| Wednesday 16 May 8 pm Presentation in Cafe Amsterdam |
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This week at Wednesday 16 May at 8pm no film in Cafe Amsterdam but as special event a talk and presentation by Dutchmen Fedde Jorritsma about his world cyclist trip which he started a year ago from Bali and about simple technologies for sustainable living. Below the introduction for coming Wednesday he wrote himself. Fedde Jorritsma worked in a 4 year project in Central Asia as trainer & facilitator on appropriate technologies. He decided to share his Sometimes we experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings, as beingexperiences by traveling by bicycle. In may 2011 he started to cycle from Bali. On his way to Europe he provides workshops about sustainable sanitation and renewable energy in a project called "the turning wheel". So far Fedde conducted over 300 workshop-hours in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and China, constructed more then 15 technologies, cycled about 8000km and had 5 flat tires. (www.theturningwheel.org) far away from our direct environment. The global economy is offering us complex solutions which we don’t understand anymore. Appropriate technology (AT) is technology that is designed with special consideration to the context of its use – including environmental, ethical, cultural, social, political, and economical aspects of the community it is intended for (http://www.appropedia.org). Everybody welcome to come this Wednesday for Fedde's very interesting talk and presentation to our cafe. |