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Howto Energy

1. Wood / Biomass Power
   1. How to Use Biomass/ Wood Power?
   2. How to Plan a Biomass Digestor?
   3. How to Use Biogas?
2. Water Power
   1. How to Use Water Power?
   2. How to Plan a Micro Hydro-power Plant?
   3. How to Build a Micro Hydropower Plant?
   4. How to Build a "Water Motor"
3. Wind Power
   1. How to Plan a Small Wind Turbin
   2. How to Build a Small Wind Turbin
   3. How to Build a Wind Pump
4. Sun Power
   1. How to Use Sun Power?
   2. How to Plan a Micro Sun-power Plant?
   3. How to Plan Solar Collectors?
   4. How to Build Solar Collectors?
   5. How to Build Solar Dryers?
   6. How to Build a Solar House?
5. Man / Animal power
6. Power Saving
7. Electricity for Remote Areas

Howto Water

1. How to Pump Water
   1. How to Make a Hand Pump?
   2. How to Make a Foot Pump?
   3. How to Make a Roundabout Pump?
   4. How to Make a Unimade Pump?
2. How to Purify Water?
   1. How to Pasteurize Water with a Plastic Bottle?
   2. How to Filter Water with a Sand Filter?
   3. How to Purify Water with Moringa Seeds?
   4. How to Distillate Water?
3. How to Harvest Water?
   1. How to Build an Impluvium / Rain Tank?
   2. How to Build a Kund?
   3. How to Build Dams?
   4. How to Build a Groundwater Dam?
   5. How to build a Fog Trap?
4. How to Manage Water Ressources?
5. How to Conceive a Canalization System?
6. How to Manage and Treat Used Water?
7. How to Manage and Treat Solid Waste?
8. How to Build Toilets, Watering Points and Washing Points?
   1. How to Protect Water from Pollution?
   2. How to Build Emergency Camp toilets?
   3. How to Build Community Toilets?
   4. How to Build Individual Toilets?
   5. How to Build Dry Toilets?
   6. How to Compost Toilet Waste?
   7. How to Build a Village Fountain?
   8. How to Build a Village Washing Point?
   9. How to Use Washing Water?

Howto Forest

1. How to Help Natural Forest Regeneration?
   1. Orphan Trees Principles

Howto Agriculture

1. How to Fight Soil Erosion?
   1. How to Fight Slopes Soil Erosion?
   2. How to Fight Sandy Soil Erosion?
   3. How to Protect Cultures from the Wind?
   4. How to Restaure Soil?
   5. How to Re-vegetalize Land Using Seed Balls?
2. How to Build a Small Scale Irrigation System?
   1. How to Use the Pourous Clay Pots and Pipes System?
   2. How to Install Drip Technologies?
3. How to Fertilize with Compost and Organic Matter?
   1. What to Compost?
   2. How to Start Composting?
   3. How to Collect Compostable Matter?
   4. How to Improve Soil Quality with Earth Worms?
   5. How to Grow Earth Worms?
   6. How to Improve Soil Quality with Mycorrhizal Fungi Inoculation?
   7. How to Compost Manure?
   8. How to Improve Soil Quality with Volcanic Ashes and Stones?
   9. How to Prepare Natural Fertilizer?
4. Different Agriculture Methods, urban agriculture
   1. How to Choose from the Different Culture Methods?
   2. How to Start Permaculture?
   3. How to Start No-Till Farming?
   4. How to Start Polyculture?
   5. How to Start Crop Rotation?
   6. How to Start a Vegetable Garden?
   7. How to Start a Container Garden?
   8. How to Use Plastic Bottles in your Garden
   9. How to Start Grow Boxes?
   10. How to Improve the Crop Variety and Food Security?
5. Special Cultures and More Ideas
   1. How to Grow Banana
   2. How to Grow Peanuts
   3. How to Grow Neem Trees
   4. How to Grow Moringa Trees
   5. How to Grow Fruits and Nuts in the Desert?
   6. How to Grow Eatable Mushrooms?
6. Cattle, Porc, Rabbits, Poultry Keeping,
7. Bee Keeping and Micro-breeding
8. Fishery and Aquaculture
9. Agricultural Economy
10. Farmer Association and Cooperatives

Howto Food Processing

1. General Principles for Food Security
2. Food Hygien
3. Traditionnal Cooking Practices
4. How to Cook Efficiently with Little Fuel
   1. How to Cook with Little Fuel (Wood, Charcoal)
   2. How to Improve your Stove
   3. Minaski rocket stove
   4. How to Make a Cooking Box (HayBox / Haybag)
   5. How to make Solar Cookers
   6. How to Improve a Three Stone Fire
5. How to Process Food
   1. How to Grin Grain
   2. How to Steam Rice
   3. How to Dry Fruits, Vegetables, Herbs and Nuts
   4. How to Build Solar Dryers
   5. How to Press Oil
6. How to Store/ Preserve Food
   1. How to Preserve Food by Sterilization
   2. How to Preserve Food with Salt
   3. How to Preserve Food with Oil, Vinegar, Salt Water
   4. How to Preserve Food by Drying
   5. How to Preserve Food by Deep Freezing
   6. How to Preserve Food by Storage Conditions
   7. How to Cool thanks Evaporation
   8. How to Build a Solar Fridge

Howto Ideas

1. What to do with...
   1. Ashes
   2. Banana
   3. Clay
   4. Coconut
   5. Glass
   6. Fabric
   7. Metal Drum
   8. Plastic Bags
   9. Plastic Bottles
   10. Plastic Containers
   11. Oil
   12. Sand
   13. Seeds
   14. Tin Cans
   15. Tyres