STOP BUYING STUFF: A Reuse+Repair Webinar
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Please join System Change Not Climate Change for this webinar-workshop to help us cut down on waste, thanks to popular requests during our Plastics Pollution webinar in October. We'll be led by the visionary Diane Cohen, founding director of FingerLakes Reuse Centers — replicable nonprofit social enterprise models of community empowerment that promote regenerative systems and put a brake on waste. She'll tell us about their Fixers Collective, Deconstruction Services, Computer Refurbishing Program, and Skills and Employment Training programs. The presentation will be followed by an interactive Q&A with those registered for the Zoom. As always, it's free! Bring questions.
Saturday, January 22, 2022
1:00 p.m. Eastern (U.S./Canada)
Noon p.m. Central (U.S./Canada)
11:00 a.m. Mountain (U.S./Canada)
10:00 a.m. Pacific (U.S./Canada)
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Register here or by using the button below so you can join in the conversation via Zoom. If you’re unable to connect via Zoom, we’ll also be streaming live on Facebook and will archive the webinar on our YouTube channel.
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About Our Presenter
Diane Cohen, based in Ithaca, New York, founded the nonprofit Fingers Lakes ReUse in 2008 with the goals of reducing waste, relieving poverty, and teaching job skills through reuse activities. She offers templates for other communities to replicate such centers. Earlier, Diane helped develop Significant Elements, a nonprofit, volunteer-run architectural salvage program. She’s been a longtime volunteer with a regional Community Development Financial Institution that creates economic opportunity for the underserved; a startup commercial-free community radio station; and a health and human services agency.Watch our most recent webinar, Cryptocurrency: Climate Chaos Accelerator, Capitalist Con.
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