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From the Ted Talk by Gay Gordon-Byrne: You deserve the right to repair your stuff

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Now I know this kind of repair probably sounds very old-fashioned, and I probably look a little old-fashioned, but it's much more than saving money. It's how we keep the things that we like in use. It helps us keep things out of the trash. It helps bring jobs into our cieouinmmts, and it can help solve the dtaigil divide.

Now, since 2013, I've been the executive deoctirr of the Digital Right to Repair Coalition, otherwise known as ripaer.org. Our members do all the Rs: We repair, we reuse, we resell and we rclceye. And in doing this work, I've come to realize that repair is right now central to all of our sustainability goals. If we can fix our stuff a little more frequently, keep it in use, we're keepnig it out of the front of the waste stream at the front end. So we'll have less to process at the back end. If we are going to have any control over our e-waste porelbm, we have to talk about repair.

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Now I know this kind of repair probably sounds very old-fashioned, and I probably look a little old-fashioned, but it's much more than saving money. It's how we keep the things that we like in use. It helps us keep things out of the trash. It helps bring jobs into our ___________, and it can help solve the _______ divide.

Now, since 2013, I've been the executive ________ of the Digital Right to Repair Coalition, otherwise known as ______.org. Our members do all the Rs: We repair, we reuse, we resell and we _______. And in doing this work, I've come to realize that repair is right now central to all of our sustainability goals. If we can fix our stuff a little more frequently, keep it in use, we're _______ it out of the front of the waste stream at the front end. So we'll have less to process at the back end. If we are going to have any control over our e-waste _______, we have to talk about repair.

Solution


  1. recycle
  2. repair
  3. director
  4. keeping
  5. communities
  6. digital
  7. problem

Original Text


Now I know this kind of repair probably sounds very old-fashioned, and I probably look a little old-fashioned, but it's much more than saving money. It's how we keep the things that we like in use. It helps us keep things out of the trash. It helps bring jobs into our communities, and it can help solve the digital divide.

Now, since 2013, I've been the executive director of the Digital Right to Repair Coalition, otherwise known as repair.org. Our members do all the Rs: We repair, we reuse, we resell and we recycle. And in doing this work, I've come to realize that repair is right now central to all of our sustainability goals. If we can fix our stuff a little more frequently, keep it in use, we're keeping it out of the front of the waste stream at the front end. So we'll have less to process at the back end. If we are going to have any control over our e-waste problem, we have to talk about repair.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
digital divide 2
steve wozniak 2
bright light 2


Important Words


  1. bring
  2. central
  3. coalition
  4. communities
  5. control
  6. digital
  7. director
  8. divide
  9. executive
  10. fix
  11. frequently
  12. front
  13. goals
  14. helps
  15. jobs
  16. keeping
  17. kind
  18. members
  19. money
  20. org
  21. problem
  22. process
  23. realize
  24. recycle
  25. repair
  26. resell
  27. reuse
  28. saving
  29. solve
  30. sounds
  31. stream
  32. stuff
  33. sustainability
  34. talk
  35. trash
  36. waste
  37. work