Archive for the 'Appropriate Technology' Category
Thursday, October 18th, 2007
It has been almost two years since I first began advocating for adapting an Open Source model to the development of Appropriate Technology. Naturally, my ideas did not develop in a vacuum, and a number of other groups were already working on the same concept, thinking the same thoughts, and [...]
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Monday, April 23rd, 2007
Right-wing media outlets often portray those of us who advocate for the greening of the globe as "liberal" big-government wackos whose ideas have no place in the hard-nosed scrabble of policy debate. Their portrayal notwithstanding, the green movement is in fact one of the most common sense, community-oriented and self-reliant philosophies [...]
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Thursday, October 19th, 2006
As we have seen, technocracy meant the concentration of capital and its associated productive capacity in the hands of the "literate". The consequences of this historical process were negative for democracy and community autonomy. Now, because globalization is connecting the world's communities to a number of inherently unstable lifeline [...]
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Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
It was Descartes who was accused of splitting the world in two, between the material and the spiritual. In accord with a trend that began in the Renaissance, Descartes had inadvertently and finally delegated the indigenous knowledge of the artisan to the wood shops of history.
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Saturday, April 22nd, 2006
As Rudolf Steiner argued so many decades ago, the 20th century shift towards input intensive agriculture was, and is, troubling in so many ways. According to Steiner, heavy investments in external inputs, like fertilizers and pesticides, are the symptoms of a sick farm system. Just as human beings rely [...]
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