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Welcome to Appropedia, the sustainability wiki!

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Solar cookers
Photovoltaic systems
Rainwater
harvesters
Ecoladrillos
Greywater
systems
Compost bins
Composting
toilets
Rocket stoves
Bike trailers
Pedal power generators
Natural
paints
Water testing systems
Water filters
Vertical
gardens
3D printing

Highlighted initiative

Inspired by the Ukrainian tradition of Toloka, which symbolizes solidarity through hands-on aid, German and Ukrainian teams, with support from GIZ, launched the Tolocar project amid the Russian invasion. This initiative aims to aid emergency relief and foster a participatory innovation ecosystem for Ukraine's socio-economic revival.

Our service

We help people and organizations produce and make available quality documentation on sustainability, poverty reduction and appropriate technologies.

Contact us!

But why Appropedia?

Vision-driven — Imagine a world where everyone can live rich and sustainable lives. Does this resonate with you or your organization? If so, we'd love to help you!
Free and open — Appropedia is and always will be free to access and with open licenses. Contact us for pricing regarding custom support!
Advanced tools — We've been helping document projects for more than 17 years. In the process we developed powerful yet simple to use tools and standards.
Accessibility — We strive to make content in Appropedia available to everyone. Appropedia can be accessed offline via Kiwix as well as plain prints and books, can be easily read aloud for visually-impaired (or busy) people, translated to many languages, accessed via APIs, and more!
No overhead — Start documenting right away without having to worry about developers, domains, hosting, setup, configuration or maintenance.
Resilience — Keeping content online is much more difficult than most people realize. According to various studies, most links break after only two or three years. Appropedia not only hosts content about sustainability, but is determined to be sustainable itself! We've been online for 17 years and counting!
Strong SEO — Take advantage of our many years online and hundreds of thousands of backlinks to see your content rise to the top of search results in no time.
Community support — You're not alone! Leave a message anytime and we'll do our best to help you!
Exit button — If you ever want to leave or copy your content elsewhere, we provide tools to do so.

