User:Chriswaterguy/to do

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Muehle_Marzahn2.JPG - make tiny version and edit userboxes.

google scholar for Plasmodium wormwood

Small jobs, do soon

 * discuss UASB in Sewage treatment & other relevant articles, e.g. Anaerobic digestion, maybe biogas digesters. + move to Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket reactor or redirect?
 * merge Sustainable design
 * rethink comment Talk:Vipassana

Promo for WPID

 * am now starting to contact organizations (e.g. these ones):
 * to let them know about the resource
 * to ask them to put it in their newsletters
 * to let them know that it is easy to edit Wikipedia, that if they do want to share their expertise, that would be great
 * to let them know that if they don't want to get into editing, they are still very welcome to post suggestions or feedback on the Wikiproject talk page
 * to suggest that reading and working on articles in Wikipedia is a great way for students to learn, and a great way for development volunteers to prepare for a placement
 * we can contact relevant experts to ask for suggestions on resources and feedback on articles (at the same time ensuring that they know about Wikipedia's articles in their topic area)
 * we can post a brief notice on development-oriented discussion lists
 * I have added a section on translating to the project page - and as I travel in Asia I will be on the lookout for keen people to help (partly through my contact with local NGO's and development professionals).

Things to do when I have time (a lot of time, on broadband internet)

 * User:SuggestBot/Requests

Links for research

 * Check http://dir.bcz.com/index.php?title=Main_Page & **http://dir.bcz.com/index.php?title=Technology_%28Science%29
 * http://www.sustainableharvest.org/stoves.cfm
 * look at external links from here
 * List several technologies in a search engine to find interesting websites
 * http://www.sustainableharvest.org/country_programs.cfm biogas digesters? category - Ap Tech?

Misc stuff to check
http://awombofherown.blogspot.com/2006/03/in-neocolonial-err-i-mean.html

More suitable for personal reading

 * [http://www.asia-pacific-action.org/southeastasia/indonesia/netnews/2005/ind_26v9.htm Impoverishment & other issues (HS Dillon interview + other articles)

Look up these books in library

 * Paper Heroes: Appropriate Technology : Panacea or Pipe Dream? - Witold Rybczynski
 * check catalog, then this biblio

Appropriate technology
A.T. general research: as a Social Movement]
 * Check the "what links here" on articles such as "Appropriate technology"
 * esp before seeing India: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prince_Charles_in_Mumbai
 * http://www.geocities.com/howard_upat/PhEtApTe.htm
 * http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/2629/2023122.html
 * [http://cdtlnet.cdtl.umn.edu/Kelvin/Publications/TechChoiceBook/5-Ch3.pdf Appropriate Technology
 * The Biogas/Biofertilizer Business Handbook (Peace Corps, 1985)
 * Recommendations for Improved Development by Design - Krista Donaldson *Witold Rybczynski
 * http://www.mcgill.ca/mchg/student/sanitation/chapter1/
 * RedR-IHE add cats
 * Wikinfo: Some interesting things in here.
 * The term came into use during the 1973 energy crisis and the environmental movement of the 1970s.
 * It is often used to describe technologies, like wind power, that provide an alternative to fossil fuels. Also, it is sometimes used to describe things like the telephone, radio and television that can reduce the need for travel or replace print. {-> sustainable tech?) Such usage is controversial, as, very often, windmills or electronics may rely on very high technology elsewhere. It is usually only "appropriate" to use technologies that can at least be locally repaired. Which technologies are truly "appropriate" remains a matter of ongoing debate among those that have pioneered the concept.
 * The University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada has a Centre for Appropriate Technology. (doesn't seem to) It has adapted tools of nearby Mennonite communities to direct use in developing nations.


