EarthSky interviewed me about my new book, Made by Hand. They posted an 8-minute interview and a 90 second interview. The 8 minute version is here:
Mark Frauenfelder: If you take the time to repair something, it becomes part of you, and you have connection to the human-made environment around you. Having a say in that – and having it reflect your personality and your desire to make things the way you want them to be – is a powerful way to exist. In my book, I talk about taking back some of that control by even doing a little bit of that. You can take back control of the way you eat, for example, by growing your own food, keeping bees, and raising chickens. You get a little bit of that control back, and it can improve the quality of your life quite a bit.
