20 years ago, I was living in Sydney where I got involved with Alfalfa House Food Cooperative, discovered Permaculture, worked in both The Bower Re-use & Repair Centre Cooperative and Reverse Garbage Re-use Centre Coperative and 1st read “The Waste Makers” by Vance Packard.

5 years ago I moved to Pavia where I was inspired by my friend Claire Downey in Dublin to start Repair Cafe Pavia and set up the Repair Cafe Pavia and Repair Cafe Italia FB pages