# 841: Sandra Goldmark, part 1: Fixation: How to Have Stuff without Breaking the Planet

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Podcast: [This Sustainable Life](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-sustainable-life-924670)
Published: 2025-11-03T20:18:33+00:00
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How often does something break that you know could be fixed, but you don't know how and there are no places to fix it? I remember repair stores all over the place, but the field doesn't exist any more. We all know about planned obsolescence and how products are designed to break. Now we feel we have to throw things away and replace them (after avoiding buying things when possible, which is far more than most of us practice). Enter Sandra Goldmark, as a member of a growing movement to fix things and make things fixable. She's also an Ivy League professor at Barnard and the Columbia Climate School, so, no, professors don't have to be out of touch. I met Sandra before the pandemic, at a shop she set up down by the South Street Seaport to repair things. Besides her own book  Fixation , she was mentioned in a book ( The Repair Revolution ) in my sustainability leadership workshop alumni book club. Lest you think people have to be born fixers or educated as engineers, a preconception that I find still holds me back, she shares her background not growing up with those things. On the contrary, she found she enjoyed it and found community. Listen for a basic human approach to fixing things and changing culture. Sandra's home page Her book, Fixation Her page at Barnard Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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