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Geodesic domes

2012-08-17T23:11:37Z

Eric mossotti: /* Housing Costs */

{{Breadcrumb|Housing and construction}}

'''It is possible to house 5 people for £5000 with domes.'''

'''It is possible to feed 10 people for £2100'''

Geodesic domes can be built easily and cheaply and are the strongest and lightest structure yet conceived. Compared to a rectangular structure of similar size, they have half as much wall-area, which means they lose only half as much heat through the walls. This makes them very energy-efficient. If properly constructed they can resist high winds, large snow loads and even earthquakes.
[[image:http://antarcticaedu.com/amundsenhalldone.jpg]]
==''Housing Costs (for $, multiply Euro by 1.23 - 08/2012 conversion rate)''==
*''6m diameter x 3m height strawbale dome:''
**Double geodesic frame, 2'x1'=£400 ($492)
**Strawbales=£200 ($246)
**Vapour Barrier 60m^2= £50 ($62)
**Damp proof course 60m^2=£50 (62$)

*'''total=£700 ($861)'''

*''12m diameter x 6m height strawbale dome:''
**Double frame 2'x4'=£800
**strawbales = £350
**vapour barrier= £80
**Damp proof course= £80

*'''total=£1310'''

==''Housing Infrastructure cost''==
*''Kitchen and Bathroom=£1300''
*''Electrical installation=£450''
*''Gas installation(butane)=£100
*''Sewage; waste, drain and vent= £500''
*''Stove and chimney=£200''
*''12v/200Ah battery x3= £615
*''1000w DIY Solar panels 18v x 4A x 14 panels=£200''

(needed;wiring costs, bathroom plumbing, electrical fixings, glass for windows and panels)

*'''Total=£3365'''

==Geodesic Aquaponics Full System Cost==

''For a 12m diameter 2000sq^ft dome:''

*1000 linear meters of wood at 60p per meter = 600 pounds

*Second floor mezzanine = 300 pounds

*8.2m^3 Cement ring foundation and guttering = 500 pounds

*262m^2 of polythene = 300 pounds

*2 x 6m x 5m pond liner = 100 pounds

*10 tons 40mm gravel = 400 pounds

*1000 carp = 300 pounds or 1000 bream = 888 pounds

*10 LED growlights = 200 pounds

*Raised and rotating grow beds = 200 pounds

*windmill system = ?

*Miscellaneous piping = 100

*'''total 3000 pounds'''

to put this in perspective this system should theoretically produce at least 500 kg of fish per year, 4000 lettuce per week and 4000 bunches of tomatoes per week.

==Discussion==

A geodesic dome is built from a skeleton of triangles, covered with an outer skin. The skeleton could be made of wood, steel or other substances, which could probably be [[Digital fabrication|digitally fabbed]].
*[http://www.geo-dome.co.uk/article.asp?uname=diydomes DIY calculator]
*[http://www.youtube.com/user/pauly1060?blend=1&ob=5#p/u/3/U32KTMtp5kU Polythene Prefabricated Panel Dome]
*[http://www.domeplans.com/index.html Free plans for a geodesic dome]
* Useful tool: the [http://www.desertdomes.com/domecalc.html dome calculator] - calculates the building materials needed to build a dome of your chosen size
* Another [http://acidome.ru/lab/calc/#5/12_Cone_3V_R1_beams100x40 dome calculator] (the website is in Russian but it can be easily translated with Google Translate).
* Geodesic dome construction video-tutorial: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rn6YtCC670 Part 1 - Overview], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLIhOglrbmI Part 2 - Hub Construction], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHEHVyA7SHw Part 3- Strut Construction]

==Many Uses==
from the [http://www.pacificdomes.com/index.html Pacific Domes] website: event, shelter, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg8Bh5iI2WY Virtual reality projector], greenhouse, playground, sports, relief, wedding, yoga, bioenergy, Vaastu, aquaponic

==Further Reading==
*http://www.appropedia.org/Geodesic_dome
*...

Power Cube Design Rationale

2012-08-07T02:00:43Z

Eric mossotti: /* Product Ecology */ duplicates in list

The Power Cube is an interchangeable power source. This design approach satisfies a number of the OSE Core Values [[OSE_Specifications#GVCS_Specifications.2FCore_Values]].

1. '''Modular.''' Power Cubes are easily traded out and the design is easily altered. At the same time, there is an overall logic to the design that encourages interoperability.

2. '''User-Friendly.''' The Power Cube can be transported without special equipment and swapped out with only a few minutes training.

3. '''Do-It-Yourself.''' Build it yourself. Use it yourself. Repair it yourself. Nothing about a Power Cube requires special tools or proprietary information.

4. '''Resilience.''' Power Cubes work for you, not against you. If one breaks, you can swap it out in the field and get back to work.

5. '''Systems Design.''' The Power Cube does not maximize the performance of any particular machine. Rather, it maximizes the performance of the entire GVCS system of systems.

6. '''Substitutability.''' Any GVCS machine designed to accept a Power Cube can just as easily be powered by a commercial equivalent or by manual activity. Additionally, Power Cubes can replace commercial and manual equivalents in non-GVCS applications.

7. '''Scalability.''' The concept of the power cube automatically lends itself to smaller versions, larger versions and versions with different power in/out puts.

8. '''Simplicity.''' Each Power Cube is composed of the bare minimum components necessary for go-anywhere power production.

9. '''Sufficiency.''' The Power Cube is "good enough" but could be augmented to achieve any specified level of performance.

10. '''Realistic Immediacy.''' Power Cubes are doing real work right now and the design is already in its fourth version.

'''Definition''' - The Power Cube is a universal power unit, and it is a module that can be attached to the LifeTrac, Microtrac, Bulldozer, and Open Source Car (OSCar) platforms. As such, any of these platforms can be used as power sources for other devices, such as workshop tools, power generators, ironworker machines, or any other devices which require a power source. The key to this flexibility is the self-contained nature of the Power Cube, where quick-connect hoses and quick-connect physical mounting allow the Power Cube to be coupled to used with other devices. It has frame-integrated fuel and hydraulic reservoirs. It currently contains an 18 or 27 hp gasoline engine, coupled to a hydraulic pump, and produces fluid flow up to 15 gallons per minute and up to 3000 pounds per square inch (PSI) pressure. It connects to other devices via quick couplers and quick-connect hydraulic hoses. A modern steam engine will be retrofitted as soon as it is developed to allow complete fuel flexibility

'''Problem Statement and Solution''' – Power machinery and equipment typically uses dedicated engine units, such that a large number of different engines is required to power a large number of powered equipment. The engine unit is the heart of any powered device.

'''Solution''' – By decoupling the power unit from a powered device via quick-attach coupling – it is possible to turn a dedicated power unit into a flexible power module. We have shown proof of concept – in that power units can be shared between different machines. This allows for drastic cost reduction in the overall cost of mechanical infrastructures.

'''Status''' – Check with [[Tom Griffing]], project manager, on latest status. Power Cube Prototype V is being built currently. Prototype IV is relatively stable and is in use at Factor e Farm.

=Power Cube Product Ecology=

==Product Ecology==
[[Image:6b-Powercubeeco.png|thumb|600px|Power Cube [[Product Ecology]]]]

The current iteration of the power cube is an [[Power_Cube/Bill_of_Materials|off-the-shelf gasoline engine]], but the design is intended to be as power source agnostic as possible so that the power production can be readily changed. There will likely be many variations on the power cube design, but all fitting inside a similar size profile so that a [[GVCS]] machine can readily swap out one Power Cube for another.

{{Product Ecology
|Product={{Power Cube}}

|From=
*[[Gasoline]]
*[[Biodiesel]]
*{{Steam Engine}}
*{{Steam Generator}}
*{{Gasifier Burner}}
*{{Pelletizer}}

|Uses=
*[[Biofuel]]
*[[Biomass]]
*[[Tractor]]
*[[QA Plate]]

|Creates=
*[[Power]]
*[[Hydraulic]]

|Enables=
*{{Tractor}}
*{{CEB Press}}
*{{Bulldozer}}
*{{MicroTrac}}
*{{Car}}
*{{Truck}}
*{{Hammermill}}
*{{Drill Press}}
*{{Lathe}}
*{{Welder}}
*{{Ironworker}}
*{{Sawmill}}
*{{Induction Furnace}}
*{{Torch Table}}

|Components=
*Frame
*Engine
*Coupler
*[[Metal]]
*Hydraulic Tank
*Gas Tank
*[[Hydraulic Pump]]
*[[Hydraulic Hoses]]
}}

Friendly Organizations

2012-05-26T16:23:48Z

Eric mossotti: /* Misc. */

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Feel free to edit this page or discuss your ideas related to possible partnerships in [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/partnerships/ our forum].

