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An ecologist Willie Smit and his foundation worked on something called the village hub, which is very cool! It started with harvesting juice from sugar palm tre
by kiba 6y ago
An ecologist Willie Smit and his foundation worked on something called the village hub, which is very cool! It started with harvesting juice from sugar palm trees and then goes through a whole plethora process that makes use of it in wide varieties of ways. [1]
1. https://youtu.be/xtWp84htc18 https://youtu.be/xtWp84htc18
Judging from comments from the rest of the thread, it looked like big palm oil plantation owners are doing this, not small time locals.
- vram22 6y agoE. F. Schumacher's work and writings such as his highly influential book, Small is Beautiful, about Appropriate Technology, are relevant here. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._F._Schumacher https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._F._Schumacher https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful Mentions of him on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=e.%20f.%20schumacher&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... One by me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18635882 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18635882 He was influenced by Gandhi, among other people. Gandhi had done a lot of work on appropriate technology, like on charkhas (hand-operated spinning wheels), khadi (indigenous handloom cotton fabrics), in India, with a view to self-sufficiency of the people, apart from (but also related to) his more well known work on the non-violent feeedom movement which resulted in India's independence from Britain. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi Such work started decades ago. If people research what has been done in their fields in the past, they can sometimes avoid rediscovering or reinventing a lot of wheels.