User:Jwanders/Sustainable technologies

I hope this might someday become a WikiProject, but I'll just leave it in my userspace until there's enough support for it. Feel free to edit this page as through it wasn't in userspace.

Welcome to WikiProject Sustainable technologies.

Goals

• Develop articles relating to sustainable technology to the highest-possible standard.

Scope

Many projects and articles in this area fall into lengthy talk page discussions regarding which technologies are better, which technologies are possible, and why these technologies might be needed. One of the main goals of this project is to avoid getting caught up in such discussions. With this in mind, the scope of this project extends only to existing sustainable technologies.

Though certain articles will call for it, the goal is to minimize discussion regarding sustainable philosophy, speculation on future trends (such as climate change or oil depletion), or descriptions of other concerns with modern technology. If you still run into a user insisting on reverts or making contreversal claims on a talk page, keep in mind that these emotionally charged subjects on a ripe hunting ground for trolls—you may save yourself a lot of trouble by temporarily focusing your efforts on a different article.

To summarise, this project includes articles in these areas:

• Renewable energy
• Sustainable living
• Organic agriculture
• Environmental Economics
• (and Ecological Economics? Huggsy 02:01, 16 November 2006 (UTC))

The project does not include:

• Environmental organisations
• Enviromentalists
• Sustainable philosophy
• Non-sustainable technologies
• Future predictions

How to help

• First off, if you're interested, say so. If we can maintain at least 5 active contributors, I'll make this a proper WikiProject.
• Comment on this this project's scope and goals in an effort to better define and clarify them.
• Monitor changes related to the catagory or this page for improvements and vandalism.
• Work on tasks from the to do list.

To do list

Meta to do

• Add articles
• Advertise for potential contributors on article talk pages and off-site
• Pick a sample article to hilight project goals
• Update article grades according to the grading scheme.
• Find/create suitable stub category.
• Develop template for renewable energy sources

High quality articles

As of Feb 2008, high quality sustainable technology articles already include:

• Renewable energy in Scotland (FA)
• Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (FA)

• Renewable energy commercialization
• Renewable energy commercialization in Australia
• Renewable energy in Iceland
• Solar energy
• Solar power plants in the Mojave Desert
• The Clean Tech Revolution
• Wind power in South Australia

Articles in progress

Articles belonging to this project should be listed here in the format: Article Name – grade — comments. Articles in bold are considered the most fundamental articles and should be a priority.

All of articles in this list will be part of Category:Sustainable technologies, and ideally, all articles in the catagory should be in this list.

General articles

• Sustainability ^talk— B — Opens very well, but trails off half way through. Needs a better overall focus.
• Sustainable design ^talk— C — Well written but needs expanding.
• Sustainable industries ^talk— Stub — no comments
• Sustainable living ^talk— C — Barely more than a disambiguation page.

Agriculture

• Sustainable agriculture ^talk— B — no comments
• Companion planting ^talk— C — no comments
• Composting ^talk— B — no comments
• Intercropping ^talk— B — Short, but good article
• Organic farming ^talk— B — To be merged with organic gardening
• Organic gardening ^talk— C — To be merged with organic farming
• Permaculture ^talk— B — no comments
• Polyculture ^talk— C — no comments
• Urban agriculture ^talk— Stub — no comments
• Vermiculture B - could use photo's and references

Construction and development

• Sustainable development ^talk— C — requires formatting and editing --Huggsy 09:49, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
• Composting toilet ^talk— maybe A! — this is a great article --Huggsy 09:49, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
• Grey water ^talk— B — updated this today, needs a picture and some references Huggsy 03:56, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
• Rammed earth ^talk- B - linked article Adobe may be B also, mudbrick and dutch brick are stubs and could be could be merged --Huggsy 10:16, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
• Recycling ^talk— B — So close to A-status, but big list of necessary prior improvements in the talk page. Current focus article.
• Solar chimney JdH 18:38, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
• Straw-bale construction ^talk— B — a bit US-centric. see also Natural_building, another relevant article --Huggsy 10:39, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
• Thatching ^talk— B — well written but too UK-centric
• Passive house ^talk— B — very close to A. Importantly, this represents a dichotomy in sustainable design between passive and active elements--Huggsy 10:48, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
• Superinsulation ^talk— B — needs copy edit and references check
• Zero energy building ^talk— B — good explanation and seems balanced - needs rearranging, references, more examples --Huggsy 09:49, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
• Rice hulls—^talk C/stub — may not warrant direct link
• Earthships—^talk B - could use pictures, needs references Huggsy 02:07, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Economics

• Carbon emissions trading ^talk— B — no comments
• Domestically tradable quotas ^talk— X — no comments

Energy

• Renewable energy ^talk— B — Good content; could use editing
• Biodiesel ^talk— A — Candidate for project spotlight article
• Biofuel ^talk— ungraded — no comments
• Biomass ^talk— ungraded — no comments
• Geothermal power ^talk— ungraded — no comments
• Solar

• Solar box cooker ^talk— ungraded — no comments
• Solar cell ^talk— ungraded — no comments
• Solar energy ^talk— GA — no comments
• Solar forge ^talk— ungraded — no comments
• Solar oven ^talk— ungraded — no comments
• Solar power ^talk— ungraded — no comments
• Solar thermal energy ^talk— ungraded — no comments

• Water

• Hydroelectricity ^talk— ungraded — no comments
• Hydraulic ram ^talk— ungraded — no comments
• Pelton wheel ^talk— ungraded — no comments
• Tidal power ^talk— ungraded — no comments
• Wave power ^talk— ungraded — no comments

• Wind

• Wind farm ^talk— ungraded — no comments
• Windmill ^talk— ungraded — no comments
• Wind power ^talk— B — Very close to A-status; nearly ready for RfF. Needs to be shortened substantially.

Transport

• Battery electric vehicle ^talk— ungraded — no comments
  • Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle ^talk— ungraded — no comments
• Bicycle ^talk— FA — Currently in FAR, mostly needs more inline citations and some copy-editing.
• Funicular ^talk— C — Needs a "More Images" section, better description of operation.
• Sustainable transport ^talk— ungraded — no comments

Outside of Scope

• Magnetic levitation train ^talk— C — The sustainability of technology running on electricity depends on the source of that electricity.

Completed Articles

• empty list

Participants

• Jwanders 19:17, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
• Chriswaterguy talk 06:41, 30 November 2005 (UTC) Update: My main effort now is with Appropedia, a green wiki focused on appropriate technology, sustainable design, permaculture and the like. There's much overlap with this project, and certain content which is deemed WP:NOT suitable here may be suitable at Appropedia. 07:43, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
• Vortexrealm --Alex 07:53, 24 July 2006 (UTC) I am prepared to focus on sustainable technologies for waste- composting, anaerobic digestion, biogas, mechanical biological treatment please see list of solid waste treatment technologies.
• Huggsy 00:34, 4 October 2006 (UTC) I am keen to research articles that need content and I am good at copy-editing. I too want to get away from debate and go towards verifiable info.