1. Session:With 90% of the world’s engineering focused on 10% of the population, a significant opportunity exists to serve the most vulnerable and marginalized people in developing countries. Many attempts have been made to develop so-called appropriate technology, with some success, and much...
  2. Will Eaves designed beds, trolleys, wheelchairs and other equipment made from wood, metal tubing and wheels taken from scrap heaps. His plans and designs as well as other developed by health care workers in various parts of the world have now been brought together in the book compiled by Roger...
  3. 01/11/2008 The Human-Powered Homeis a one-of-a-kind compendium of human-powered devices gathered from a unique collection of experts. For those who want to apply their own ingenuity, or for those who have never heard of human-powered machines, this book is a fine reference. For those who are beginning to...
  4. 19/01/1977 Prepared by Eastern Oregon Community Development Council Various paged sections, illustrated
  5. Health care practitioners, planners and artisans will find ideas and designs for equipment that can be made locally in relatively small workshops. Alternative materials and fabrication methods are described to meet differing local circumstances.
  6. L’Atelier Paysanest une coopérative (SCIC SARL). Nous accompagnons les agriculteurs et agricultrices dans la conception et la fabrication de machines et de bâtiments adaptés à une agroécologie paysanne. En remobilisant les producteurs et productrices sur les choix techniques autour de l’outil de...
  7. 01/01/2001 This simple device provides a method of manually producing bales of hay. Small-scale farmers may be interested in this technology because hay is both easier to store and easier to transport when it has been baled. Also, baled hay retains a higher nutrient content than hay that has been cut and...
  8. 08/01/1976 [ Gift of Larry Bentley ] ECHO Library holds current issues of Appropriate Technology [Quarterly] shelved with other periodicals; these are older copies of Vol. 3 No 2 (Aug 1976 - Vol. 8 No 4 (Mar 1982), not available online at https://appropriate-technology.com/view-digital-at/ "The quarterly...
  9. 2 discs The AT Library contains the full text and images fromthe best books dealing with all areas of self-reliance, do-it-yourself technology. https://villageearth.org/home/appropriate-technology-library/
  10. The ECHO East Africa Biennial Symposium on Sustainable Agriculture and Appropriate Technologiesconnects individuals and organizations who seek to share their knowledge and best practices in these areas: to improve nutrition, reduce poverty, hunger, and physical hardship by engaging farmers more...