Appropedia has been about appropriate technology from the beginning, in the sense of sustainable, context-sensitive development, technology and living. This is also what permaculture is about, and we've had permaculture-oriented pages from the beginning, too.

Now, put Permaculture Wiki into a search engine and you'll find that a lot of people ( Read more... )

I sometimes come across the idea "Hey, let's start a green wiki!" I sometimes see an alternative thought - one with a lot more promise of making an impact: "Let's see if someone's doing a green wiki already."

Many people have started green wikis - and like wikis on all subjects, most of them wither before they can take off. There are a bunch of ( Read more... )

Google has been returning a lot of useless results in recent months. It's particularly bad if looking up hotels or hostels in a certain location - the commercial sites that promise hotels in every location appear to have Google fooled into showing their sites, rather than actual useful sites. They clog the top results to the extent that it's hard ( Read more... )