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2012-04-18T17:07:00Z

Knut Brekken:

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<p style="text-align:justify; font-size:115%;">'''[http://opensourceecology.org/ Open Source Ecology]''' is accelerating the growth of the next economy - the ''Open Source Economy'' - an economy that optimizes both production and distribution - while promoting environmental regeneration and social justice. We are building the '''[[Global_Village_Construction_Set|Global Village Construction Set]]'''. This is a high-performance, modular, do-it-yourself, low-cost platform - that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different industrial machines that it takes - to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts.
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<h2>'''[[Civilization Starter Kit DVD v0.01|Civilization Starter Kit]]''' - v0.01</h2>

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<p style="text-align:justify;">The Civilization Starter Kit currently contains all the training materials you need to build 4 out of 50 Global Village Construction Set machines <small>(Beta v0.01)</small>. Join our global network of '''[[Replication|independent replicators]]''' creating a sustainable, open source economy.</p>

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<li>[[Civilization_Starter_Kit_DVD_v0.01#Foreword|'''1. Foreword''']]</li>
<li>[[Civilization_Starter_Kit_DVD_v0.01#Introduction|'''2. Introduction''']]</li>
<li>[[Civilization_Starter_Kit_DVD_v0.01#CEB Press|'''3. CEB Press''']]</li>
<li>[[Civilization_Starter_Kit_DVD_v0.01#Tractor|'''4. Tractor''']]</li>
<li>[[Civilization_Starter_Kit_DVD_v0.01#Soil Pulverizer|'''5. Soil Pulverizer''']]</li>
<li>[[Civilization_Starter_Kit_DVD_v0.01#Power Cube|'''6. Power Cube''']]</li>
<li>[[Civilization_Starter_Kit_DVD_v0.01#Construction|'''7. Construction''']]</li>
<li>[[Civilization_Starter_Kit_DVD_v0.01#Appendix|'''8. Appendix''']]</li>
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<h2>'''OSE Orientation'''</h2>

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<h3>'''Network'''</h3>

*[http://opensourceecology.org/ OpenSourceEcology.Org]

*[http://oseeurope.org/ Open Source Ecology - Europe]

*[http://blog.opensourceecology.org/ Blog]

*[http://www.youtube.com/user/marcinose YouTube Channel]

*[http://forum.opensourceecology.org/ Forum]

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<h3>'''Introduction'''</h3>

*[[Crash_course_on_OSE|Crash Course]]

*[[FAQs|Frequently Asked Questions]]

<h3>'''Get Involved'''</h3>

*[[Get involved|First Steps]]

*[[Status_Brief|GVCS Development Status]]

*[[Replication|Independent Replication]]

<h2>'''Active Teams'''</h2>

*'''[http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Aaron_log/XM_Project_Page_Prototype_2 Factor e Farm Team]'''

*'''[http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Teams/XM_Project_Page_Prototype_Recruiting Recruiting Team]'''

<h2>'''Partners'''</h2>
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<h2>'''[http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski.html TED Talk] - Marcin Jakubowski PhD'''</h2>
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<h2>'''Transparency'''</h2>
<p style="text-align:justify">[http://opensourceecology.org/ Open Source Ecology] is a lean start-up dedicated to transparency in all of its operations. Below, you will find information about how decisions are made, who is making them, how much revenue is generated, how its spent, etc.</p>

'''Leadership:'''
*[http://www.ted.com/profiles/bio/id/711611 Founder]
*[[Board_of_Directors|Board of Directors]]
'''Process and Values'''
*[[Core_Values_of_OSE|Core Values]]
*[[Open_Source_Ecology_Paradigm|The Open Source Ecology Paradigm]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(development) Agile Project Management/Scrum]
'''Financials:'''
*[[OSE_Financial_Transparency_2012|Income and Expenses]]
*[http://opensourceecology.org/w/images/8/82/Open_Source_Ecology_-_Financial_Report.pdf Financial Report - 01/01/12]
*[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aj7WbjRT9mlmdGYxZDFDalM3UGNFVTRUME1HalRiMnc&hl=en_US#gid=2 Global Village Construction Set - Budget Rationale]
*[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aj7WbjRT9mlmdE12c0o1T2FjeFhzYmRKLUthaVVUbEE&hl=en_US#gid=1 GVCS vs Komersielle Modeller - Price Comparisons]
'''Evaluations:'''
*[[Evaluations#Community_Needs_Assessments|Community Needs Assessments]]
*[[Replication|GVCS Replicators Network Surveys]]


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Knut Brekken: /* GVCS Spesifikasjoner/Kjerneverdier */

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=Introduksjon=

(sist oppdatert Jan 2011)

Før du leser videre, vennligst se {{LinkLang|OSE Mission|OSE Oppdrag}}. OSE Spesifikasjoner er en beregning for å vurdere kvalitetene som bidrar til skapelsen av relokalisert økonomisk produksjon, som et grunnlag for fellesskapsfremskritt i en sammenvevd verden.

OSE Spesifikasjonene er en standard som tar sikte på å definere og evaluere kriteriene til produkter, tjenester, og produksjonen av dem - som tjener til å promotere skapelsen av overflødige økonomier, og dermed, skapelsen av robuste fellesskap. ''Overflod'' eksisterer der et fellesskap bruker sin ressursbase på en slik måte at menneskelige behov og ønsker leveres i overflod - med betydelig overskudd for å drive kulturelt og vitenskapelig fremskritt.

=Punkt for Punkt=

=GVCS Spesifikasjoner/Kjerneverdier=

Disse er OSEs verdier som informerer utviklingen av GVCS som skal nedfelles i utviklingsprosessen, i rekrutteringen av frivillige, i dens korporative struktur, og i alle operasjoner, offentlige og private:

#'''Åpen Kilde''' - vi publiserer fritt våre 3D design, skjemaer, instruksjonsvideoer, budsjetter, og produktveiledninger på vår åpen kilde wiki. Vi streber for å sele samarbeid med et globaldistribuert lag av tekniske bidragsytere. Vi verdsetter åpenhet av våre operasjoner, forretningsmodeller, strategisk utvikling, “kode” (tegninger og design), ledelsesinformasjon, og alle andre aspekter som kan føre til distributiv økonomi. Kommentar: Vårt hovedmål er å bidra til skapelsen av åpen kultur, der deling og samarbeidsutvikling er verdsatt over grådighet og eksklusivitet. Denne typen kultur promoterer liv og vekst, i motsetning til fryktbasert aggressivitet. Åpen kildekultur inkluderer publiserig 'tidlig og ofte' for å avsløre feil og blindveier - der rask vekst oppstår ved å justere mot feil. Tidlig sammenbrudd gir mulighet til å tidlig finne løsninger. Feil og blindveier er overflødige i livet - og merket til et suksessfullt individ er deres evne til å svare på feilene på en måte som fører til vekst og transcendens. ----
#'''Distributiv Økonomi''' – Vi publiserer våre forretningsmodeller åpent slik at andre kan kopiere alle foretak. “Alt vi vet, vet dere.” Dette skal skape virkelig frie foretak og livsgivende konkurranse, i motsetning til monopolkapitalisme eller militarisme. Med ett ord - distributiv økonomi kalles deling. I den politiske forstanden kan dette fenomenet beskrives som desentralisert ingeniørvirksomhet. Det bør nevnes at informasjonen bør være fri, fordi kostnaden av å distribuere informasjon er ubetydelig. Men atomer eller fysiske objekter er imidlertid ikke 'gratis' på samme måte, og betydelig menneskelig energi kreves for å produsere og distribuere fysiske varer.
#'''Lavkostnad''' - Kostnaden av å kjøpe eller lage våre maskiner er, i gjennomsnitt, 5-10x billigere enn å kjøpe fra en industriell produsent- inkludert en gjennomsnitlig kostnad på $25 dollar per arbeidstime for en GVCS fabrikerer. Kommentar:
#'''Modulær''' – Komponentene til GVCS fungerer som utskiftbare moduler. Motorer, deler, sammensetninger, og kraftenheter kan utveklses, der enheter kan grupperes sammen for å diversifisere funksjonaliteten som kan oppnås fra et lite sett av enheter. For å se hvordan forskjellige deler passer sammen - se {{LinkLang|Product Ecologies|Produktøkologier}}.
#'''Brukervennlighet''' – Design-for-demontering, enkelhet, åpenhet, og åpen kilde dokumentasjon tillater brukeren å forstå, ta fra hverandre, modifisere, vedlikeholde, og reparere verktøy lett uten behovet for å være avhengig av dyre reparatører.
#'''Gjør-det-selv''' - Brukeren får kontroll over design, produksjon, og modifisering av GVCS verktøysettet. Gjør-det-selv er ment å promotere lager, utfører, skaper, ikkekonsumerende kultur - i folk som er interessert i å skape deres eget skreddersydde miljø i motsetning til å akseptere enormt standardiserte alternativer.
#'''Lukket Sløyfe Produksjon og Materialsykluser''' – Ethvert produkt burde ikke være sløseri, men et råstoff for en annen prosess. Vårt prosjekt er avhengig av resirkulering av metall til urørt råstoff for å produsere flere GVCS teknologier - og dermed tillate krybbe-til-krybbe produksjonssykluser.
#'''Høy Ytelse''' - Ytelsesstandarder må matche eller overgå de av industrielle motstykker for at GVCS kan tilby en sammenlignbar eller bedre levestandard.
#'''Industriell Effektivitet''' - For å tilby et levedyktig valg for en robust livsstil, matcher eller overgår GVCS plattformen produktivitetsstandarden til industrielle motstykker.
#'''Økologisk Design''' - Våre produkter promoterer en harmonisk sameksistsens mellom natur og mennesker. Hele prosessen og teknologien må passe inn i kriterier for å være miljøvennlige og regenerative.
#'''Robusthet'''– Systemene som vi designer er designet for å være tilpassningsdyktige. Dette oppstår fra evnen til å kunne modifisere, skalere og kopiere komponentene og systemene for å imøtekomme kravene til stadig endrende forhold.
#'''Systemdesign''' – Våre design tar hele livsstøttesystemet i betraktning, med tanke på hvordan de forskjellige maskinene og tjenestene går sammen. Forskjellige maskiner kan fungere som moduler i et vidt spekter av integrerte systemer. Vi velger ikke teknologier med toppunktet ytelse, men med topp systemsytelse ettersom at de passer inn i et robust fellesskap integrert med dets naturlige livsstøttesystem. Deler av systemdesignet er synergi - på den måten at GVCS er ment å oppnå sitt maksimale potensiale når alle dets komponenter jobber med hverandre.
#'''Livstidsdesign''' – Våre produkter er designet for en livstid av bruk - gjennom solid design, brukervennlig vedlikeholdbarhet, åpen kilde, Gjør-det-selv design.
#'''Utbyttbarhet''' – Våre produkter tenderer mot utbyttbarheten av vanlige ressurser for mindre vanlige eller strategiske ressurser. Utbyttbarhet gjelder også faktumet an all skadelig
#'''Robusthet''' – Applikasjoner av vårt arbeid rangerer fra den første til fjerde verden, fra byen til landet, fra applikasjoner av høy teknologi til lav teknologi, på forskjellige operasjonsskalaer.
#'''Flerbruksfleksibilitet''' – Våre verktøy er som regel ikke dedikerte redskaper, men kan brukes fleksibelt i en bredde av applikasjoner.
#'''Best Praksis''' – vi fokuserer på optimalisering av våre produkter for å oppnå den best mulige designen og funksjonaliteten.
#'''Enkelhet''' - Vi designer for absolutt enkelhet uten å ofre ytelsesstandarder.
#'''Komplett Økonomi''' – OSE's arbeid er ment å være en fungerende plan for en komplett økonomi. Våre design er rettet mot en skaperlivsstil på fellesskapsmedlemmenes part. Dette er også kjent som nylivsoppholdslivsstil - der fellesskap kan bidra med alle kravene for en komplett økonomi,slik at handel bare er et alternativ, ikke en nødvendighet.
#'''Freedom from Material Constraints''' – The GVCS is intended to provide all the material needs of a community in an efficient way. This allows people to have free time, which allows people to choose their pursuits freely, beyond constraints of material scarcity. This is also known as High-Tech Self-Providing.
#'''Division of Labor''' – Our designs focus on the needs of a modern villlage enjoying a high quality of life, as opposed to individual utilization. All of the technologies may be adapted to an individual's use, but division of labor is more desirable for achieving a complete economy in a community.
#'''Scalability and Fractality''' – The GVCS tools are designed to be scalable to different sizes of operations, from individual households to agglomerations of villages (cities). The design should be fractal, in that each unit of operation should be self-contained (cimplete) and resilient.
#'''Village Scale''' – The GVCS is intended to be optimized for a village scale of about 200 people, or Dunbar's number – as the number of people who can maintain face-to-face interaction.
#'''Nonviolence''' – The GVCS is designed to provide for all the needs of a community without killing or stealing from others.
#'''Amicable Social Contract''' – The GVCS toolset is designed to promote a just, equitable, and life-giving social contract for a village community living with the GVCS. The qualities of the GVCS are intended to promote good relationships between a village-scale group of people. The social contract is based on collaborative division of labor, where productivity of individual members contributes to the well-being of the whole community. The basic requirement is lifelong learning and regenerative stewardship of land and resources, along with nonviolence .
#'''Community and Family''' – OSE promotes the reconnection of people to one another as a result of increased freedom from material constraints. This reconnection also includes reconnection to one's true needs, to one's family, and to the global family of all living creatures.
#'''Proven Techniques''' – We focus on time-proven concepts, techniques, and technologies. All are principles are generally regarded as common, historical knowledge or wisdom learned through eons of civilization.
#'''Cross-Disciplinary Integration''' – We provide cutting edge practice in so far as they are integrations of knowledge from many fields and disciplines. We value unabashed boundary-crossing and cross-fertilization, drawing from as many cultures, regions, and time periods as possible.
#'''Sufficiency''' – Our design focuses on sufficiency – ie, we understand that we need to reach a certain level of performance, and that is sufficient. This is distinct from continuous addition of frivolous bells and whistles.
#'''New Economics''' – One aspect of OSE is that it allows for the creation of a resource based economy, where true wealth is based on the value of natural, primarily local resources, where wealth is created from adding value to natural resources by transforming them to human-usable form.
#'''Flexible Fabrication''' – This is a mode of production distinct from specialization. In flexible fabrication, general purpose machinery is used by highly skilled workers to produce a wide array of products – as opposed to specialized machines, operated by highly deskilled workers, producing only a single item. Our means to flexible fabrication is the open source fab lab.
#'''Technological Recursion''' – The flexible fabrication technology also allows producers to produce more complex machines and parts. This allows a local community to, eventually, attain the capacity to produce any technology known to humankind.
#'''Industry 2.0''' – This is a concept that flexible fabrication, combined with a collaboratively-developed, global repository of down-loadable product design has the potential to become the new engine of production. This is particularly useful towards relocalization of productive economies and towards distributive economics. Industry 2.0 is a direct goal of OSE.
#'''Permafacture''' - ecological fabrication with lifetime design.
#'''Local Resources''' – The GVCS is fueled by local resources, such as water, sunlight, rock and soil. Via technological recursion,
#'''Replicability''' – OSE work is intended to be replicable, self-replicating, and viral. The open source nature, low-cost, and simplicity of our designs are key to this.
#'''Meaning''' – Technology, when used appropriately, is intended to reconnect one to meaning, and to natural ecosystems. Reconnection to nature can occur from constant interplay between humans and nature, as natural resources are stewarded responsibly to meet human needs by benign processes.
#'''Appropriate Automation''' – We favor automation of production or other tasks whenever repetitive, difficult, dangerous, or otherwise unrewarding tasks can be carried out with computer assistance instead of human labor. We favor this if this truly increases quality of life and reduces toil, without loss of meaning, violence, or other negative systems consequences.
#'''Long Term Approach''' – OSE is seeking long-term solutions on the 100 year scale into the future, not band-aids on superficial issues. We are looking at issues for the long haul, with lasting peace and stability for humanity as the goal.
#'''Network''' – OSE is interested in creating a network of like-minded communities that follow OSE values, such that cultural exchange can happen between different communities. This refers to the 1000 Global Villages concept - which serve as model communities that influence the rest of the world in a positive way. This brings in an element of mobility into the community social fabric.
#'''Model Community'''- The OSE Village with the GVCS are intended to provide a positive, best-practice example of integrated, meaningful lifestyles along the principles of abundance and prosperity - as a shining point of light to inspire people in many walks of life.
#'''Land and Resource Stewardship''' – Each OSE facility functions as a land steward. Land is not for sale, but is preserved for ever as a permanent site of human heritage and cultural growth. Resources are stewarded so that they improve in quality with time, as opposed to becoming depleted.
#'''Iconoclastic Innovation and Transformation''' – OSE favors iconoclastic approaches which address issues at the root, not symptoms – towards addressing pressing world issues (war, poverty, corruption, distribution of wealth, disease, etc.). We are not looking for mass-culture compromises swayed by political or special interests, but for authentic solutions based on virtues common to all humankind.
#'''Absolute Creative Approaches''' - We do not promote destroying anything, just creating a better solution that makes the old paradigm obsolete. We do not hate any group or politic, because we are all in this together. We believe in positive psychology, inspiration, and bringing out the virtues in people – by appealing to their absolute creative, transcendent potential for solutions. We do not endorse fear- or punishment-based motivation tactics.
#'''Realistic Immediacy''' - We favor a realistic approach that can be implemented today, as opposed to futuristic dreaming. We believe that we have sufficient knowledge and technology today to create an abundant lifestyle for everybody. We focus on a tool set designed for a nominal 200 person village - according to Dunbar's number. This allows for sufficient division of labor to cover just about any technology to be produced locally, while remaining small enough such that organization of such a community is manageable.
#'''Proper Scale'''- We look at the village scale of about 200 people as the optimal scale of human organization for several reasons. First, it's a historically proven number. Second, it follows [[Dunbar's Number]] to allow for persistent and meaningful social interaction. Third, it is easily manageable from an organizational point of view without requiring bureaucratic overhead. Fourth, it is sufficiently large to allow specialization via division of labor. Fifth, it allows for a walking- or biking-distance community. Sixth, it is a basic building block - where larger communities may be designed as units of this small scale for the highest possible resilience - as opposed to organization on a larger scale. Seventh, it has been pointed out by the industrial economist, E. F. Schumacher, in his seminal book, [[Small is Beautiful]], that human organization simply breaks down after it reaches a certain scale.
#'''One World Approach'''- We believe that people in general should live within the means of global resources without depleting their quality or polluting them. This is opposite of what happens in general today.
#'''Miniaturization'''- We believe that the scale of successful human organization at which modern-day technology can be maintained can be scaled down to the village scale - under the assumption of open information flows.
#'''Radical Abundance'''- We believe that there are abundant resources for everybody, and that human social organization should favor institutions that promote abundance, as opposed to scarcity. We favor a technological infrastructure that moves beyond resource scarcity as a dominant underlying force in all of civilization.

