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Just some sample ideas to get you started.

  • These are examples, not the whole scope of acceptable articles (which would amount to many thousands of topics). Appropedia's scope is very broad and there are important areas which haven't been added here (yet).
  • Where a comment or link after a title below, it is simply a suggestion - the editor should make an assessment of whether it is a valuable resource.
  • If an article is created from one of these, the title can be removed from this page once it has become at reasonable stub page.

A decent page will include at least a description, mention of context, mention of alternative perspectives, several "See also" links and at least one good quality link under "External links."

Special pages[edit | edit source]

If you want to improve an existing basic article, see:

Agriculture, food[edit | edit source]

Fish:

Permaculture design and other good practices

  • Specific techniques on each of the principles of permaculture.
  • Check curriculum of a PDC (Permaculture Design Course]] - choose one aspect/component/principle for an article.
  • Weeds

Soils:

  • Sand
  • Loam
  • Bioremediation
  • Soil salination
  • Soil conservation
  • Soil life
  • Soil microorganisms

Agricultural science:

Crops, especially food crops - articles about important crops.

  • Beans
  • Grass

Non-food crops:

  • Timber

Appropriate technology[edit | edit source]

  • Briquette production, Briquette production

Built environment and construction[edit | edit source]

Urban planning:

  • New Urbanism and transit-oriented design (or transit-oriented development). These also have many subtopics which deserve articles
  • New Pedestrianism
  • Smart growth
  • Urban sprawl (currently redirects to urbanization which does not address the topic)
  • Automobile dependence
  • Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence - short stub now, could do with a summary of the book's arguments.
  • Livable streets:
    • Chicanes
    • Narrow streets

Architecture and green building:

Business and industry[edit | edit source]

Sustainable business models:

  • Bottom of the Pyramid
  • Natural Capitalism

Industrial ecology:

  • Paint
  • Industrial waste
  • Industry
  • Industrial design

Natural resources:

  • Minerals

Sustainable business practices, including:

  • Sustainable business purchasing. (Green Purchasing Asia may be a useful source - open access, and friendly to Appropedia, but copyright so can't copy large slabs verbatim.)
  • Rare earth metals - impacts, alternatives; how to make ethical purchasing decisions
  • Slave labor - allegedly used to produce goods in China, chocolate in parts of Africa, prawns in Southeast Asia... what's the evidence, and how should we respond?

Carbon cycles and climate change[edit | edit source]

(Consider wider issues around carbon, including carbon cycles, ocean acidity, other aspects of air pollution, and energy security, though obviously climate change is a particularly important aspect of carbon issues.)

Carbon management and climate mitigation policies:

  • Carbon price, Carbon markets (one article to start, possibly separate articles later)
  • Carbon cycle
  • Carbon tax
  • Low-carbon economy
  • Energy innovation policies
  • Kyoto Protocol

Look at climate change policies and possible response in specific regions, e.g.

  • Climate change and Kiribati
  • Climate change and Bangladesh

Low carbon technologies:

Ecology & related[edit | edit source]

Ecological footprint (note also Carbon footprint):

Environmental science

  • Environmental impact assessment
  • Environmental services - recognizing the value of services provided to humans by the environment. Important aspect of environmental accounting.
  • Natural environment
  • Environmental impact
  • Bacteria
  • Anaerobic bacteria
  • Aerobic bacteria
  • Logging
  • Invasive species

Forestry:

See also industrial ecology topics under #Industry.

Economics[edit | edit source]

  • Economics/Economy
  • Green economics
  • Discount rate for environmental goods
  • Environmental economics
  • Environmental accounting and environmental management accounting - intro at http://www.epa.vic.gov.au/bus/accounting/whatisema.asp
  • Subsidies
    • Energy subsidies
    • Fossil fuel subsidies
  • Trade
  • Natural resources
  • Ecological economics
  • Environmental finance
  • Post-growth economics or post-growth society. Note the criticisms of the idea, and the ways in which "post-growth" is used. (The exact meaning in economics terms is probably not grasped by the majority of the people who talk about it.)

