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Small Is Beautiful, 25th Anniversary Edition: Economics As If People Mattered: 25 Years Later . . . With Commentaries
Amazon Price: (as of 11/07/2009) 
Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World
Amazon Price: $8.51 (as of 11/07/2009)
Mastering the Machine Revisited: Poverty, Aid and Technology
Amazon Price: $31.95 (as of 11/07/2009)
Diffusion of Innovations, Fourth Edition
Amazon Price: (as of 11/07/2009)
Engineering in Emergencies : A Practical Guide for Relief Workers
Amazon Price: $40.35 (as of 11/07/2009)
GOOD Magazine: E-Waste
GOOD Magazine: E-Waste
http://good.is/ GOOD Magazine: E-Waste Animation by Ian Lynam Music by E*Rock Needing to chuck your old electronics? The Basel Action Network, who contributed documentary footage to this video, compiled a list of Responsible Recyclers that will not export your old computer. Check out their list here: www.ban.org/pledge1.html
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D-lab/AIDG trip to Haiti
Recommended International Development Books on Amazon
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
Amazon Price: $11.05 (as of 11/07/2009)
Development as Freedom
Amazon Price: $10.88 (as of 11/07/2009)
The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits
Amazon Price: (as of 11/07/2009)
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
Amazon Price: (as of 11/07/2009)
John Doerr: Seeking salvation and profit in greentech
John Doerr: Seeking salvation and profit in greentech
http://www.ted.com "I don't think we're going to make it," John Doerr proclaims, in an emotional talk about climate change and investment. Spurred on by his daughter, who demanded he fix the mess the world is heading for, he and his partners. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
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Great Stuff on Amazon
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
Amazon Price: $18.15 (as of 11/07/2009)
Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century
Amazon Price: $24.75 (as of 11/07/2009)
Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises
Amazon Price: $23.10 (as of 11/07/2009)
Intern with Us
Are you smart, motivated, and enthusiastic? Well, the AIDG needs you! We are currently expanding our internship program in Guatemala where our business incubation model is in full swing. Our mission is to promote the use of appropriate (read affordable, environmentally sound, and locally repairable) technologies in developing countries. We are looking for interns to assist our incubated business, XelaTeco. We are currently seeking:
- Engineering students and professionals to aid in the design, fabrication, installation, and/or marketing of appropriate technology products (e.g. windmills, solar PV/thermal systems, recycling processes, composting toilets, hydroelectricity, water filters, rain capture system, bicycle-powered devices, etc.)
- Students and professionals with experience in the creation of marketing and educational materials or accounting and business strategies.
Fluency in Spanish is not required though many interns concurrently study Spanish at the abundant and inexpensive Spanish schools in Xela.
For more information regarding this internship, please go to our Internship pages in our education section. To apply, please send a cover letter and resume internships at aidg dot org with the subject title INTERNSHIP. Thank you for your interest!
AIDG: Mugs and Bags
AIDG Messenger Bag
It comes in any color you want, as long as that color is yellow. OK so I'm not Ford and yellow ain't my color, but hey, at least you won't be hit in traffic.
Price: 24.99
Environmental Green Grocery Bag: Penguins
Which is better: paper or plastic? Skip the choice altogether and get a reusable eco tote bag from your groceries or shopping. Think of the Penguins.
Price: 18.99
Environmental Green Grocery Bag: Pinwheel Tote Bag
Which is better: paper or plastic? Skip the choice altogether and get a reusable eco tote bag from your groceries or shopping.
Price: 18.99
Windmill Large Mug
Price: 13.99
"Think of the Penguins" Large Mug
Concerned about global warming/climate change? Let folks know with this "Think of the Penguins" mug.
Price: 14.99
Fun Stuff for Grown-ups
Got Wind Men's Ringer
Price: 20.99
Penguins Ringer T
Concerned about global warming/climate change? Let folks know with this "Think of the Penguins" shirt.
Price: 17.99
Stuff for Kids
Wind Power Infant Creeper
For the new green, crunchy-granola bundle of hippie-ness in your life.
Price: 11.99
Penguins Kids T-Shirt
Price: 18.99
Pinwheel Kids T-Shirt
Price: 15.99
Solar Power Infant Bodysuit
Get your kids to be crunchy-granola, green, enviro hippies from day one. Flower power has turned to solar power. Hurray!
Price: 13.99
Solar Power 2 Infant Creeper
Price: 11.99
Come on a Tecotour
Imagine building a windmill from recycled car parts, and installing it in a rural village without electricity. Imagine constructing a water filter and providing clean water to a school. You can do that and more on a AIDG Tecotour.
A TecoTour is not just another chance to travel. On a TecoTour, you'll roll up your sleeves, get your hands dirty, and help us make a meaningful impact on a rural community.
Find out more today!
2007 TecoTours:
February 17-25
March 17-25
April 14-22
June 23-July 1
July 14-22
August 4-12
Donate to AIDG
The AIDG is starting up a new montly giving program, which gives you an easy, convenient and effective way to help build a sustainable future in developing countries. Your tax-deductible gift ensures that the AIDG can continue to bring affordable and environmentally sound technology solutions to developing countries - every day of the year.
For far less than you might spend on a daily cup of coffee, you can help increase access to the basics of life: electricity, sanitation and clean water. You can make a big difference!
We are trying to get 1000 people to sign up at $10 or more a month by December 31st of this year. Help us reach our goal.
Get involved with AIDG
Roughly 2 billion people do not have access to basic services such as electricity, clean drinking water and sanitation. Development of this infrastructure is essential to breaking the cycle of poverty in developing countries.
You can help change that. Get involved with AIDG.
Top 10 Movies that Use Appropriate/Renewable Technologies
- Lord of the Rings: The elves had sustainable building down pat
- Matrix: Zion has got to be an earthship
- On the Beach: Biodiesel
- Pitch Black: Solar Vehicle (actually it's an ATV)
- 28 Days Later: When the zombies attack, the windmills will still work
- Star Wars: Self-supporting earthen domes on Tatooine
- Mosquito Coast: He may have been crazy, but solar fridges are a good idea
- Waterworld: Water desalinization and perhaps biogas
- Dune: All sorts of ingenious water recycling/harvesting
- Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome: Biodigesters
I'd love to get your feedback
claine wrote...
Posted August 03, 2007
todbrilliant wrote...
Great to see you guys over here now, too. Amazing, amazing, inspiring, inspiring work you're doing. Really.
Cheers,
Tod Brilliant
www.todbrilliant.com
www.squidoo.com/todbrilliant
Posted November 09, 2006
by claine
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