=Methods and Strategic Approaches=

#'''Open''' – Open Source Ecology endorses open source culture of sharing and collaborative development throughout, towards the end of distributive economics. This applies at the level of our process, organizational structure, business and products. On the process level, we encourage others to collaborate openly, yet respectfully of other developers' needs. To this end, we are aiming to create collaboration structures and platforms that allow others to collaborate freely, and to publish meaningful results openly. We seek to design all of our operations to be consistent with this principle. We encourage everybody on the development team to be transparent about their work, and to ask openly for collaborative assistance. We encourage everybody to give information away for free – as the cost of sharing information is zero
#'''Distributive Economics''' - We recognize the challenges of sharing information openly – in that someone else can 'steal' an idea and capitalize on it. We address this issue by encouraging people to publish openly, so that prior art makes information accessible to all, and therefore, making information un-patentable and therefore incapable of being appropriated. In order to capture value, we encourage humans to organize around information resource commons, while building in a physical, productive infrastructure to convert information into the substance of modern-day living via benign, industrial processes
#'''Notes on Patents'''. These make sense only in a world based on scarcity. We encourage each community that adopts OSE principles to build complete, open source, economic productivity – where true wealth can be generated easily. In this case, what is the need for patents? If a community can provide all of its needs - then we enter into the concept of sufficiency. State-of-art point technologies that optimize one feature of performance are not necessarily useful for an ecological tool set. We are interested more in overall, or ecological, performance - as opposed to point performance.
#'''Creative Approach''' - There is a number of movements that cater to fears regarding the end of the world or other comprehensive collapse scenarios. Our approach is intended to empower people from a perspective of what is a-priori favorable and benign - whether or not any cataclysm is on the horizon. IT is important to underscore that we focus on positive psychology and transcendence, which we favor over an approach based on fear, because fear-based response is not as likely to create long-lasting solutions.
#'''Modular, lifetime design''' – The core of lifetime design is design-for-disassembly and modularity. Design-for-disassembly is synonymous with user ability to 'look under the hood' of a certain device. Modules are interchangeable units of functionality.
#'''Closed Loop Manufacturing''' – OSE endorses closed loop eco-industry, where waste does not exist as the waste is turned into feedstock for other processes.

=Components of OSE Specifications=

OSE Specifications cover a number of aspects of economically-significant production, covering the development and production aspects:

*Economic significance
*Open documentation
*Distributive economic nature
*Transformative nature of enterprise
*Systems design
*Transparency and participatory nature of production model and development process
*Creation of post-scarcity levels of production
*Simplicity and low cost
*Lifetime, modular design; design-for-disassembly; design-for-scalability
*Localization of material sourcing and of production
*Ecological qualities
*Economic Feasibility and Replicability
**Minimization of waste, overhead, and bureaucracy
**Product Evolution
**Fabrication Facilities
**Open Franchising or Open Business Model
**Startup Assistance

==Economic Significance==

Economic significance refers to the overall economic importance of a given product or service. The assumption here that economic significance is defined on the basis of relevance for meeting the material needs of humans. For example, fuels and tractors constitute multibillion dollar global markets, and are thus economically significant. On the other hand, plain discussion may have little economic significance, if is not more than hot air.

==Open Documentation==

===Open content===

We begin with open content as a foundation – content that is free of restrictions on use or dissemination. The optimal license for content that we promote is the public domain. This keeps it simple from the practical and legal perspective. We have a philosophy that the users should decide for themselves as to how to use the information. We support open licensing. We are not interested in policing.

We believe that to claim something as ‘one’s own’ is arrogant, as it does not address the fact that any single ‘invention’ is simply a small additional to a large pool of existing knowledge that made the ‘invention’ possible. We believe that there is no point in trying to police the patenting of forks, as are simply so many different forks or development paths that could be taken nonetheless: creativity is unlimited. We believe that the more we contribute to the commons, the more new content will be generated.

===Readily accessible or downloadble documentation and design===

Distributed information in the computer age is made most readily accessible if it is available for immediate download from the internet. If material is available in electronic format, it may be manipulated or utilized readily with software tools. For example, digital designs may be edited or used immediately in CAD or CAM. If CAM formats are available, then data at one point in space can be readily transformed into a physical object at another point in space, in the presence of digital fabrication capacities.

===Design Drawings===

This is a start towards replicability.

===Bill of Materials (BOM)===

Next to design drawing, the BOM is the second most important towards replicability. This is a detailed listing of all parts used, sourcing, and prices. Availability of the BOM saves the potential builder countless hours of searching for part availability and for reasonable pricing. Relevant comments should be made alongside the BOM, such as, quality or reliability of certain vendors, their quality of service, and any other useful comments. The only difficulty with a BOM may be that if the audience is global, sourcing may not be readily available or shipping may be prohibitive, so local substitution of parts must be made. If a BOM is available, then the building of a specific product can commence immediately: there is no guessing which parts would work, or which supplier is reliable. At best, the process for one-off individual production can be as follows:
#an individual decides that they need a certain product
#they look that product up on an online repository of open source products, download fabrication procedures and parts lists
#purchase parts locally all on the same day if they are located in an urban area where many suppliers are available
#and start building a certain project.
All these steps can potentially be completed in one day when the BOM is available. Open design drawings and plans are only one aspect, but the critical point to enabling immediate production is the availability of BOMs, as the last step prior to actual fabrication.

Under this scenario, a realistic possibility emerges that a large number of individuals discontinue purchasing slave goods from who-knows-where, and begin to fabricate them locally. This is feasibile on the individual level for anyone equipped with a robust Fab Lab, or when small groups (a few to a dozen people) get together to purchase low-cost, open source, digital fabrication equipment. These people could operate out of backyard garages, rented workshop spaces, co-working facilities, or other community supported manufacturing operations. The types of products that yield themselves particularly to this type of production are those items that fall beyond the class of disposable goods, and are more or less long-use items. These items include electronics, mechanized tools, semi-heavy machinery, green vehicles, renewable energy systems, among others.

====Tools====
[[CAD by Mariano Alvira]] and [[SKDB]] are two different tools that can improve and automate different aspects of handling a BOM.

===Free information===

If information is free, it is most easily accessible.

==Distributive Economics==

Distributive economics refer to economic models that tend to distribute economic power as opposed to monopolizing this power.

==Transformative Nature of Enterprise==

We are interested in transformative economics, or those economics which tend towards community and global resilience, while having qualities that, proactively, move the world away from: concentration of societal power; perennial warfare; loss of meaning; bureaucracy; globalization of economic activity; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak newspeak]; loss of freedom; and so forth.