Energy[edit | edit source]

  • Electricity generation
  • Stirling engines
  • Solar thermal energy - solar towers (and/or parabolic arrays) with molten salt.
  • Solar radiation
  • Grid energy storage
    • Dealing with intermittent energy production - energy storage; quick-cycling power plants such as LNG plants; ...are there other options?[1]
  • EROEI
  • Hydrogen economy
  • Thermal energy
  • Energy forestry
  • Energy density
  • Energy development
  • Wave power
  • Wind farms
  • Microgeneration/Distributed generation
  • Co-generation
  • Sunlight
  • Diesel

Biofuel:

Mathematics and statistics[edit | edit source]

Green living[edit | edit source]

  • Find good science-based advice such as http://withouthotair.com/
  • Computer
  • Efficient energy use
  • Sustainable clothing. One info source: look up Alice Payne's "Think Lifecycle" (interviewed on an ABC.net.au podcast, but might be more useful.)
  • Take tips such as these and give them some order - multiple pages, apply some critical thinking, start to identify the key actions based on the 80-20 rule (that 20% of the effort is likely to give 80% of the benefit).

International development[edit | edit source]

  • human development
  • Human Development Report

Foreign aid:

Communications:

Food security:

  • Food production in drought-prone regions
  • Climate change and food security

Status of development:

  • See UNDP reports on specific topics, or chapters of their human development report.
  • Millennium Development Goals

Participation:

Public health[edit | edit source]

Society[edit | edit source]

Policies:

  • Examine the effectiveness of competing policies for environmental or poverty-reduction outcomes. (Look at think tank publications - summaries of good reports can be valuable wiki articles, e.g. Grattan Institute's reports on energy and carbon policies.)

Wastewater and sanitation[edit | edit source]

  • Anaerobic bacteria
  • Sewage treatment
  • Sustainable urban drainage systems

Water[edit | edit source]

Water quality and analysis:

  • Biofilms
  • Water cycle
  • Drinking water

Water treatment:

  • Sand filter
  • Water filters (currently only content is about one specific filtration project)
  • Slow sand filtration - but sure to consider why they aren't more widely used (i.e. what contexts are they good for?)

Ecosanitation:

  • Ecosanitation designs
  • Ecosanitation and health regulations

Transition[edit | edit source]

Transition towns & related topics

  • Organizing a transition town
  • (Find out about the community in Ballard, Washington state, where a CSA farm grows and distributes without the use of petroleum, as far as possible.)
  • Local economy
  • Resilience
    • Resilient cities

Transport[edit | edit source]

  • Transportation demand management
  • Light rail
  • Heavy rail

Unclear and "big picture" articles[edit | edit source]

These are suitable for keen students who have become familiar with Appropedia over some months.

In most cases the aim will be to start an overview of a broad topic, and linking it to suitable Appropedia pages, giving short summaries as appropriate.

To be sorted[edit | edit source]

