Unusual Request

Hmmm...lots of lookers, no takers. I know I'm an extreme idealist, but is there no one out here in SoWal that has made their own fuel, installed their own PV panels, rigged up a bicycle to pump water, built a structure from natural materials, thatched a roof with palmettos, made their own medicinal tinctures from native plants, or worked in a developing country doing these things? Maybe it's time to start an Appropriate Technologies think tank in SoWal.

Ok, I'm still fishing for ideas.

is painting homes and cleaning them , barbaragodwin@gmail.com

Thanks Miss Kitty. The blender bike definitely falls under the category of appropriate technology. Oh, that just gave me an idea--as part of my coursework, I could document examples of AT that I discover in SoWal.

I'm searching for an inventor, a tinkerer, an alternative fuels maker
A master of solar ovens, a humanurist, a micro-hydro afficionado
A bicyclist deconstructionist
A Building w/o Borders or rural and developing world volunteer will even do

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Seriously, I'm in the last stretch of finishing a self designed BA in Sustainable Community Development and I'm looking for someone who would be willing and interesting to be a mentor for one of my courses---Appropriate Technologies. For more information about the mentor program, see here: http://prescott.edu/students/adp/mentor_information.html
The mentor is not required to have a degree in the mentioned course, but experience in some aspect of the course is essential.

Some of my past mentors have been Cindy Meadows, Kriss Titus, Christian Wagley, Peter & Susan Horn, Sarah Kalinoski, and Kat Provencher.

Appropriate technology (AT) is technology that is designed with special consideration to the environmental, ethical, cultural, social and economical aspects of the community it is intended for. With these goals in mind, AT typically requires fewer resources, is easier to maintain, has a lower overall cost and less of an impact on the environment compared to industrialized practices.