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Appropedia is a wiki-based website that contains content relating to sustainability, poverty, environmental degradation, and international development. It was founded in 2006 by an instructor at Cal Poly Humboldt. Wikipedia →
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- Read the landmark paper: Appropedia as a Tool for Service Learning in Sustainable DevelopmentCited 20 times
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- Go sideways: Joshua PearceA closely related topic
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- Open-source appropriate technology Open-source appropriate technology (OSAT) is appropriate technology developed through the principles of the open-design movement. Appropriate technology…
- Joshua Pearce Joshua M. Pearce is an academic engineer at Western University and a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He is known for his work on protocrystallini…
- Recyclebot A recyclebot (or RecycleBot) is an open-source hardware device for converting waste plastic into filament for open-source 3D printers like the RepRap.…
- The Open Solar Outdoors Test Field The Open Solar Outdoors Test Field (OSOTF) is a project organized under open-source principles, which is a fully grid-connected test system that continuously…
- Appropriate technology Appropriate technology is a movement (and its manifestations) encompassing technological choice and application that is small-scale, affordable by its…
- Open-source hardware Open-source hardware (OSH, OSHW) is hardware whose design source files — schematics, CAD files, bill of materials — are made publicly available, allowing…
- List of medical wikis This is a list of medical wikis, collaboratively-editable websites that focus on medical information. Many medical wikis are encyclopedias, with a separate…
- Open-Source Lab (book) The Open-Source Lab: How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Research Costs by Joshua M. Pearce was published in 2014 by Elsevier. The academic book…