==Systems Design==

Systems design refers to design of economic paradigms which consider the whole human and natural ecosystem, and the relationships involved, not just an isolated part of that system. For example, non-systems thinking may lead one to conclude that a modern steam engine for transportation is a bad idea compared to biodiesel or fuel alcohol because the thermodynamic efficiency of a steam engine is two times lower than that of diesel engines or gasoline engines. The systems design perspective will claim that the steam engine is a great idea, because biomass pellets can be used as fuel, and the yield of cellulosic biomass per acre is about 10 times higher than the yield of oil or alcohol. The systems thinker will continue, by stating that if the whole system is considered, biomass pellet production is much simpler to accomplish, and that biomass-growing areas can be integrated with other uses such as orcharding or livestock raising, and the systems thinker will continue to make other claims that such an energy source allows for absolute decentralization of production and resilience of communities using the simplest means possible. The point to be made is that the systems thinker can continue to make a large number of claims on how a particular activity is desirable based on a number of systems connections, which the non-systems thinker dismisses as simply not being part of the question.

We believe that destructive non-systems thinking is so pervasive in our society, that in general, individual and societal decision-making is completely partisan, thin on logic, and downright retarded. We are including a metric for systems design in the OSE Specifications to raise awareness of this issue, with a hope, which even if futile, attempts to bring a glimmer of light to the situation.

==Transparency of Production Model and Development Process==

The development process for products, and their production model, should be transparent to any interested observer. This allows for study of, input into, and improvement of the topic of interest. Transparency allows feedback loops to become active, and empowers those who are interested in learning more about a topic. Transparency is one of several qualities of a distributive, economic process.

Transparency of some program implies that the program is open to suggestions, correction, or replication of itself, stemming from an ethical foundation of the given program. Therefore, tools such as non-disclosure agreements, patents, trade secrets, and other means of protectionism are inconsistent with the creation of transparency.

===Development Process===

1. Participation in the development process is entirely voluntary. No compensation for alienation is necessary. As a result, the best designs are produced from the commitment of passionate stakeholders.

2. Anyone may join or leave the development group at any time

3. Collaborative development process utilizes the input of diverse stakeholders

4. Steps and results of the development process are documented

==Creation of Post-Scarcity Levels of Production==

Post-scarcity levels of production imply the availability of effective tools of production, including both hardware and techniques - which allow for the ample meeting of human needs. Post-scarcity levels of production also imply that local, nonstrategic resources can be utilized effectively, reliably, and with the capacity to produce significant surplus. The goal of attaining post-scarcity levels of production of something are thus synonymous with a particular community being able to transcend physical survival as a basis for evolving to pursuits beyond mere survival.

==Simplicity and Low Cost==

The design and implementation of any product or service should be the simplest from both the fabrication and cost perspective, such that it is the most readily replicable. Attaining simplicity is indeed the most difficult design challenge. Most people confuse high performance with extra features, because they externalize the hidden liabilities that accompany the extra features. Simplicity is synonymous with efficient resource use. Simplicity should also apply to the fabrication procedure of an object. As such, simplicity is also synonymous with low cost. The basic design philosophy of OSE is to include simplicity in design and fabrication - ie, design-for-fabrication should be applied.

==Lifetime, Modular Design; Design-for-Disassembly; Design-for-Scalability (DfS)==

(Note: For mainstream reference on lifetime design, see the work of [[Saul Griffith]])

Simplicity of design promotes the features of lifetime, modular, and scalable design-for-disassembly (DfD).

Lifetime design implies that the value of a product does not depreciate over time. This implies freedom from labor required to replace a certain product, which has direct implication for one's access to free time.

Modular design is a design which allows different modules to be used and interchanged, giving the user control over and flexibility with the object of use.

DfD means that parts of modules may be replaced readily, by taking the module apart. This has profound implications to lifetime design.

DfS is more than a design that can be scaled. It is the principle of designing things with ease of scalability as one of the features - ie, design that can be scaled easily. This is a slight improvement over design that can be scaled, in that DfS includes explicit features that make scalability easy.

Scalability means that a basic building block can be used to make larger or smaller versions. This contributes to low cost and efficiency.

===Multipurpose Modular Design===

Objects should be designed so that they are made as building blocks, or modules, of other or larger objects. This way, objects can be modified. Instead of a whole object having to be replaced to add new functionality, a module may be added. This gives products a flexibility that is built into their very nature, such that the user has additional control with minimum expense. Modularity may sometimes be synonymous with inter-operability, and may sometimes be synonymous with scalability. It may contribute to lifetime design if an object is 100% modular and each module may be replaced. Modularity also means that an object may function as a building block of other objects. In all cases, modularity implies that an object may be modified. The combination of flexibility, adaptability, scalability, interoperability are desirable. These features expand the range of applications, increase lifetime, reduce cost, as well as provide and retain high value. In a material world, these are features that contribute to wealth and prosperity. In a nutshell, modularity provides large value and has low associated costs. These are good implications for individual and community well-being.

If modular design is followed, then the type of interoperability of using building blocks leads us to a [[Pattern Language]] of technology. In this pattern language, the modules or building blocks serve as the sentences of a larger language, or technology infrastructure.

===Scalability===

Products should be designed so that they can be scaled up or down - such as by addition of new modules, or using multiples of a part in parallel. For example, a solar concentrator system designed according to the principle of scalability should be a linear design (see [[Solar Power Generator]]), so that it could be enlarged either by lengthening or widening the array.

==Localization of Material Sourcing and of Production==

For community resilience, ability to use local resources is key. While it is important that a community have this ability for essential needs, it is optional, though desirable, for other nonessential items.

Using local resources may necessitate that a given community have additional technology to produce a certain item. For example, if a given community does not have the conditions to grow a certain crop easily, it may want to invest in the additional technology required to grow that crop successfully. Or, if a certain community does not have adequate water, it should invest in well-drilling or roof-catchment technology, instead of importing water from unsecured sources.

A community should thus, in general, strive to increase its technology base to accommodate the provision of all essentials, and not settle on its ability to trade to procure these essentials, as trade may be vulnerable to disruption. Trade is quite acceptable for non-essential items, such as musical instruments, since disruption of such supply does not threaten the survival of a community. The level of technology in which a community is autonomous should be determined on practical grounds.

Moreover, in today's world, we already hear about 'produced locally.' We should add 'sourced locally' to our vocabulary - as resilience implies not only local production, but also local sourcing. Local sourcing typically requires that a community have additional technological infrastructure and knowhow for providing the necessary feedstocks.

===Localization Levels===

*Level 1 - production is local
*Level 2 - sourcing of materials used in production is local
*Level 3 - raw material production is local
*Level 4 - production machinery used in the production process above is open source and locally fabricated

Localization applies to the creation of natural economies, or those economies based on the substance of their own, natural resources, free of supply chain disruptions.

An example of Level 3 is that local aluminum is made by [[Smelting]] aluminum from local clays.

If localization is taken to all the 4 levels, for all necessities of sustaining its population - that means that a region is autonomous, and as such, has no built-in tendency to wage war for others' resources. This is the
critical point of localization - its benign effect on global geopolitical struggle. In simple words, people don't kill and steal.

==Ecological Qualities==

The product of interest must be good for the environment.

==Economic Feasibility and Replicability==

===Minimization of Waste, Overhead, and Bureaucracy===

The key point to the competitiveness of agile, open source enterprise is its lean structure with minimal overhead. Minimization of waste occurs by collaborative development, such that R&D costs are shared by a number of stakeholders. Competitive waste is eliminated by open enterprise giving services away rather than competing for market share, which is the ethical marketing strategy for open enterprise.

Other strategies for keeping overhead low are [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=391 crowd-funding the production facility], such as in Factor e Farm's case. We also propose paperwork reduction by operating as an un-incorporated entity, with contractually-based fiscal fiduciaries and liability management, operation in the Republic via private contract, and by in-house legal literacy.

===Product Evolution===

A process should be in place for continued maintenance and development of a product. This could be a support community, foundation, or users.

===Fabrication Facilities===

Concrete Flexible Fabrication mechanism exists for others to purchase the product at reasonable cost. This is a means to assuring that a diversity of suppliers exists, such that monopoly is avoided.

===Open Franchising or [[Open Business Model]]===

This point defines how easily one can obtain access to replicable enterprise design. See our motivation with respect to Open Business Models, as described under the [[OSE License]].

There is a number of details that goes into enterprise replications. These are all the standard details found in a [[Business Plan]], plus the actual technical details that go into that plan, such as designs and CAD, fabrication procedures, BOM and sourcing information, economic analysis, ergonomic analysis, and so forth.