 * Appropriate Technology & Community Development Institute (ATCDI), located at the PNG University of Technology (Unitech) - pages on ram pumps, ferro-cement tank...
 * Chris Evans of the Jagarkot Project, involved with making mud water tanks. Lost about 10% of water (but made a nice wet spot).
 * bicycles & solar water heaters as appropriate tech. low cost construction, DIY?
 * Trevor Baylis & http://www.design-technology.info/inventors/page8.htm --> improve Clockwork radio
 * Global Ideas Bank?
 * (HIGH EFFICIENT MUD OVENS, MASONERY STOVES, SOLAR OVENS AND SOLAR HEATERS),?
 * source for Sandy Cairncross. add cats
 * His group at LSHTM has studied the health impact of environmental interventions such as water supply, sanitation and mosquito control, and of operational and policy aspects of water supply, low-cost sanitation, surface water drainage, and solid waste management. He is technical director of WELL, a resource centre providing technical advice on water and environmental health to the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and other agencies. He is also an editor of Tropical Medicine & International Health, and a trustee of WaterAid.

Teaching


 * Tropical Environmental Health, as well as contributing to a number of other courses and study units on topics such as water & sanitation, PHC and Guinea worm eradication, hygiene promotion, monitoring the coverage of water supplies, sanitation and hygiene, wastewater irrigation and other related topics.

Re stoves: Dung cleanly indoors (to avoid the health problems)? The Pellet stove looks like a promising idea and has been listed on the Appropriate technology page but it appears to be a device suitable for developed societies. http://www.tve.org/ho/doc.cfm?aid=1498&lang=English or google on "improved wood burning stove" Also: |Guatemalan study in progress
 * Witold Rybczynski in this category?
 * Need work: Appropriate technology, Sustainable technology (merge with Alternative technology? ask people at ATA...), Kamal Kar, Solar cooker (esp re uptake, cultural issues).
 * http://www.cerritos.edu/glazor/CIS%20102/PPT%20Tutorial%201/Lorena.ppt or in HTML
 * check this out: "There are devices that can be used to create briquettes from grass/dung/sawdust: http://www.lehmans.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=5788&itemType=PRODUCT&iMainCat=671&iSubCat=886&iProductID=5788 There are also small gasifier stoves for cooking/heating, and small can stoves that run on sawdust.  But none of these really take advantage of the automatic feeding that is possible with pellets.  Creating pellets on a household scale seems to be somewhat difficult.  And, honestly, developing countries are already ahead of the curve in creating and adopting many of these technologies anyways. --Benjamindees 19:18, 13 December 2005 (UTC)"
 * http://burningissues.org/ re pellet stove and particle size!
 * Start using Category:Public health. Category:Sewerage & Category:Water treatment as subcategories?

I always thought that we could harnass the power of fitness gyms. i wonder if it gyms could at least be energy self sufficient?
 * Check this, from worldchanging.com:

http://www.nonsensical.com/work/portfolio/power.html Posted by: adrian cotter at March 8, 2004 11:03 AM

I totally love this idea.

The World Bank's up to some interesting stuff:

http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/000247.html Posted by: Alex at March 8, 2004 11:15 AM

Great idea. I just wish the proper people were credited for it. The earliest I've heard of it was in the 70's at a place in Eastern Columbia called Gaviotas. Read the book of the same name, it's inspiring. Posted by: Kevin at March 8, 2004 07:40 PM

Kevin - That's interesting. I have read Gaviotas, but Social Design Notes' Aug 03 post about it reminded me about their policy against patenting inventions, preferring to share their designs freely (he also lists other inventions developed at the site). This may account for any failure to credit the designer. http://www.backspace.com/notes/2003/08/09/x.html

Victor Papanek, who worked for UNESCO, famously held a similar policy, and his work was copied for years. His approach had to do with making useful designs available to the largest possible population in the developing world.

