Top-level topic categories

Here are my 9 proposed top-level topic categories
  1. Water
  2. Food
  3. Public health
  4. Culture and community
  5. Communication and information technology (maybe just "Information technology" or "Communication and information")
  6. Energy (notice not Power and Energy as energy implies both)
  7. Land, materials and construction
  8. Transportation
  9. Metaconcepts (these will mostly be concepts that are implicitly incorporated in many different pages. They will be mostly definitions, that are linked to inline from the text of other pages)
These 9 top-level categories are based on 8 basic human needs
  1. Water
  2. Food
  3. Health
  4. Community
  5. Knowledge
  6. Energy
  7. Shelter
  8. Transportation (arguable)

An example category tree based on these 9 top-evel categories

Please note that many subcategories will be in multiple higher categories.

Water

Water conservation

Rural water supply in _______

Greywater

Garden box

Planter box

Rainwater harvesting

Rooftop rainwater catchment

Stormwater catchment

Swails

Pumping

Hydraulic ram pumps

Solar pumps

Rope pumps

Hand pumps

Water quality

Water storage

Wells

Cysterns

Storage tanks

Ferrocement tanks

Plastic tanks

Wood tanks

Wastewater treatment

Primary wastewater treatment

Secondary wastewater treatment

Tertiary wastewater treatment

Physical wastewater treatment

Chemical wastewater treatment

Bilogical wastewater treatment

Constructed lagoons

Community scale wastewater treatment

Water sanitation

Filtration

Slow sand filtration

Distillation

Desalination

Solar desalination

Water transportation

Water jugs

Food

100 mile diet

Companion planting

Food preperation

Macrobiotics

Raw

Vegetarianism

Omnivorism

Food preserving

Canning

Dehydrating

Storing

Seed saving

Organic gardening

Double digging

Composting

Vermiculture

Pit compost

Spinning barrel compost

Agriculture

Crop rotation

Crop drying

Crop storage

Growing _______ in a ______ climate

Fertilization

Pest management

Aquaculture

Agroforestry

Biointensive gardening

Greenhouse

Pit greenhouse

Lean to greenhouse

Attached greenhouse

Freestanding greenhouse

Hoophouse

Animal husbandry

Chicken tractor

Animal health

Beekeeping

Public health

-Pest control -Health care in _____ -ORT -Cysts --Prevention and treatment of _____ -Bacterias --Prevention and treatment of _____ -Viruses --Prevention and treatment of _____ --HIV -Sanitation --Hand washing --Pit latrine ---Improved pit latrine --Humanure ---Bucket composting toilet ---Double vaulted composting toilets --(Many topics from water sanitation) --Septic tanks -Disabilities -Human dignity in public health -Refrigeration --Vaccine refrigeration --Food refrigeration -Health paradigms --Homeopathy --Aleopathy --Herbalism


Culture and community

-Active citenzry -Collaborative meeting tools -Effective lobbying -Environmental justice -Multiculturalism -Builiding partnerships -Cities -Community organizing -Cooperatives -Intentional communities --Communes --Ecovillages -Social artistry -Male contraception -Banking --Microfinance --Triple bottom line --Sustainable accounting --Accounting practices

Communication and information technology

-Internet -Open source -GIS -Repeaters -Short wave radio -Wikis -Education --Service Learning --Teacher training --Curricullum development --Teaching materials --Computer based education --Education paradigms ---Piaget ---Montessori --International programs --Intereducation

Energy

-Electrical energy --Batteries --Microcapicitors --Grid intertie --Photovoltaic power ---Solar pumping ---Solar vaccine refrigeration --Microhydro power --Wind power --Wave power --Pedal power -Heat --Cookstoves --Refrigeration --Thermodynamics --Solar thermal hotwater --Hydronic flooring --Insulation ---Stawbale insulation ---Fiber board insulation ---Fiberglass insulation --Thermal mass --Passive solar design -Fuel --Biogas

Land, materials and construction

-Natural capital -4Rs -Supplies -Alternative materials --Lechugilla --Hemp --Bioplastic --Smartwood -Material science --Solid statics --Solid dynamics --Fluid dynamics -Bioremediation -Surveying -Compost -Alternative building --Bamboo --Papercrete --Cordwood --Earthship --Tires --Strawbale --Ferrocement --Living roof --Earthen construction ---Adobe ---Cobb ---Bajareche ---Earth bags ---Earthen oven ---Earthen plaster ---Rammed earth ---Wattle and daub ---Stone and brick

Transportation

-Greenbelts -Busses -Trains -Light rail -Bicycles --Recumbent --Rickshaw --Bicycle parking --Electric bicycles --Critical mass bike rides

Metaconcepts

-Poverty Reduction -International development -Appropriate technology -Sustainable development -Permaculture -Biomimicry -Natural capital -Triple bottom line

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