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Just some sample ideas to get you started. This is not meant to indicate the whole scope of acceptable articles - there are whole important areas which haven't yet been added here. | Just some sample ideas to get you started. This is not meant to indicate the whole scope of acceptable articles - there are whole important areas which haven't yet been added here. | ||
(If | (If an article is created one of these, it can be removed from this page after it has become a reasonably complete article (e.g. description, discussion of context and alternative perspectives, several "See also" links and at least one good link under "External links) | ||
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* [[Pigs]] | * [[Pigs]] | ||
* [[Lemons]] | * [[Lemons]] | ||
[[Fish]]: | |||
* [[Sustainable fisheries]] | |||
* [[Fish farming]] | |||
[[Permaculture design]] and other good practices | [[Permaculture design]] and other good practices | ||
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* Materials: [[glass]], [[cement]], [[concrete]]... | * Materials: [[glass]], [[cement]], [[concrete]]... | ||
* See more ideas at [http://www.permies.com/t/13406/green-building/your-wishlist-green-building-info#120589 this thread]. | * See more ideas at [http://www.permies.com/t/13406/green-building/your-wishlist-green-building-info#120589 this thread]. | ||
== Business and industry topics == | |||
[[Sustainable business models]] | |||
* [[Bottom of the Pyramid]] | |||
* [[Natural Capitalism]] | |||
[[Industrial ecology]] subtopics... | |||
* [[Natural capitalism]] | |||
* [[Paper]] | |||
* [[Paint]] | |||
* [[Plastic]] | |||
* [[Bioplastic]] | |||
* [[Industrial waste]] | |||
* [[Industry]] | |||
* [[Industrial design]] | |||
Sustainable business practices, including: | |||
* Sustainable business purchasing. ([http://greenpurchasingasia.com/ Green Purchasing Asia] may be a useful source - open access, and friendly to Appropedia, but copyright so can't copy large slabs verbatim.) | |||
* [[Rare earth metals]] - impacts, alternatives; how to make ethical purchasing decisions | |||
* [[Slave labor]] - allegedly used to produce goods in China, chocolate in parts of Africa... what's the evidence, and how should we respond? | |||
== Carbon cycles and climate change == | == Carbon cycles and climate change == | ||
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* [[Solar thermal energy]] - solar towers (and/or parabolic arrays) with molten salt. | * [[Solar thermal energy]] - solar towers (and/or parabolic arrays) with molten salt. | ||
* [[Solar radiation]] | * [[Solar radiation]] | ||
* [[Energy storage]] | |||
* [[Grid energy storage]] | * [[Grid energy storage]] | ||
* [ | ** Dealing with intermittent energy production - energy storage; quick-cycling power plants such as LNG plants; ...are there other options?[http://www.intelligentutility.com/article/12/03/mit-challenge-integrating-renewables] | ||
* [[EROEI]] | * [[EROEI]] | ||
* [[Hydrogen economy]] | * [[Hydrogen economy]] | ||
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* [[Energy density]] | * [[Energy density]] | ||
* [[Energy development]] | * [[Energy development]] | ||
* [[Wave power]] | * [[Wave power]] | ||
* [[Wind farms]] | * [[Wind farms]] | ||
* [[Microgeneration]] | * [[Microgeneration]]/[[Distributed generation]] | ||
* [[Co-generation]] | |||
* [[Sunlight]] | * [[Sunlight]] | ||
* [[Turbines]] | * [[Turbines]] | ||
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Biofuel topics: | Biofuel topics: | ||
* [[Ethanol fuel]] | |||
== Green living == | == Green living == | ||
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* Take tips such as [http://greenwiki.org/index.php?title=Green_Tips these] and give them some order - multiple pages, apply some critical thinking, start to identify the key actions based on the 80-20 rule (that 20% of the effort is likely to give 80% of the benefit). | * Take tips such as [http://greenwiki.org/index.php?title=Green_Tips these] and give them some order - multiple pages, apply some critical thinking, start to identify the key actions based on the 80-20 rule (that 20% of the effort is likely to give 80% of the benefit). | ||
== International development topics == | == International development topics == | ||
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* Examine the effectiveness of competing policies for environmental or poverty-reduction outcomes. (Look at think tank publications - summaries of good reports can be valuable wiki articles, e.g. Grattan Institute's reports on energy and carbon policies.) | * Examine the effectiveness of competing policies for environmental or poverty-reduction outcomes. (Look at think tank publications - summaries of good reports can be valuable wiki articles, e.g. Grattan Institute's reports on energy and carbon policies.) | ||
== | == Wastewater and sanitation == | ||
* [[Anaerobic bacteria]] | * [[Anaerobic bacteria]] |
Revision as of 18:01, 24 March 2012
Just some sample ideas to get you started. This is not meant to indicate the whole scope of acceptable articles - there are whole important areas which haven't yet been added here.