DemoTech (based in the Netherlands) seems to work on similar principles: http://www.demotech.org/ Posted by: Dawn Danby at March 8, 2004 08:06 PM
 * Ceramic water filter - instructions? like at http://www.runetwork.de/html/en/index.html?article_id=2736 but find better site.
 * Main article: Put varying definitions in list? For more ideas, see http://wiki.villageearth.org/Main_Page & EWB pages.
 * Solar oven should redirect to Solar cooker?
 * http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/001135.html Un-Electric Fridge in Darfur] & Ceramic filter
 * http://www.rolexawards.com/special-feature/inventions/abba.html & check links.
 * Interesting blog - research, invite.
 * check this out: "There are devices that can be used to create briquettes from grass/dung/sawdust: http://www.lehmans.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=5788&itemType=PRODUCT&iMainCat=671&iSubCat=886&iProductID=5788 There are also small gasifier stoves for cooking/heating, and small can stoves that run on sawdust.  But none of these really take advantage of the automatic feeding that is possible with pellets.  Creating pellets on a household scale seems to be somewhat difficult.  And, honestly, developing countries are already ahead of the curve in creating and adopting many of these technologies anyways. --Benjamindees 19:18, 13 December 2005 (UTC)"
 * Category:Water treatment (see also WikiProject Water purification)
 * Category:Sewage treatment? Should I create a separate category for sewage treatment or wastewater treatment (and should the latter link to the former)? The article Sewerage states that: Sewerage is the use of sewers, meaning the provision of pipes etc to collect and dispose of sewage. Ask at Category talk:Sewerage?
 * SANDEC see also Borehole, Galicia (Central Europe)
 * Cloth filter - academic papers? (wikibooks: look at using in conjunction with e.g. SODIS or bleach.
 * Project? Tasks for AT stuff, like India tasks (see also WikiProject Melbourne)
 * Intermediate technology: "Small is Beautiful", which offered a sharp critique of then-prevalent approaches to development aid." Did it?
 * Monitor Category:Appropriate technology & Category:Appropriate technology advocates
 * Invite users to participate, incl:
 * User:Piotrus (+why Intermediate size link in Intermediate technology?)
 * User:Jwanders/Sustainable technologies
 * Benjamindees (stoves)
 * When project is more advanced, invite users to help translate, e.g. at Village Pump & other language wikipedias.
 * Also referred to at:
 * Primary health care - "Appropriate technology is technology that is scientifically sound, adaptable to local needs, acceptable to those who apply it and for those for whom it is used and can be maintained by the people themselves in keeping with the principle of self reliance with the resources the community and country can afford."
 * Technology
 * check "what links here"
 * See here for other references within wikipedia. also for intermediate...
 * See My notes on Appropriate technology for more.

*merge Zeer pot Roundabout_PlayPump.
 * Stoves: Smokeless and wood conserving stoves - need redirects

Water
Water
 * eThekwini's urine diversion (UD) toilets and yard tanks programme, South Africa
 * Look up: Fewtrell L. and Colford J.M.Jr. 2004. Water, sanitation and hygiene: interventions and diarrhoea. A systematic review and meta-analysis. The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank. Washington, DC 20133.
 * Fesselet, 2003. Ceramic candle filter project in Magdalena Medio, Colombia. Evaluation Report. MSF-Holland. Internal report.
 * HOUSEHOLD DRINKING WATER SYSTEMS AND THEIR IMPACT ON PEOPLE WITH WEAKENED IMMUNITY - look thru References
 * Article on Desalination plant at Kurnell, link from Desalination
 * Research: http://water.me.vccs.edu/ - Mountain Empire Community College, Water/Wastewater Distance Learning. E.g. Types of Filters - a comparison of the Slow sand filter, Rapid sand filter, Pressure filter & Diatomaceous earth filter. (Mountain Empire Community College, Water/Wastewater Distance Learning. )
 * course info at: http://water.me.vccs.edu/subject.htm & e.g. http://water.me.vccs.edu/courses/ENV115/REVIEW_LESSONS.htm . (dl sebelum dipakai di wp)
 * Water/Wastewater Distance Learning. - list of external water/wastewater education?
 * Category:Water - subcat for treatment?
 * work on Category:Water supply
 * Water well re treatment,
 * VLOM (pumps)
 * Storm water reuse? Pr Nicholas Ashbolt's talk? --> Reclaimed water also. + Toowoomba Council's current plans.
 * Sand separator - look up CDS Technologies and Envirozel. These two companies have developed technology which reduces storm water waste and encourages the conservation and re-use of water.
 * Municipal water treatment?
 * Cryptosporidium section on water treatment
 * Direct filtration? & Diatomaceous earth filter. Membrane filter? Pressure filter
 * Reverse osmosis re reuse; cats.
 * Propose a water stub?:
 * 1) Filter (water)
 * 2) Rapid sand filter
 * 3) Media filter


 * Look at Portal:Water - anything worth doing here?

