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Bullfrog Films
P.O. Box 149
Oley, PA 19547
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No Spare Parts
Ingenious recycling of used car parts in Ghana.
22 minutes
Color
Grade Level: 7-12, College, Adult
US Release Date: 1991
Copyright Date: 1990
ISBN: 1-56029-379-9
Directed by David Springbett
Produced by Asterisk Productions
Hosted by David Suzuki
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"Unique presentation... appropriate in classes studying Third World development on the high school or college level." ***Video Rating Guide for Libraries
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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
Reviews:
"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
Related Subjects:
African Studies
Economics
Recycling
Social Psychology
Technology
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Small Is Beautiful: Portrait of E.F. Schumacher, the first to question unbridled economic growth.
Growing Up in the World Next Door: Coming of age in the Third World.
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