Radical technology / edited by Peter Harper, Godfrey Boyle and the editors of Undercurrents ; designed by Roger Hall.

Date:
1976
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Description

"Radical Technology is perhaps an unfamiliar idea. Everyone has heard of 'alternative technology' - which has come to signify solar panels on the roof, windmills in the garden, and cars run off gas from chicken manure. Radical Technology encompasses much that is meant by 'alternative technology' but sees these as new, liberating tools, techniques and sources of energy as part of a restructured social order, and aims to place them directly in the hands of the community. Radical Technology is a contribution to the wider dialogue on alternative politics, economics, work-patterns and life-styles, all the more urgent in a deepening global crisis of resource supply and ecological stability, at a time when demans for economic justice, self determination and meaningful work can no longer be denied. Radical Technology is not just a way for the middle class to trim its central heating bills."-- From back cover.

Publication/Creation

London : Wildwood House, 1976.

Physical description

304 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, plans ; 28 cm

Related material

This item was donated as part of the Godfrey Boyle archive held by Wellcome Collection, reference PP/GBO https://wellcomecollection.org/works/t5pbagvp

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-296) and index.

Contents

Food -- Agribusiness / Charlie Clutterbuck -- Animal farm / John Seymour -- Compost culture / Lawrence D. Hills -- Biodynamic agriculture / H.H. Koepf and John Davy -- Food glorious food / John Shore -- A question of balance / Monica Hill -- Cut out the tripe / Tony Joyce -- After the goldfish / John Wood -- The answer lies in solution / J. Sholto Douglas -- Great pigs from little acorns grow / John Wood -- Across the hungry gap / John Seymour -- Each piece of land to each piece of sky / George Woolston -- Vision I : Collectivised garden / Clifford Harper -- Interview : John Todd / Patrick Rivers -- Energy -- Plant your own power / Robert Vale -- Insulation / Brenda Vale -- Sunshine superpower / Robert Vale -- Natural, endless free / Derek Taylor -- Essentially co-operative energy / George Woolston -- Cast iron power / Kit Pedler -- Vision 2 : Basement workshop / Clifford Harper -- Interview : Sietz Leeflang / Godfrey Boyle -- Shelter -- Lightweight / temporary / low-cost / quick / mobile / Stefan Szczelcun -- Folk building / Brenda Vale -- The ground over our heads / Colin Taylor -- Self help housing / Tom Wooley -- Man maketh the clothes / Chris Ryan -- Shoes / Nick Mellor -- Interview : Peter Van Dresser / Patrick Rivers -- Vision 3 : Autonomous village / Clifford Harper -- Autonomy -- Limits of material autonomy ; Means of autonomy ; Variations on autonomy ; Family automony : Economics of autonomy : Collective autonomy ; Practical fantasies ; Conclusions / Peter Harper -- Vision 4 : Autonomous terrace / Clifford Harper -- Interview : Street farmers / Godfrey Boyle -- Materials -- Rolling your own / Derek Burns -- Working the plank / Rob and Al Hitchings -- Skeptical chymist / Alan Dalton -- Any old iron / Robert and Al Hitchings -- De re metallica / Alan Stewart -- Vision 5 : Community workshop / Clifford Harper -- Interview : Robert Jungk / Tony Durham -- Communications -- Hold the front page / Jonathan Zeitlyn -- Unfair exchange / Ian Morton -- R.T. Craft / Richard Elen, Cop McDonald -- Two-way mirror / Tom Picton -- There's no transport like no transport / Patrick Rivers -- Vision 6 : Community media centre / Clifford Harper -- Other perspectives -- The moon in the mind / Lyn Gambles -- Inner technologies / Peter Russell -- It's been said before and where did that get us / Jos Kingston -- Escape route for the poor / Jimoh Omo-Fadakah -- Homespun philosophy / Satish Kumar -- Popular power 1970-73 / Josefina Mena -- Think big, think little / Tony Durham -- Bibliography and directory / Peter Harper.

Notes

Copy 1. Donor: Godfrey Boyle.

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  • 0704501597
  • 9780704501591