{"id":7517,"date":"2015-01-28T13:58:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T20:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/?p=7517"},"modified":"2015-02-19T17:44:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T17:44:44","slug":"meet-the-menders-chris-moser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2015\/01\/28\/meet-the-menders-chris-moser\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Menders: Chris Moser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The volunteers for the <a href=\"http:\/\/fa.oregonstate.edu\/recycling\/events-and-opportunities\/repair-fairs\">Repair Fairs<\/a> come from an varied backgrounds: from students and OSU staff, to D.I.Y. enthusiasts from the Corvallis community. Following each Fair, we&#8217;ll provide insight into the people behind the repairs. This is&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>Meet the Menders<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2015\/01\/Chris-Moser-mugshot.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7519 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2015\/01\/Chris-Moser-mugshot-289x300.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Moser - mugshot\" width=\"202\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>For the January Repair Fair, we interviewed <strong>Chris Moser<\/strong>, a long-time repair volunteer for the housewares, appliances, and electronics sections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you do outside of the Repair Fairs?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am a retired oceanographic assistant. I still go back to work a little less than half-time doing oceanography.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you hear about the Repair Fairs?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was a Master Recycling class that I took at OSU several years ago, and as a continuation of that Master Recycler class, you could gain community credit and Master Recycling credit by volunteering for things like the Repair Fairs, so I started doing that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What repair skills do you employ?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A lot of luck, and a lot of counting on my other friends to help me out when I can\u2019t figure out what the problem is&#8230; skills of just being confident enough to take some things apart without breaking them, and try to put them back together fixed.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7522\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2015\/01\/Chris-Moser-actionshot-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Moser - actionshot\" width=\"210\" height=\"270\" \/>What are your thoughts on the Repair Fair?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Repair Fair is wonderful! I think it should be encouraged, it should happen more often, I think that people are easily enticed into a one-way-throw-it-away mentality in a lot of the things that they use in this world and that is exactly what I don\u2019t want to support. I want to support the repair side of reduce, reuse, recycle, repair. That should be the other r in the cycle of things.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Would you like to add anything else?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Never take broken for an answer.<\/p>\n<p><em>This post is a part of the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/tag\/meet-the-menders\/\">Meet the Menders<\/a>&#8221; blog series, where we feature the volunteers of the <a href=\"http:\/\/fa.oregonstate.edu\/recycling\/events-and-opportunities\/repair-fairs\">Repair Fairs<\/a>. Interested in becoming a repair volunteer? Contact <a href=\"http:\/\/recycle.oregonstate.edu\/email\/node\/773\/field_group_email\">Kyle Reed<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The volunteers for the Repair Fairs come from an varied backgrounds: from students and OSU staff, to D.I.Y. enthusiasts from the Corvallis community. Following each Fair, we&#8217;ll provide insight into the people behind the repairs. 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