Appropriate Technology

[Johnathan Yelenick <yelenick AT riseup.net>]

Should not 'appropriate technology' be all about being able to procure the resources needed to implement that technology within the very bioregion within which the technology is to be used?  I think, as Linda has just shown, any technological commodity utilized and created with materials outside of the bioregion from which it is to be used is dubious at best.   We would do good to remember the genealogy of this term 'appropriate technology'.  The folks at the Institute for Social Ecology (namely Murray Bookchin) used the term 'libertory technology' which I feel carries more gravity in specifically indicating what we want when we say we want an ecological society. The term 'appropriate technology' is a negative euphemism of its former. Let's retrace our steps and ask ourselves what we truly desire.   If you cannot procure the necessary commodities in your bioregion how can we support our communities to make these commodities available on a micro scale in the cottage industry? If we cannot procure the materials needed to manufacture certain necessary commodites how can we federate with other bioregionally minded folk who keep the care of the Earth in the top of their minds to procure these materials from other bioregions? Or better yet, how can we cultivate our imaginations to develop bioregionally context specific technologies that analogously effect in the world theater of desired results.   Libertory technology is not monotonist, Fordist, Taylorist or  foisted upon a community by the utilitarian. It is rather one of the most pluralist and beautiful manifestations of the creative aspect in non-authoritarian societies.
Warm Regards,
Johnathan Yelenick
Blacktail Permaculture
Upper Platte River Bioregion, just outside of Denver

Linda Shewan wrote:

Tata Motors and the West Bengal government have created a Special Economic Zone at Singur, and has evicted farmers from their land to build these cars. Protests have seen people beaten and shot. What do we in the permaculture movement support! Land rights are more important than any technology.

 

This is happening all over India – Tata Motors were offered non-agricultural land to build their factory and turned it down. There are plenty of wastelands to build factories on but they wanted the rich fertile land – why? In the past companies have used these special economic zones to acquire land from state governments and then sold them on at a tidy profit… because of the protests at Singur they will probably build the factory in this case though… .

 

The farmers lost their last legal option in January - the High Court Verdict is reported here http://sanhati.com/news/631/ but they are still not giving up.

 

In solidarity for all the people in the world that simply want to live a sustainable life on a little bit of land, Linda

 

 

From: approtech-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:approtech-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of David Glober
Sent: Thursday, 20 March 2008 5:49 AM
To: Appropriate Technology
Subject: Re: [approtech] Hybrid air car video

 

Does any one have verification information that the exhaust is in fact clean air?

Tata Motors of India has signed on to invest in and manufacture the air cars:
http://www.tatamotors.com/our_world/press_releases.php?ID=281&action="Pull

Additional YouTube videos on air cars:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22air+car%22&search_type=

david glober

Keith Johnson <keithdj AT mindspring.com> wrote:

Hybrid air car video
http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/02/24/more-information-with-video-on-the-air-car-as-mentioned-by/

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http://www.jointhesolution.com/KeithJ-SunPower
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also Patterns for Abundance Design & Consulting
http://www.permacultureactivist.net/design/Designconsult.html
also Association for Regenerative Culture
http://www.ARCulture.org
also APPLE-Bloomington (Alliance for a Post-Petroleum Local Economy) It's a small world after oil.
http://www.relocalize.net/groups/applebloomington
also Bloomington Permaculture Guild
http://my.calendars.net/bloomingtonpccal/
and: http://bloomingtonpermacultureguild.blogspot.com/
also: Bioregional Congress
http://www.bioregional-congress.org
http://www.betterplace.org/?r=keith_j


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David Glober ~ San Francisco
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