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Appropedia is for collaborative solutions in sustainability, appropriate technology and poverty reduction. "
"History
Appropedia wordle constructed from the 5,000 most popular content page names.
After years of other online and offline sustainable collaboration projects, Lonny Grafman started Appropedia in April 2006 with a focus on appropriate technology, defined very broadly. He was assisted by Aaron Antrim and Gabriel Krause in the decision to use the MediaWiki engine for Appropedia. Curt Beckmann then joined Appropedia later in 2006.
Contact with WikiGreen in December 2006[4] led to a quick decision to join forces. It was decided to use the name Appropedia. This merger led to a large increase in content, including permission from various publications, and some content from CD3WD (CDs for the 3rd World).[5]
Since then Appropedia has imported content from other sites:
International Rivers Network gave permission for several pages worth of content.
Practical Action gave permission for over 100 articles
Demotech, an organization in the Netherlands, has built many pages.
The wiki for the organization Village Earth was merged in in March 2007.[6] This was the original wiki on appropriate technology.
The How To Live Wiki, run by Vinay Gupta, merged much of its material into Appropedia in March 2007, and Vinay joined the Appropedia team.
The Sgoals wiki, focused on sustainable business practices, joined in mid-2007.
The Students for Global Sustainability Wiki merged in January 2008.
CCAT, the Campus Center for Appropriate Technology, partnered with Appropedia to move their project pages to Appropedia in April 2008.
In 2012, use of the Semantic MediaWiki extension was added as well."
- WikipediaWhy a new topic for a website? No search results here and this is totally related to sustainable living.
Nice collection starting to be here under the Sustainable living of good sites for those wanting to do this thing
Stuff is really not so hard. Was a first timer when me and probably 10-15 others built a
Hexayurt out of mostly dumpster dived stuff in 6 hours. Of course we had power tools powered by car battery but still very good to get something working doing it the first time ever.