You can also create a page and add it to the [[:Category: Collaboration Discussions]]

For related wikis, see [[:Category: Related Wikis]]

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==Misc.==
*Juliet Schor - discusses us in her book, Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth. See [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=2081 blog].
*Kevin Carson - [http://www.amazon.com/Homebrew-Industrial-Revolution-Low-Overhead-Manifesto/dp/1439266999 The Homebrew Industrial Revolution] - large section of chapter on OSE
*[http://www.communityfortomorrow.org/ASoundSolution.htm Community for Tomorrow]
*John Robb's [http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2010/04/starters-universal-mechanical-power-sources.html?cid=6a00d83451576d69e2013485b06f06970c Global Guerillas]
*[http://www.transitionnetwork.org/ Transition Network] - Provides general information on Transition Towns and includes a global directory of initiatives.
*[http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/ Global Guerrillas] - John Robb's website on "networked tribes, systems disruption, and the emerging bazaar of violence. Resilient Communities, decentralized platforms, and self-organizing futures."
* Jan. 2011 - [http://shareable.net/blog/the-next-net Shareable]
* [http://www.communityfortomorrow.org/ Community of tomorrow]
*[http://www.oceanarks.org/ OceanArks] - Promoting several sustainable technologies, like using plants to clean up polluted water, urban agriculture etc.
*7.25.08 - [http://fabuntu.org/ Fabuntu]
*The Nature of Order - [http://books.google.com/books?id=kZtZ57_nz-UC&printsec=frontcover&dq=strong+centers&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0*PPA8,M1]
*6.1.08 - [http://madconomist.com/what-if-us-collapses-soviet-collapse-lessons-every-american-needs-to-know Collapse of US Empire]
*6.1.08 - [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3340274697167011147&hl=en Non Peak Oil]
*5.30.08 - [http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bljefferson.htm Early OpenFarmTech]
*5.30.08 - [http://www.bloglines.com/ BlogLines]
*5.29.08 - [http://www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/ltras/itech/ Open Farm Hardware]
*5.29.08 - [http://algalturfscrubber.com/ Algal Turf Scrubber]
*5.24.08 - [http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/258 TED talk with Paul Stamets on mycelium]
*5.24.08 - [http://rodaleinstitute.org/about_us Rodale Institute]
*AIDG Business Incubation - http://www.aidg.org/incubation.htm
*Personal Sovereignty Foundation - http://EcoComics.org/personal%20sovereignty%20foundation.html
*Ripple peer money system - http://ripple.sourceforge.net/
*Euclides Mance - Brazil peer economy movement - http://www.solidarius.com.br/mance/index.php?lng=en
*Global directory of environmental technologies - http://www.eco-web.com/
*Project management - http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=000076&topic_id=1&topic=Ask%20E%2eT%2e
*Design for Disassembly - http://www.co-design.co.uk/design.htm
*Open Circuit Design - http://opencircuitdesign.com/
*Lakota secede from the Union - http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/12/lakota-withdraw.html
*The Story of Stuff - http://www.storyofstuff.com/
*Relocalization Network - http://www.relocalize.net/groups
*Jeff Budderer blog on us - http://blog.onevillage.tv/wp/?p=483
*RMI on Factor 10 cost reduction- http://10xe.com/subpages/tunnel.html
*Wired mag on emergency shelter: http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/multimedia/2007/10/gallery_instant_housing?slide=8&slideView=8
*o.design - http://www4.autistici.org/o.design/modules/news/
*Freedom Force - http://www.freedom-force.org/
*[http://freeconferencecalls.com Free conference calls]
*http://omni.mcn.org/electriliteb/ - Electric Vehicle, to be developed in the open source
*[http://www.ilsr.org/pubs/pubsalist.html Institute for Local Self Reliance]
*Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility - http://www.cpsr.org/about
*Constitution.org on invisible contracts - http://www.constitution.org/mercier/incon.htm
*Anxiety Culture - http://www.anxietyculture.com/contents.htm
*Critical Path primer - http://www.anxietyculture.com/criticalpath.htm
*Mindfully.org- http://www.mindfully.org/About-Mindfully_org.htm
*On distraction - http://www.anxietyculture.com/distract.htm
*Gupta Option - http://guptaoption.com/3.future_islam.php
*http://www.farmcatalog.com/1%60books/voices.aspx
*China is not doing so well, either: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/ID18Ad01.html + http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-climate_change_debate/article_2407.jsp
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management
*Sunvention - http://www.bsrsolar.com/
*Anil Gupta - http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/~anilg/
*National Innovation Foundation, India - http://nifindia.org/
*State-in-a-Box governance - http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/my-state-in-a-box-identity-services-architecture-paper-is-now-online-290
*Hacks in all areas- http://www.hackaday.com/2006/11/07/siamese-electric-motors/
*Adam Kumpf @ MIT - http://web.mit.edu/kumpf/www/index.html + [http://web.mit.edu/kumpf/www/kumpf-links.html Inventing Sites]
*Will O'Brien - http://biobug.org/articles/
*Stanford: Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability - http://extreme.stanford.edu/index.html
*book "Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them" (1909) http://www.journeytoforever.org/farm_library/device/devicesToC.html[http://www.republicoflakotah.com/about-us/faq/ Republic of Lakotah]
*[http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/ Low Tech Magazine] and [http://www.notechmagazine.com/ No Tech Magazine]

==Fabrication, makers and hackers==
*[http://vermeulen.ca/product-hacking.html Product hacking]
*OS metal depository, transaction system http://pktp.co.cc/
*FabFolk - http://www.fabfolk.com/
*Mobile Fab Lab - http://mobilefablab.blogspot.com/
*www.fablabinnova.blogspot.com
*Fab Lab Forum 4 - http://cba.mit.edu/events/07.08.fab/
*[http://fablab.no/ Norway FabLab]
*Fab@Home - http://www.fabathome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Fab%40Home:Overview
*The Multimachine - http://opensourcemachine.org/
*[http://ng.cba.mit.edu/dist/PV.mp4 Fab Lab promo commercial]
*[http://blog.cowtowncomputercongress.org/ Cowtown Computer Congress] - Local Kansas City hackerspace.
*[http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/ Hackerspaces] - Provides general information and a directory of hackerspaces around the world.
*Smari McCarthy, Iceland Fab Lab leader - http://smari.yaxic.org/blag/2007/10/16/an-offer-you-cant-refuse/
*Make Blog - http://blog.makezine.com/
*Instructibles - http://www.instructables.com/
*DIY Life - http://www.diylife.com/
*Ready Made Blog - http://readymade.com/blogs/rmblog
*[http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/ Finkbuilt], a tinkerer's blog
*[http://www.humblefactory.com/ HumbleFactory] - very innovative ideas for open hardware

==Food==
*[http://growingpower.org/ Growing Power], based in Chicago and Milwaukee. Educating people about local food systems. Aquaponics, beekeeping, wormeries.
*[http://arkfab.org/ ArkFab]. This seems to have an identical vision to OSE: to create a post-scarcity world thru open-source development of local food systems and digital fabrication.
*[http://cd3wd.com/cd3wd_40/cd3wd/index.htm cd3wd]. 13 gigabytes of information on development for the 3rd world
*Dasagavya: organic growth promoter for plants - http://www.hindu.com/seta/2006/05/18/stories/2006051801921800.htm
* [[Refarm the city]]
* http://www.permaculture.com
* [http://ooooby.ning.com/ Ooooby]
*5.25.08 - [http://permacultureinstitute.pbwiki.com/ Chaordic Permaculture Institute]
*Organic Hydroponic Lettuce Production - http://www.organitech.com/index.php?goto=bep
*[http://www.fao.org/corp/knowledgeforum/en/ FAO knowledge forum]. Huge online collexion of knowledge on farming. [http://www.fao.org/sard/en/init/1574/2225/1846/index.html SARD initiative] focuses on educating people about sustainable agriculture
*[http://carbon.org/ Institute for Simplified Hydroponics]
*[http://www.growingedge.com/magazine/ Growing Edge]

==Appropriate technology & development==
*[http://www.thefullbellyproject.org/ The Full Belly Project], open-source appropriate technology. Inventors of the universal nut sheller
*[[Appropedia:|Appropedia]], open-content encyclopedia of appropriate technology
*[http://www.tinytechindia.com/ Tiny Tech India], tools for small-scale rural development

==Building==
*[http://earthship.com/ Earthship Biotecture] - With a background of 40 years of research and development of self-sufficient housing made from recycled materials, Earthship Biotecture focuses on development of Earth friendly and people friendly community living concepts that require little or no mortgage payment and no utility bills.
*[http://hexayurt.com/ Vinay Gupta's Hexayurt]
*[http://www.jeffvail.net/2007/04/mefab-open-architecture-project.html Open Architecture Network]
*Geiger Research Institute of Sustainable Building - http://grisb.org/
*[http://oikos.com/ OIKOS Green Building Sources]
*[http://www.calearth.org/ Cal-Earth] promotes 'superadobe' building
*[http://www.dwell.com/ Dwell Magazine]
*[http://www.domusweb.it/en/op-ed/open-source-architecture-osarc-/ Open Source Architecture manifesto]

==Open culture==
*P2P Foundation blog on the open economy - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/what-kind-of-economy-are-we-moving-to-1-overview-of-attention-economy-concepts/2007/10/03
*Open Product Design from Christian Fiebig, Germany - http://opensourceproductdesign.org/
*6.15.08 - [http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohrer/freeDistribution.html Model beyond copyright]
*Open Source development theory - http://www.guptaoption.com/5.open_source_development.php
*6.15.08 - [http://www.engr.uconn.edu/msl/paper/holonic/paper1.html Holonic Management]
*6.4.08 - [http://givebank.org/projects.html Give Bank Open Source Product Design]
*6.4.08 - [http://onthecommons.org/content.php?id=1942 peer economy emergence - threat or boon?]
*Berkeley Center for Open Innovation - http://openinnovation.haas.berkeley.edu/Home_COI.html
* P2P Foundation [http://p2pfoundation.net/ wiki] and [http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/ blog]
*P2P Economy for business - http://p2peconomy.com/
*Hot off the press (Oct. '07) on physical production - http://www.peerconomy.org/wiki/Main_Page by [http://siefkes.net/ Christian Siefkes, Ph.D.]
*4.9.08 - OS is antidote to planned obsolescence - [[http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2007/03/28/open-source-the-only-weapon-against-planned-obsolescence]]
*4.9.08 - Design Club - http://opendesignclub.com/index.php/About.html
*Feb. 2011 - Open MythSource: http://openmythsource.com/ - interviewed on the [http://agroinnovations.com/index.php/en_us/multimedia/blogs/podcast/2011/02/episode-121-state-banks-opensource-mythology-and-viralized-transgenics/ Agroinnovations Podcast]
*5.5.2011 - Cultural Creatives: http://culturalcreatives.cc/the-revolution-movie

