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Water

Providing Hydration
Passive Water Harvesting

Spring Water Collection Systems

Earthworks

  • Swales
  • Boomerangs
  • Terraces
  • Infiltration Basins
  • Keyline Subsoil Ripping
  • Ponds & Lakes

Passive Atmospheric Condensation

  • Stone Piles

Passive Atmospheric Droplet Nucleation

  • Fog Harvesters
Active Water Harvesting
  • Wells
  • Tanks & Cisterns
  • Active Atmospheric Condensation

Moving Things

Erosion Control Structures
  • Zuni bowls
  • Rock mulch rundowns
  • Log-drop structures
  • Media lunas
  • One Rock Dams
  • Pond n’ Plug Method
  • Mulch berms
  • Brush mats
  • Check dams
  • Induced Meandering technique
  • Beaver dam analogues
  • Rolling dips
  • Culverts
  • Water bars
Moving Wastes & Nutrients

Greywater Systems

  • Reed Beds
  • Branched Drain
  • Vermi-filters

Blackwater Systems

Fertigation Systems

  • Flood & Drain
  • Mazzei Injectors
  • Dosatron

Filtration Systems

  • Slow-Sand Charcoal Potable Water Filtration System
Moderating Climate
Space Heating & Cooling With Water
Re-Creation
  • Wood-Fired Hot Tubs
  • Natural Swimming Pools

Access

Foot Transport
Hardscapes
  • Pavements
    • Permeable
    • Impermeable
  • Stone/cobble
  • Concrete
Softscapes
  • Gravel
  • Dirt
Bioscapes
  • Pathway Groundcovers
  • Living Bridges
Wheeled Transport
Hardscape Roads
  • Paved (permeable and impermeable)
  • Stone/cobble
  • Concrete
Low-Standard Roads
  • Gravel
  • Dirt
  • Gravel
  • Roadbase
Water Transport
Wind-Driven
  • Sails
  • Kites
Current-Driven
  • Boats
  • Barges
  • Flumes
  • Riverine current-driven transport

Shelter & Structures

Sheltering Life
Shelter For People

Residences

  • community spaces (dining rooms and living rooms), bedrooms, bathrooms

Shade Structure

  • trellises
  • pergolas
  • awnings

Acoustic Shelters

  • Noise barrier
Shelter For Animals & Plants

Animals

  • Barns
  • Coops
  • Mobile Shelters
    • Eggmobiles
    • Milking Sheds
    • Shade Structures

Plants

  • Greenhouses
  • Shadehouses
  • Cold frames
  • Sun traps
Food Processing & Storage

Processing

  • Solar food dehydrators

Storage

  • Root cellar
  • Curing room
Sheltering Things
  • Sheds
  • Workshops
  • Garages
  • Barns

Living Systems

Soil Building & Fertility
Livestock
  • Vermiculture
  • Black Soldier Fly
  • Rabbits
  • Chickens/Ducks
  • Managed Ruminant Grazing
Nutrient Cycling
Fertility Plantings
  • Nurse Plantings
Food Production
Gardens
  • Market Garden Beds
  • Raised Beds
  • Waffle Gardens
  • Wicking Beds
Agroforestry
  • Silvopasture
  • Forest Gardening
  • Alley Cropping
  • Food Forestry
Livestock
  • Quail
  • Rabbits
  • Chickens
  • Geese
  • Ducks
  • Sheep
  • Pigs
  • Goats
  • Cattle
Freshwater Aquaculture
  • Fish
  • Crustaceans
    • Shrimp
    • Prawns
    • Crayfish
  • Freshwater Mollusks
Fuel Production
Carbon
  • Fuelwood plantings
    • Coppice & Pollard
  • Biomass
    • Giant Chinese Silvergrass
Oils
  • Jatropha seed
  • Algae
Gas
  • Anaerobic Digesters
Fiber Production
Animal & Insect Fibers
  • Sheep Wool
  • Alpaca Wool
  • Silk
Plant Fibers
  • Flax
  • Hemp
  • Cotton
  • Yucca
Biological Erosion Control
Bio-Remediation
Aquatic
  • Bio-filtration Rafts
  • Constructed Wetlands
  • Regeneration Zones
Terrestrial
  • Livestock Effluent Treatment with Vetiver Grass
  • Anaerobic Digestion of Solid Wastes
Tree-based Screens
  • Windbreaks
  • Privacy Screens
  • Shade Plantings
Plant Propagation Systems
Plants

Vegetative (from cuttings)

  • Automated Misting Beds
Trees

From Seed

Boundaries

Animal Confinement & Exclusion
  • Fences
    • Living Fences
    • Built Fences
  • Cages
Security & Privacy

Built

  • Walls
  • Doors
  • Gates

Living

  • Prickly/sharp plants
  • Noisy plants
  • Plants with their own acoustics

Energy

Moving Heat

Cooking
  • Walker Stove Rocket Cooktop
  • TLUD Charcoal Stoves
  • Rocket Cob Oven
  • Barrel Oven
  • Solar Oven
Space Heating & Cooling

Heating

  • Rocker Mass Heaters
  • Masonry Heaters
  • Rumford Style Fireplace
  • Solar Trombe Wall Air Heater
  • Radiant Floor Heating

Cooling

  • Solar Chimney
  • Geothermal Air Tubes
Water Heating
  • Rocket mass hot water
  • Solar hot water heaters
  • Biogas hot water
  • Wood cookstove water heating jackets
Moving Things
Moving Fluids

Pumping Water With Moving Water

  • Rife River Pumps
  • Bunyip Pumps
  • Ram Pumps

Lifting Water With Moving Water

  • Water Wheels

Compressing Air With Moving Water

  • Trompe
Rotating Shafts

Rotating Shafts With Moving Water

  • Water Wheels
  • Turbines

Electric Induction Motors

Moving Wastes & Nutrients

With Water

  • Wash systems (grey water)
  • Flush systems (black water)
  • Fertigation systems (green water) 

Moving Electricity

Lighting
  • DC Lighting
Computing & Communications
Appliances & Tools

DC Appliances & Tools

Generation
  • Solar Photovoltaics
  • Micro Hydro
  • Micro Wind
  • Geothermal
Storage
  • Battery Banks
  • Compressed Air
  • Water battery