Dare to Repair: A hands-on exploration of sustainability and community

You can’t break something that is already broken. Understanding this wisdom is the first step in the repair process and part of the foundation of a new freshman seminar in the College of Design.

Owen Bond, a plant science major in the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, gained a much greater perspective of repair as a whole.
 
“The biggest impact the class has had on me is how I think about consumerism. It's easy as a young person to become nihilistic when confronted with climate change caused by corporations, but in reality, individual actions do matter,” says Bond. “Repair is connected to sustainability in that it generates very little waste. It’s also fun and allows you to be creative while reusing old materials and saving money,” he says. Read the full story here.