{mosgoogle}Free Geek, a nonprofit company in Portland, Oregon takes unwanted computers and gizmos, rebuilds them and gives them away or breaks them down for proper recyclying. Design Technica has the interview.

Phil Sano, known as Reverend Phil, is one of the charismatic volunteers that lead daily tours for visitors. Rev. Phil has been volunteering for Free Geek for over five years. “Free Geek is trying to solve the big problem with computers, “ says Rev. Phil. “We see there as being two huge (problems). One of which is that there are way too many. 137,000 (computers) go obsolete every day in the United States. So, there are all of those folks who have plenty. The other problem, is that some people don’t have access to computers as much as they want. If you look around, you can tell that there are a lot of people that don’t know as much as they’d like to, or they try to learn, but they don’t know where to go. They’re expensive and you can spend a lot of time and not get anywhere. So, basically, we solve the two problems by pointing them at each other, saying ‘Give us your tons of compu-detritus and bring us your herds of geek strength for a better future.’ Knock them together and sure enough, they will solve each other.”

Read the full interview here.