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In This Economy? You’d Be Wise To Adopt A Do-It-Together Attitude
Reddingakaffi empowers all who come to learn how to repair their things I arrive at Reddingakaffi (e. Repair Café) with a wet boombox, just one minute after the event begins. At the monthly Reddingakaffi, in Borgarbókasafnið Grófin (the downtown library, next to…
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Grapevine Events: Christmas Markets, Repair Cafe, Gyða, The Women Who Plant Trees, and more!
Jóla Reddingakaffi December 18th at 14:00 – Hafnar.Haus – Free The Roaming Repair Cafe is back in town, this time with a Christmas edition! Do you have Christmas lights inherited from your grandma that don’t really work? Don’t want to splurge on…
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RVK Futurecast #10: Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson
What is the future of Iceland’s tech, economic and entrepreneurial sectors? What role does Iceland have to play in global development? Join host Bala Kamallakharan, founder of Startup Iceland, as he explores answers to these questions with some of the brightest minds…
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RVK Futurecast #9: Ari Jónsson – NASA, AWAREGO and Reykjavik University
Today on FutureCast we are chatting with Ari Jónsson. Ari is a NASA Ames Center Research Scientist and Stanford Alumni. He is currently the CEO of AWAREGO and Rector of Reykjavik University, a role he has held since 2007, and he will…
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RVK Futurecast #8: Composting
Jarðgerðarfélagið (the Composting Company) was founded by Julia Brenner and Björk Brynjarsdóttir. They work with circular solutions in bokashi composting for municipalities, companies and individuals. While studying entrepreneurship in Denmark, Björk learned about bokashi composting, which is a method of composting organic…
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RVK Futurecast #7: Tool Library
In this episode of the Reykjavík FutureCast, host Bala Kamallakharan speaks to Anna Worthington De Matos, the founder and CEO of the Munasafn RVK Tool Library, which is a non-profit project that aims to create a circular economy in Reykjavík with the…
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Sharing Is Caring: Reykjavik’s First Tool Library To Open This August
Let’s assume you’ve just bought a new hairdryer. It works perfectly until, two weeks later, it stops working all of a sudden. You get angry, and you‘re tempted to just throw it away—but stop right there! Very soon, there’ll be a much…