As you know, I've been mumbling on about this for some years, but in my defence I have been spending the time talking to people involved in this and understanding the extent of the problem - for example, those involved in emergency WASH in Haiti told me that the vast majority of sludge was sent untreated to a landfill site. One INGO considered the risk of this being a vector for epidemics and retained their own microbiologist to ensure that the sludge was safe.

I've been trying to think of a way to collate and consider as much information as is possible regarding low tech sludge treatment. It could easily spiral out of control though - what do you think as a topic for appropedia?

I'd like to do a blog interview with you - let me work out some questions and get in touch with you.

Fantastic to hear from you - I wasn't aware of your work, and it's such an encouragement to hear from a like-minded soul.

I'm checking out your links - and I look forward to working with you. I expect we'll be doing a launch of the work in a few weeks time - we'll definitely be in touch!

Re CC-licensed websites, I'd add that it needs to be a compatible CC license. The CC-by-sa license (without any restrictions on commercial use or derivatives) gives complete freedom to reuse, as long as it's shared under the same conditions. This is the license used by Wikipedia, Appropedia and many others. But if there's an nc or nd in the license (Non-Commercial or No Derivatives) it's not compatible with the CC-by-sa license that we use. So my simple recommendation is: use CC-by-sa. (A more complex recommendation is that CC-by is suitable in some cases... but don't worry too much about that.)

Thanks Danyl!
Chris

I'm also glad to see the various people who share a passion for pooling permaculture information online starting to find each other. To me, free and open licensing is the key to the success of this networked effort. As long as a permie website of any kind is CC-licensed, its contents can be copied and built on by others. I wrote a proposal on this to present to the Australasian Permaculture Convergence in March, although I hadn't discovered many of these proposals so it's now a little dated:
http://www.coactivate.org/projects/permaculture/a-growing-commons

Everyone can help by talking to all the permaculturists you know about free and open licensing, CreativeCommons, GNU GPL etc, and helping them understand why information freedom is important, and how it embodies the permaculture ethics and principles. If you're looking for ideas, I wrote a paper about this for the Free Culture research conference in 2012:
http://www.coactivate.org/people/strypey/paper-for-freeculture2010

This year I'll be working on a redesign for permaculture.org.nz, as part of the governing council for Permaculture in NZ. I look forward to collaborating!

Nau te raurau, naku te raurau, ka ora ai te tangata.
With your work, and mine, the living will thrive.

Naku noa
Danyl Strype

Good suggestion. I think I'd like to see more info about permaculture before linking it from the sidebar, though. Perhaps when the Open Source Permaculture project starts developing those pages, we can link it and do more promotion.

We do have a permaculture category, linked from the top of the Permaculture page, so it shouldn't be too hard to find things... I'd like to hear, though, is that clear for people who don't edit wikis?

With permaculture pages on Appropedia, you're more than welcome to dive straight in - but it's nicer to collaborate directly and be part of the bigger strategy.