Community technology

The five year experiment used technologies like aquaponics and solar power to advance community self-sufficiency.

"The most powerful point to be made for community technology efforts is that when people take any part of their lives back into their own hands for their own purposes, the cause of local liberty is advanced; and such liberty, in turn, seems the strongest base on which to found a decent culture of mutual aid and humane purpose.

"Gentrification weakened the social base powering many of the community projects in Adams Morgan.

The Hess's eventually relocated to West Virginia where they applied the principles of community tech to build a largely self-sufficient home.

In 2001, TechSoup (then called CompuMentor) created the Community Technology Network to a "rapidly growing need for public digital literacy training.