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Technologies for Wind Energy 1 Reply

Wind blows when the land gets unevenly heated up by the sun making the air just above the land, rise and expand. When the hot air above the land expands, its place is filled in by the heavier and c...

Started by DanTaylor. Last reply by T. Loos 22 hours ago.

Backpack Farm

via @openworld http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/1 DATA: http://www.backpackfarm.org/ twitter: http://twitter.com/backpackfarm Each backpack contains: http://www.backpackfarm.org/products.ht...

Started by Lucas 1 day ago.

Sarvodaya, Swaraj, Swadeshi 6 Replies

I've been reading about Gandhian economics these days because it turns out that barnraisings and farmers' markets and voluntary coops and associations, things which I've participated in and helped ...

Tagged: nonviolence, swadeshi, history, economics, Gandhi

Started by gmoke. Last reply by gmoke Nov 22.

Human centered needs Wiki 22 Replies

So I had this idea, a week ago, while flipping through my permaculture manual. One of my favorite aspects of permaculture is the input/output design methodology. When I tell people what permacultur...

Tagged: wiki, human, permaculture, needs.

Started by Andrew Jensen. Last reply by David Braden Nov 20.

Hexayurt Greenhouse Frame project page 10 Replies

Hi everybody. Been really busy for the past 3 days. Went ahead and created an initial project page for my Hexayurt frame setups. http://exploratorylaboratory.blogspot.com something I meant to do f...

Started by T. Loos. Last reply by T. Loos Nov 17.

OSRAM nails off the grid clean energy / clean water

http://www.nextbillion.net/blog/2009/11/16/net-imp Impact 2009: Lighting the Base of the Pyramid with OSRAM Energy Hubs My second event at the 2009 Net Impact Conference was a very well orchestrat...

Started by Vinay Gupta Nov 16.

Accessing Self-Sufficiency Information on Appropedia - We Need Your Thoughts! 8 Replies

Appropedia wants to provide better access to existing self-sufficiency information while promoting easier participation and interaction by users. We would like to get your feedback about structurin...

Tagged: help, gathering, information, self-sufficiency, Appropedia

Started by Preston. Last reply by Thomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson Nov 15.

A Village To Heal The Planet: A Practical Whole-Systems Showcase Village 28 Replies

So here's the idea in a nutshell: take a patch of land in some low-cost-of-living area, probably a developing world country, and set up a profusion of different OSAT (open source appropriate techno...

Started by Vinay Gupta. Last reply by Mark Frazier Nov 11.

An "Openworld Game" to help villages choose and fund breakthroughs?

All, I've had a standing interest in launching an "Openworld Game" that would tap talents in online communities for the benefit of showcase villages such as Vinay, Larahna, and others have describ...

Tagged: zone, free, success-sharing, game, Openworld

Started by Mark Frazier Nov 10.

Tom Munnecke's links on the eXtensible Business Modeling Language and philanthropy

(Tom kindly allowed me to repost this from a mailing list message. It's incredibly deep and interesting stuff) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBML Here is a shorter clip combining bits from Paris 2...

Started by Vinay Gupta Nov 10.

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T. Loos replied to DanTaylor's discussion 'Technologies for Wind Energy'

This sounds like a cut and paste from some online encyclopedia. Not sure it belongs here? But besides that....wind energy on a large scale is a no go. I challenge any developer to make a profit on wind energy without subsidies of any sort. Can't ...

22 hours ago

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Technologies for Wind Energy

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Backpack Farm

via @openworld http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/11/can-a-farm-in-a-backpack-feed-sub-saharan-africa.php?dcitc=th_rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+treehuggersite+(Treehugger) THEIR DATA: http://www.backpackfarm....