==Ecovillages, ashrams and resilient communities==
*[http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/26/technology/village_saving_planet.biz2/index.htm Gaviotas revisited]
*[http://www.powerfromthesun.net/jtlylecenter.html J.T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies] - an experiment in sustainable living in California
*[http://gen.ecovillage.org/ Global Ecovillage Network] - "The Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) is a growing network of sustainable communities and initiatives that bridge different cultures, countries, and continents. GEN serves as umbrella organization for ecovillages, transition town initiatives, intentional communities, and ecologically-minded individuals worldwide."
*The Farm - http://www.thefarm.org/lifestyle/index.html
*Vigyan Ashram - new education - http://vigyanashram.com/ - vapabal@gmail.com
*[http://www.auroville.org/ Auroville], see [[Auroville Earth Institute]]
*http://www.twinoaks.org/
*[http://www.arcosanti.org/ Arcosanti]
*[http://www.thenzp.com/1_3.aspx The New Z-Land Project] - "The New Z-Land Project's mission is to create a prototype circular city and sustainable community in New Zealand which will subscribe to a Resource Sharing Society."
*[http://resilientcommunities.org/ Resilient Communities] - Blog run by Bob Stilger that focuses on healthy and resilient communities.
*[http://www.nyhistory.com/central/oneida.htm Oneida]
*[http://mtbest.net/ Mt Best], a homestead in Australia. Website has some innovative ideas on energy efficiency etc.
*[http://ecosustainablevillage.com.ip01-web23.net/Village_Maps.htm Eco Sustainable Village], consultants for building sustainable communities
*[http://villageforum.com/ Village Forum] - A website helping people create small communities
*[http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=66&L=0 Tamera] - "Tamera’s aim is to develop an example of a model for a nonviolent co-existence of people and between people and nature."
*[http://www.berkana.org/ Berkana] - "Berkana and our partners share the clarity that whatever the problem, community is the answer. We prepare for an unknown future by creating strong and sustainable relationships, by wisely stewarding the earth’s resources, and by building resilient communities."
*[http://www.atlasinitiativegroup.org/ Atlas Initiative Group] - "The mission of the Atlas Initiative Group is to design, plan and build Atlas City in America, providing a peaceful transition model from a monetary based system economy to a resource based system economy demonstrated through an advanced city which will maximize automation and provide the highest standard of living for its participants."
*7.17.08 - A new country - http://wiki.aardsource.org/Main_Page
*7.1.08 - [http://seasteading.org/seastead.org/ephemerisle/index.html Ephemerisle] - a festival held at sea to get people thinking about the possibilities of living at sea. Now discontinued.

==Support==
*[http://bfi.org/ Buckminster Fuller Institute]
*[http://unreasonableinstitute.org/ Unreasonable Institute] - "At Unreasonable Institute we give high-impact social entrepreneurs wings. We are an international accelerator and investor in early stage social ventures and we seek out 25 of the world's most brilliant and bold social entrepreneurs to attend our annual 6 week Institute. There we will unite these entrepreneurs (deemed Unreasonable Fellows) and pair them with personal and entrepreneurial skill training, daily guidance from over 50 expert mentors, as well as opportunities and access to the seed capital their ventures need to take flight. " (Nikolay: not sure whether this one can be of direct help, but is here just for the record).
*[http://awesomefoundation.org/ The Awesome Foundation], founded to increase the amount of awesomeness in the world. Members of each local chapter pool together $1000 a month and give it to whoever has an idea for doing something awesome.
*1000 True Fans - http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fans.php

==Energy==
* Feb. 2011 - All Power Labs: Gasifier Experimenters Kit: http://www.gekgasifier.com/
*6.2.08 - [http://www.stanford.edu/~hydrobay/lookat/mkii.html another Tesla turbine thingy]
*6.2.08 - [http://kimmelsteampower.com/gallery.html Kimmel Steam Power]
*Boundary Layer Turbines - http://freeenergynews.com/Directory/Devices/TeslaTurbine/index.html
*[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ugAivXAusus Flash steam Babington oil buner] on Youtube
*Ken Boak's oil and wood power - http://www.geocities.com/kenboak/wastewatts.html
*[http://www.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/babington/default.htm Page from Green Trust site on vegetable oil burner]
*[http://www.biofab.org/ The BIOFAB]: International Open Facility Advancing Biotechnology (BIOFAB) was founded in December 2009 as the world's first biological design-build facility. This professionally staffed public-benefit facility was initiated by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and is led by bioengineers from UC Berkeley and Stanford University. The BIOFAB is operated in partnership with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), the BioBricks Foundation (BBF), and the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC).
*[http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/smallchp%20 List of Bioenergy companies]
*[http://jnaudin.free.fr/ JLN Labs] - Free-Energy solutions and new generation of space-propulsion systems.
*[http://bingofuel.online.fr/bingofuel BingoFuel] - Alternative Fuels researches.

==Economics and abundance==
*[http://www.michaeljournal.org/plenty.htm In This Age of Plenty] from Louis Even.
*Open protocols and standards to exchange new units of value : http://open-udc.org.
*Futurism - http://thevenusproject.com/resource_eco.htm.
*Chris Anderson on [http://www.netvision.de/uk/dispatching/?event_id=5bb1b5e95afabb2e62d2b148ded47706&portal_id=369401748e8249f142a700d8098a3473 post scarcity economics]
*[http://www.rbose.org/ Research Based Open Source Environment] - "A collaboration platform for the development of open sourced solutions based on resource management and implementing them in our daily lives."
*Zeitgeist the movie - http://zeitgeistmovie.com/sources.htm
*[http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com The Zeitgeist Movement] - A global movement dedicated to promoting and actualizing the vision of The Venus Project.
*[http://www.p-ced.com/1/ People-Centered Economic Development] - Advocacy for an alternate economic paradigm measured in human terms.

==Who might be interested in open source ecology? who has the same vision?==

* [http://www.sristi.org/cms/en/our_network Honey Bee Network] (which has a link to http://www.techpedia.in/)
* [http://www.hackerspaces.org Hackerspaces]
* [http://www.debian.net Debian], http://planet.debian.net
* [http://www.ubuntu.com Ubuntu], http://planet.ubuntu.com
* [http://www.openp2pdesign.org openp2pdesign.org], [http://www.openp2pdesign.org/twitter/ twitter news]
* [http://www.welserver.com/ Web Energy Logger], with a live map of US data.

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==Misc.==
*Juliet Schor - discusses us in her book, Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth. See [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=2081 blog].
*Kevin Carson - [http://www.amazon.com/Homebrew-Industrial-Revolution-Low-Overhead-Manifesto/dp/1439266999 The Homebrew Industrial Revolution] - large section of chapter on OSE
*[http://www.communityfortomorrow.org/ASoundSolution.htm Community for Tomorrow]
*John Robb's [http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2010/04/starters-universal-mechanical-power-sources.html?cid=6a00d83451576d69e2013485b06f06970c Global Guerillas]
*[http://www.transitionnetwork.org/ Transition Network] - Provides general information on Transition Towns and includes a global directory of initiatives.
*[http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/ Global Guerrillas] - John Robb's website on "networked tribes, systems disruption, and the emerging bazaar of violence. Resilient Communities, decentralized platforms, and self-organizing futures."
* Jan. 2011 - [http://shareable.net/blog/the-next-net Shareable]
* [http://www.communityfortomorrow.org/ Community of tomorrow]
*[http://www.oceanarks.org/ OceanArks] - Promoting several sustainable technologies, like using plants to clean up polluted water, urban agriculture etc.
*7.25.08 - [http://fabuntu.org/ Fabuntu]
*The Nature of Order - [http://books.google.com/books?id=kZtZ57_nz-UC&printsec=frontcover&dq=strong+centers&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0*PPA8,M1]
*6.1.08 - [http://madconomist.com/what-if-us-collapses-soviet-collapse-lessons-every-american-needs-to-know Collapse of US Empire]
*6.1.08 - [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3340274697167011147&hl=en Non Peak Oil]
*5.30.08 - [http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bljefferson.htm Early OpenFarmTech]
*5.30.08 - [http://www.bloglines.com/ BlogLines]
*5.29.08 - [http://www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/ltras/itech/ Open Farm Hardware]
*5.29.08 - [http://algalturfscrubber.com/ Algal Turf Scrubber]
*5.24.08 - [http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/258 TED talk with Paul Stamets on mycelium]
*5.24.08 - [http://rodaleinstitute.org/about_us Rodale Institute]
*AIDG Business Incubation - http://www.aidg.org/incubation.htm
*Personal Sovereignty Foundation - http://EcoComics.org/personal%20sovereignty%20foundation.html
*Ripple peer money system - http://ripple.sourceforge.net/
*Euclides Mance - Brazil peer economy movement - http://www.solidarius.com.br/mance/index.php?lng=en
*Global directory of environmental technologies - http://www.eco-web.com/
*Project management - http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=000076&topic_id=1&topic=Ask%20E%2eT%2e
*Design for Disassembly - http://www.co-design.co.uk/design.htm
*Open Circuit Design - http://opencircuitdesign.com/
*Lakota secede from the Union - http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/12/lakota-withdraw.html
*The Story of Stuff - http://www.storyofstuff.com/
*Relocalization Network - http://www.relocalize.net/groups
*Jeff Budderer blog on us - http://blog.onevillage.tv/wp/?p=483
*RMI on Factor 10 cost reduction- http://10xe.com/subpages/tunnel.html
*Wired mag on emergency shelter: http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/multimedia/2007/10/gallery_instant_housing?slide=8&slideView=8
*o.design - http://www4.autistici.org/o.design/modules/news/
*Freedom Force - http://www.freedom-force.org/
*Open Source Green Vehicle - http://www.osgv.org/contact-ssm-osgv/
*[http://freeconferencecalls.com Free conference calls]
*http://omni.mcn.org/electriliteb/ - Electric Vehicle, to be developed in the open source
*[http://www.ilsr.org/pubs/pubsalist.html Institute for Local Self Reliance]
*Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility - http://www.cpsr.org/about
*Constitution.org on invisible contracts - http://www.constitution.org/mercier/incon.htm
*Anxiety Culture - http://www.anxietyculture.com/contents.htm
*Critical Path primer - http://www.anxietyculture.com/criticalpath.htm
*Mindfully.org- http://www.mindfully.org/About-Mindfully_org.htm
*On distraction - http://www.anxietyculture.com/distract.htm
*Gupta Option - http://guptaoption.com/3.future_islam.php
*http://www.farmcatalog.com/1%60books/voices.aspx
*China is not doing so well, either: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/ID18Ad01.html + http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-climate_change_debate/article_2407.jsp
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management
*Sunvention - http://www.bsrsolar.com/
*Anil Gupta - http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/~anilg/
*National Innovation Foundation, India - http://nifindia.org/
*State-in-a-Box governance - http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/my-state-in-a-box-identity-services-architecture-paper-is-now-online-290
*Hacks in all areas- http://www.hackaday.com/2006/11/07/siamese-electric-motors/
*Adam Kumpf @ MIT - http://web.mit.edu/kumpf/www/index.html + [http://web.mit.edu/kumpf/www/kumpf-links.html Inventing Sites]
*Will O'Brien - http://biobug.org/articles/
*Stanford: Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability - http://extreme.stanford.edu/index.html
*book "Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them" (1909) http://www.journeytoforever.org/farm_library/device/devicesToC.html[http://www.republicoflakotah.com/about-us/faq/ Republic of Lakotah]
*[http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/ Low Tech Magazine] and [http://www.notechmagazine.com/ No Tech Magazine]

