User:Nicholas1313Anderson/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Reuse of excreta


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is too heavy on large scale solutions. It needs more information on small scale solutions, such as backyard compost piles, which avoid the pitfalls of plumbing.


 * Sources
 * The Humanure handbook

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Compost


 * Article Evaluation
 * The history section was rather brief, the history could certainly be expanded. It covered lots of essentials, such as Sir Albert Howard, but was lacking in both the historical successes and failures, such as Chinese composting over thousands of years, or the U.S military's failures in using anaerobic nitrogen heavy techniques. Understanding composting requries understanding thermophilic bacteria, which I would like to see covered in more depth.


 * Sources
 * The Humanure handbook

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Grey water
 * Article Evaluation
 * The article was a bit heavy on the artificial greywater treatment processes. I think more credit and explanation is in order for natural purification of greywater, which is a much better solution for cost and the environment. Biofilters, with organic matter, can purify greywater. In a more natural setting, a marsh (which is natures way of purifying water), is a great intermediary between greywater and its use for irrigation or any other use.


 * Sources
 * Gaia's Garden, A Guide to Homescale Permaculture

Adding citation to

"Biological systems such as constructed wetlands or living walls and bioreactors or more compact systems such as membrane bioreactors which are a variation of the activated sludge process and is also used to treat sewage."

This sentence is refering to large scale constructed wetlands, while the design of homescale wetlands for greywater can be described by this source. This adds to my critique that more natural processes are not mentioned enough, or in this case, at all.

Hemenway, T. (2009). Gaia's Garden. Chelsea Green Publishing.