(If an article is created one of these, it can be removed from this page after it has become a reasonably complete article (e.g. description, discussion of context and alternative perspectives, several "See also" links and at least one good link under "External links)
Agriculture, food production, permaculture
Fish:
Permaculture design and other good practices
- Specific techniques on each of the principles of permaculture.
- Check curriculum of a PDC (Permaculture Design Course]] - choose one aspect/component/principle for an article.
- Animals
- Weeds
- Polyculture
Soils:
- Clay
- Charcoal
- Manure
- Sand
- Bioremediation
- Soil salination
- Soil conservation
- Soil science
- Soil life
- Soil microorganisms
- Terra preta
Agricultural science topics
Crops, especially food crops - articles about important crops.
- Beans or Legumes
- Grass, silage
- Fruit trees - general and specific articles
Non-food crops:
Appropriate technology
Built environment and construction topics
Urban planning topics:
- New Urbanism and transit-oriented design (or transit-oriented development) have many subtopics which deserve articles
- New Pedestrianism
- Smart growth
- Urban sprawl
- Slums
Architecture and green building:
- http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/01/23/architecture-without-architects-bernard-rudofsky/
- Earth-covered houses
- Solar space heating
- (something about pavements, stormwater and permeable surfaces. Note Permeable pavements and Groundwater recharge.
- Apartments
- Dense-low housing development, as in Denmark and elsewhere in
- Any of the building elements - windows, doors, thermal insulation...
- Embedded energy of buildings
- Materials: glass, cement, concrete...
- See more ideas at this thread.
Business and industry topics
Industrial ecology subtopics...
Sustainable business practices, including:
- Sustainable business purchasing. (Green Purchasing Asia may be a useful source - open access, and friendly to Appropedia, but copyright so can't copy large slabs verbatim.)
- Rare earth metals - impacts, alternatives; how to make ethical purchasing decisions
- Slave labor - allegedly used to produce goods in China, chocolate in parts of Africa... what's the evidence, and how should we respond?
Carbon cycles and climate change
(Consider wider issues around carbon, including carbon cycles, ocean acidity, other aspects of air pollution, and energy security, though obviously climate change is a particularly important aspect of carbon issues.)
Carbon management and climate mitigation policies:
- Carbon price, Carbon markets (one article to start, possibly separate articles later)
- Carbon cycle
- Carbon tax
- Low-carbon economy
- Energy innovation policies
- Carbon footprint
- Kyoto Protocol
Low carbon technologies:
- Low energy buildings - see the #Built environment and construction topics section.
- Renewable energy and energy storage topics - see the #Energy topics section.
Ecological footprint (note also Carbon footprint):
- Population growth. (Note David Attenborough's new documentary looking at human population.)
- Population density
- Environmental impact assessment
- Life cycle assessment and Life cycle analysis (are these different, or should one redirect to the other?)
- Organic waste
- Ecosystem
- Conservation biology
- Natural environment
- Environmental impact
- Biosphere
- Bacteria
- Anaerobic bacteria
- Aerobic bacteria
- Ecosystems
- Reforestation
- Genetic engineering
- Logging
- Invasive species
- Sustainable forest management
- Trees
- Ecoforestry
- Companion planting
- Forest management
- Illegal logging
- Natural forests (and then turn Forest and Forests, now redirects to Forestry, into a disambiguation page.)