==Fabrication, makers and hackers==
*[http://vermeulen.ca/product-hacking.html Product hacking]
*OS metal depository, transaction system http://pktp.co.cc/
*FabFolk - http://www.fabfolk.com/
*Mobile Fab Lab - http://mobilefablab.blogspot.com/
*www.fablabinnova.blogspot.com
*Fab Lab Forum 4 - http://cba.mit.edu/events/07.08.fab/
*[http://fablab.no/ Norway FabLab]
*Fab@Home - http://www.fabathome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Fab%40Home:Overview
*The Multimachine - http://opensourcemachine.org/
*[http://ng.cba.mit.edu/dist/PV.mp4 Fab Lab promo commercial]
*[http://blog.cowtowncomputercongress.org/ Cowtown Computer Congress] - Local Kansas City hackerspace.
*[http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/ Hackerspaces] - Provides general information and a directory of hackerspaces around the world.
*Smari McCarthy, Iceland Fab Lab leader - http://smari.yaxic.org/blag/2007/10/16/an-offer-you-cant-refuse/
*Make Blog - http://blog.makezine.com/
*Instructibles - http://www.instructables.com/
*DIY Life - http://www.diylife.com/
*Ready Made Blog - http://readymade.com/blogs/rmblog
*[http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/ Finkbuilt], a tinkerer's blog
*[http://www.humblefactory.com/ HumbleFactory] - very innovative ideas for open hardware

==Food==
*[http://growingpower.org/ Growing Power], based in Chicago and Milwaukee. Educating people about local food systems. Aquaponics, beekeeping, wormeries.
*[http://arkfab.org/ ArkFab]. This seems to have an identical vision to OSE: to create a post-scarcity world thru open-source development of local food systems and digital fabrication.
*[http://cd3wd.com/cd3wd_40/cd3wd/index.htm cd3wd]. 13 gigabytes of information on development for the 3rd world
*Dasagavya: organic growth promoter for plants - http://www.hindu.com/seta/2006/05/18/stories/2006051801921800.htm
* [[Refarm the city]]
* http://www.permaculture.com
* [http://ooooby.ning.com/ Ooooby]
*5.25.08 - [http://permacultureinstitute.pbwiki.com/ Chaordic Permaculture Institute]
*Organic Hydroponic Lettuce Production - http://www.organitech.com/index.php?goto=bep
*[http://www.fao.org/corp/knowledgeforum/en/ FAO knowledge forum]. Huge online collexion of knowledge on farming. [http://www.fao.org/sard/en/init/1574/2225/1846/index.html SARD initiative] focuses on educating people about sustainable agriculture
*[http://carbon.org/ Institute for Simplified Hydroponics]
*[http://www.growingedge.com/magazine/ Growing Edge]

==Appropriate technology & development==
*[http://www.thefullbellyproject.org/ The Full Belly Project], open-source appropriate technology. Inventors of the universal nut sheller
*[[Appropedia:|Appropedia]], open-content encyclopedia of appropriate technology
*[http://www.tinytechindia.com/ Tiny Tech India], tools for small-scale rural development

==Building==
*[http://earthship.com/ Earthship Biotecture] - With a background of 40 years of research and development of self-sufficient housing made from recycled materials, Earthship Biotecture focuses on development of Earth friendly and people friendly community living concepts that require little or no mortgage payment and no utility bills.
*[http://hexayurt.com/ Vinay Gupta's Hexayurt]
*[http://www.jeffvail.net/2007/04/mefab-open-architecture-project.html Open Architecture Network]
*Geiger Research Institute of Sustainable Building - http://grisb.org/
*[http://oikos.com/ OIKOS Green Building Sources]
*[http://www.calearth.org/ Cal-Earth] promotes 'superadobe' building
*[http://www.dwell.com/ Dwell Magazine]
*[http://www.domusweb.it/en/op-ed/open-source-architecture-osarc-/ Open Source Architecture manifesto]

==Open culture==
*P2P Foundation blog on the open economy - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/what-kind-of-economy-are-we-moving-to-1-overview-of-attention-economy-concepts/2007/10/03
*Open Product Design from Christian Fiebig, Germany - http://opensourceproductdesign.org/
*6.15.08 - [http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohrer/freeDistribution.html Model beyond copyright]
*Open Source development theory - http://www.guptaoption.com/5.open_source_development.php
*6.15.08 - [http://www.engr.uconn.edu/msl/paper/holonic/paper1.html Holonic Management]
*6.4.08 - [http://givebank.org/projects.html Give Bank Open Source Product Design]
*6.4.08 - [http://onthecommons.org/content.php?id=1942 peer economy emergence - threat or boon?]
*Berkeley Center for Open Innovation - http://openinnovation.haas.berkeley.edu/Home_COI.html
* P2P Foundation [http://p2pfoundation.net/ wiki] and [http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/ blog]
*P2P Economy for business - http://p2peconomy.com/
*Hot off the press (Oct. '07) on physical production - http://www.peerconomy.org/wiki/Main_Page by [http://siefkes.net/ Christian Siefkes, Ph.D.]
*4.9.08 - OS is antidote to planned obsolescence - [[http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2007/03/28/open-source-the-only-weapon-against-planned-obsolescence]]
*4.9.08 - Design Club - http://opendesignclub.com/index.php/About.html
*Feb. 2011 - Open MythSource: http://openmythsource.com/ - interviewed on the [http://agroinnovations.com/index.php/en_us/multimedia/blogs/podcast/2011/02/episode-121-state-banks-opensource-mythology-and-viralized-transgenics/ Agroinnovations Podcast]
*5.5.2011 - Cultural Creatives: http://culturalcreatives.cc/the-revolution-movie

==Ecovillages, ashrams and resilient communities==
*[http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/26/technology/village_saving_planet.biz2/index.htm Gaviotas revisited]
*[http://www.powerfromthesun.net/jtlylecenter.html J.T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies] - an experiment in sustainable living in California
*[http://gen.ecovillage.org/ Global Ecovillage Network] - "The Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) is a growing network of sustainable communities and initiatives that bridge different cultures, countries, and continents. GEN serves as umbrella organization for ecovillages, transition town initiatives, intentional communities, and ecologically-minded individuals worldwide."
*The Farm - http://www.thefarm.org/lifestyle/index.html
*Vigyan Ashram - new education - http://vigyanashram.com/ - vapabal@gmail.com
*[http://www.auroville.org/ Auroville], see [[Auroville Earth Institute]]
*http://www.twinoaks.org/
*[http://www.arcosanti.org/ Arcosanti]
*[http://www.thenzp.com/1_3.aspx The New Z-Land Project] - "The New Z-Land Project's mission is to create a prototype circular city and sustainable community in New Zealand which will subscribe to a Resource Sharing Society."
*[http://resilientcommunities.org/ Resilient Communities] - Blog run by Bob Stilger that focuses on healthy and resilient communities.
*[http://www.nyhistory.com/central/oneida.htm Oneida]
*[http://mtbest.net/ Mt Best], a homestead in Australia. Website has some innovative ideas on energy efficiency etc.
*[http://ecosustainablevillage.com.ip01-web23.net/Village_Maps.htm Eco Sustainable Village], consultants for building sustainable communities
*[http://villageforum.com/ Village Forum] - A website helping people create small communities
*[http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=66&L=0 Tamera] - "Tamera’s aim is to develop an example of a model for a nonviolent co-existence of people and between people and nature."
*[http://www.berkana.org/ Berkana] - "Berkana and our partners share the clarity that whatever the problem, community is the answer. We prepare for an unknown future by creating strong and sustainable relationships, by wisely stewarding the earth’s resources, and by building resilient communities."
*[http://www.atlasinitiativegroup.org/ Atlas Initiative Group] - "The mission of the Atlas Initiative Group is to design, plan and build Atlas City in America, providing a peaceful transition model from a monetary based system economy to a resource based system economy demonstrated through an advanced city which will maximize automation and provide the highest standard of living for its participants."
*7.17.08 - A new country - http://wiki.aardsource.org/Main_Page
*7.1.08 - [http://seasteading.org/seastead.org/ephemerisle/index.html Ephemerisle] - a festival held at sea to get people thinking about the possibilities of living at sea. Now discontinued.

