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As the task is to enhance life for everybody, in every way possible, we need open source solutions for almost everything. This is not merely a huge amount of work to do,
If we think of a soon-to-come collapse of the global economy (which might end civilization as we know it, along with the internet as the source of the information we provide) it also takes efforts to systematically approach the near-future goal of enabling as many people as possible to simply survive and pass on their knowledge to others.
Right now, thousands of people die each day because they cannot afford water and food. Are we going to do sth. about it? Can we trigger a save-yourself movement throughout the world by teaching people how to survive on nothing?
A tree scheme of what humans need, showing the significance of each item, will help in many ways:
- emphasizing on what has to be done first
- drawing attention on what has yet to be done
- giving users easy access to solutions they are looking for.
Note: On many, especially the higher levels of needs fulfilment, there's always an active and a passive mode: To get provided with sth. and to achieve it oneself, e.g.
- enjoying a sculpture, and creating a piece of art oneself.
- retrieving information, and passing it on
- receiving and giving respect
As we are social beings and as RBOSE wants the information to be spread as wide as possible, the need for communication is involved in almost every activity. Same goes for energy sources.
We can design the tree as an adaptation of Maslow's Pyramid of Needs.
- Everybody feel free to help improve it.
- Admins: Allow for automatically displaying the headers with the classification digits (e.g. "5.2.1 Arts" instead of just "Arts").
- Eventually implement it into the wiki / site structure.
It may look like this:
BASIC NEEDS
Those are needs directly linked to the survival of the individual, i.e. metabolic requirements.
Air
Cleaning Air
Producing Oxygen
Emergency Cases
Water
Surface Water
Desalination
- In a Tent
- Glass Tents
- Plastic Tents
- Osmosis
Harvesting
- Rainwater
- Open Basins
- Construction
- Maintenance
- Cisterns
- Construction
- Maintenance
- Open Basins
- Morning Dew
- Air Moisture
- Springs
- How to find one
Cleaning
- Cleaning from Radiation
- Cleaning from Chemicals
- Mineral Filters
- Chemicals
- Cleaning from Suspended Sediments
- Filtering
- Waiting
- Cleaning from Organisms
- Cooking
- UV Radiation
Ground Water
Drilling a well
Pumping
- Solar Pumps
- Wind Pumps
- Mechanical Methods
Maintaining the water table
Food
Meat
Hunting
Breeding
Vegetables
Gathering
- Edible plants
Agriculture
- Seeds
- Open Source Farming
- Seed Exchange
- Propagate
- Classical Agriculture
- Soil enrichment
- Anaerobic composting
- Composting with Earthworms
- Biodynamic compost
- Effective micro-organisms
- Soil enrichment
- Hydroculture
- Permaculture
- Fukuoka-Method (do-nothing)
Excretion
How to use "the big one"
Dry composting
Flushers
Sleep & Recreation
Finding Sleep
Using Plants
- Valerian
Stress Relief
- Thought control
- Breathing techniques
- Meditation
- Sports
SAFETY NEEDS
Those are needs that feel very urgent, yet are irrelevant as long as the basic needs haven't been satisfied. They are linked both to the survival of the indiviudal and the species.
Energy Sources
Health
Homeostasis
Clothing
Housing
Reproduction
Security of the Body
LOVE AND BELONGING
The needs of man as a social creature.
Communication in general
Community
Township projects
Family
Friends
Sexuality
Birth control
ESTEEM
The needs of the psyche.
Achievement
Psychological Health
Confidence
Self-esteem
Vitality
Respect
SELF ACTUALIZATION
The needs of the intelligent, thinking creature
Acceptance
Creativity
Arts
Music
- Building instruments
- Learning to play instruments
- Recording and processing sounds
- Sharing music
- Music rescources
Humour
Information
Access
Books
- Libraries
- e-books
- RBOSE Library
Classes
- RBOSE Classes
- Other Lectures
Internet
- Shared Information