Simple Organic Sustenance Technologies

Efficient fireplaces:

http://koti.mbnet.fi/maxt/selkistuff/

For collecting moisture from fog, for farming, orcharding, etc:

http://www.fogquest.org/

Do It Yourself cheapo tech For effectively reclaiming sandlands and possibly even desert patches to greenery life and/or farming, while removing Carbon from atmosphere for centuries (it seems so thus far)

http://www.stand-center.com/terrapreta.html

For local economies and currency maintenance options:

http://www.schumachersociety.org/share_microcredit.html

For technical energy farming tinkering and practical instructions… as well as web community consultation on such:

http://www.fieldlines.com

For permaculture info, ideas and web community consultation:

http://forums.permaculture.org.au/

These government funded folks collect and display goody ideas to all (governments included !), and ask to be told more *community sustenance* stuffs:

For roughing it out in areas where Infrastructure has become wrecked (catastrophes, etc), these folks have whole online books (with extensive experience from the field work within poor areas) on how to keep each other alive until doctor/hospital/dentist/gynecologist can be reached… and how to increase chances of survival and intactness if such can not be reached, etc:

Mycelium Running, a (not expensive) book from Paul Stamets, published by Ten Speed Press. It has DIY effective bio-remediation of wrecked nature areas, mycelial orcharding (often called “Myco Forestry”), mycelial farming for communal (or just personal) food and medicine… not to mention communal waste management… or that these can be utilized nicely with the above mentioned “reclaiming the sandlands” link’s techniques.

This project might become promising for maintaining community Net connections, These look sturdy, practical, and not too costly… while simultaneously connecting poor areas and their children to all the Net’s data and instructions:

http://laptop.org/

Clay fireplace from Coimbatore University NERD society (Illustration project still in progress):
http://koti.mbnet.fi/maxt/tempstuff/Clayfire/

http://koti.mbnet.fi/maxt/Communication/communic.txt

Is just a short thingy that has helped me to occasionally think things out.