This web site was designed by Professor Raquel Pinderhughes and SFSU students: Carmelita Kauw, Nick Parks, Howard Isaacson, and Siksit Boonyodom. It highlights appropriate technology projects designed by students enrolled in the Urban Studies Program's Alternative Urban Futures course taught by Professor Pinderhughes. Utilizing as many recycled materials as possible, students construct a product or technology that is designed to reduce its user's utilization of precious natural resources. The projects demonstrate that it is relatively easy and affordable for people in the United States to begin to reduce their use of fossil fuels, fresh water, and toxic chemicals through behavioral changes and utilization of appropriate technologies and products in their everyday lives and lifestyles. Changes include using the heat of the sun to dry your clothes on a clothesline instead of in the dryer, using solar energy to power the battery for a radio, using a bicycle instead of a car for short distance transportation, composting organic materials to provide essential nutrients to soil. We hope these projects inspire viewers to consider how they can begin to use more socially and environmentally responsible technological processes and products.