==Support==
*[http://bfi.org/ Buckminster Fuller Institute]
*[http://unreasonableinstitute.org/ Unreasonable Institute] - "At Unreasonable Institute we give high-impact social entrepreneurs wings. We are an international accelerator and investor in early stage social ventures and we seek out 25 of the world's most brilliant and bold social entrepreneurs to attend our annual 6 week Institute. There we will unite these entrepreneurs (deemed Unreasonable Fellows) and pair them with personal and entrepreneurial skill training, daily guidance from over 50 expert mentors, as well as opportunities and access to the seed capital their ventures need to take flight. " (Nikolay: not sure whether this one can be of direct help, but is here just for the record).
*[http://awesomefoundation.org/ The Awesome Foundation], founded to increase the amount of awesomeness in the world. Members of each local chapter pool together $1000 a month and give it to whoever has an idea for doing something awesome.
*1000 True Fans - http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fans.php

==Energy==
* Feb. 2011 - All Power Labs: Gasifier Experimenters Kit: http://www.gekgasifier.com/
*6.2.08 - [http://www.stanford.edu/~hydrobay/lookat/mkii.html another Tesla turbine thingy]
*6.2.08 - [http://kimmelsteampower.com/gallery.html Kimmel Steam Power]
*Boundary Layer Turbines - http://freeenergynews.com/Directory/Devices/TeslaTurbine/index.html
*[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ugAivXAusus Flash steam Babington oil buner] on Youtube
*Ken Boak's oil and wood power - http://www.geocities.com/kenboak/wastewatts.html
*[http://www.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/babington/default.htm Page from Green Trust site on vegetable oil burner]
*[http://www.biofab.org/ The BIOFAB]: International Open Facility Advancing Biotechnology (BIOFAB) was founded in December 2009 as the world's first biological design-build facility. This professionally staffed public-benefit facility was initiated by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and is led by bioengineers from UC Berkeley and Stanford University. The BIOFAB is operated in partnership with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), the BioBricks Foundation (BBF), and the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC).
*[http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/smallchp%20 List of Bioenergy companies]
*[http://jnaudin.free.fr/ JLN Labs] - Free-Energy solutions and new generation of space-propulsion systems.
*[http://bingofuel.online.fr/bingofuel BingoFuel] - Alternative Fuels researches.

==Economics and abundance==
*[http://www.michaeljournal.org/plenty.htm In This Age of Plenty] from Louis Even.
*Open protocols and standards to exchange new units of value : http://open-udc.org.
*Futurism - http://thevenusproject.com/resource_eco.htm.
*Chris Anderson on [http://www.netvision.de/uk/dispatching/?event_id=5bb1b5e95afabb2e62d2b148ded47706&portal_id=369401748e8249f142a700d8098a3473 post scarcity economics]
*[http://www.rbose.org/ Research Based Open Source Environment] - "A collaboration platform for the development of open sourced solutions based on resource management and implementing them in our daily lives."
*Zeitgeist the movie - http://zeitgeistmovie.com/sources.htm
*[http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com The Zeitgeist Movement] - A global movement dedicated to promoting and actualizing the vision of The Venus Project.
*[http://www.p-ced.com/1/ People-Centered Economic Development] - Advocacy for an alternate economic paradigm measured in human terms.

==Who might be interested in open source ecology? who has the same vision?==

* [http://www.sristi.org/cms/en/our_network Honey Bee Network] (which has a link to http://www.techpedia.in/)
* [http://www.hackerspaces.org Hackerspaces]
* [http://www.debian.net Debian], http://planet.debian.net
* [http://www.ubuntu.com Ubuntu], http://planet.ubuntu.com
* [http://www.openp2pdesign.org openp2pdesign.org], [http://www.openp2pdesign.org/twitter/ twitter news]
* [http://www.welserver.com/ Web Energy Logger], with a live map of US data.

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Feel free to edit this page or discuss your ideas related to possible partnerships in [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/forum/partnerships/ our forum].

You can also create a page and add it to the [[:Category: Collaboration Discussions]]

For related wikis, see [[:Category: Related Wikis]]

__TOC__

==Misc.==
*Juliet Schor - discusses us in her book, Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth. See [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=2081 blog].
*Kevin Carson - [http://www.amazon.com/Homebrew-Industrial-Revolution-Low-Overhead-Manifesto/dp/1439266999 The Homebrew Industrial Revolution] - large section of chapter on OSE
*[http://www.communityfortomorrow.org/ASoundSolution.htm Community for Tomorrow]
*John Robb's [http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2010/04/starters-universal-mechanical-power-sources.html?cid=6a00d83451576d69e2013485b06f06970c Global Guerillas]
*[http://www.transitionnetwork.org/ Transition Network] - Provides general information on Transition Towns and includes a global directory of initiatives.
*[http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/ Global Guerrillas] - John Robb's website on "networked tribes, systems disruption, and the emerging bazaar of violence. Resilient Communities, decentralized platforms, and self-organizing futures."
* Jan. 2011 - [http://shareable.net/blog/the-next-net Shareable]
* [http://www.communityfortomorrow.org/ Community of tomorrow]
*[http://www.oceanarks.org/ OceanArks] - Promoting several sustainable technologies, like using plants to clean up polluted water, urban agriculture etc.
*7.25.08 - [http://fabuntu.org/ Fabuntu]
*The Nature of Order - [http://books.google.com/books?id=kZtZ57_nz-UC&printsec=frontcover&dq=strong+centers&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0*PPA8,M1]
*6.1.08 - [http://madconomist.com/what-if-us-collapses-soviet-collapse-lessons-every-american-needs-to-know Collapse of US Empire]
*6.1.08 - [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3340274697167011147&hl=en Non Peak Oil]
*5.30.08 - [http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bljefferson.htm Early OpenFarmTech]
*5.30.08 - [http://www.bloglines.com/ BlogLines]
*5.29.08 - [http://www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/ltras/itech/ Open Farm Hardware]
*5.29.08 - [http://algalturfscrubber.com/ Algal Turf Scrubber]
*5.24.08 - [http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/258 TED talk with Paul Stamets on mycelium]
*5.24.08 - [http://rodaleinstitute.org/about_us Rodale Institute]
*AIDG Business Incubation - http://www.aidg.org/incubation.htm
*Personal Sovereignty Foundation - http://EcoComics.org/personal%20sovereignty%20foundation.html
*Ripple peer money system - http://ripple.sourceforge.net/
*Euclides Mance - Brazil peer economy movement - http://www.solidarius.com.br/mance/index.php?lng=en
*Global directory of environmental technologies - http://www.eco-web.com/
*Project management - http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=000076&topic_id=1&topic=Ask%20E%2eT%2e
*Design for Disassembly - http://www.co-design.co.uk/design.htm
*Open Circuit Design - http://opencircuitdesign.com/
*Lakota secede from the Union - http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/12/lakota-withdraw.html
*The Story of Stuff - http://www.storyofstuff.com/
*Relocalization Network - http://www.relocalize.net/groups
*Jeff Budderer blog on us - http://blog.onevillage.tv/wp/?p=483
*RMI on Factor 10 cost reduction- http://10xe.com/subpages/tunnel.html
*Wired mag on emergency shelter: http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/multimedia/2007/10/gallery_instant_housing?slide=8&slideView=8
*o.design - http://www4.autistici.org/o.design/modules/news/
*Freedom Force - http://www.freedom-force.org/
*Open Source Green Vehicle - http://www.osgv.org/contact-ssm-osgv/
*[http://freeconferencecalls.com Free conference calls]
*http://omni.mcn.org/electriliteb/ - Electric Vehicle, to be developed in the open source
*[http://www.ilsr.org/pubs/pubsalist.html Institute for Local Self Reliance]
*Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility - http://www.cpsr.org/about
*Constitution.org on invisible contracts - http://www.constitution.org/mercier/incon.htm
*Anxiety Culture - http://www.anxietyculture.com/contents.htm
*Critical Path primer - http://www.anxietyculture.com/criticalpath.htm
*Mindfully.org- http://www.mindfully.org/About-Mindfully_org.htm
*On distraction - http://www.anxietyculture.com/distract.htm
*Gupta Option - http://guptaoption.com/3.future_islam.php
*http://www.farmcatalog.com/1%60books/voices.aspx
*China is not doing so well, either: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/ID18Ad01.html + http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-climate_change_debate/article_2407.jsp
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management
*Sunvention - http://www.bsrsolar.com/
*Anil Gupta - http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/~anilg/
*National Innovation Foundation, India - http://nifindia.org/
*State-in-a-Box governance - http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/my-state-in-a-box-identity-services-architecture-paper-is-now-online-290
*Hacks in all areas- http://www.hackaday.com/2006/11/07/siamese-electric-motors/
*Adam Kumpf @ MIT - http://web.mit.edu/kumpf/www/index.html + [http://web.mit.edu/kumpf/www/kumpf-links.html Inventing Sites]
*Will O'Brien - http://biobug.org/articles/
*Stanford: Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability - http://extreme.stanford.edu/index.html
*book "Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them" (1909) http://www.journeytoforever.org/farm_library/device/devicesToC.html[http://www.republicoflakotah.com/about-us/faq/ Republic of Lakotah]
*[http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/ Low Tech Magazine] and [http://www.notechmagazine.com/ No Tech Magazine]

