 2013

Holy Cow! 300 bezoekers Repair Café Palo Alto - Dutch news coverage of our February event.

San Jose Mercury - February 22, 2013
Bay Area fix-it clinics repair what usually gets trashed
"A movement - heroic and subversive - is emerging in corners of the Bay Area: rescuing household appliances that were designed to  die..."

Verde Magazine - November 15, 2013
Palo Alto Repair Café: Repairing the community one item at a time

CBS Radio - October 13, 2012
Interview of Peter Skinner
Palo Alto Weekly - October 11, 2012
Silicon Valley entrepreneur starts 'Repair Cafe'

News about the world-wide Repair Café movement

New York Times - May 8, 2012

Wired Magazine - May 31, 2012

Repair Café Palo Alto, Inc.