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Earth Day takes place this week on Thursday, April 22. To celebrate, we're asking folks to share something they did during the past year that contributed to the goal of Sustainable Living: Some ...

Is it on-topic here to ask how to set up a particular controller? This is a Resol Deltasol BX controller for my solar hot water. I'm confused by the wording.

I noticed there is a battery tag with 1 QA, and a batteries tag with many more. May I recommend merging the two tags, and creating a synonym?

As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months. As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...

Update June 22, 2020: With no objection and consensus among the mods, we've decided to elevate this to the CM team. Background Currently, it takes five votes within 14 days from users with the ...

We have both climate-change (3 questions) and global-warming (14 questions). Neither has a wiki. The lemma on Wikipedia is Global warming: Global warming is the long-term rise in the average ...

Take a look at the current text of the help center page, What topics can I ask about here?. There are a few different issues with this page as it stands: Description The site description ("SL.SE is ...

Sustainable Living's first moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied and the new moderators are: They'll be joining the existing crew shortly—please thank them ...

In the process of suggesting an edit to this question I noticed we have both a waste and waste-minimisation tags. Both have fairly substantial use (94 and 21 questions respectively). From what I can ...

The aquarium tag is used on only two question. It may be overly specific. The best tags offer value beyond a simple keyword search, and in this case both questions already include the keyword in their ...

We have two tags here on Meta that seem to cover exactly the same content. on-topic site-scope Could a moderator please add on-topic as a synonym of site-scope?

After asking a question about types of dishwasher detergent, I realized that I see a lot of questions asking the "best way" to do something. For example: Best way to store vegetables in the fridge ...

I put together this mind map to represent approximate relationships I see between tags. Many tags do not fit well into a tree structure, so I've taken liberties in a few areas. Hopefully this is ...

In general, how long should we wait for community feedback before confirming and enacting decisions on meta? For example, I recently asked whether we should burn a tag and the response was positive, ...

We have two separate tags, cooling and air-conditioning. Right now these are not synonyms, but I wonder if they should be. Precedent The inverse tags, heating and space-heating have already been ...

We have two questions on this site about perpetual motion machines. Solar energy without the sun: Super LED light on top of solar panels? Getting power from an innovative new mechanism Both ...

The tag green-construction doesn't seem to offer much specificity. It's clearly not about painting buildings green, so "green" in this sense really just means sustainable, which is already implied by ...

The 2020 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase Primary phase Election phase Most elections take between two and three weeks,...

It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land... A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated: We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...

We have two related tags that I feel overlap largely but IMHO are distinct enough to keep them as separate tags; carbon-footprint and greenhouse-gas-emissions. Assuming other people agree the tags are ...

Summary: Sustainable Living Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on February 24, 2020 to bring in two more moderators. For full details of the process, see the ...

I was looking at the new users reputation for this Meta site, and I noticed that most of the new users are from Hanoi, Việt Nam, and have exactly 1 reputation. Also, all of these user profiles have a ...

This community last had moderators appointed in 2013, so it's been a while... In addition to that, the moderator team has reached out requesting extra hands on deck. Since moderators were last ...

car has 6 questions and no description. cars has 32 questions and a description. Should we merge these two?

Over the last few months I've noticed a number of questions from new users that seem to take an anti-wind power stance: Does the cost of wind energy double when calculated correctly? Have wind ...

Recently a question was migrated from Earth Science to the main Sustainability.SE site, and it shows up on the main page: Then, it was migrated to meta, as you can see here. Now, the link is on both ...

I belong to a group of Fulbright Scholars that has been entertaining the idea of an online massively collaborative approach to the climate change crisis. Particularly, imagine a stack exchange site ...

I recently found this post on meta explaining that the Community user will automatically delete old abandoned / dead questions in the following circumstances: If the question is more than 30 ...

Over on electronics.se there's a question that might be a better fit over here: Difference between Net metering, Feed-in tariff and power purchase agreement There are just a couple of related ...

This question on solar power systems for a van would be a better fit for electronics.SE, as indeed some have suggested in comments. However, in going through the close dialog, when I select the reason ...

I note that a user has created a Tag with no attached wiki titled "Emergy". This raises the question of rigour, as the term itself is ill defined - that is not my question here. When flagging the ...

It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land... A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated: We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...

Why a new Logo and a Contest? To help move this Stack Exchange site (Sustainable Living beta) up from page 12 of 15 to at least page 6/15 of the ~170 sites by 'traffic',and move it off beta (status ...

In the Tour: for professionals in renewable energy and other clean technoloy

I've been having this issue for a while -- nothing in my review queues, but the red notification dot is there: Over on meta.stackexchange.com I found a post discussing the issue: Experiment: Review-...

I have a vision for a type of grocery store that would buy food in bulk and package on-site into packaging which is 100% reusable (at the store) or truly compostable (unlike many types of so-called "...

If I just asked about thermal efficiency would this be a good question for this site? build up or build out

Have just found this SE and was reading through alot of the questions. I started editing a few questions to make for easier reading, as some of them are just a wall of text. I do have some experience ...

Just curious as to whether this has ever happened, and if so, what the result was -- spammy answers, or increased engagement and new traffic?

I'm new to this site but I see that the last questions of this date were asked by myself 5 days ago. This suggests to me that this site is unlikely to break out of beta at its current level of ...

Logically it seems to me that a question about ethical living, such as fair sharing of resources or welfare of farm animals need not be on topic for Sustainable Living, yet they seem very similar in ...

Can I ask on sus.se for factual information (such as wattage/flight) argumentation patterns (such as diverting the "everyone is flying, not just me" strawman argument) lead-ups to 2) which try to ...

I posted a question relevant to sustainability over at the gardening SE site. Is this the best way to solicit input from members of this SE?

It seems like there are a fair number of questions/answers involving math: How is NOx mg/km from diesel cars and trucks related to µg/m3 in the air? What are the carbon emissions from the manufacture ...

Can anyone recommend a book or books, intended for a non-scientific audience, which covers some (or all) of these elements? Basic science of global warming Evidence from ice cores, temp readings, etc ...

(Prompted by this question) The organic tag has no definition here yet. What definition can we come up with? Things to consider: If there are no legal definitions, labeling something organic can ...

As a new member of the site, it occurred to me that someone just starting out with trying to live sustainable would not have a readily accessible way of finding out where to start on our site. I'm ...

In 2016, Stack Exchange will continue its tradition of the "Winter Bash". Winter Bash is an annual event that can run on any Stack Exchange site that chooses to participate. Users earn “hats”...

At the top of the site tour, it currently says: Sustainable Living Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for folks dedicated to a lifestyle that can be maintained indefinitely without ...

I found this site a few weeks ago and have really enjoyed the discussion, and searching out answers for new and interesting questions. But, there's just not enough activity! On the front page, rarely ...