Tag: Appropriate Technology - Page 5
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Maker Faire Heads to Africa
We've been a fan of Afrigadget for a long time now, which highlights the ingenuity and resourcefulness of people in Africa. We also are big fans of the Maker Faire, which is the hub of cool hacks and mods, sparking the creativity that drives our tech
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$7 Solar Cooker Wins $75,000 Climate Change Challenge
A humble cardboard box (well two of them, one inside the other) has won the Financial Times' Climate Change Challenge. It may sound like a joke, but those two cardboard boxes were turned into a solar cooker that captured both the
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Heirloom Computing - The 100-Year PC
Yoni Levison over at EcoGeek lobbed one of those sobering environmental questions to Tod Arbogast, Dell’s Director of Sustainable Business, the other day - when is the computer that lasts decades going to be developed? It's a good
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Can We Have Too Much Technology?
Kevin Kelly over at the Technium continues to throw out the raw meat, asking the question Is there a reason to diminish technology? Like many, Kelly is a obviously a dyed-wool technologist - lots, more, and often is his perspective but he fairly
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The Blackboard Blogger of Liberia
The "Daily News" is a blackboard on a major road in Monrovia, Liberia which is run by a fellow named Alfred Sirleaf. Everyday, he writes out the news in neat letters for those who can't afford newspapers, radio, or a generator
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Sustainable Loband in the Cloud?
As the discussion over rural broadband heats up, there's sure to be plenty more discussion as to the efficacy of the proposed solutions. Here's one that novel - Loband. Put out by Aptivate, Loband is a free service that simplifies web pages in order
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Solar Water Heating is Best Use of Solar Power, Indian Scientists Assert
A quick search on TreeHugger shows that 'solar power' most often occurs in connection with producing electricity and only secondarily in connection with solar water heaters. That's unfortunate, according to scientists at
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ETech 2009: Amazing Adobe Tools for Sustainable Design
Adobe's CTO Kevin Lynch presented some great tools the company is working on to help designers be a whole lot more sustainable while creating products, as well as some other great tools for sustainability - including one 3D tool
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Broadband in America - Fat Pipes for Old Glory a Questionable Green Plan
With 4 a's and 3 b's in a total of 14 letters, The phrase "Obama Broadband" has a gentle, rolling hills kind of feel that is fun to say and think for its literary value alone. And it's fitting too; as the administration is about
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Eco-Nanny: Mother Natures Nagging Mother-in-Law or a Personal Angel?
Over the past several years, there has been a rather interesting development of eco-sensitive technology designed to help us humans along with our daily lives by giving us a gentle nudge in the right direction of eco-friendliness.
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Greener Gadgets 2009: How Do We Go Beyond Green Products to Job Creation in the Developing World? (Video)
At Greener Gadgets 2009 there were several really interesting and compelling issues brought up during the Green Design for Good panel discussion. In this clip, Emily Pilloton of Project H Design asks what role do green designers have in creating
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Greener Gadgets 2009: Why Green Materials, Sustainability & Human Benefits Need to be Better Balanced (Video)
Some more excerpts from the Greener Gadgets 2009 , Green Design for Good discussion. In this clip Emily Pilloton, Mark Bent and Gadi Amit talk about designing products for the developing world: How a better balance needs to be struck between green
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Clean Tech Forum 2009: Experts Discuss the Impending Water Crisis (Video)
A panel of experts gathered at the Clean Tech Forum this week to talk about technologies that will help with the impending water crisis. The panel was drawn together to discuss water's role the "iron triangle" of water/energy/food, especially in light
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One Big Laugh - Technological Familiarity Breeds Contempt
Happened to light onto The Techium today, written by Kevin Kelly - several delicious articles there, and the site is well worth bookmarking. The above perky video featuring Louis C.K. on the Conan O'Brien show probes a very basic question - if
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Our Low-Tech, Jury-Rigged Future
Ah! Nothing smells like shift more than tips from the New York Times on how to fix your high-tech junk using low-tech solutions. Far from a downer, there's satisfaction to be had here: who hasn't had that gentle internal smile when their hand-slam
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Amish Miracle Heater is Anything But
The New York Times notes that the Roll-n-Glow "miracle heaters" are going out the door by the cartload after the Amish carpenters, well known for their use of high tech electrical appliances, have finished building them. So what is the miracle?
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Emily Pilloton Discusses the Hippo Roller and other Designs for Humanity (Part Two)
In our last conversation with The founder of Project H Design, Emily Pilloton voiced her frustrations with a design world that has lost sight of its duty. In this segment, we're taken through her latest project: a math playground in Uganda for the
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Those Slow-Teching Amish
If you're prepared sharpen your shoehorn on what exactly appropriate technology is, one need look no further than this delightful little number on the Amish from Kevin Kelly over at the Technium. For The Some drenched in The
