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Links for research

• Check http://dir.bcz.com/index.php?title=Main_Page & **http://dir.bcz.com/index.php?title=Technology_%28Science%29
  • http://www.sustainableharvest.org/stoves.cfm
• look at external links from here
• List several technologies in a search engine to find interesting websites
• http://www.sustainableharvest.org/country_programs.cfm biogas digesters? category - Ap Tech?

Look up these books in library

• Paper Heroes: Appropriate Technology : Panacea or Pipe Dream? - Witold Rybczynski
• check catalog, then this biblio

Appropriate technology

A.T. Research: http://www.geocities.com/howard_upat/PhEtApTe.htm

• Witold Rybczynski in this category?
• Need work: Appropriate technology, Sustainable technology, Kamal Kar, Solar cooker (esp re uptake, cultural issues).
  • http://www.cerritos.edu/glazor/CIS%20102/PPT%20Tutorial%201/Lorena.ppt or in HTML
  • check this out: "There are devices that can be used to create briquettes from grass/dung/sawdust: http://www.lehmans.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=5788&itemType=PRODUCT&iMainCat=671&iSubCat=886&iProductID=5788 There are also small gasifier stoves for cooking/heating, and small can stoves that run on sawdust. But none of these really take advantage of the automatic feeding that is possible with pellets. Creating pellets on a household scale seems to be somewhat difficult. And, honestly, developing countries are already ahead of the curve in creating and adopting many of these technologies anyways. --Benjamindees 19:18, 13 December 2005 (UTC)"
  • http://burningissues.org/ re pellet stove and particle size!
• Start using Category:Public health. Category:Sewerage & Category:Water treatment as subcategories?
• Check this, from worldchanging.com:

I always thought that we could harnass the power of fitness gyms. i wonder if it gyms could at least be energy self sufficient?

http://www.nonsensical.com/work/portfolio/power.html Posted by: adrian cotter at March 8, 2004 11:03 AM

I totally love this idea.

The World Bank's up to some interesting stuff:

http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/000247.html Posted by: Alex at March 8, 2004 11:15 AM

Great idea. I just wish the proper people were credited for it. The earliest I've heard of it was in the 70's at a place in Eastern Columbia called Gaviotas. Read the book of the same name, it's inspiring. Posted by: Kevin at March 8, 2004 07:40 PM

Kevin - That's interesting. I have read Gaviotas, but Social Design Notes' Aug 03 post about it reminded me about their policy against patenting inventions, preferring to share their designs freely (he also lists other inventions developed at the site). This may account for any failure to credit the designer. http://www.backspace.com/notes/2003/08/09/x.html

Victor Papanek, who worked for UNESCO, famously held a similar policy, and his work was copied for years. His approach had to do with making useful designs available to the largest possible population in the developing world.

DemoTech (based in the Netherlands) seems to work on similar principles: http://www.demotech.org/ Posted by: Dawn Danby at March 8, 2004 08:06 PM

• Ceramic water filter - instructions? like at http://www.runetwork.de/html/en/index.html?article_id=2736 but find better site.
• Main article: Put varying definitions in list? For more ideas, see http://wiki.villageearth.org/Main_Page & EWB pages.
• Solar oven should redirect to Solar cooker?
• http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/001135.html Un-Electric Fridge in Darfur] & Ceramic filter
• http://www.rolexawards.com/special-feature/inventions/abba.html & check links.
• Interesting blog - research, invite.
• check this out: "There are devices that can be used to create briquettes from grass/dung/sawdust: http://www.lehmans.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=5788&itemType=PRODUCT&iMainCat=671&iSubCat=886&iProductID=5788 There are also small gasifier stoves for cooking/heating, and small can stoves that run on sawdust. But none of these really take advantage of the automatic feeding that is possible with pellets. Creating pellets on a household scale seems to be somewhat difficult. And, honestly, developing countries are already ahead of the curve in creating and adopting many of these technologies anyways. --Benjamindees 19:18, 13 December 2005 (UTC)"
• Category:Water treatment (see also Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Water purification)
• Category:Sewage treatment? Should I create a separate category for sewage treatment or wastewater treatment (and should the latter link to the former)? The article Sewerage states that: Sewerage is the use of sewers, meaning the provision of pipes etc to collect and dispose of sewage. Ask at Category talk:Sewerage?
• SANDEC see also Borehole, Galicia (Central Europe)
• Cloth filter - academic papers? (wikibooks: look at using in conjunction with e.g. SODIS or bleach.
• Project? Tasks for AT stuff, like {{India tasks}} (see also Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Melbourne)
• Intermediate technology: "Small is Beautiful", which offered a sharp critique of then-prevalent approaches to development aid." Did it?
• Monitor Category:Appropriate technology & Category:Appropriate technology advocates
• Invite users to participate, incl:
  • User:Piotrus (+why Intermediate size link in Intermediate technology?)
  • User:Jwanders/Sustainable technologies
  • Benjamindees (stoves)
• When project is more advanced, invite users to help translate, e.g. at Misplaced Pages:Village Pump & other language wikipedias.
• Also referred to at:
  • Primary health care - "Appropriate technology is technology that is scientifically sound, adaptable to local needs, acceptable to those who apply it and for those for whom it is used and can be maintained by the people themselves in keeping with the principle of self reliance with the resources the community and country can afford."
  • Technology
  • check "what links here"
• See here for other references within wikipedia. also for intermediate...
• See My notes on Appropriate technology for more.

