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Appropriate technology

Appropriate technology is a movement (and its manifestations) encompassing technological choice and application that is small-scale, affordable by its users, labor-intensive, energy-efficient, environmentally sustainable, and locally autonomous. It was originally articulated as intermediate technology by the economist Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher…

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related to Potential resurgence · 36
Appropriate technology → Akvo Foundation, Alternative Technology, Angepasste Technology, Another, Appropedia, ASME, Catalytic Communities, CEAS, Center For Development Alternatives, Centre, Centre Ecologique Albert Schweitzer, Change, Despite, Engineering, Engineers Without Borders, IEEE, Intermediate Technology, Internet, ITDG, Low-tech Magazine
related to Further reading · 30
Appropriate technology → Appropriate Technologies, Basic Needs Approach, British Columbia, Canada, Chapter, Dr, Edward Tenner, Environment, Environmentally Sustainable, Gabriola Island, Green Illusions, Green Technologies, Huesemann, Institutionalism, ISBN, Joyce, Michael, Mohammad Omar Farooq, Nebraska Press, New Society Publishers
related to Growing trend · 26
Appropriate technology → Agriculture, Application, Appropriate, Appropriate Technology Directory, Between, By, Committee, Community Services Administration, Congress, Energy, For, Health Program, However, In, Inter-American Development Bank, Intermediate Technology, International, National Center, NCAT, NCAT's
related to E. F. Schumacher · 18
Appropriate technology → British National Coal Board, Buddhism, Buddhist Country, Burma, Despite, Dr, Economics, Ernst Friedrich, Fritz, Gandhi, However, In, India, India's, Indian Planning Commission, Planning Commission, Schumacher, Western
related to External links · 17
Appropriate technology → Access, Akvopedia, An, Appropedia, Appropriate, French, German, Ideas Archived, Poor, Portuguese, Sustainable Technology, The Appropriate Technology Collaborative, The Sustainability Wiki, The Whole Earth Catalog, Tools, Wayback MachineGuide, World Wide Wiki
related to Predecessors · 14
Appropriate technology → All-India Spinners Association, All-India Village Industries Association, Both, China, Cultural Revolution, During, Gandhi, He, In, India's, Indian, Mahatma Gandhi, Mao Zedong, Though
related to Related social movements · 14
Appropriate technology → Action, Appropriate TechnologyAlternative, CCAT, Center, Collaborative, Community-based, ConvivialityGreen, Intelligent UrbanismSocial, Intermediate Technology, Is BeautifulThe Appropriate Technology, MovementMyth, National Center, Principles, ProgressOpen Source Appropriate TechnologyPermaculturePractical
related to Decline · 13
Appropriate technology → AT, Development, Exchange, For, GATE, In, International Development Enterprises, Netherlands' Technology Transfer, Paul Polak, Recently, The, The German Appropriate Technology, TOOL
related to Practitioners · 13
Appropriate technology → Albert Bates, Amory Lovins, Arne Næss, Buckminster Fuller, Doshi, Frithjof Bergmann, Giorgio Ceragioli, Laurie Baker, Mansur Hoda, Sanoussi Diakité, Some, Victor Papanek, William Moyer
related to In developed countries · 7
Appropriate technology → AST, AT, Often, Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful, Sustainable, The

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