Appropriate Tech Sharing to Inspire You to Action

Appropedia is a Wiki site for collaborative solutions on sustainability, appropriate technology, poverty reduction, and permaculture. There are  7,199 articles on the site with more than 300,000 edits.

As one example, engineering students at Humbolt State University collaborated with the Water Pod — an art and sustainability project on a barge that floated around NYC in 2009, showing people alternative solutions for living. They used a rocket stove for cooking, Duchamp de Loo for human waste management, rainwater collection & purification, wind power, etc.

Here are some categories on the Appropedia site with articles that will fire your imagination and get you on the road to action.

Built environment

Energy

Food and agriculture

Transport

Water

Go to Appropedia to learn how to make and use AT free without concern about patents. Anyone can add to the collective open-source knowledge base by contributing ideas, observations, experimental data, deployment logs, etc.