THE APPROPRIATE
TECHNOLOGY LIBRARY

The most comprehensive, compact, and cost effective do-it-yourself and sustainable living resource in the world!

The Appropriate Technology Library contains the complete text and images from over 1,050 of the best books on all areas of village-level and do-it-yourself technologies...over 150,000 pages! In use in over 130 countries by Peace Corps Volunteers, development and relief organizations, engineers, and  missionaries, the Appropriate Technology library is the most comprehensive, compact, and cost effective information resource in the world! ...More

"The AT Library has been a great resource for us in teaching in all of these areas. We could never have brought all of these resources with us in a printed form and some classes we did not decide to teach until we were here, but thanks to the AT Library we had information readily available."

- Lance & Debra Sprick, Life Resource Foundation, Iligan City Philippines Click Here to read more about Lance and Debra's experience.   

The DVD edition of the Appropriate Technology Library contains is the most compact and easy to use edition of the library. It contains all 1050 books plus the complete Appropriate Technology Sourcebook on just four DVDs.That's enough books to fill a room in the palm of your hand!

System Requireiments: Will run on virtually any hardware configuaration and operating system with the capability to play DVD's, view web pages, and vew Adobe PDF files. Don't wait, order yours today!

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VIDEOS

PROMEA RONIN BAKEBO
(The Children of the Anaconda)
by Shipibo community members of the Peruvian Amazon Basin; 2006 - DVD 30 Min. Shipibo with optional English or Spanish subtitles.

A community-based film production facilitated by reflexive films and Village Earth. Paromea Ronin Bakebo (Shibibo for "the Children of the Anaconda) illustrates the visions and hopes of the Shipibo people of Peru's Amazon Basin, who struggle to protect their way of life and natural resources against the threats from outside interests encroaching upon their traditional lands.

"REZONOMICS"
by Ralf Kracke-Berndorff and Raúl Paz Pastrana; 2005 - DVD, 45 Min. English with optional German, Italian, or French Subtitles.

"REZONOMICS" is an exploration of the eclectic and inventive survival strategies of the residents of one of the most impoverished and marginalized places in the United States, the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in rural South Dakota.

PINE RIDGE: SESSION ONE
by Ralf Kracke-Berndorff and David Bartecchi; 2004 - DVD, 45 Min, with optional Subtitles in German, French, or Italian

Through the voices of the residents of the Pine Ridge Reservation, Pine Ridge:
Session One explores life and community-based development in one of the poorest counties in the United States. Through grassroots community action, traditional families called "tiyospayes" are pursuing their vision to reclaim, restore, and utilize their remaining land-base, reversing a 100 year-old policy of the U.S. Government to make their lands accessible to non-tribal farmers and ranchers.

OUTBACK ODYSSEY (paperback)
by Miriam Shinn

The Oombulgurri people are a small remnant of numerous tribes that inhabited Australia before being massacred by white settlers in the 1920s. Those who escaped the massacres had found refuge with Anglican missionaries, but when the missions closed, the tribal people were forced to live on the city streets where they found themselves losing their traditions and abusing alcohol.

Co-founder of Village Earth, Miriam provides a gripping account of a three year project to assist the Aboriginal Oombulgurri people of Australia's Outback to return to 3.5 million acres of land returned to them by the Australian government in the 1970's.