Welcome to Appropedia
Technologies
Appropedia started in 2006 as an encyclopedia of appropriate technologies:
Projects
Now we document over 4,200 projects. Here are a few selected examples:
Map
Much of our content is geo-located, so you can explore it by location:
Publications
You can also read some of the best content on Appropedia in a curated and packaged format:
Sustainable Development Goals
Or browse content by its relevance to each of the UN's global goals:
SDG01 No poverty SDG02 Zero hunger SDG03 Good health and well-being SDG04 Quality education SDG05 Gender equality SDG06 Clean water and sanitation SDG07 Affordable and clean energy SDG08 Decent work and economic growth SDG09 Industry innovation and infrastructure SDG10 Reduced inequalities SDG11 Sustainable cities and communities SDG12 Responsible consumption and production SDG13 Climate action SDG14 Life below water SDG15 Life on land SDG16 Peace justice and strong institutions SDG17 Partnerships for the goals
Organizations
Know some of the organizations that chose to publish on Appropedia:
- Cal Poly Humboldt
- Michigan Tech in Open Sustainability Technology
- Catholic Relief Services
- Global Ecovillage Network
- Escuela Superior de Economía y Negocios
- Intuitive Foundation
- Fashion Revolution
- Practical Action
- more
Our service
We help individuals and organizations produce, publish and spread knowledge focused on poverty reduction and sustainability.
But why Appropedia?
- Vision-driven — Imagine a world where every human being can live rich and sustainable lives. Does this resonate with you or your organization? If so, we'd love to help you!
- Free and open — Appropedia is and always will be free to access and with open licenses.
- Advanced tools — We've been documenting projects since 2006! In the process we developed powerful yet simple to use tools and standards.
- Accessibility — We strive to make content in Appropedia available to everyone. Appropedia can be accessed offline via Kiwix as well as plain prints and books, can be easily read aloud for visually-impaired (or busy) people, translated to many languages, accessed via APIs, and more!
- No overhead — Start documenting right away without having to worry about developers, domains, hosting, setup, configuration or maintenance.
- Resilience — Keeping content online indefinitely is hard. According to various studies, most links break after only two or three years. Appropedia not only hosts content about sustainability, but is determined to be sustainable itself!
- Strong SEO — Take advantage of our many years online and hundreds of thousands of backlinks to see your content rise to the top of search results in no time.
- Community support — You're not alone! Leave a message anytime and we'll do our best to help you!
- Exit button — If you ever want to leave or copy your content elsewhere, we provide tools to do so.