If you are interested in replicating an enterprise, then please inquire with us regarding practical considerations. For those interested in replication, we are looking for long-term commitment to provide the necessary due diligence of business model documentation.

===Startup Assistance===

Producer training is the key to assisting others to start up enterprise. Dedicated workshops should be available for others to learn the trade. We plan on offering a 2 year immersion program, which includes not only workshop skills, but agriculture, as well as theoretical and organizational aspects.

=Calculation of a Metric Score=

The questionnaire below can be used to determine whether a product meets the OSE specifications. There are 42 questions, so the maximum score is 42.

===Economic Significance===
*Is it relevant for meeting the material needs of humans?

===Distributive Economics===
*Does the economic model distribute economic power?
'''Transformative Nature of Enterprise'''
*Does it promote community and global resilience?

===Systems Design===
*Does it consider the complete human and natural ecosystem?

===Ecology===
*Is it good for the environment?

===Development Process===
*Is participation in the process entirely voluntary?
*Can anyone join or leave the development group at any time?
*Does the collaborative development process utilize the input of diverse stakeholders?
*Are the steps and results of the development process documented?

===Simplicity of design===
*Is it low Cost?
*Does it have Long Life?
*Is it modular?
*Is it designed for disassembly?

===Design for scalability===
*Can it be scaled up?
*Can it be scaled down?
*Is it easily scalable?

===Localization===
====Materials====
*Are materials used in production local?
*Is raw material production local?

====Production====
*Is product production local?
*Is the machinery used in production process open source?
*Is the machinery used in production process locally fabricated?

===Economic Feasibility and Replicability===
*Is there minimal overhead?
*Is there minimal waste?
*Are R&D costs shared by a number of stakeholders?
*Are services given away?
*Are production facilities Crowd-funded?

===Product Evolution===

*Is there continual produce maintenance?
*Is there continual product development?

===Fabrication Facilities===

*Is there a flexible fabrication mechanism?

===Open Business Model===

*Is there a Business Plan?
*Are there technical details in the business plan?

===Open Documentation===

*Is content Open Source?
*Is content readily accessible (downloadable)?
*Are there design drawings?

====Designs====
*Are design drawings CAD?
*Are fabrication procedures detailed?
*Is economic analysis available?
*Is ergonomic analysis available?

====Bill of Materials (BOM)====
*Is there a parts list?
*Is Sourcing of parts listed?
*Are prices of parts listed?

===Startup Assistance===

*Is producer training available?

=Summary=
In summary, we aim to raise the standards embodied in open source product development efforts by articulating the possibilities. OSE Specification describes all the desirable features that can be embodied in open economic development, under the assumption that maximum advancement of distributive production is the best route to human prosperity.

OSE Specifications, as applied to technology - imply ''liberatory technology'' - defined as technology which serves the true needs of people and liberates time for other pursuits beyond survival. This is distinct from technology which controls people - where in today's world - with ever-advancing technology, people enjoy less free time.

=Application of OSE Specifications to Assessing the Liberatory Potential of Technologies=
OSE Specifications, when applied to production of physical products, allow for transparent assessment of the overall openness or accessibility of ''so-called'' open source products. This specification is intended to help people assess distributive production aspects of projects, by distinguishing between the various degrees of ‘opensource-ness’ embodied in projects. This is because some projects call themselves ‘open source’ when only a small portion of the hardware, or even no physical portion, is open source.

For example, in the case of the [http://green.autoblog.com/2007/10/16/autobloggreen-qanda-open-source-green-vehicle-project/ OS Green Vehicle], the only open source component is an apparent design process, but the output of the design process is proprietary. As quoted from the website, ‘Your rights to use, modify and re-distribute any data from this web site are limited.’ Moreover, the components used in the car are proprietary. Therefore, the OS Green Vehicle has a low OSE Specifications metric score.

Access refers to use for both private or market purposes. The specification is not neutral in its goals, just as no technologies are ever neutral. The intent goes so far as to point out the nuances that contribute to a particular direction of: (1), promoting ecological integrity, (2), contributing to the highest possible quality of life, and (3), creating the widest possible distribution of wealth. Because the open source method of product development has immense potential in transforming the economic system, the OSE Specification aims to address the evaluation of positive change endorsed by various open source projects.

The scope of OSE Specifications is far-reaching: it considers all the steps necessary for a product to be user-accessible. This includes open access to relevant information and affordable access to physical products. The goal is distributive economics.

OSE Specification stipulates access to physical production facilities that can build wealth in re-localized communities. But OSE Specifications go even further: replication and viral spread of wealth - or distributive production. OSE Specifications address the means for replicating the production process itself. This includes not only self-replicating machines and systems, but the development of open business models, training materials, and apprenticeships for entrepreneurs. As the final step, we consider the availability of capitalization assistance within the metric. The capitalization assistance may be part of a new entrepreneur's apprenticeship - where, for example - real products can be made and sold within the apprenticeship. We redefine the 'capital' in 'capitalization assistance' from 'money' to 'the ability to produce just about anything required for business startup at low cost.'

Such level of commitment to the success of replication may imply a hidden agenda behind this program. Indeed there is: the greatest possible empowerment of people and communities to be the masters of their destinies, by unleashed human productivity fueled by open access to information and enabling hardware.

OSE Spec addresses access to both producers and users - both on the individual and community scale. Production could occur by do-it-yourself means on the individual scale in flexible fabrication facilities. The community scale promotes division of labor, and therefore a high standard of living. The OSE Spec addresses the availability of blueprints or digital designs, which can be used readily in manual or automated, computer-controlled fabrication facilities.

[[Category:Standards]]

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Knut Brekken: /* GVCS Spesifikasjoner/Kjerneverdier */

{{Lang|OSE Spesifikasjoner}}

=Introduksjon=

(sist oppdatert Jan 2011)

Før du leser videre, vennligst se {{LinkLang|OSE Mission|OSE Oppdrag}}. OSE Spesifikasjoner er en beregning for å vurdere kvalitetene som bidrar til skapelsen av relokalisert økonomisk produksjon, som et grunnlag for fellesskapsfremskritt i en sammenvevd verden.

OSE Spesifikasjonene er en standard som tar sikte på å definere og evaluere kriteriene til produkter, tjenester, og produksjonen av dem - som tjener til å promotere skapelsen av overflødige økonomier, og dermed, skapelsen av robuste fellesskap. ''Overflod'' eksisterer der et fellesskap bruker sin ressursbase på en slik måte at menneskelige behov og ønsker leveres i overflod - med betydelig overskudd for å drive kulturelt og vitenskapelig fremskritt.

=Punkt for Punkt=

=GVCS Spesifikasjoner/Kjerneverdier=

Disse er OSEs verdier som informerer utviklingen av GVCS som skal nedfelles i utviklingsprosessen, i rekrutteringen av frivillige, i dens korporative struktur, og i alle operasjoner, offentlige og private:

#'''Åpen Kilde''' - vi publiserer fritt våre 3D design, skjemaer, instruksjonsvideoer, budsjetter, og produktveiledninger på vår åpen kilde wiki. Vi streber for å sele samarbeid med et globaldistribuert lag av tekniske bidragsytere. Vi verdsetter åpenhet av våre operasjoner, forretningsmodeller, strategisk utvikling, “kode” (tegninger og design), ledelsesinformasjon, og alle andre aspekter som kan føre til distributiv økonomi. Kommentar: Vårt hovedmål er å bidra til skapelsen av åpen kultur, der deling og samarbeidsutvikling er verdsatt over grådighet og eksklusivitet. Denne typen kultur promoterer liv og vekst, i motsetning til fryktbasert aggressivitet. Åpen kildekultur inkluderer publiserig 'tidlig og ofte' for å avsløre feil og blindveier - der rask vekst oppstår ved å justere mot feil. Tidlig sammenbrudd gir mulighet til å tidlig finne løsninger. Feil og blindveier er overflødige i livet - og merket til et suksessfullt individ er deres evne til å svare på feilene på en måte som fører til vekst og transcendens. ----
#'''Distributiv Økonomi''' – Vi publiserer våre forretningsmodeller åpent slik at andre kan kopiere alle foretak. “Alt vi vet, vet dere.” Dette skal skape virkelig frie foretak og livsgivende konkurranse, i motsetning til monopolkapitalisme eller militarisme. Med ett ord - distributiv økonomi kalles deling. I den politiske forstanden kan dette fenomenet beskrives som desentralisert ingeniørvirksomhet. Det bør nevnes at informasjonen bør være fri, fordi kostnaden av å distribuere informasjon er ubetydelig. Men atomer eller fysiske objekter er imidlertid ikke 'gratis' på samme måte, og betydelig menneskelig energi kreves for å produsere og distribuere fysiske varer.
#'''Lavkostnad''' - Kostnaden av å kjøpe eller lage våre maskiner er, i gjennomsnitt, 5-10x billigere enn å kjøpe fra en industriell produsent- inkludert en gjennomsnitlig kostnad på $25 dollar per arbeidstime for en GVCS fabrikerer. Kommentar:
#'''Modulær''' – Komponentene til GVCS fungerer som utskiftbare moduler. Motorer, deler, sammensetninger, og kraftenheter kan utveklses, der enheter kan grupperes sammen for å diversifisere funksjonaliteten som kan oppnås fra et lite sett av enheter. For å se hvordan forskjellige deler passer sammen - se {{LinkLang|Product Ecologies|Produktøkologier}}.
#'''Brukervennlighet''' – Design-for-demontering, enkelhet, åpenhet, og åpen kilde dokumentasjon tillater brukeren å forstå, ta fra hverandre, modifisere, vedlikeholde, og reparere verktøy lett uten behovet for å være avhengig av dyre reparatører.
#'''Gjør-det-selv''' - Brukeren får kontroll over design, produksjon, og modifisering av GVCS verktøysettet. Gjør-det-selv er ment å promotere lager, utfører, skaper, ikkekonsumerende kultur - i folk som er interessert i å skape deres eget skreddersydde miljø i motsetning til å akseptere enormt standardiserte alternativer.
#'''Lukket Sløyfe Produksjon og Materialsykluser''' – Ethvert produkt burde ikke være sløseri, men et råstoff for en annen prosess. Vårt prosjekt er avhengig av resirkulering av metall til urørt råstoff for å produsere flere GVCS teknologier - og dermed tillate krybbe-til-krybbe produksjonssykluser.
#'''Høy Ytelse''' - Ytelsesstandarder må matche eller overgå de av industrielle motstykker for at GVCS kan tilby en sammenlignbar eller bedre levestandard.
#'''Industriell Effektivitet''' - For å tilby et levedyktig valg for en robust livsstil, matcher eller overgår GVCS plattformen produktivitetsstandarden til industrielle motstykker.
#'''Økologisk Design''' - Våre produkter promoterer en harmonisk sameksistsens mellom natur og mennesker. Hele prosessen og teknologien må passe inn i kriterier for å være miljøvennlige og regenerative.
#'''Robusthet'''– Systemene som vi designer er designet for å være tilpassningsdyktige. Dette oppstår fra evnen til å kunne modifisere, skalere og kopiere komponentene og systemene for å imøtekomme kravene til stadig endrende forhold.
#'''Systemdesign''' – Våre design tar hele livsstøttesystemet i betraktning, med tanke på hvordan de forskjellige maskinene og tjenestene går sammen. Forskjellige maskiner kan fungere som moduler i et vidt spekter av integrerte systemer. Vi velger ikke teknologier med toppunktet ytelse, men med topp systemsytelse ettersom at de passer inn i et robust fellesskap integrert med dets naturlige livsstøttesystem. Deler av systemdesignet er synergi - på den måten at GVCS er ment å oppnå sitt maksimale potensiale når alle dets komponenter jobber med hverandre.
#'''Lifeteime Design''' – Our products are designed for a lifetime of use – via solid design, user serviceability, open source, DIY design.
#'''Substitutability''' – Our products tend to the substitutability of common resources for less common or strategic resources. Substitutability also applies to the fact that any damaging
#'''Robustness''' – Applications of our work range from the 1st to the 4th worlds, from the city to the country, from high technology to low technology applications, at different scales of operation.
#'''Multipurpose Flexibility''' – Our tools are typically not dedicated devices, but ones that can be used flexibly in a wide range of applications.
#'''Best Practice''' – we focus on optimization of our products to achieve the best possible design and functionality
#'''Simplicity''' - We design for absolute simplicity without sacrificing performance standards
#'''Complete Economy''' – The work of OSE is intended to be a workable blueprint for a complete economy. Our designs are geared for a maker lifestyle on the part of community members. This is also known as a neo-subsistence lifestyle – where communities can provide all the requirements of a complete economy, such that trade is only an option, not a necessity.
#'''Freedom from Material Constraints''' – The GVCS is intended to provide all the material needs of a community in an efficient way. This allows people to have free time, which allows people to choose their pursuits freely, beyond constraints of material scarcity. This is also known as High-Tech Self-Providing.
#'''Division of Labor''' – Our designs focus on the needs of a modern villlage enjoying a high quality of life, as opposed to individual utilization. All of the technologies may be adapted to an individual's use, but division of labor is more desirable for achieving a complete economy in a community.
#'''Scalability and Fractality''' – The GVCS tools are designed to be scalable to different sizes of operations, from individual households to agglomerations of villages (cities). The design should be fractal, in that each unit of operation should be self-contained (cimplete) and resilient.
#'''Village Scale''' – The GVCS is intended to be optimized for a village scale of about 200 people, or Dunbar's number – as the number of people who can maintain face-to-face interaction.
#'''Nonviolence''' – The GVCS is designed to provide for all the needs of a community without killing or stealing from others.
#'''Amicable Social Contract''' – The GVCS toolset is designed to promote a just, equitable, and life-giving social contract for a village community living with the GVCS. The qualities of the GVCS are intended to promote good relationships between a village-scale group of people. The social contract is based on collaborative division of labor, where productivity of individual members contributes to the well-being of the whole community. The basic requirement is lifelong learning and regenerative stewardship of land and resources, along with nonviolence .
#'''Community and Family''' – OSE promotes the reconnection of people to one another as a result of increased freedom from material constraints. This reconnection also includes reconnection to one's true needs, to one's family, and to the global family of all living creatures.
#'''Proven Techniques''' – We focus on time-proven concepts, techniques, and technologies. All are principles are generally regarded as common, historical knowledge or wisdom learned through eons of civilization.
#'''Cross-Disciplinary Integration''' – We provide cutting edge practice in so far as they are integrations of knowledge from many fields and disciplines. We value unabashed boundary-crossing and cross-fertilization, drawing from as many cultures, regions, and time periods as possible.
#'''Sufficiency''' – Our design focuses on sufficiency – ie, we understand that we need to reach a certain level of performance, and that is sufficient. This is distinct from continuous addition of frivolous bells and whistles.
#'''New Economics''' – One aspect of OSE is that it allows for the creation of a resource based economy, where true wealth is based on the value of natural, primarily local resources, where wealth is created from adding value to natural resources by transforming them to human-usable form.
#'''Flexible Fabrication''' – This is a mode of production distinct from specialization. In flexible fabrication, general purpose machinery is used by highly skilled workers to produce a wide array of products – as opposed to specialized machines, operated by highly deskilled workers, producing only a single item. Our means to flexible fabrication is the open source fab lab.
#'''Technological Recursion''' – The flexible fabrication technology also allows producers to produce more complex machines and parts. This allows a local community to, eventually, attain the capacity to produce any technology known to humankind.
#'''Industry 2.0''' – This is a concept that flexible fabrication, combined with a collaboratively-developed, global repository of down-loadable product design has the potential to become the new engine of production. This is particularly useful towards relocalization of productive economies and towards distributive economics. Industry 2.0 is a direct goal of OSE.
#'''Permafacture''' - ecological fabrication with lifetime design.
#'''Local Resources''' – The GVCS is fueled by local resources, such as water, sunlight, rock and soil. Via technological recursion,
#'''Replicability''' – OSE work is intended to be replicable, self-replicating, and viral. The open source nature, low-cost, and simplicity of our designs are key to this.
#'''Meaning''' – Technology, when used appropriately, is intended to reconnect one to meaning, and to natural ecosystems. Reconnection to nature can occur from constant interplay between humans and nature, as natural resources are stewarded responsibly to meet human needs by benign processes.
#'''Appropriate Automation''' – We favor automation of production or other tasks whenever repetitive, difficult, dangerous, or otherwise unrewarding tasks can be carried out with computer assistance instead of human labor. We favor this if this truly increases quality of life and reduces toil, without loss of meaning, violence, or other negative systems consequences.
#'''Long Term Approach''' – OSE is seeking long-term solutions on the 100 year scale into the future, not band-aids on superficial issues. We are looking at issues for the long haul, with lasting peace and stability for humanity as the goal.
#'''Network''' – OSE is interested in creating a network of like-minded communities that follow OSE values, such that cultural exchange can happen between different communities. This refers to the 1000 Global Villages concept - which serve as model communities that influence the rest of the world in a positive way. This brings in an element of mobility into the community social fabric.
#'''Model Community'''- The OSE Village with the GVCS are intended to provide a positive, best-practice example of integrated, meaningful lifestyles along the principles of abundance and prosperity - as a shining point of light to inspire people in many walks of life.
#'''Land and Resource Stewardship''' – Each OSE facility functions as a land steward. Land is not for sale, but is preserved for ever as a permanent site of human heritage and cultural growth. Resources are stewarded so that they improve in quality with time, as opposed to becoming depleted.
#'''Iconoclastic Innovation and Transformation''' – OSE favors iconoclastic approaches which address issues at the root, not symptoms – towards addressing pressing world issues (war, poverty, corruption, distribution of wealth, disease, etc.). We are not looking for mass-culture compromises swayed by political or special interests, but for authentic solutions based on virtues common to all humankind.
#'''Absolute Creative Approaches''' - We do not promote destroying anything, just creating a better solution that makes the old paradigm obsolete. We do not hate any group or politic, because we are all in this together. We believe in positive psychology, inspiration, and bringing out the virtues in people – by appealing to their absolute creative, transcendent potential for solutions. We do not endorse fear- or punishment-based motivation tactics.
#'''Realistic Immediacy''' - We favor a realistic approach that can be implemented today, as opposed to futuristic dreaming. We believe that we have sufficient knowledge and technology today to create an abundant lifestyle for everybody. We focus on a tool set designed for a nominal 200 person village - according to Dunbar's number. This allows for sufficient division of labor to cover just about any technology to be produced locally, while remaining small enough such that organization of such a community is manageable.
#'''Proper Scale'''- We look at the village scale of about 200 people as the optimal scale of human organization for several reasons. First, it's a historically proven number. Second, it follows [[Dunbar's Number]] to allow for persistent and meaningful social interaction. Third, it is easily manageable from an organizational point of view without requiring bureaucratic overhead. Fourth, it is sufficiently large to allow specialization via division of labor. Fifth, it allows for a walking- or biking-distance community. Sixth, it is a basic building block - where larger communities may be designed as units of this small scale for the highest possible resilience - as opposed to organization on a larger scale. Seventh, it has been pointed out by the industrial economist, E. F. Schumacher, in his seminal book, [[Small is Beautiful]], that human organization simply breaks down after it reaches a certain scale.
#'''One World Approach'''- We believe that people in general should live within the means of global resources without depleting their quality or polluting them. This is opposite of what happens in general today.
#'''Miniaturization'''- We believe that the scale of successful human organization at which modern-day technology can be maintained can be scaled down to the village scale - under the assumption of open information flows.
#'''Radical Abundance'''- We believe that there are abundant resources for everybody, and that human social organization should favor institutions that promote abundance, as opposed to scarcity. We favor a technological infrastructure that moves beyond resource scarcity as a dominant underlying force in all of civilization.