See also industrial ecology topics under #Industry topics.
Economics
- Economics
- Environmental economics
- Subsidies
- Trade
- Natural resources
- Ecological economics
- Environmental finance
Energy topics
- Electricity generation
- Stirling engines
- Wave energy
- Solar thermal energy - solar towers (and/or parabolic arrays) with molten salt.
- Solar radiation
- Energy storage
- Grid energy storage
- Dealing with intermittent energy production - energy storage; quick-cycling power plants such as LNG plants; ...are there other options?[1]
- EROEI
- Hydrogen economy
- Thermal energy
- Energy forestry
- Potential energy
- Energy density
- Energy development
- Wave power
- Wind farms
- Microgeneration/Distributed generation
- Co-generation
- Sunlight
- Turbines
- Diesel
Biofuel topics:
Green living
- Find good science-based advice such as http://withouthotair.com/
- Meat
- Computer
- Efficient energy use
- Sustainable clothing. One info source: look up Alice Payne's "Think Lifecycle" (interviewed on an ABC.net.au podcast, but might be more useful.)
- Take tips such as these and give them some order - multiple pages, apply some critical thinking, start to identify the key actions based on the 80-20 rule (that 20% of the effort is likely to give 80% of the benefit).
International development topics
- http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/blog/2012/03/pink-telephones-in-cambodia - at least a mention on Mobile_phones_in_development_and_disaster_management, maybe its own article too
Food security:
Status of development:
- See UNDP reports on specific topics, or chapters of their human development report.
- Millennium Development Goals
Participation:
- Base articles on chapters/sections in the World Bank's Participation Sourcebook and/or similar documents.
Society
- Psychology of environmental action
- Environmentalism
- Environmental justice
- Consumerism
- Packaging
- Sustainable art
- Environmental sociology
- Examine the effectiveness of competing policies for environmental or poverty-reduction outcomes. (Look at think tank publications - summaries of good reports can be valuable wiki articles, e.g. Grattan Institute's reports on energy and carbon policies.)
Wastewater and sanitation
Water
Water quality and analysis:
Water treatment:
- Nutrient removal
- Sand filter
- Water filters
- Slow sand filtration - but sure to consider why they aren't more widely used (i.e. what contexts are they good for?)
Ecosanitation topics:
Transition topics
Transition towns topics
- Organizing a transition town
- (Find out about the community in Ballard, Washington state, where a CSA farm grows and distributes without the use of petroleum, as far as possible.)
- Local economy
Transport
Unclear and "big picture" articles
These are suitable for keen students who have become familiar with Appropedia over some months.
In most cases the aim will be to start an overview of a broad topic, and linking it to suitable Appropedia pages, giving short summaries as appropriate.
- Project management
- Sharing knowledge (& create redirect from Share knowledge)
- Safety
- Life
- Japan
- Earth
- Science
- Environmental technology
- Population
- Air
- Vitamins
- Libre
- Sustainable architecture
To be sorted
- Pyrolysis
- Reuse
- Biodegradation
- Bioinformatics
- Biological pest control
- Beeswax
- Windbreak
- Emissions
- World Health Organization
- Human Development Index
- Sorghum
- Noise pollution
- Medicine
- Ecological
- Physics
- Environmental ethics
- Thermodynamics
- Rivers
- HVAC
- Fibers
- United Nations Development Programme
- Obesity
- Tsunami
- Turpentine
- WikiBoxes
- Maintenance
- Agenda 21
- Botany
- Global dimming
- Coppicing
- Glossary of climate change
- Rural community
- Chlorine
- Biosecurity
- Family planning
- Electronics
- Viruses
- Melbourne
- Open sustainability
- Mass production
- Mechanical engineering
- Carbon monoxide
- Biodegradable
- Slow Food
