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Appropedia welcomes the Village Earth community!

Village Earth and Appropedia are working together to support a consolidated and open information clearinghouse where users can share what they know and find the information they seek.

Appropedia is the site for collaborative solutions in sustainability, poverty reduction and international development.

You can learn more about Appropedia's vision and mission at our Mission page.

The material on this site is here free (as in speech) for your use! Try a search, click on a category in the table below, or browse all categories and all 15,649 articles.

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Main Areas

What's Happening

Project:	In-country and academic projects, such as Bathing water project, Madura, Indonesia, 2000 and UTC Solar Distiller
Organization:	such as Demotech, Practical Action and AIDG
Topic:	Public education and discourse topics, Subject matter articles, e.g. Photovoltaics and Rainwater
Program:	Schools, Summer Intensives, Classes, Workshops, such as Parras
How to:	Step by step instructions, from how to Weld wood, to constructing a Home biogas system
Thesis:	Thesis papers: Make your thesis more accessible than in your university library, e.g. Water management & culture in Indonesian cities
Coordination:	Collaborate on events, publications, projects here, e.g. Car-Free Day

Open Architecture Network launched!

Architecture for Humanity recently unveiled the new community at TED

New pages

Most active articles

Interested in Contributing to Appropedia?

Appropedia follows an open design approach. Anyone can write or edit articles, anyone can plant the seed of an idea that others will build upon. Any group can use these pages to work collaboratively.

We would like to include your projects, current works, observations and suggestions! If you've got an idea for a new article, please see our "Contributing content" page for some suggestions. You can also enrich existing articles by clicking on "edit" at the top of the page or section. The software is robust and forgiving, so Be Bold and contribute!

Find more ways to support the cause at our Community Portal page. Or enter your questions and suggestions at the Village Pump page.

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-Appropedia is a dynamic and open library ''wiki'', focused on success in two core initiatives:
+''Appropedia'' is the site for collaborative solutions in '''sustainability''', '''poverty reduction''' and '''international development'''.
-*Reducing poverty through '''International Development'''
-*Increasing '''Sustainability''' through all means, including [[Appropriate technology|Appropriate Technology]]
+You can learn more about Appropedia's vision and mission at our [[Appropedia:Mission|Mission]] page.
-Learn more about Appropedia's vision and mission at our [[Appropedia:Mission|Mission]] page.
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+The material on this site is here free (as in speech) for your use! Try a search, click on a category in the table below, or browse [[Special:Categories|all categories]] and [[Special:Allpages|all '''{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}''' articles]].
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 *'''[[Architecture for Humanity]] recently unveiled [http://www.openarchitecturenetwork.org the new community] at [http://www.ted.com/tedprize/2006/cameron.cfm TED]'''
+==New pages==
+*[[Journals  ]]
+*[[‎Pillars and values ]]
+*[[‎Service learning ]]
+*[[‎Distributed generation ]]
+*[[‎Hexayurt cooling ]]
+*[[‎Trucking Energy Efficiency ]]
+*[[‎Environmental Management System ]]
+*[[‎Jottings on appropriate technology ]]
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 *[[Chris's ENGR305 Solar Food Dehydrator]]
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 *[[Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamps]]
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-*[[Incentives to pollute]]
-*[[Parabolic solar cookers]]
-*[[In-N-Out Burger]]
-*[[Corn as fuel]]
-*[[Biofuel Wetzels deserve medals, not threats and red tape]]
-*[[Green Holi]]
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