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Check these for more ideas:
- Appropedia:Press coverage
- Suggestions on AWG
- Appropedia:The Appropedia Update/next (mostly older news)
Lonny, directly related to Appropedia:
- Summer 2012, Directed Practivistas Dominicana student teams completed three different projects: retrofitting a small scale DIY windpower station made from waste products to be more cost effective and hurricane safe while lighting aschoolroom (La_Yuca_small_scale_renewable_energy_2012); updating a rainwater catchment system at a school to be more potable and building a new rainwater catchment system at a new school location (https://www.appropedia.org/La_Yuca_rainwater_catchment_2012); and building a ruralschoolroom from waste products including paper, plastic bottles, broken tiles, sawdust and more (https://www.appropedia.org/Las_Malvinas_ecoladrillo_schoolroom_2012).
Foreign students study with Dominican students, live with their own Dominican families, and design/build projects with community members.
- Humboldt Now: http://now.humboldt.edu/news/students-improve-on-sustainable-design-in-dominican-republic/
- Gik+ in Spanish: http://web.archive.org/web/20121220120439/http://www.gikplus.com:80/data/escuela-yuca-ecoladrillo/
- TreeHugger: http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/dominican-and-american-students-build-school-waste-products-and-concrete.html
- This semester, Engineering 215 is working with Laurel Tree Charter School on seven really interesting projects, specifically: Earthen oven, creative energy usage visualization, green benches, human powered blender , garden to kitchen infrastructure, physics based learning apparatus. Here are the projects - https://www.appropedia.org/Laurel_Tree_Charter_School#Projects.
- Last semester, Engr205 worked with the Humboldt Coastal Nature Center on ten really interesting projects. See https://www.appropedia.org/Friends_of_the_Dunes for more.
- The Flock House projects from last fall (https://www.appropedia.org/Flock_House) were a great success. We were in a few locations, covered by most major news outlets (including an excellently snarky Fox report) and had thousands of visitors. Flock House and the Appropedia Foundation were mentioned by NYC Parks (other mentions of the project at Press). We also had an art show up at NYCParks. Humboldt Now covered the projects when they were made last year. Now they have been implemented.
- Another interesting notes: Appropedia partnered with University of Michigan to release a Global Health Medical Device Compendium at https://www.appropedia.org/Portal:Medical_Devices. Covered by Medgagdget: *UMich Medical Device Wiki Lets Low-Income Nations Know What Technologies Are Out There, Scott Jung, Medgadget, (Apr 26, 2012).
- Lunch Box Envy book came out in... It is a really cool graphic novel/cookbook/project book for youth. It includes projects from Engineering 215 Spring 2011 - https://www.appropedia.org/Engr205_Lunchbox_Envy.
- Co-directed a one week intensive in North Carolina -faculty, staff and some students from a few schools around the US lived together for one week studying wise water management and building a water catchment and treatment system - Asheville Wise Water Management Workshop
- Continued work as steering committee member of CCAT where we have finished a lot of great projects recently.
- Continued work as a board member of Locally Delicious, Humboldt Bay Center for Sustainable Living, ...
Lonny's presentations & work on the theme (but no specific pages/projects on Appropedia...?):
- Continued consulting.
Advisor for Thrivable, Kleiwerks International, ...
- Facilitating , e.g. 2 days of Stanford Sierra Camp on Entrepreneurship in Undergraduate Education.
- Presenting, e.g. International Education Week; Keynote for First Annual Sustainable Building Conference in Santo Domingo; NCIIA open conference on infusing entrepreneurship into engineering education; Inaugural presentation at Poe Park on Local Resources for Building Resilient Homes, Schoolrooms, and Communities.
- Continuing work as executive editor of the IJSLE. Journals and we published a book called convergence.
That is just a short list... I am sure I am missing a bunch, like publishing a paper, writing a small part for a kid's book, interviews, all the 305 projects (see https://www.appropedia.org/Engr305_Appropriate_Technology_Projects for some of them... note that link covers lots of years), started at least one new course, worked with clients on projects like https://www.appropedia.org/Arcata_bags, made http://pequals.com/rain,
Joshua's work:
- classes... see MTU
- Open Source Research in Sustainability (PDF, free download) - describes how he's been using Appropedia in research.
Other classes:
- Jesse Mischa
- Brennan Lagasse, SNC
Tech developments:
- Semantic extensions installed
- Spam filter
- Downtime
- Server funding