==Fabrication, makers and hackers==
*[http://vermeulen.ca/product-hacking.html Product hacking]
*OS metal depository, transaction system http://pktp.co.cc/
*FabFolk - http://www.fabfolk.com/
*Mobile Fab Lab - http://mobilefablab.blogspot.com/
*www.fablabinnova.blogspot.com
*Fab Lab Forum 4 - http://cba.mit.edu/events/07.08.fab/
*[http://fablab.no/ Norway FabLab]
*Fab@Home - http://www.fabathome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Fab%40Home:Overview
*The Multimachine - http://opensourcemachine.org/
*[http://ng.cba.mit.edu/dist/PV.mp4 Fab Lab promo commercial]
*[http://blog.cowtowncomputercongress.org/ Cowtown Computer Congress] - Local Kansas City hackerspace.
*[http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/ Hackerspaces] - Provides general information and a directory of hackerspaces around the world.
*Smari McCarthy, Iceland Fab Lab leader - http://smari.yaxic.org/blag/2007/10/16/an-offer-you-cant-refuse/
*Make Blog - http://blog.makezine.com/
*Instructibles - http://www.instructables.com/
*DIY Life - http://www.diylife.com/
*Ready Made Blog - http://readymade.com/blogs/rmblog
*[http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/ Finkbuilt], a tinkerer's blog
*[http://www.humblefactory.com/ HumbleFactory] - very innovative ideas for open hardware

==Food==
*[http://growingpower.org/ Growing Power], based in Chicago and Milwaukee. Educating people about local food systems. Aquaponics, beekeeping, wormeries.
*[http://arkfab.org/ ArkFab]. This seems to have an identical vision to OSE: to create a post-scarcity world thru open-source development of local food systems and digital fabrication.
*[http://cd3wd.com/cd3wd_40/cd3wd/index.htm cd3wd]. 13 gigabytes of information on development for the 3rd world
*Dasagavya: organic growth promoter for plants - http://www.hindu.com/seta/2006/05/18/stories/2006051801921800.htm
* [[Refarm the city]]
* http://www.permaculture.com
* [http://ooooby.ning.com/ Ooooby]
*5.25.08 - [http://permacultureinstitute.pbwiki.com/ Chaordic Permaculture Institute]
*Organic Hydroponic Lettuce Production - http://www.organitech.com/index.php?goto=bep
*[http://www.fao.org/corp/knowledgeforum/en/ FAO knowledge forum]. Huge online collexion of knowledge on farming. [http://www.fao.org/sard/en/init/1574/2225/1846/index.html SARD initiative] focuses on educating people about sustainable agriculture
*[http://carbon.org/ Institute for Simplified Hydroponics]
*[http://www.growingedge.com/magazine/ Growing Edge]

==Appropriate technology & development==
*[http://www.thefullbellyproject.org/ The Full Belly Project], open-source appropriate technology. Inventors of the universal nut sheller
*[[Appropedia:|Appropedia]], open-content encyclopedia of appropriate technology
*[http://www.tinytechindia.com/ Tiny Tech India], tools for small-scale rural development

==Building==
*[http://earthship.com/ Earthship Biotecture] - With a background of 40 years of research and development of self-sufficient housing made from recycled materials, Earthship Biotecture focuses on development of Earth friendly and people friendly community living concepts that require little or no mortgage payment and no utility bills.
*[http://hexayurt.com/ Vinay Gupta's Hexayurt]
*[http://www.jeffvail.net/2007/04/mefab-open-architecture-project.html Open Architecture Network]
*Geiger Research Institute of Sustainable Building - http://grisb.org/
*[http://oikos.com/ OIKOS Green Building Sources]
*[http://www.calearth.org/ Cal-Earth] promotes 'superadobe' building
*[http://www.dwell.com/ Dwell Magazine]
*[http://www.domusweb.it/en/op-ed/open-source-architecture-osarc-/ Open Source Architecture manifesto]

==Open culture==
*P2P Foundation blog on the open economy - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/what-kind-of-economy-are-we-moving-to-1-overview-of-attention-economy-concepts/2007/10/03
*Open Product Design from Christian Fiebig, Germany - http://opensourceproductdesign.org/
*6.15.08 - [http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohrer/freeDistribution.html Model beyond copyright]
*Open Source development theory - http://www.guptaoption.com/5.open_source_development.php
*6.15.08 - [http://www.engr.uconn.edu/msl/paper/holonic/paper1.html Holonic Management]
*6.4.08 - [http://givebank.org/projects.html Give Bank Open Source Product Design]
*6.4.08 - [http://onthecommons.org/content.php?id=1942 peer economy emergence - threat or boon?]
*Berkeley Center for Open Innovation - http://openinnovation.haas.berkeley.edu/Home_COI.html
* P2P Foundation [http://p2pfoundation.net/ wiki] and [http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/ blog]
*P2P Economy for business - http://p2peconomy.com/
*Hot off the press (Oct. '07) on physical production - http://www.peerconomy.org/wiki/Main_Page by [http://siefkes.net/ Christian Siefkes, Ph.D.]
*4.9.08 - OS is antidote to planned obsolescence - [[http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2007/03/28/open-source-the-only-weapon-against-planned-obsolescence]]
*4.9.08 - Design Club - http://opendesignclub.com/index.php/About.html
*Feb. 2011 - Open MythSource: http://openmythsource.com/ - interviewed on the [http://agroinnovations.com/index.php/en_us/multimedia/blogs/podcast/2011/02/episode-121-state-banks-opensource-mythology-and-viralized-transgenics/ Agroinnovations Podcast]
*5.5.2011 - Cultural Creatives: http://culturalcreatives.cc/the-revolution-movie

==Ecovillages, ashrams and resilient communities==
*[http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/26/technology/village_saving_planet.biz2/index.htm Gaviotas revisited]
*[http://www.powerfromthesun.net/jtlylecenter.html J.T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies] - an experiment in sustainable living in California
*[http://gen.ecovillage.org/ Global Ecovillage Network] - "The Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) is a growing network of sustainable communities and initiatives that bridge different cultures, countries, and continents. GEN serves as umbrella organization for ecovillages, transition town initiatives, intentional communities, and ecologically-minded individuals worldwide."
*The Farm - http://www.thefarm.org/lifestyle/index.html
*Vigyan Ashram - new education - http://vigyanashram.com/ - vapabal@gmail.com
*[http://www.auroville.org/ Auroville], see [[Auroville Earth Institute]]
*http://www.twinoaks.org/
*[http://www.arcosanti.org/ Arcosanti]
*[http://www.thenzp.com/1_3.aspx The New Z-Land Project] - "The New Z-Land Project's mission is to create a prototype circular city and sustainable community in New Zealand which will subscribe to a Resource Sharing Society."
*[http://resilientcommunities.org/ Resilient Communities] - Blog run by Bob Stilger that focuses on healthy and resilient communities.
*[http://www.nyhistory.com/central/oneida.htm Oneida]
*[http://mtbest.net/ Mt Best], a homestead in Australia. Website has some innovative ideas on energy efficiency etc.
*[http://ecosustainablevillage.com.ip01-web23.net/Village_Maps.htm Eco Sustainable Village], consultants for building sustainable communities
*[http://villageforum.com/ Village Forum] - A website helping people create small communities
*[http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=66&L=0 Tamera] - "Tamera’s aim is to develop an example of a model for a nonviolent co-existence of people and between people and nature."
*[http://www.berkana.org/ Berkana] - "Berkana and our partners share the clarity that whatever the problem, community is the answer. We prepare for an unknown future by creating strong and sustainable relationships, by wisely stewarding the earth’s resources, and by building resilient communities."
*[http://www.atlasinitiativegroup.org/ Atlas Initiative Group] - "The mission of the Atlas Initiative Group is to design, plan and build Atlas City in America, providing a peaceful transition model from a monetary based system economy to a resource based system economy demonstrated through an advanced city which will maximize automation and provide the highest standard of living for its participants."
*7.17.08 - A new country - http://wiki.aardsource.org/Main_Page
*7.1.08 - [http://seasteading.org/seastead.org/ephemerisle/index.html Ephemerisle] - a festival held at sea to get people thinking about the possibilities of living at sea. Now discontinued.

==Support==
*[http://bfi.org/ Buckminster Fuller Institute]
*[http://unreasonableinstitute.org/ Unreasonable Institute] - "At Unreasonable Institute we give high-impact social entrepreneurs wings. We are an international accelerator and investor in early stage social ventures and we seek out 25 of the world's most brilliant and bold social entrepreneurs to attend our annual 6 week Institute. There we will unite these entrepreneurs (deemed Unreasonable Fellows) and pair them with personal and entrepreneurial skill training, daily guidance from over 50 expert mentors, as well as opportunities and access to the seed capital their ventures need to take flight. " (Nikolay: not sure whether this one can be of direct help, but is here just for the record).
*[http://awesomefoundation.org/ The Awesome Foundation], founded to increase the amount of awesomeness in the world. Members of each local chapter pool together $1000 a month and give it to whoever has an idea for doing something awesome.
*1000 True Fans - http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fans.php

==Energy==
* Feb. 2011 - All Power Labs: Gasifier Experimenters Kit: http://www.gekgasifier.com/
*6.2.08 - [http://www.stanford.edu/~hydrobay/lookat/mkii.html another Tesla turbine thingy]
*6.2.08 - [http://kimmelsteampower.com/gallery.html Kimmel Steam Power]
*Boundary Layer Turbines - http://freeenergynews.com/Directory/Devices/TeslaTurbine/index.html
*[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ugAivXAusus Flash steam Babington oil buner] on Youtube
*Ken Boak's oil and wood power - http://www.geocities.com/kenboak/wastewatts.html
*[http://www.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/babington/default.htm Page from Green Trust site on vegetable oil burner]
*[http://www.biofab.org/ The BIOFAB]: International Open Facility Advancing Biotechnology (BIOFAB) was founded in December 2009 as the world's first biological design-build facility. This professionally staffed public-benefit facility was initiated by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and is led by bioengineers from UC Berkeley and Stanford University. The BIOFAB is operated in partnership with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), the BioBricks Foundation (BBF), and the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC).
*[http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/smallchp%20 List of Bioenergy companies]
*[http://jnaudin.free.fr/ JLN Labs] - Free-Energy solutions and new generation of space-propulsion systems.
*[http://bingofuel.online.fr/bingofuel BingoFuel] - Alternative Fuels researches.