Management issues

 * Decentralisation: successful management models for small town water supply in Ecuador - The flexible approach in which municipalities are not steered towards a single model for service provision has increased public support for reforms. Visible Service Improvements Facilitate Reforms in Town Water Supply: PRAGUAS in Ecuador (incentives & flexilibity; models included automonomous associations of consumers).
 * For her : it’s the big issue: putting women at the centre of water supply, sanitation and hygiene - importance of women in water & san.
 * peri-urban poor, peri-urban poor (drier?)

Wastewater
Wastewater
 * Research: http://www.sanicon.net/titles/topicintro.php3?topicId=6
 * Greenbelt handbook - Lloyd Smith. mentions John timohty Winneberger. Found that sulfur in sewage combines with iron, in anaerobic conditions, plugs soil, causes septic tank failure. retention of soil porosity essential.
 * Humanure

Sustainability
Sustainability & category - links to AT?
 * Roundup:
 * http://www.organicconsumers.org/monsanto/pregnancy060305.cfm
 * Sub-categories for Category:Renewable energy - Category:Sustainability advocates as a model.
 * Water-saving device
 * Composting toilet
 * Peter Newman (Australian)
 * Research: Australian ethical investment, SRI, google with "water", "sustainable"... Google "green tech".
 * create Category:Sustainable technologies? can add:
 * 1) concrete with magnesium compound...?
 * 2) Water-saving device
 * 3) Composting toilet
 * 4) Renewable energy: Category:Renewable energy as subcategory.
 * 1) Renewable energy: Category:Renewable energy as subcategory.

Development
International development
 * Special:Whatlinkshere/:Development - many shouldn't link here.
 * VLOM (pumps)
 * Aid
 * poverty eradication, poverty alleviation, poverty reduction
 * Urban Resource Centre, Pakistan
 * Read: http://www.carebd.org/Nijera%20October%202005.pdf & google "kamal kar" "Conceptual Framework and Summary of Five-Year Plan for Phase-VI"


 * articles for International development stub, :
 * 1) Kamal Kar - google "Kamal Kar" ngo OR ngos OR ngo's
 * 2) Akhtar Hameed Khan
 * 3) Development as Freedom

Urban planning & housing
Urban planning & housing
 * link to Green Manhattan article
 * Grameen house & super-adobe
 * See Category:New Urbanism. Transit-oriented development, Neotraditional design, New Urbanism, & redirects for other capitalizations. +Ecovillage
 * Total cost planning/budgeting for transport? (ask Ecotransit
 * Categories appear without annotations, so be careful of NPOV when creating or filling categories. re NU: Unless it is self-evident and uncontroversial that something belongs in a category, it should not be put into a category. - Categorization
 * Beddington Zero Energy Development, an urban eco-community in South London.
 * List of ecovillages
 * Village Homes - corbett
 * book "Designing sustainable communities" mentions British Urban Villages Campaign
 * Dinner at Corbetts' house prior to katz' book The New Urbanism. Corbetts' one disagreement was about grids. Preferred...depend on local conditions. Cul-de-sacs (p12-4) in their own Village Homes.

Learn about Wikipedia:

 * references & sources
 * title capitalization rules
 * Categories
 * "Community Portal" & village pump?

Wikimania 2006 is planned for August 4-8, 2006.
Wikimania, (http://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page & http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006)
 * proceedings 05
 * What about those who can't make Boston - is there a way to participate in other locations?
 * See also: User:Singkong2005/Interests, User:Singkong2005/Scratchpad
 * Check out:
 * Association for Progressive Communications

Misc useful links
http://www.wisegeek.com