Fix. It.

Not quite related to diabetes care, management, complaints of, progress in, fed up with, tears over, yada yada yada….but I think this relates to my recent post Hulk Smash, in which I reflected on my inability to fix things.

Annie Leonard’s project The Story of Stuff has always counted Franca and I as two of their biggest fans—we love the idea of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and now this, her latest venture in responsible consumerism: Repair. Give a listen as she talk to the folks at Ifixit.org and instructables.com and maybe it will invigorate you, too, to think about how you fix something when it breaks BEFORE you buy it, or going when step further, how to make it yourself.

The Good Stuff — Episode 4: Fix it, don’t nix it!