Browsing all posts in "Appropriate Technology".

Silent Outrage

The water is clean, but the container is not. Piped in by gravity flow from over 20 miles away, this water has traveled far to get here only to be recontaminated in the very final stage before drinking. Containers like these were championed by government and large aid agencies as being better than open containers [...]

Alcohol Stove

The alcohol stove, largely unknown in our modern REI world of high-tech camping, dates back more than a hundred years and was the standard cooking device for explorers, adventurers and hobos.  Designs vary from an open pool of burning alcohol to double-wall designs that self-pressurizes and a good design will boil water every bit as [...]

Wells & Water Pumps

The community is in the throws of a large-scale water project. While most people have enough water for household needs very few have sufficient water for agricultural purposes. That and hand-liftng water from a 15 feet well and carrying it a couple hundred meters to a garden discourages most people from the 3 – 4 [...]

Development Technology

Below are posts on technologies utilized in rural community development. These are among the first of what I hope to be a long list of technologies applicable to development – some of which I have used personally, others will be ones that I have merely researched and feel are exeptional solutions to some of the [...]