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Authors	Chris Watkins, Curt Beckmann, Lonny Grafman, iocj, Roger, RichardF, Grawp
License	CC-BY-SA-3.0
Language	English (en)
Translations	Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Serbian, Turkish, Indonesian, Spanish, French, Polish
Related	12 subpages, 64 pages link here
Aliases	Main Page, The Sustainability Wiki, Appropedia:Bienvenido, For, Espanol, Apropedia, Spanish homepage, $1, Appropedia:Welcome, Main, Welcome, Bienvenido a Appropedia, Homepage, Main page
Impact	3,115,558 page views
Created	April 5, 2006 by Anonymous1
Modified	April 25, 2024 by Felipe Schenone
Cite as	Chris Watkins, Curt Beckmann, Lonny Grafman, iocj, Roger, RichardF, Grawp (2006–2024). "Welcome to Appropedia". Appropedia. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
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+<div class="main-page-title">Welcome to '''Appropedia''', the sustainability wiki!</div>
+<div class="main-page-subtitle">Help us build rich and sustainable lives by sharing knowledge, experiences, ideas and more. [[Appropedia:About|Read more »]]</div>
+<div class="main-page-actions">{{Button|text=Create a page|page=Appropedia:New page}} {{Button|text=Leave a message|page=Appropedia:Village pump}} {{Button|text=Subscribe to the newsletter|url=https://forms.aweber.com/form/05/32030905.htm}}</div>
+</div>
-Appropedia is a living library of appropriate technology, replete with textbook style topics and how-to style projects.  Feel free to browse.  Please login or create a [[Special:Userlogin|login]] to edit pages.
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+File:Solar cooker homepage no frame.png|link=Special:Search/Solar cooker|Solar cookers
+File:Photovoltaics homepage no frame.png|link=Special:Search/Photovoltaics|Photovoltaic systems
+File:Rainwater catchment homepage no frame.png|link=Special:Search/Rainwater catchment|Rainwater<br>harvesters
+File:Ecoladrillos homepage no frame.png|link=Special:Search/Ecoladrillo|Ecoladrillos
+File:Greywater system homepage no frame.png|link=Special:Search/Greywater system|Greywater<br>systems
+File:Compost bin homepage no frame.png|link=Special:Search/Compost bin|Compost bins
+File:Composting toilet homepage no frame.png|link=Special:Search/Composting toilet|Composting<br>toilets
+File:Rocket stove homepage no frame.png|link=Special:Search/Rocket stove|Rocket stoves
+File:Bike trailer homepage no frame.png|link=Special:Search/Bike trailer|Bike trailers
+File:Pedal powered generator homepage no frame.png|link=Special:Search/Pedal powered generator|Pedal power generators
+File:Natural paints homepage no frame.png|link=Special:Search/Natural paint|Natural<br>paints
+File:Water testing homepage no frame.png|link=Special:Search/Water quality testing|Water testing systems
+File:Water filter homepage no frame.png|link=Special:Search/Water filter|Water filters
+File:Vertical garden homepage no frame.png|link=Special:Search/Vertical garden|Vertical<br>gardens
+File:3D printing homepage.png|link=Special:Search/3D printing|3D printing
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-==Editors and Creators Getting Started==
+{{Card
+| title = Highlighted initiative
+| style = min-width: 100%; background: #f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #a2a9b1;
+| content = [[File:Tolocar banner.png|986px|link=Tolocar Playbook]]
+<p>Inspired by the Ukrainian tradition of Toloka, which symbolizes solidarity through hands-on aid, German and Ukrainian teams, with support from GIZ, launched the Tolocar project amid the Russian invasion. This initiative aims to aid emergency relief and foster a participatory innovation ecosystem for Ukraine's socio-economic revival.</p>
+}}
-* See the '''[[Ruleset]]''' for the overarching guidelines of Appropedia.
+== Our service ==
-* Click the [[help:contents|help]] button in the navigation box to the left.
-* See these [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing Editing help] contents from wikipedia, especially those on editing.
-** See [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:FAQ MediaWiki FAQ] for much greater detail.
-==Project Creators Getting Started==
+We help people and organizations produce and make available quality documentation on sustainability, poverty reduction and appropriate technologies.
-To start:
-*Type your project name in the search field to the left.
-**Please make sure to use a unique name, such as <Location> or <Organization> then the <Project Descripton>, e.g. AEF Greywater.
-*Click <strong>Go</strong>.
-*If there is no page titled with your project name. You can create this page, by clicking <strong>page</strong> under search results.
-See [[List of Projects]] for some examples and the general getting started notes above for editing information.
-==Topic Creators Getting Started==
+{{Button|page=Appropedia:Contact|text=Contact us!|progressive=yes}}
-Please only create a topic if you have a fair amount of expertise in the topic area.
-* [[List of Topics]]: This is a list of topics expected to serve the purpose of public education and discourse. At this point it's more of a nascent list of hopeful Topics.
-* {{template:encyclopedic content}}
-__NOEDITSECTION__
+But why Appropedia?
+* '''Vision-driven''' — Imagine a world where everyone can live rich and sustainable lives. Does this resonate with you or your organization? If so, we'd love to help you!
+* '''Free and open''' — Appropedia is and always will be free to access and with open licenses. Contact us for pricing regarding custom support!
+* '''Advanced tools''' — We've been helping document projects for more than 17 years. In the process we developed powerful yet simple to use tools and standards.
+* '''Accessibility''' — We strive to make content in Appropedia available to everyone. Appropedia can be accessed offline via [https://kiwix.org/ Kiwix] as well as plain prints and books, can be easily read aloud for visually-impaired (or busy) people, translated to many languages, accessed via APIs, and more!
+* '''No overhead''' — Start documenting right away without having to worry about developers, domains, hosting, setup, configuration or maintenance.
+* '''Resilience''' — Keeping content online is much more difficult than most people realize. According to various studies, most links break after only two or three years. Appropedia not only hosts content about sustainability, but is determined to be sustainable itself! We've been online for 17 years and counting!
+* '''Strong SEO''' — Take advantage of our many years online and hundreds of thousands of backlinks to see your content rise to the top of search results in no time.
+* '''Community support''' — You're not alone! [[Appropedia:Village pump|Leave a message anytime]] and we'll do our best to help you!
+* '''Exit button''' — If you ever want to leave or copy your content elsewhere, we provide tools to do so.
+{{Page data
+| hide = yes
+| description = Welcome to Appropedia, the sustainability wiki! We help build rich and sustainable lives by sharing knowledge, experiences, ideas and more.
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