==Economics and abundance==
*[http://www.michaeljournal.org/plenty.htm In This Age of Plenty] from Louis Even.
*Open protocols and standards to exchange new units of value : http://open-udc.org.
*Futurism - http://thevenusproject.com/resource_eco.htm.
*Chris Anderson on [http://www.netvision.de/uk/dispatching/?event_id=5bb1b5e95afabb2e62d2b148ded47706&portal_id=369401748e8249f142a700d8098a3473 post scarcity economics]
*[http://www.rbose.org/ Resource Based Open Source Environment] - "A collaboration platform for the development of open sourced solutions based on resource management and implementing them in our daily lives."
*Zeitgeist the movie - http://zeitgeistmovie.com/sources.htm
*[http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com The Zeitgeist Movement] - A global movement dedicated to promoting and actualizing the vision of The Venus Project.
*[http://www.p-ced.com/1/ People-Centered Economic Development] - Advocacy for an alternate economic paradigm measured in human terms.

==Who might be interested in open source ecology? who has the same vision?==

* [http://www.sristi.org/cms/en/our_network Honey Bee Network] (which has a link to http://www.techpedia.in/)
* [http://www.hackerspaces.org Hackerspaces]
* [http://www.debian.net Debian], http://planet.debian.net
* [http://www.ubuntu.com Ubuntu], http://planet.ubuntu.com
* [http://www.openp2pdesign.org openp2pdesign.org], [http://www.openp2pdesign.org/twitter/ twitter news]
* [http://www.welserver.com/ Web Energy Logger], with a live map of US data.

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==Misc.==
*Juliet Schor - discusses us in her book, Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth. See [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=2081 blog].
*Kevin Carson - [http://www.amazon.com/Homebrew-Industrial-Revolution-Low-Overhead-Manifesto/dp/1439266999 The Homebrew Industrial Revolution] - large section of chapter on OSE
*[http://www.communityfortomorrow.org/ASoundSolution.htm Community for Tomorrow]
*John Robb's [http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2010/04/starters-universal-mechanical-power-sources.html?cid=6a00d83451576d69e2013485b06f06970c Global Guerillas]
*[http://www.transitionnetwork.org/ Transition Network] - Provides general information on Transition Towns and includes a global directory of initiatives.
*[http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/ Global Guerrillas] - John Robb's website on "networked tribes, systems disruption, and the emerging bazaar of violence. Resilient Communities, decentralized platforms, and self-organizing futures."
* Jan. 2011 - [http://shareable.net/blog/the-next-net Shareable]
* [http://www.communityfortomorrow.org/ Community of tomorrow]
*[http://www.oceanarks.org/ OceanArks] - Promoting several sustainable technologies, like using plants to clean up polluted water, urban agriculture etc.
*7.25.08 - [http://fabuntu.org/ Fabuntu]
*The Nature of Order - [http://books.google.com/books?id=kZtZ57_nz-UC&printsec=frontcover&dq=strong+centers&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0*PPA8,M1]
*6.1.08 - [http://madconomist.com/what-if-us-collapses-soviet-collapse-lessons-every-american-needs-to-know Collapse of US Empire]
*6.1.08 - [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3340274697167011147&hl=en Non Peak Oil]
*5.30.08 - [http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bljefferson.htm Early OpenFarmTech]
*5.30.08 - [http://www.bloglines.com/ BlogLines]
*5.29.08 - [http://www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/ltras/itech/ Open Farm Hardware]
*5.29.08 - [http://algalturfscrubber.com/ Algal Turf Scrubber]
*5.24.08 - [http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/258 TED talk with Paul Stamets on mycelium]
*5.24.08 - [http://rodaleinstitute.org/about_us Rodale Institute]
*AIDG Business Incubation - http://www.aidg.org/incubation.htm
*Personal Sovereignty Foundation - http://EcoComics.org/personal%20sovereignty%20foundation.html
*Ripple peer money system - http://ripple.sourceforge.net/
*Euclides Mance - Brazil peer economy movement - http://www.solidarius.com.br/mance/index.php?lng=en
*Global directory of environmental technologies - http://www.eco-web.com/
*Project management - http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=000076&topic_id=1&topic=Ask%20E%2eT%2e
*Design for Disassembly - http://www.co-design.co.uk/design.htm
*Open Circuit Design - http://opencircuitdesign.com/
*Lakota secede from the Union - http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/12/lakota-withdraw.html
*The Story of Stuff - http://www.storyofstuff.com/
*Relocalization Network - http://www.relocalize.net/groups
*Jeff Budderer blog on us - http://blog.onevillage.tv/wp/?p=483
*RMI on Factor 10 cost reduction- http://10xe.com/subpages/tunnel.html
*Wired mag on emergency shelter: http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/multimedia/2007/10/gallery_instant_housing?slide=8&slideView=8
*o.design - http://www4.autistici.org/o.design/modules/news/
*Freedom Force - http://www.freedom-force.org/
*Open Source Green Vehicle - http://www.osgv.org/contact-ssm-osgv/
*[http://freeconferencecalls.com Free conference calls]
*http://omni.mcn.org/electriliteb/ - Electric Vehicle, to be developed in the open source
*[http://www.ilsr.org/pubs/pubsalist.html Institute for Local Self Reliance]
*Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility - http://www.cpsr.org/about
*Constitution.org on invisible contracts - http://www.constitution.org/mercier/incon.htm
*Anxiety Culture - http://www.anxietyculture.com/contents.htm
*Critical Path primer - http://www.anxietyculture.com/criticalpath.htm
*Mindfully.org- http://www.mindfully.org/About-Mindfully_org.htm
*On distraction - http://www.anxietyculture.com/distract.htm
*Gupta Option - http://guptaoption.com/3.future_islam.php
*http://www.farmcatalog.com/1%60books/voices.aspx
*China is not doing so well, either: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/ID18Ad01.html + http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-climate_change_debate/article_2407.jsp
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management
*Sunvention - http://www.bsrsolar.com/
*Anil Gupta - http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/~anilg/
*National Innovation Foundation, India - http://nifindia.org/
*State-in-a-Box governance - http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/my-state-in-a-box-identity-services-architecture-paper-is-now-online-290
*Hacks in all areas- http://www.hackaday.com/2006/11/07/siamese-electric-motors/
*Adam Kumpf @ MIT - http://web.mit.edu/kumpf/www/index.html + [http://web.mit.edu/kumpf/www/kumpf-links.html Inventing Sites]
*Will O'Brien - http://biobug.org/articles/
*Stanford: Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability - http://extreme.stanford.edu/index.html
*book "Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them" (1909) http://www.journeytoforever.org/farm_library/device/devicesToC.html[http://www.republicoflakotah.com/about-us/faq/ Republic of Lakotah]
*[http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/ Low Tech Magazine] and [http://www.notechmagazine.com/ No Tech Magazine]

==Fabrication, makers and hackers==
*[http://vermeulen.ca/product-hacking.html Product hacking]
*OS metal depository, transaction system http://pktp.co.cc/
*FabFolk - http://www.fabfolk.com/
*Mobile Fab Lab - http://mobilefablab.blogspot.com/
*www.fablabinnova.blogspot.com
*Fab Lab Forum 4 - http://cba.mit.edu/events/07.08.fab/
*[http://fablab.no/ Norway FabLab]
*Fab@Home - http://www.fabathome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Fab%40Home:Overview
*The Multimachine - http://opensourcemachine.org/
*[http://ng.cba.mit.edu/dist/PV.mp4 Fab Lab promo commercial]
*[http://blog.cowtowncomputercongress.org/ Cowtown Computer Congress] - Local Kansas City hackerspace.
*[http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/ Hackerspaces] - Provides general information and a directory of hackerspaces around the world.
*Smari McCarthy, Iceland Fab Lab leader - http://smari.yaxic.org/blag/2007/10/16/an-offer-you-cant-refuse/
*Make Blog - http://blog.makezine.com/
*Instructibles - http://www.instructables.com/
*DIY Life - http://www.diylife.com/
*Ready Made Blog - http://readymade.com/blogs/rmblog
*[http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/ Finkbuilt], a tinkerer's blog
*[http://www.humblefactory.com/ HumbleFactory] - very innovative ideas for open hardware

==Food==
*[http://growingpower.org/ Growing Power], based in Chicago and Milwaukee. Educating people about local food systems. Aquaponics, beekeeping, wormeries.
*[http://arkfab.org/ ArkFab]. This seems to have an identical vision to OSE: to create a post-scarcity world thru open-source development of local food systems and digital fabrication.
*[http://cd3wd.com/cd3wd_40/cd3wd/index.htm cd3wd]. 13 gigabytes of information on development for the 3rd world
*Dasagavya: organic growth promoter for plants - http://www.hindu.com/seta/2006/05/18/stories/2006051801921800.htm
* [[Refarm the city]]
* http://www.permaculture.com
* [http://ooooby.ning.com/ Ooooby]
*5.25.08 - [http://permacultureinstitute.pbwiki.com/ Chaordic Permaculture Institute]
*Organic Hydroponic Lettuce Production - http://www.organitech.com/index.php?goto=bep
*[http://www.fao.org/corp/knowledgeforum/en/ FAO knowledge forum]. Huge online collexion of knowledge on farming. [http://www.fao.org/sard/en/init/1574/2225/1846/index.html SARD initiative] focuses on educating people about sustainable agriculture
*[http://carbon.org/ Institute for Simplified Hydroponics]
*[http://www.growingedge.com/magazine/ Growing Edge]

