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== Current Highlight ==
== Current Highlight ==
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== Past Highlights ==
===Retired 4/28/09===
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Revision as of 22:11, 4 May 2009
Contents
1 Current Highlight
2 Past Highlights
2.1 Retired 5/4/09
2.2 Retired 4/28/09
2.3 Retired 4/21/09
2.4 Retired 4/11/09
2.5 Retired 11/18/08
2.6 Retired 7/27/08
2.7 Retired 6/2/08
2.8 Retired 4/13/08
2.9 Retired 3/31/08
2.10 Retired 12/21/07
2.11 Retired August 16th, 2007
2.12 Temp retired July 17th, 2007
2.13 Retired July 16th, 2007
2.14 Retired May 18th, 2007
2.15 Retired April 20th, 2007
2.16 Retired April 6th, 2007
2.17 Retired March 7th, 2007
2.18 Retired Jan. 16th, 2007
2.19 Retired July 6, 2006
2.20 Retired Dec 1, 2006
3 Discussion
4 Submitted for highlighting
These are projects which have been featured on the front page.
Submit nominations for front page project highlighting by adding a [[New section |new section ]] to this page. It would be good to have one per week.
Highlighted Project
Nutsy, the modified Universal Nut Sheller for home use.
Retired 5/4/09
Highlighted Project
Build your own Vermicomposting System!
Retired 4/28/09
Highlighted Project
"It can be built as a : Do-It-Yourself (DIY) project where expert masonry skills are not required" and "by using common and inexpensive materials available anywhere."
Retired 4/21/09
Highlighted Project
Creating a solar cooker out of local invasive species and waste materials in order to pasteurize water and be an alternative to the use of fossil fuels for cooking food.
Retired 4/11/09
Highlighted Project
Turning corn cob agricultural waste into a cooking fuel that combats deforestation and indoor air pollution.
Retired 11/18/08
Highlighted Project
Years of pedal powered innovations from CCAT, all in one place.
Retired 7/27/08
Highlighted Project
Are you on a purified water grid? Frustrated at flushing your bodily waste with some of the cleanest drinking water in the world? Do something about it.
Retired 6/2/08
Highlighted Project
Homemade house paints - exposed, exploited, examined and explained.
Retired 4/13/08
Highlighted Project
Greywater without land. A five stage, activated sludge greywater system in drums.
Retired 3/31/08
Highlighted health Project
Spacer for asthma medications made from a 500cc plastic bottle.
Retired 12/21/07
Highlighted Project
The Hexayurt is a refugee shelter system that uses an approach based on "autonomous building" to provide not just a shelter, but a comprehensive family support unit which includes drinking water purification, composting toilets, fuel-efficient stoves and solar electric lighting. 8/15/07 Update: Winner of the Treehugger Participate! contest for Burning Man.
Retired August 16th, 2007
Highlighted Project
A detailed greywater system at Centro Orgánico Finca Sarita, an Ecuadorian seed saving center.
Temp retired July 17th, 2007
Highlighted Project
The Hexayurt is a refugee shelter system that uses an approach based on "autonomous building" to provide not just a shelter, but a comprehensive family support unit which includes drinking water purification, composting toilets, fuel-efficient stoves and solar electric lighting.
Retired July 16th, 2007
Highlighted Project
Recent winners of the $25,000 Economic Fuel award. Wild Chick Farm pecks ahead on local sustainable chicken raising.
Retired May 18th, 2007
Highlighted Project
Conventional showers minimize thermal comfort, maximize energy use and water consumption, and exacerbating moisture problems... A solution?
Retired April 20th, 2007
Highlighted Project
A scary earthen oven that uses three layers to maximize efficiency, and all three types of heat to maximize the flavor.
Retired April 6th, 2007
Highlighted Project
A very hot (400 °F) parabolic solar cooker. Made from an reclaimed satellite dish using bicycle powered tools.
Retired March 7th, 2007
Retired Jan. 16th, 2007
Retired July 6, 2006
Highlighted Project
Click for Project -> Solar Charged Lawnmower Converting a very used gas power lawnmower into a solar charged, low emission, almost silent, lawn cutting machine.
Retired Dec 1, 2006
Highlighted Project
Click for project -> AEF greywater Recreating a failing greywater marsh at the Arcata Educational Farm. Updated Spring 2006
As stated and pushed by the Admins: The highlighted project should rotate much more frequently. Semimonthly for now, and never more than daily in the future. --Lonny 13:09, 1 December 2006 (PST)
And it should be on a feed, so that readers can get an RSS feed of new highlighted projects. --Lonny 19:35, 7 March 2007 (PST)
Submit a project for highlighting here
With a catchy 1 or 2 line description
Suggest a photo
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