Appropriate Technology

Natalie and Dani are enjoying their winter break, so this week's show is pulled together from our archives. Enjoy!

Whole Earth Festival and Appropriate Technology. Bryan Jungers, appropriate technology director for the 2008 Whole Earth Festival (WEF), came onto Local Dirt to talk with us about appropriate technology (AT) in transportation, farming and more. Bryan also talked about how AT was incorporated into the 2008 Whole Earth Festival and how to apply AT to our lives. Interviewed in May of 2008.

Agriculture, Life Cycle Assessment and Appropriate Technology at UC Davis. Elisabetta Lambertini, a PhD candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Davis, specializes in environmental biotechnology, environmental stressors in populations, gene transfer and regulation in microbes. Elisabetta discusses how appropriate technology can be applied to agriculture, life cycle assessment and more. Interviewed in May 2009.

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News:
Pets Pollute More than Cars (Tree Hugger)

Music Playlist:
"Ain't No Reason" by Brett Dennen (So Much More on Dualtone)
"Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar" by the Louvin Brothers (A Tribute to the Delmore Brothers on Capitol)
"Gate Keeper" by Feist (Open Season)