Appropriate Technology: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Scientific Planning, Analysis, and Cooperation, of the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second Session, July 25, 26, 27, 1978

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Page 157 - I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means — except by getting off his back.
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Page 262 - ... needs. On the one hand, industrial growth Is dependent on conventional urban energy systems that use commercial energy sources and technologies that are already in use or are being developed in the industrialized countries. Agricultural development schemes — the green revolution, for example — pegged to mechanization and manufactured nitrogenous fertilizers also depend on these energy sources and technologies.
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Page 150 - REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, SUBCOMMITTEE ON DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC PLANNING, ANALYSIS, AND COOPERATION, Washington, DC The subcommittee met, pursuant to recess, at 10:10 am, in room 2325, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon.
Page 733 - Of the funds made available to carry out this chapter for the fiscal years 1976, 1977, and 1978, a total of $20,000,000 may be used for activities in the field of intermediate technology, through grants in support of an expanded and coordinated private effort to promote the development and dissemination of technologies appropriate for developing countries.
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Page 7 - ... agriculture, in industry, and in the production and conservation of energy. (b) As used in this section, the term "light capital technologies" means those means of production which economize on capital wherever capital is scarce and expensive and labor abundant and cheap, the purposes being to insure that the increasingly scarce capital in the world can be stretched to help all, rather than a small minority, of the world's poor; that workers will not be displaced by sophisticated labor-saving...

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