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Re:A palm oil alternative could help save rainforests by kiba on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @10:31AM (#25431153)
An ecologist Willie Smit and his foundation worked on something called the village hub, which is very cool! It started with harvesting juice from sugar palm trees and then goes through a whole plethora process that makes use of it in wide varieties of ways. [1]

1. https://youtu.be/xtWp84htc18

Judging from comments from the rest of the thread, it looked like big palm oil plantation owners are doing this, not small time locals.

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Re:A palm oil alternative could help save rainforests by vram22 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @01:02PM (#25432937)
E. F. Schumacher's work and writings such as his highly influential book, Small is Beautiful, about Appropriate Technology, are relevant here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._F._Schumacher

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful

Mentions of him on HN:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

One by me:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18635882

He was influenced by Gandhi, among other people. Gandhi had done a lot of work on appropriate technology, like on charkhas (hand-operated spinning wheels), khadi (indigenous handloom cotton fabrics), in India, with a view to self-sufficiency of the people, apart from (but also related to) his more well known work on the non-violent feeedom movement which resulted in India's independence from Britain.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi

Such work started decades ago. If people research what has been done in their fields in the past, they can sometimes avoid rediscovering or reinventing a lot of wheels.

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