=Methods and Strategic Approaches=

#'''Open''' – Open Source Ecology endorses open source culture of sharing and collaborative development throughout, towards the end of distributive economics. This applies at the level of our process, organizational structure, business and products. On the process level, we encourage others to collaborate openly, yet respectfully of other developers' needs. To this end, we are aiming to create collaboration structures and platforms that allow others to collaborate freely, and to publish meaningful results openly. We seek to design all of our operations to be consistent with this principle. We encourage everybody on the development team to be transparent about their work, and to ask openly for collaborative assistance. We encourage everybody to give information away for free – as the cost of sharing information is zero
#'''Distributive Economics''' - We recognize the challenges of sharing information openly – in that someone else can 'steal' an idea and capitalize on it. We address this issue by encouraging people to publish openly, so that prior art makes information accessible to all, and therefore, making information un-patentable and therefore incapable of being appropriated. In order to capture value, we encourage humans to organize around information resource commons, while building in a physical, productive infrastructure to convert information into the substance of modern-day living via benign, industrial processes
#'''Notes on Patents'''. These make sense only in a world based on scarcity. We encourage each community that adopts OSE principles to build complete, open source, economic productivity – where true wealth can be generated easily. In this case, what is the need for patents? If a community can provide all of its needs - then we enter into the concept of sufficiency. State-of-art point technologies that optimize one feature of performance are not necessarily useful for an ecological tool set. We are interested more in overall, or ecological, performance - as opposed to point performance.
#'''Creative Approach''' - There is a number of movements that cater to fears regarding the end of the world or other comprehensive collapse scenarios. Our approach is intended to empower people from a perspective of what is a-priori favorable and benign - whether or not any cataclysm is on the horizon. IT is important to underscore that we focus on positive psychology and transcendence, which we favor over an approach based on fear, because fear-based response is not as likely to create long-lasting solutions.
#'''Modular, lifetime design''' – The core of lifetime design is design-for-disassembly and modularity. Design-for-disassembly is synonymous with user ability to 'look under the hood' of a certain device. Modules are interchangeable units of functionality.
#'''Closed Loop Manufacturing''' – OSE endorses closed loop eco-industry, where waste does not exist as the waste is turned into feedstock for other processes.

=Components of OSE Specifications=

OSE Specifications cover a number of aspects of economically-significant production, covering the development and production aspects:

*Economic significance
*Open documentation
*Distributive economic nature
*Transformative nature of enterprise
*Systems design
*Transparency and participatory nature of production model and development process
*Creation of post-scarcity levels of production
*Simplicity and low cost
*Lifetime, modular design; design-for-disassembly; design-for-scalability
*Localization of material sourcing and of production
*Ecological qualities
*Economic Feasibility and Replicability
**Minimization of waste, overhead, and bureaucracy
**Product Evolution
**Fabrication Facilities
**Open Franchising or Open Business Model
**Startup Assistance

==Economic Significance==

Economic significance refers to the overall economic importance of a given product or service. The assumption here that economic significance is defined on the basis of relevance for meeting the material needs of humans. For example, fuels and tractors constitute multibillion dollar global markets, and are thus economically significant. On the other hand, plain discussion may have little economic significance, if is not more than hot air.

==Open Documentation==

===Open content===

We begin with open content as a foundation – content that is free of restrictions on use or dissemination. The optimal license for content that we promote is the public domain. This keeps it simple from the practical and legal perspective. We have a philosophy that the users should decide for themselves as to how to use the information. We support open licensing. We are not interested in policing.

We believe that to claim something as ‘one’s own’ is arrogant, as it does not address the fact that any single ‘invention’ is simply a small additional to a large pool of existing knowledge that made the ‘invention’ possible. We believe that there is no point in trying to police the patenting of forks, as are simply so many different forks or development paths that could be taken nonetheless: creativity is unlimited. We believe that the more we contribute to the commons, the more new content will be generated.

===Readily accessible or downloadble documentation and design===

Distributed information in the computer age is made most readily accessible if it is available for immediate download from the internet. If material is available in electronic format, it may be manipulated or utilized readily with software tools. For example, digital designs may be edited or used immediately in CAD or CAM. If CAM formats are available, then data at one point in space can be readily transformed into a physical object at another point in space, in the presence of digital fabrication capacities.

===Design Drawings===

This is a start towards replicability.

===Bill of Materials (BOM)===

Next to design drawing, the BOM is the second most important towards replicability. This is a detailed listing of all parts used, sourcing, and prices. Availability of the BOM saves the potential builder countless hours of searching for part availability and for reasonable pricing. Relevant comments should be made alongside the BOM, such as, quality or reliability of certain vendors, their quality of service, and any other useful comments. The only difficulty with a BOM may be that if the audience is global, sourcing may not be readily available or shipping may be prohibitive, so local substitution of parts must be made. If a BOM is available, then the building of a specific product can commence immediately: there is no guessing which parts would work, or which supplier is reliable. At best, the process for one-off individual production can be as follows:
#an individual decides that they need a certain product
#they look that product up on an online repository of open source products, download fabrication procedures and parts lists
#purchase parts locally all on the same day if they are located in an urban area where many suppliers are available
#and start building a certain project.
All these steps can potentially be completed in one day when the BOM is available. Open design drawings and plans are only one aspect, but the critical point to enabling immediate production is the availability of BOMs, as the last step prior to actual fabrication.

Under this scenario, a realistic possibility emerges that a large number of individuals discontinue purchasing slave goods from who-knows-where, and begin to fabricate them locally. This is feasibile on the individual level for anyone equipped with a robust Fab Lab, or when small groups (a few to a dozen people) get together to purchase low-cost, open source, digital fabrication equipment. These people could operate out of backyard garages, rented workshop spaces, co-working facilities, or other community supported manufacturing operations. The types of products that yield themselves particularly to this type of production are those items that fall beyond the class of disposable goods, and are more or less long-use items. These items include electronics, mechanized tools, semi-heavy machinery, green vehicles, renewable energy systems, among others.

