Welcome to the
Online Web Library

A Resource for Gentle Technology
Here you will find a wealth of topics related to gentle technology. Many of these topics don't yet have information associated with them, since our web library is still under construction, but as we develop the library, more and more topics will become links to further information. Those sections that do have information have boxes around the bullets and the wording is blue (indicating a link). Please feel free to email us good links or text for any of the listed topics or suggestions for other topics.

Table of Contents

* HOUSE BUILDING
 * WATER
* FOOD * AGRICULTURE
* FORESTS * EDUCATION
* CLOTHING * VILLAGE INDUSTRIES
* GENTLE POWER * HEALTH CARE
* LAND USE TENURE * COOPERATIVES
* WASTE MANAGEMENT


* HOUSE BUILDING
* Construction Techniques
* Heating and Cooling
* WATER
* Drinking
* Irrigation
* Water Heating
* Solar water heat
* Wood water heat
* Water Pumping
* Human powered pumps
* Water pumping windmills
* FOOD
* Cooking
* Solar cookers
* No fuel cookers
* Efficient earth stoves
* Food Values
* Food Preservation
* Dehydration
* Storing dry grains, pulses etc
* AGRICULTURE
* Composting
* Dry land agriculture
* Fiber cultivation
* Fish ponds
* Food Growing with Vermicasting
* Solar greenhouses
* Herb growing
* Intensive vegetable & fruit cultivation
* Seed production and gathering
* How to maintain natural fertility
* Sprouts
* FORESTS
* Care of
* Preservation
* Sustainable productivity
* EDUCATION
* Children, rural
* Youth
* Adult
* Women
* Men
* Women's liberation
* Community run schools
* For Community development
* Revitalize community mutuality
* CLOTHING
* Fiber processing
* Weaving
* Leather tanning
* Shoe making
* Village production of clothing
* VILLAGE INDUSTRIES
* Manufacture tools
* Blacksmithing
* Bicycle assembly
* Manufacture from local materials
* Minerals
* Arts and Crafts
* sand painting
* cloth printing
* Pottery
* Recycling, metal parts and metal
* Furniture making
* Recyclable printing inks
* GENTLE POWER
* Wind power
* Solar photovoltaic
* Water power
* Biogas
* HEALTH CARE
* Community sanitation
* Infant health care and feeding
* For adults
* For children
* Home remedies
* Herbal medicine
* LAND USE TENURE
* Distribution of land ownership
* Gentle methods of land redistribution
* COOPERATIVES
* Intentional Community
* Village Cooperatives
* Cooperative child care
* Coop agriculture
* Coop irrigation
* Coop buying
* Coop marketing of village products
* Coop financing of village production
* Coop loan systems
* WASTE MANAGEMENT
* Biodigester
* Biogas

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