Hello all, I have some exciting Appropedia news this week: Village Earth, who created the first wiki for appropriate technology, has joined Appropedia, the largest and most active wiki for sustainability, appropriate technology and poverty reduction.

Here is a little background:

Village Earth works on sustainable development worldwide, while adhering to the concept that communities already posses the seeds of their own development, and that the optimum approach to development employs a “bottom-up” (listening rather than dictating) participatory process. Village Earth was born in 1993 at an International Conference on Sustainable Village-Based Development, and has been engaged with amazing projects ever since.

We at Appropedia are a 1 year old site, 200 member community, 3000 page living library dedicated to co-creating sustainable solutions. I will blog more about us in the future.

Together, Village Earth and Appropedia are promoting the concept of a centralized, consolidated and open information clearinghouse where users can share what they know and find the information they seek. As Dr. Maury Albertson, founder of Village Earth and Peace Corps, put it, “There is an ENORMOUS POTENTIAL here.” (His emphasis.)

This open-source, living and adaptable knowledge base is being used to design greywater systems, rebuild old computers, effect lighter living habits, collaborate on sustainability documents and events, evolve better gardens, etc.

To join us and our partners in co-creating solutions for a sustainable world visit http://www.appropedia.org.