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gmoke replied to gmoke's discussion 'Sarvodaya, Swaraj, Swadeshi'

Elinor Ostrom, recent economics Nobel prize winner, is in the thick of the resilience movement. She might be interested and understand the implications. I have an inkling that the concept of sarvodaya meshes very nicely with some of the ideas of A...

on Sunday

Jarett S replied to gmoke's discussion 'Sarvodaya, Swaraj, Swadeshi'

George, any thoughts on how to inject this quality material into the vein of the modern sustainable/resilience movements? Also, how to approach the modern civil rights activists with this material? Not expecting answers from you, but hey, you star...

on Sunday

David Braden replied to Andrew Jensen's discussion 'Human centered needs Wiki'

I would also like to see the permaculture wiki project tied into this project: Details of a Post-Industrial Community Self-Organization The goal is that every locality will develop the capacity to produce the food, clothing, shelter, education a...

on Friday

David Braden replied to Andrew Jensen's discussion 'Human centered needs Wiki'

Yes, I am still interested. I like the idea of not just the needs and products but a way to play with how the needs and products can lead to a multiplicity of elements in a complex production system supplying human needs. The best example of what ...

on Friday

Mark Frazier replied to Andrew Jensen's discussion 'Human centered needs Wiki'

Chris, Lucas and all - Tom Munnecke of Uplift Academy had an idea for what he called a "pattern wiki" for community uplift that may be relevant -- see his visual at http://upliftacademy.org/wiki/index.php?title=Value_Network_Model&printable=yes ...

on Thursday

Chris Watkins replied to Andrew Jensen's discussion 'Human centered needs Wiki'

David, Andrew, Lucas... are you still committed to this? I've been working up a call for collaborators and collating ideas for how to take this forward, using Appropedia and taking suggestions from this discussion. Please check it, and add to it...

on Thursday

Lucas and T. Loos are now friends

November 17

T. Loos replied to T. Loos's discussion 'Hexayurt Greenhouse Frame project page'

Yes, I talked with Ross years ago. http://www.tdc.ca/bubblegreenhouse.htm It's a great idea. The guy in the UK made a nice finished version. I wish these people would develop it further. There are a few issues that could be addressed. Nothing sh...

November 17

Lucas replied to T. Loos's discussion 'Hexayurt Greenhouse Frame project page'

Seen http://www.solaroof.org I supose? And, once you build many, http://www.gridbeamers.com

November 17

T. Loos replied to T. Loos's discussion 'Hexayurt Greenhouse Frame project page'

The pic has been heavily edited. I mean heavily. There are plenty of places to put vents. It can be done easily. A single fan in the roof will move the air out efficiently unlike in a box style structure. To answer question two. The pic has been...

November 17

Mark Frazier replied to T. Loos's discussion 'Hexayurt Greenhouse Frame project page'

T. Loos, Congratulations on the progress - this looks great! Two questions/comments - 1) you see a way for the frame and plastic to include openings for vents or fans to regulate temperature? 2) in locations like ours, we have to worry about s...

November 17

T. Loos replied to T. Loos's discussion 'Hexayurt Greenhouse Frame project page'

Temp right now in ABQ: 44 deg Temp inside greenhouse: 82 deg Max was 102 deg. around 1-2 pm.

November 16

T. Loos replied to T. Loos's discussion 'Hexayurt Greenhouse Frame project page'

Ok, here is a pic of the finished product. Heavily censored: Raw material cost with cheapest plastic available and wood waterproofing? $200 We just had some mega winds lately. Cold front moved in. The structure does not budge or creak in the s...

November 16

Vinay Gupta added a discussion

OSRAM *nails* off the grid clean energy / clean water

http://www.nextbillion.net/blog/2009/11/16/net-impact-2009-lighting-the-base-of-the-pyramid Net Impact 2009: Lighting the Base of the Pyramid with OSRAM Energy Hubs My second event at the 2009 Net Impact Conference was a very well orchestrated c...

November 16

Thomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson replied to Preston's discussion 'Accessing Self-Sufficiency Information on Appropedia - We Need Your Thoughts!'

Hi Preston, Who is your audience? The way you describe it sounds like "anyone who is interested in self-sufficiency". If I am trying to become more self-sufficient as a suburban dweller in a (post?) industrialised country, then what I am looking...

November 15

Chris Watkins replied to Preston's discussion 'Accessing Self-Sufficiency Information on Appropedia - We Need Your Thoughts!'

Hi Andrius, I don't follow why you say "CC-BY-SA... conflicts with the Public Domain even more than regular copyright." Creative Commons licenses can't add any restrictions to copyright, but rather share some of the rights owned by the copyright ...

November 14