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Don't Trash It, Fix It! The Right to Repair Revolution
Season 5, Ep. 8
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Ready for a tech world where you can fix what you own? Join us as we celebrate the Right to Repair movement, and push for a more sustainable and consumer-friendly future.
We'll explore why repairing should be easy, affordable, and a joyful act of ownership and how Google is driving meaningful changes in legislation to support a consumer's right to repair.
We'll uncover the hidden potential of the things we already have and how fixing them ourselves empowers us. Plus, we'll spotlight a tech leader changing the game: Google's Pixel. Learn how Pixel is being designed from the ground up to make its phones easier to repair and help usher in a new era of repairable tech.
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