Foxfire is the term for the bioluminescence created in the right conditions by a few species of fungi that decay wood.
As a kid, I remember my Grandfather’s Foxfire books, which were an effort to document the lifestyle, culture, and skills of people in southern Appalachia in a mixture of how-to information from first-person narratives and oral history. The series of Foxfire books come from the Foxfire Magazine, which was created in the late 1960s by Eliot Wigginton and his students in an effort to record and preserve the unique traditional folk culture of the Southern Appalachians. This particular type of knowledge is a kind of social science but, can also be referred to as Appropriate Technology, as it was specific to the region and needs of its people.
There are regions all over the world in which the needs of its local population vary, but are similar to the needs of other regions. All of these appropriate technologies are very simple and sustainable in their practice. Another term for this phrase could be “sustainable technology” as well.
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