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'''Add Appropriate Links to Appropedia's Appropriate Tech Wiki'''
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Wind Power - http://www.appropedia.org/Wind_power
Wind Power - http://www.appropedia.org/Wind_power




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:Paul Polak - http://www.appropedia.org/Paul_Polak
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:Amy Smith - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_B._Smith
:Amy Smith - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_B._Smith





Revision as of 15:19, 4 June 2016

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The Lesson of Appropriate Technology

Via the wiki database site of Appropedia

http://www.appropedia.org/

http://www.appropedia.org/Appropriate_technology

http://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:About#People_who_make_Appropedia_possible

http://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Wiki_origins

Intro to Appropedia

  • Appropedia is a site for collaborative solutions in sustainability, poverty reduction and international development...
  • Appropedia emphasizes sound science, principles and appropriate technology...
  • Appropedia believes in sharing of wisdom and project information.
  • Appropedia is a wiki, in our wiki community, allowing anyone online to add, remove, or edit content. Registration is encouraged but not required for contributors.

Appropedia has been described as an "appropriate technology wiki," but it is much broader than that - it is a green living wiki and a wiki for all matters of international development and aid. Appropedia is an open site for stakeholders to come together to find, create and improve scalable and adaptable solutions. This can include sharing information and collaborating with others on how we can lighten our ecological footprint and live in harmony with nature and our environment in developed countries, or discuss ie low cost technologies for use in the developing world. A key aim of Appropedia is to provide this information, to support sustainable choices - sharing knowledge to build rich, sustainable lives.

Appropedia began in April of 2006. In the earliest stages it was a collaboration between passionate people from the United States and Australia, and quickly expanded to become a global project.

Appropedia: A history of collaboration

Appropedia welcomes contributions of many types of content:

  • Project histories and project how-tos
  • Textbook-style information, tables, and figures
  • Best practice in sustainability, development and all related fields
  • Designs
  • Photographs and illustrations
  • Information for finding supplies and help
  • Links and information on other organizations
  • Collaboration pages for co-creating solutions
  • Discussion pages for commenting on work done and work that needs to be done

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Related: Wikis for Sustainability

http://www.appropedia.org/Category:Wikis_for_sustainability

http://www.appropedia.org/Portal:Permaculture

http://www.appropedia.org/Portal:Sustainability

Adding Appropriate Links to Appropedia's Appropriate Tech Wiki

Appropriate tech / Best practices as models for practitioners

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Clean Water - http://www.appropedia.org/Clean_water

Photovoltaics - http://www.appropedia.org/Photovoltaics

Solar Hot Water - http://www.appropedia.org/Solar_hot_water

Solar Cooking - http://www.appropedia.org/Solar_cooking

Solar Water Disinfection - http://www.appropedia.org/Solar_water_disinfection

Passive Solar Design - http://www.appropedia.org/Passive_solar_design

Tidal Power - http://www.appropedia.org/Tidal_power

Wind Power - http://www.appropedia.org/Wind_power

Stages in Appropriate Technology

http://www.appropedia.org/Appropriate_technology#Stages_in_appropriate_technology

  • Gandhi: self-reliance
  • Schumacher, 'Small Is Beautiful'

https://gandhifoundation.org/2011/11/25/who-was-fritz-schumacher-by-diana-schumacher/

Schumacher believed that “an ounce of practice is worth a tonne of theory”.
From his youth Fritz had always read prolifically. At one stage or another during his life, Fritz questioned all the main traditions, whether intellectual, national, economic or religious.
Buddhist Economics - a ‘middle way’ between the Western model which sought to increase material wants and consumption to be satisfied through mechanised production and the Buddhist model which was to satisfy basic human needs through dignified work which also purified one’s character and was a spiritual offering. The tools of economics therefore had to be adapted to people’s needs and values and not vice versa.
Sustainable Development - His aim was to promote sustainable development strategies in the First and Third World alike. Food and fuel he saw as the two basic necessities for survival and sustainability. All communities and regions should strive to be self-sufficient in these as far as possible – otherwise they become economically and politically vulnerable. In this respect he was an early proponent of harnessing renewable energy in all its different forms and upgrading the existing traditional technologies.
  • Papanek: Design for Human Scale
  • Albertson and Faulkner: Appropriate hard and soft technologies
  • The Water Decade: Village-level operation and maintenance
  • Paul Polak: The Death of Appropriate Technology organisations
  • Appropedia: appropriate technology goes online
  • Other appropriate tech practitioners and advocates
M K Ghosh - http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/5799/
Buckminster Fuller - http://www.appropedia.org/Buckminster_Fuller
William Moyer - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Moyer
Amory Lovins - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amory_Lovins
Sanoussi Diakité - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonio_husking_machine
Johan Van Lengen - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIB%C3%81

See also

Appropriate Technology
Natural Building
Ecological Sanitation
Green Building
Sustainable Architecture
Sustainable Agriculture
Forest Gardening
Forest Farming
Vernacular Architecture
Arne Næss - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne_N%C3%A6ss
Paul Polak - http://www.appropedia.org/Paul_Polak
Amy Smith - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_B._Smith