==Appropriate technology & development==
*[http://www.thefullbellyproject.org/ The Full Belly Project], open-source appropriate technology. Inventors of the universal nut sheller
*[[Appropedia:|Appropedia]], open-content encyclopedia of appropriate technology
*[http://www.tinytechindia.com/ Tiny Tech India], tools for small-scale rural development

==Building==
*[http://earthship.com/ Earthship Biotecture] - With a background of 40 years of research and development of self-sufficient housing made from recycled materials, Earthship Biotecture focuses on development of Earth friendly and people friendly community living concepts that require little or no mortgage payment and no utility bills.
*[http://hexayurt.com/ Vinay Gupta's Hexayurt]
*[http://www.jeffvail.net/2007/04/mefab-open-architecture-project.html Open Architecture Network]
*Geiger Research Institute of Sustainable Building - http://grisb.org/
*[http://oikos.com/ OIKOS Green Building Sources]
*[http://www.calearth.org/ Cal-Earth] promotes 'superadobe' building
*[http://www.dwell.com/ Dwell Magazine]
*[http://www.domusweb.it/en/op-ed/open-source-architecture-osarc-/ Open Source Architecture manifesto]

==Open culture==
*P2P Foundation blog on the open economy - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/what-kind-of-economy-are-we-moving-to-1-overview-of-attention-economy-concepts/2007/10/03
*Open Product Design from Christian Fiebig, Germany - http://opensourceproductdesign.org/
*6.15.08 - [http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohrer/freeDistribution.html Model beyond copyright]
*Open Source development theory - http://www.guptaoption.com/5.open_source_development.php
*6.15.08 - [http://www.engr.uconn.edu/msl/paper/holonic/paper1.html Holonic Management]
*6.4.08 - [http://givebank.org/projects.html Give Bank Open Source Product Design]
*6.4.08 - [http://onthecommons.org/content.php?id=1942 peer economy emergence - threat or boon?]
*Berkeley Center for Open Innovation - http://openinnovation.haas.berkeley.edu/Home_COI.html
* P2P Foundation [http://p2pfoundation.net/ wiki] and [http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/ blog]
*P2P Economy for business - http://p2peconomy.com/
*Hot off the press (Oct. '07) on physical production - http://www.peerconomy.org/wiki/Main_Page by [http://siefkes.net/ Christian Siefkes, Ph.D.]
*4.9.08 - OS is antidote to planned obsolescence - [[http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2007/03/28/open-source-the-only-weapon-against-planned-obsolescence]]
*4.9.08 - Design Club - http://opendesignclub.com/index.php/About.html
*Feb. 2011 - Open MythSource: http://openmythsource.com/ - interviewed on the [http://agroinnovations.com/index.php/en_us/multimedia/blogs/podcast/2011/02/episode-121-state-banks-opensource-mythology-and-viralized-transgenics/ Agroinnovations Podcast]
*5.5.2011 - Cultural Creatives: http://culturalcreatives.cc/the-revolution-movie

==Ecovillages, ashrams and resilient communities==
*[http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/26/technology/village_saving_planet.biz2/index.htm Gaviotas revisited]
*[http://www.powerfromthesun.net/jtlylecenter.html J.T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies] - an experiment in sustainable living in California
*[http://gen.ecovillage.org/ Global Ecovillage Network] - "The Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) is a growing network of sustainable communities and initiatives that bridge different cultures, countries, and continents. GEN serves as umbrella organization for ecovillages, transition town initiatives, intentional communities, and ecologically-minded individuals worldwide."
*The Farm - http://www.thefarm.org/lifestyle/index.html
*Vigyan Ashram - new education - http://vigyanashram.com/ - vapabal@gmail.com
*[http://www.auroville.org/ Auroville], see [[Auroville Earth Institute]]
*http://www.twinoaks.org/
*[http://www.arcosanti.org/ Arcosanti]
*[http://www.thenzp.com/1_3.aspx The New Z-Land Project] - "The New Z-Land Project's mission is to create a prototype circular city and sustainable community in New Zealand which will subscribe to a Resource Sharing Society."
*[http://resilientcommunities.org/ Resilient Communities] - Blog run by Bob Stilger that focuses on healthy and resilient communities.
*[http://www.nyhistory.com/central/oneida.htm Oneida]
*[http://mtbest.net/ Mt Best], a homestead in Australia. Website has some innovative ideas on energy efficiency etc.
*[http://ecosustainablevillage.com.ip01-web23.net/Village_Maps.htm Eco Sustainable Village], consultants for building sustainable communities
*[http://villageforum.com/ Village Forum] - A website helping people create small communities
*[http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=66&L=0 Tamera] - "Tamera’s aim is to develop an example of a model for a nonviolent co-existence of people and between people and nature."
*[http://www.berkana.org/ Berkana] - "Berkana and our partners share the clarity that whatever the problem, community is the answer. We prepare for an unknown future by creating strong and sustainable relationships, by wisely stewarding the earth’s resources, and by building resilient communities."
*[http://www.atlasinitiativegroup.org/ Atlas Initiative Group] - "The mission of the Atlas Initiative Group is to design, plan and build Atlas City in America, providing a peaceful transition model from a monetary based system economy to a resource based system economy demonstrated through an advanced city which will maximize automation and provide the highest standard of living for its participants."
*7.17.08 - A new country - http://wiki.aardsource.org/Main_Page
*7.1.08 - [http://seasteading.org/seastead.org/ephemerisle/index.html Ephemerisle] - a festival held at sea to get people thinking about the possibilities of living at sea. Now discontinued.

==Support==
*[http://bfi.org/ Buckminster Fuller Institute]
*[http://unreasonableinstitute.org/ Unreasonable Institute] - "At Unreasonable Institute we give high-impact social entrepreneurs wings. We are an international accelerator and investor in early stage social ventures and we seek out 25 of the world's most brilliant and bold social entrepreneurs to attend our annual 6 week Institute. There we will unite these entrepreneurs (deemed Unreasonable Fellows) and pair them with personal and entrepreneurial skill training, daily guidance from over 50 expert mentors, as well as opportunities and access to the seed capital their ventures need to take flight. " (Nikolay: not sure whether this one can be of direct help, but is here just for the record).
*[http://awesomefoundation.org/ The Awesome Foundation], founded to increase the amount of awesomeness in the world. Members of each local chapter pool together $1000 a month and give it to whoever has an idea for doing something awesome.
*1000 True Fans - http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fans.php

==Energy==
* Feb. 2011 - All Power Labs: Gasifier Experimenters Kit: http://www.gekgasifier.com/
*6.2.08 - [http://www.stanford.edu/~hydrobay/lookat/mkii.html another Tesla turbine thingy]
*6.2.08 - [http://kimmelsteampower.com/gallery.html Kimmel Steam Power]
*Boundary Layer Turbines - http://freeenergynews.com/Directory/Devices/TeslaTurbine/index.html
*[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ugAivXAusus Flash steam Babington oil buner] on Youtube
*Ken Boak's oil and wood power - http://www.geocities.com/kenboak/wastewatts.html
*[http://www.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/babington/default.htm Page from Green Trust site on vegetable oil burner]
*[http://www.biofab.org/ The BIOFAB]: International Open Facility Advancing Biotechnology (BIOFAB) was founded in December 2009 as the world's first biological design-build facility. This professionally staffed public-benefit facility was initiated by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and is led by bioengineers from UC Berkeley and Stanford University. The BIOFAB is operated in partnership with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), the BioBricks Foundation (BBF), and the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC).
*[http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/smallchp%20 List of Bioenergy companies]
*[http://jnaudin.free.fr/ JLN Labs] - Free-Energy solutions and new generation of space-propulsion systems.
*[http://bingofuel.online.fr/bingofuel BingoFuel] - Alternative Fuels researches.

==Economics and abundance==
*[http://www.michaeljournal.org/plenty.htm In This Age of Plenty] from Louis Even.
*Open protocols and standards to exchange new units of value : http://open-udc.org.
*Futurism - http://thevenusproject.com/resource_eco.htm.
*Chris Anderson on [http://www.netvision.de/uk/dispatching/?event_id=5bb1b5e95afabb2e62d2b148ded47706&portal_id=369401748e8249f142a700d8098a3473 post scarcity economics]
*[http://www.rbose.org/ Resource Based Open Source Environment] - "A collaboration platform for the development of open sourced solutions based on resource management and implementing them in our daily lives."
*[http://www.planetcollective.com/ Resource Based Earth Collective] - A social network focused on creating a resource based economy of sustainable living and resilient communities.
*Zeitgeist the movie - http://zeitgeistmovie.com/sources.htm
*[http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com The Zeitgeist Movement] - A global movement dedicated to promoting and actualizing the vision of The Venus Project.
*[http://www.p-ced.com/1/ People-Centered Economic Development] - Advocacy for an alternate economic paradigm measured in human terms.

==Who might be interested in open source ecology? who has the same vision?==

* [http://www.sristi.org/cms/en/our_network Honey Bee Network] (which has a link to http://www.techpedia.in/)
* [http://www.hackerspaces.org Hackerspaces]
* [http://www.debian.net Debian], http://planet.debian.net
* [http://www.ubuntu.com Ubuntu], http://planet.ubuntu.com
* [http://www.openp2pdesign.org openp2pdesign.org], [http://www.openp2pdesign.org/twitter/ twitter news]
* [http://www.welserver.com/ Web Energy Logger], with a live map of US data.

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