  • Pyrolysis
  • Reuse
  • Biodegradation
  • Bioinformatics
  • Beeswax
  • Windbreak
  • Emissions
  • Sorghum
  • Medicine
  • Ecological
  • Physics
  • Environmental ethics
  • Thermodynamics
  • Rivers
  • HVAC
  • Fibers
  • United Nations Development Programme
  • Obesity
  • Turpentine
  • WikiBoxes
  • Maintenance
  • Agenda 21
  • Global dimming
  • Glossary of climate change
  • Rural community
  • Chlorine
  • Biosecurity
  • Electronics
  • Viruses
  • Open sustainability
  • Mass production
  • Mechanical engineering
  • Carbon monoxide
  • Biodegradable
  • Convention on Biological Diversity
  • Biofilter
  • Biogeography
  • Oxfam
  • Local production
  • Welfare
  • Ecoregion
  • Train
  • Crisis
  • North America
  • Small-scale technologies
  • Gasoline
  • DailyFun
  • Canal
  • Famine (currently redirects to Malnutrition
  • Environmental chemistry
  • Engine
  • Funding
  • Electric motor
  • Birth control
  • Globalization
  • Tourism
  • Bridge
  • Electrical engineering
  • The Laboratory of Community Alternative Technologies at Ajusco
  • TheWikiWay:WhatIsWiki
  • Copyright
  • Roads
  • Biosafety
  • Traffic congestion
  • Sea level rise
  • Biology
  • Climate model
  • Landscape architecture
  • WebIRCHelp
  • Filter
  • Waste water
  • UNDP
  • Extinction
  • Carbon nanotubes
  • International Conference on Population and Development
  • Deep ecology
  • Wheel
  • Vegetation
  • Climate change mitigation
  • Landscaping
  • Fossil fuel power plant
  • Asia
  • Pollarding
  • Self sufficient
  • Urban renewal
  • Transformer
  • Intellectual property
  • Gravel
  • Green Revolution
  • Radio
  • Yurt
  • Food quality
  • Environmental history
  • Land reform
  • Bangkok
  • Steel
  • Air conditioner
  • Dengue fever
  • Ecological niche
  • Vines
  • Biostatistics
  • Cascading Style Sheets
  • Emission Trading System
  • Xeriscaping
  • Tropical
  • Filtration
  • Biome
  • Lye
  • Mumbai
  • Hydrology
  • Greenpeace
  • Poverty reduction
  • Ammonia
  • Radioactive waste
  • Tensile strength
  • United States Agency for International Development
  • Organism
  • Latrine
  • Nitrogen fixation
  • Sono arsenic filter
  • Work (physics)
  • Geoengineering
  • Bus
  • Power supply
  • Ecology movement
  • Diabetes
  • Solar air conditioning
  • Blood
  • Temperature
  • Apartments
  • Silt
  • Sustainable procurement
  • Timber rafting
  • Restoration ecology
  • Cereal
  • 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference
  • Traffic
  • Variable retention
  • Product design
  • Ultraviolet light
  • Food waste
  • Feed-in tariff
  • Anal cleansing
  • List of onshore wind farms
  • Rio Declaration on Environment and Development
  • Environmental biotechnology
  • Sun
  • Third World
  • Lever
  • Welding
  • Inverter
  • Workshop
  • Activated sludge
  • Ocean acidification
  • Passive house
  • Earth Day
  • Deepwater Horizon oil spill
  • Underdevelopment
  • Disinfection
  • Light pollution
  • Aluminium
  • International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  • Traditional knowledge
  • Earth Charter
  • Pulpwood
  • Walking
  • Bioregional democracy
  • Species
  • Drainage basin
  • Tundra
  • Ecological succession
  • Meteorology
  • Solar power satellite
  • Simple machine
  • Reproductive rights
  • Wood fuel
  • Passive solar building design
  • El Niño Southern Oscillation
  • Accountability
  • Humanitarian aid
  • Aqueduct
  • Habitat
  • Wind power in India
  • National park
  • Cascading Style Sheet
  • Pruning
  • Diesel fuel
  • Environmental skepticism
  • Pregnancy
  • Electrolysis of water
  • Freshwater
  • Glacier
  • Landscape ecology
  • Microbiology
  • Global Ecovillage Network
  • Wikiversity
  • Waste heat
  • Rivers
  • Sustainable landscape architecture
  • Pollutants
  • DIV (HTML tag)
  • Vegetable oil used as fuel
  • Petrodiesel
  • Trellises
  • Lead
  • Crank position sensor
  • Pseudoscience
  • Laser
  • Photosynthesis
  • Watt
  • House
  • Power station

Advanced[edit | edit source]

  • See also Category:Suggested projects - each page will have a "suggested project" tag, which in many cases is an idea for researching a topic.
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