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NO SPARE PARTS

22 minutes/Grades 7-Adult

Produced by Asterisk Productions/A documentary by David
Springbett

NO SPARE PARTS portrays the introduction and utilization of
appropriate technology in a developing nation. In Ghana, thrown
away materials are being recovered, and used to build and
modernize their economy.

Requiring only minimal financial resources, small workshops use
recycled automobile parts and traditional crafting skills to
produce machinery of great benefit to the local people. Grinding
mills, lathes, palm oil presses and lumber saws, all made from
scrap, enable the population to improve their everyday lives.

Ghana's utilization of discards as a resource for raw materials
reduces their reliance on imports and improves their independence
and self-reliance. The appropriate technology movement is
burgeoning in Ghana and having a beneficial impact on all levels
of society. There's a message here for our own throw-away society,
and a lesson in ingenuity.

Awards: Blue Ribbon, American Film & Video Festival; Bronze Apple,
National Educational Film & Video Festival

• "Unique presentation... appropriate in classes studying Third
  World development on the high school or college level." *** Video
  Rating Guide for Libraries
  

• "David Suzuki hosts this documentary... suggests benefits of
  reusing metal products to first-world countries, too." Booklist
  

Subject Areas: DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION, RECYCLING, APPROPRIATE
TECHNOLOGY, SOCIAL STUDIES. WEST AFRICA, GHANA

ISBN: 1-56029-379-9

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