Street Signs
- Description: There are various signs posted around Parras that are used to remind the community to keep the town clean. I took pictures of 2 of these signs found around the city. One, which is located next to the stream runing down from el Estanque de la Luz, says that it is prohibited to wash cars there. The other one, found on a residential street, explains that it is prohibited to throw trash there. These signs act as a type of educational appropriate technology in that they are posted in various places with a message intending to keep the town clean and not pollute this beautiful world we live in.
- Justification: I consider keeping Parras clean to support human health and happiness. By not throwing trash on the sidewalk or washing cars in water that is used for the irrigation of plants, people are reducing the levels of contamination and thus live in a more clean and well maintained environment. They are mimicking nature to reduce enviromental impacts by not adding foreign objects to nature, and they are doing this through education by using educational signs.
- Issues: I don't know if these sign are really improving the economy and workfore. Maybe they are not making it worse because people won't have to pick-up as much trash or kill their plants with soapy water, but it's not exactly improving it.
- Location: One sign is located on the street that goes up to the Estanque de la luz, near where we did our Micro-Hydro lab. This is the sign that says "Prohibido a lavar..." The other sign is located on Calle Acuña on a telephone pole in front of house number 10. The cross street is Allende. This sign says that it is Prohibited to throw trash.
Appropriate technology supports human health and happiness through:
effectively utilizing local knowledge, materials, and labor to improve local economy and workforce finding, creating and utilizing symbiotic relationships between individuals, communities and their environment mimicking nature to reduce environmental impacts while seeking to improve current conditions encouraging transparency, equality and empowerment through education while being sensitive to cultural and political context.
===Humboldt State Students at the UTC===
- Description: The fact that we are here, bringing new knowledge to the community is Approprite technology community education.
- Justification: WHY DO YOU CONSIDER IT AT, BASED ON OUR DEFINITION OF AT?
- Issues: IN WHAT WAYS DOES IT NOT MEET OUR (OR YOUR) DEFINITION OF AT.
- Location: WHERE IS IT LOCATED? ADDRESS, CROSSSTREETS, LANDMARKS.
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