HEALING APPALACHIA: Sustainable Living Through Appropriate Technology
Dear Relatives,
Our book, HEALING APPALACHIA: Sustainable Living Through Appropriate Technology is available now!
Please let us know how many copies you would like to order.
If you order copies through us here at Long Branch your donation will enable us to use a percentage of the book cost to help us raise funds for continuing our programs here at the Center.
We are also seeking donations and grants to help purchase enough copies to distribute to all public libraries in Western North Carolina.
So please be generous, help us spread the word to family and friends and encourage them to help us spread the word!
If we’re successful, we’d like to donate at least one book to every public library throughout the Appalachians!
With much gratitude and appreciation to all who help to inspire,
Paul
“I think constantly of the future — of the children, and of the need for all children to go into the future as a single, sacred community.
The children of the trees, the children of the birds, the children of the animals, the children of the insects — all children, including the human children, must go together into the future.
There’s no future for the human children if there’s no future for the children of those other life forms.
The vigor and sensitivity of childhood is, for me, one of the great inspirations, because the childhood experience is refreshing, spontaneous, wholehearted, and fearless.”
— Thomas Berry, “Belonging” in Parabola
“Three times three times three big time thank yous.
Now in our life, energy, divine consciousness, we are like one.”
— Ted Williams, Tuscarora Elder
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Paul Gallimore, Director
Long Branch Environmental Education Center
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Subjects > Appalachian Studies > Healing Appalachia
HEALING APPALACHIA
Sustainable Living through Appropriate Technology
By Al Fritsch and Paul Gallimore
Books
Price: $35.00
Format: paper
ISBN: 978-0-8131-9177-5
Subjects: Appalachian Studies, Nature/Environmental Studies
Pages: 416
Year Published: available May 2007
Trim Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
Illustrations: 32 photographs
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Description:
“Contains a wealth of valuable wisdom culled from decades of experience. Fritsch and Gallimore inspire readers with a detailed and realistic vision of what is practically possible.”
–John Nolt, author of Down to Earth: Toward a Philosophy of Nonviolent Living
Healing Appalachia is the first book to apply “appropriate technology,” or the simplest level of technology that can effectively achieve the desired result, specifically to the Appalachian region.
The authors examine thirty low-cost, people-friendly, and environmentally benign appropriate technologies that are concerned with such issues as food preservation, land use, shelter, and transportation.
They pay close attention to the practicality of each technique according to affordability, ease of use, and ecological soundness.
Details on construction and maintenance and resources for locating further information are included, making this an essential volume for everyone who cares about the future of Appalachia.
Al Fritsch is founder of Appalachia–Science in the Public Interest and coauthor of Ecotourism in Appalachia: Marketing the Mountains.
Paul Gallimore is founder and executive director of the Long Branch Environmental Education Center in Leicester, North Carolina.
Reviews:
“Contains a wealth of valuable wisdom on appropriate technology in Appalachia, culled from decades of experience. Fritsch and Gallimore inspire readers with a detailed and realistic vision of what is practically possible, and they explain what works and what doesn’t in this unique region.”
–John Nolt, author of Down to Earth: Toward a Philosophy of Nonviolent Living
“This is a timely and welcome book.
It makes an important contribution to the advancement of earth-friendly, user-friendly and community-friendly ways of living in the Appalachian highlands.”
–Michael Frome, Ph.D., author of Strangers in High Places: The Story of the Great Smoky Mountains
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