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Water

Water

• Article on Desalination plant at Kurnell, link from Desalination
• Research: http://water.me.vccs.edu/ - Mountain Empire Community College, Water/Wastewater Distance Learning. E.g. Types of Filters - a comparison of the Slow sand filter, Rapid sand filter, Pressure filter & Diatomaceous earth filter. (Mountain Empire Community College, Water/Wastewater Distance Learning. )
  • course info at: http://water.me.vccs.edu/subject.htm & e.g. http://water.me.vccs.edu/courses/ENV115/REVIEW_LESSONS.htm . (dl sebelum dipakai di wp)
• Water/Wastewater Distance Learning. - list of external water/wastewater education?
• Category:Water - subcat for treatment?
• work on Category:Water supply
• Water well re treatment,
• VLOM (pumps)
• Storm water reuse? Pr Nicholas Ashbolt's talk? --> Reclaimed water also. + Toowoomba Council's current plans.
• Sand separator - look up CDS Technologies and Envirozel. These two companies have developed technology which reduces storm water waste and encourages the conservation and re-use of water.
• Municipal water treatment?
• Cryptosporidium section on water treatment
• Direct filtration? & Diatomaceous earth filter. Membrane filter? Pressure filter
• Reverse osmosis re reuse; cats.
• Propose a water stub?:

1. Filter (water)
2. Rapid sand filter
3. Media filter

• Look at Portal:Water - anything worth doing here?

Wastewater

Wastewater

• Research: http://www.sanicon.net/titles/topicintro.php3?topicId=6

Sustainability

Sustainability & category - links to AT?

• Sub-categories for Category:Renewable energy - Category:Sustainability advocates as a model.
• Water-saving device
• Composting toilet
• Peter Newman (Australian)
• Research: Australian ethical investment, SRI, google with "water", "sustainable"... Google "green tech".
• create Category:Sustainable technologies? can add:

1. concrete with magnesium compound...?
2. Water-saving device
3. Composting toilet
4. Renewable energy: Category:Renewable energy as subcategory.

Development

International development

• Special:Whatlinkshere/:Development - many shouldn't link here.
• VLOM (pumps)
• Aid
• poverty eradication, poverty alleviation, poverty reduction
• Urban Resource Centre, Pakistan
• Read: http://www.carebd.org/Nijera%20October%202005.pdf & google "kamal kar" "Conceptual Framework and Summary of Five-Year Plan for Phase-VI"

• articles for International development stub, Template:Intdev-stub:

1. Kamal Kar
2. Akhtar Hameed Khan
3. Development as Freedom

Urban planning & housing

Urban planning & housing

• link to Green Manhattan article
• Grameen house & super-adobe
• See Category:New Urbanism. Transit-oriented development, Neotraditional design, New Urbanism, & redirects for other capitalizations
• Total cost planning/budgeting for transport? (ask Ecotransit
• Categories appear without annotations, so be careful of NPOV when creating or filling categories. *re NU: Unless it is self-evident and uncontroversial that something belongs in a category, it should not be put into a category. - Misplaced Pages:Categorization

Learn about Misplaced Pages:

• references & sources
• title capitalization rules
• Misplaced Pages:Categories
• "Community Portal" & village pump?

Wikimania 2006 is planned for August 4-8, 2006.

Wikimania, (http://wikimania.wikimedia.org/Main_Page & http://meta.wikimedia.org/Wikimania_2006)

• proceedings 05
• What about those who can't make Boston - is there a way to participate in other locations?
• See also: User:Singkong2005/Interests, User:Singkong2005/Scratchpad
• Check out:
• Association for Progressive Communications

Happiness

• Gittins wrote: Professor Martin Seligman , of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, is one of the top psychologists in the US, and before he turned to studying positive psychology and happiness, he devoted a lot of his research to depression. (esp p2)
• suburbia, poor at predicting... who did this? "Why would I study anything else?"

Misc useful links

http://www.wisegeek.com