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- Biofilter
- Distillation
- Biogeography
- Syngas
- Oxfam
- Local production
- Welfare
- Ecoregion
- Allotment (gardening)
- DailyBuzz
- Fertilizers
- Train
- Pakistan
- Crisis
- North America
- Small-scale technologies
- Gasoline
- DailyFun
- Canal
- Famine
- Environmental chemistry
- Engine
- Funding
- Electric motor
- Birth control
- Globalization
- Tourism
- Genetically modified organism
- Bridge
- Electrical engineering
- The Laboratory of Community Alternative Technologies at Ajusco
- TheWikiWay:WhatIsWiki
- Copyright
- Roads
- Biosafety
- Traffic congestion
- Sea level rise
- Biology
- Climate model
- Health care by region
- Landscape architecture
- Sydney
- WebIRCHelp
- Filter
- Waste water
- Poultry
- UNDP
- Extinction
- Germany
- Food and agriculture
- Carbon nanotubes
- Feces
- Rachel Carson
- Electric vehicle
- International Conference on Population and Development
- Deep ecology
- Wheel
- Vegetation
- Climate change mitigation
- Landscaping
- Fossil fuel power plant
- Asia
- Pollarding
- Self sufficient
- Urban renewal
- Squash
- Transformer
- Intellectual property
- Gravel
- Green Revolution
- Radio
- Biochemical oxygen demand
- Yurt
- Food quality
- Environmental history
- Land reform
- Bangkok
- Steel
- Air conditioner
- Dengue fever
- Ecological niche
- Vines
- United Kingdom
- Biostatistics
- Cascading Style Sheets
- Emission Trading System
- Xeriscaping
- Horticulture
- Tropical
- Filtration
- Biome
- Lye
- Mumbai
- Crop rotation
- Hydrology
- Greenpeace
- Poverty reduction
- Endangered species
- Ammonia
- Radioactive waste
- Tensile strength
- United States Agency for International Development
- Organism
- Tillage
- Latrine
- Nitrogen fixation
- Earth sheltering
- Sono arsenic filter
- Grape
- Work (physics)
- Geoengineering
- Bus
- Power supply
- Sustainable housing
- Zimbabwe
- Ecology movement
- Diabetes
- Solar air conditioning
- Blood
- Temperature
- Apartments
- Silt
- Sustainable procurement
- Tractor
- Timber rafting
- Economy
- The Day After Tomorrow
- Health science
- Abortion
- Restoration ecology
- Cereal
- 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference
- Traffic
- Variable retention
- Product design
- Ultraviolet light
- Food waste
- Feed-in tariff
- Water wheel
- Anal cleansing
- List of onshore wind farms
- Rio Declaration on Environment and Development
- Environmental biotechnology
- Sun
- Third World
- Lever
- Welding
- Inverter
- Workshop
- Activated sludge
- Ocean acidification
- Passive house
- Earth Day
- Deepwater Horizon oil spill
- Underdevelopment
- Taiwan
- Spain
- Green economics
- Resource curse
- Agriculture manual TOC
- Disinfection
- Light pollution
- Aluminium
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Traditional knowledge
- Earth Charter
- Pulpwood
- Walking
- Bioregional democracy
- Species
- Drainage basin
- Tundra
- Ecological succession
- Photovoltaic
- Meteorology
- Solar power satellite
- Alternative fuel
- Simple machine
- Reproductive rights
- Wood fuel
- Passive solar building design
- El Niño Southern Oscillation
- Accountability
- Humanitarian aid
- Aqueduct
- Habitat
- Wind power in India
- Human waste
- Manufacturing
- National park
- Cascading Style Sheet
- Pruning
- Animal husbandry
- Diesel fuel
- Vegetable oil
- Environmental skepticism
- Pregnancy
- Electrolysis of water
- Freshwater
- Glacier
- Landscape ecology
- Microbiology
- Global Ecovillage Network
- Wikiversity
- Waste heat
- Rivers
- Sustainable landscape architecture
- Pollutants
- DIV (HTML tag)
- Vegetable oil used as fuel
- Petrodiesel
- Canada
- Trellises
- Lead
- Crank position sensor
- Pseudoscience
- Ethical consumerism
- Human Development Report
- Resources
- Combustion
- Laser
- Photosynthesis
- Watt
- House
- Power station
Advanced
- See also Category:Suggested projects - each page will have a "suggested project" tag, which in many cases is an idea for researching a topic.