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"Self-sufficient Gandhian villages operating on Vedic principles"
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Chris Naden Dec 25, 2011.

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What's the coolest thing you've ever seen?
The Tengger caldera at sunrise - Mount Bromo in a sea of cloud.
What's the coolest thing you've ever dreamed?
That the shop had run out of chocolate ice cream and the only other thing they sold were the works of Jean-Paul Satre.
About Me
Working for Appropedia.org - the wiki for collaborative solutions in:
* The reduction of poverty.
* Increasing sustainability through design, technology and best practice.
* Permaculture

...and much more.
What I'm contributing to humanity and the planet
Empowering through knowledge-sharing
Website
http://www.appropedia.org/User:Chriswaterguy
Blog (some place with an RSS feed we can aggregate)
http://blogs.appropedia.org/
Tell us about your project/s (please include project URLs)
Appropedia, the sustainability wiki - Sharing knowledge to build rich, sustainable lives - http://www.appropedia.org/

Doing a project with Akvo on collaboration in the world-changing wiki space (Nov 2008).

Public Domain Search (suspended until we have resources to continue) - first steps towards opening up an enormous amount of content currently not searched by any free-content search engine.
Where are you located? (if you know LAT/LONG we will put this on a map later)
Suitcaseville.
What specific skills, technologies or connections you would like to find among the Global Swadeshi Network members?
Computer and especially web skills, to work together on making Appropedia.org more awesome - e.g. these site development priorities.

Latest Activity

Benjamin Slade left a comment for Chris Watkins
"Hi Chris, My favourite distribution is Bodhi Linux, which is light-weight like Crunchbang, but "prettier". It uses Enlightenment as its desktop environment."
May 10
Chris Watkins left a comment for Benjamin Slade
"Hi Benjamin - what's your preference in Linux? (I've been using CrunchBang, which is Debian + Openbox, but I'm actually thinking about Kubuntu for my new machine.)"
May 10
Chris Watkins left a comment for Bryan Butler
"Welcome! Perhaps you could post to the forum, and share the link to your manual there. Btw, have you seen Appropedia? That might be a suitable place to post your knowledge, if you're willing to share it freely."
May 7
Chris Watkins left a comment for Vijay Khanna
"Welcome! Would be good to hear more about your work."
May 7
Ren Tyler left a comment for Chris Watkins
"Thank you for the welcome, Chris."
Apr 7
Chris Watkins left a comment for Ren Tyler
"Hi Ren, Hope you're inspired here! Chris"
Apr 6
Chris Watkins left a comment for Rakshya Bhadra
"A forest in Oaxaca sounds very cool. Welcome to Global Swadeshi."
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Chris Watkins left a comment for LOVE NELLY
"Hi Nelly, Good to see you here. Your website link doesn't seem to be working - is that a typo? Chris"
Feb 17

Comment Wall (29 comments)

At 6:21pm on June 6, 2008, Josef Davies-Coates said…
Appropedia is wonderful, thanks! :)
At 9:09am on November 3, 2008, Lucas said…
Thought you'd like to know I published this translation of your piece. It's just a great piece.

http://imagina-canarias.blogspot.com/2008/11/swadeshi-global.html
At 6:55am on November 20, 2008, Alexander Tran said…
Hi Chris! Um, where can I find the OSN twitters? I know they were tagged with #OSN but I'm a twitter noob so please enlighten me...

-Alex
At 9:22am on November 20, 2008, Sabina Podjed said…
Hi! Glad to meet you here.
At 4:30pm on November 27, 2008, cattavery said…
Its lovely to know that you are the face of Appropedia. I really enjoy and suppport that project. I have been spreading word of it a bit among some other groups. What I also love is that my region is well represented in the CCAT offerings. Great work.
At 4:29pm on November 29, 2008, cattavery said…
thanks for the tip i am headed back to Humboldt next year. The marsh pages are wonderful, one of my favorite local demonstration projects.
At 6:14pm on December 3, 2008, Alexander Tran said…
Hi Chris, Is there any place on the wiki or somewhere that there are pictures of the OSNCamp? Thanks!
At 6:32am on December 13, 2008, Alexander Tran said…
Thanks Chris!!
At 7:26pm on February 13, 2009, Alexander Tran said…
Hi Chris,

do you know anywhere that has portable composting toilets? Thanks

-Alex
At 9:35pm on February 13, 2009, Alexander Tran said…
wow thanks! I'm interning at Living Homes, a prefab/green arch firm and they want some "green" porta potties for their event.

-Alex

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