====Tools====
[[CAD by Mariano Alvira]] and [[SKDB]] are two different tools that can improve and automate different aspects of handling a BOM.

===Free information===

If information is free, it is most easily accessible.

==Distributive Economics==

Distributive economics refer to economic models that tend to distribute economic power as opposed to monopolizing this power.

==Transformative Nature of Enterprise==

We are interested in transformative economics, or those economics which tend towards community and global resilience, while having qualities that, proactively, move the world away from: concentration of societal power; perennial warfare; loss of meaning; bureaucracy; globalization of economic activity; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak newspeak]; loss of freedom; and so forth.

==Systems Design==

Systems design refers to design of economic paradigms which consider the whole human and natural ecosystem, and the relationships involved, not just an isolated part of that system. For example, non-systems thinking may lead one to conclude that a modern steam engine for transportation is a bad idea compared to biodiesel or fuel alcohol because the thermodynamic efficiency of a steam engine is two times lower than that of diesel engines or gasoline engines. The systems design perspective will claim that the steam engine is a great idea, because biomass pellets can be used as fuel, and the yield of cellulosic biomass per acre is about 10 times higher than the yield of oil or alcohol. The systems thinker will continue, by stating that if the whole system is considered, biomass pellet production is much simpler to accomplish, and that biomass-growing areas can be integrated with other uses such as orcharding or livestock raising, and the systems thinker will continue to make other claims that such an energy source allows for absolute decentralization of production and resilience of communities using the simplest means possible. The point to be made is that the systems thinker can continue to make a large number of claims on how a particular activity is desirable based on a number of systems connections, which the non-systems thinker dismisses as simply not being part of the question.

We believe that destructive non-systems thinking is so pervasive in our society, that in general, individual and societal decision-making is completely partisan, thin on logic, and downright retarded. We are including a metric for systems design in the OSE Specifications to raise awareness of this issue, with a hope, which even if futile, attempts to bring a glimmer of light to the situation.

==Transparency of Production Model and Development Process==

The development process for products, and their production model, should be transparent to any interested observer. This allows for study of, input into, and improvement of the topic of interest. Transparency allows feedback loops to become active, and empowers those who are interested in learning more about a topic. Transparency is one of several qualities of a distributive, economic process.

Transparency of some program implies that the program is open to suggestions, correction, or replication of itself, stemming from an ethical foundation of the given program. Therefore, tools such as non-disclosure agreements, patents, trade secrets, and other means of protectionism are inconsistent with the creation of transparency.

===Development Process===

1. Participation in the development process is entirely voluntary. No compensation for alienation is necessary. As a result, the best designs are produced from the commitment of passionate stakeholders.

2. Anyone may join or leave the development group at any time

3. Collaborative development process utilizes the input of diverse stakeholders

4. Steps and results of the development process are documented

==Creation of Post-Scarcity Levels of Production==

Post-scarcity levels of production imply the availability of effective tools of production, including both hardware and techniques - which allow for the ample meeting of human needs. Post-scarcity levels of production also imply that local, nonstrategic resources can be utilized effectively, reliably, and with the capacity to produce significant surplus. The goal of attaining post-scarcity levels of production of something are thus synonymous with a particular community being able to transcend physical survival as a basis for evolving to pursuits beyond mere survival.

==Simplicity and Low Cost==

The design and implementation of any product or service should be the simplest from both the fabrication and cost perspective, such that it is the most readily replicable. Attaining simplicity is indeed the most difficult design challenge. Most people confuse high performance with extra features, because they externalize the hidden liabilities that accompany the extra features. Simplicity is synonymous with efficient resource use. Simplicity should also apply to the fabrication procedure of an object. As such, simplicity is also synonymous with low cost. The basic design philosophy of OSE is to include simplicity in design and fabrication - ie, design-for-fabrication should be applied.

==Lifetime, Modular Design; Design-for-Disassembly; Design-for-Scalability (DfS)==

(Note: For mainstream reference on lifetime design, see the work of [[Saul Griffith]])

Simplicity of design promotes the features of lifetime, modular, and scalable design-for-disassembly (DfD).

Lifetime design implies that the value of a product does not depreciate over time. This implies freedom from labor required to replace a certain product, which has direct implication for one's access to free time.

Modular design is a design which allows different modules to be used and interchanged, giving the user control over and flexibility with the object of use.

DfD means that parts of modules may be replaced readily, by taking the module apart. This has profound implications to lifetime design.

DfS is more than a design that can be scaled. It is the principle of designing things with ease of scalability as one of the features - ie, design that can be scaled easily. This is a slight improvement over design that can be scaled, in that DfS includes explicit features that make scalability easy.

Scalability means that a basic building block can be used to make larger or smaller versions. This contributes to low cost and efficiency.

===Multipurpose Modular Design===

Objects should be designed so that they are made as building blocks, or modules, of other or larger objects. This way, objects can be modified. Instead of a whole object having to be replaced to add new functionality, a module may be added. This gives products a flexibility that is built into their very nature, such that the user has additional control with minimum expense. Modularity may sometimes be synonymous with inter-operability, and may sometimes be synonymous with scalability. It may contribute to lifetime design if an object is 100% modular and each module may be replaced. Modularity also means that an object may function as a building block of other objects. In all cases, modularity implies that an object may be modified. The combination of flexibility, adaptability, scalability, interoperability are desirable. These features expand the range of applications, increase lifetime, reduce cost, as well as provide and retain high value. In a material world, these are features that contribute to wealth and prosperity. In a nutshell, modularity provides large value and has low associated costs. These are good implications for individual and community well-being.

If modular design is followed, then the type of interoperability of using building blocks leads us to a [[Pattern Language]] of technology. In this pattern language, the modules or building blocks serve as the sentences of a larger language, or technology infrastructure.

===Scalability===

Products should be designed so that they can be scaled up or down - such as by addition of new modules, or using multiples of a part in parallel. For example, a solar concentrator system designed according to the principle of scalability should be a linear design (see [[Solar Power Generator]]), so that it could be enlarged either by lengthening or widening the array.

==Localization of Material Sourcing and of Production==

For community resilience, ability to use local resources is key. While it is important that a community have this ability for essential needs, it is optional, though desirable, for other nonessential items.

Using local resources may necessitate that a given community have additional technology to produce a certain item. For example, if a given community does not have the conditions to grow a certain crop easily, it may want to invest in the additional technology required to grow that crop successfully. Or, if a certain community does not have adequate water, it should invest in well-drilling or roof-catchment technology, instead of importing water from unsecured sources.

A community should thus, in general, strive to increase its technology base to accommodate the provision of all essentials, and not settle on its ability to trade to procure these essentials, as trade may be vulnerable to disruption. Trade is quite acceptable for non-essential items, such as musical instruments, since disruption of such supply does not threaten the survival of a community. The level of technology in which a community is autonomous should be determined on practical grounds.

Moreover, in today's world, we already hear about 'produced locally.' We should add 'sourced locally' to our vocabulary - as resilience implies not only local production, but also local sourcing. Local sourcing typically requires that a community have additional technological infrastructure and knowhow for providing the necessary feedstocks.

===Localization Levels===

*Level 1 - production is local
*Level 2 - sourcing of materials used in production is local
*Level 3 - raw material production is local
*Level 4 - production machinery used in the production process above is open source and locally fabricated

Localization applies to the creation of natural economies, or those economies based on the substance of their own, natural resources, free of supply chain disruptions.

An example of Level 3 is that local aluminum is made by [[Smelting]] aluminum from local clays.

If localization is taken to all the 4 levels, for all necessities of sustaining its population - that means that a region is autonomous, and as such, has no built-in tendency to wage war for others' resources. This is the
critical point of localization - its benign effect on global geopolitical struggle. In simple words, people don't kill and steal.

==Ecological Qualities==

The product of interest must be good for the environment.

==Economic Feasibility and Replicability==

===Minimization of Waste, Overhead, and Bureaucracy===

The key point to the competitiveness of agile, open source enterprise is its lean structure with minimal overhead. Minimization of waste occurs by collaborative development, such that R&D costs are shared by a number of stakeholders. Competitive waste is eliminated by open enterprise giving services away rather than competing for market share, which is the ethical marketing strategy for open enterprise.

Other strategies for keeping overhead low are [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=391 crowd-funding the production facility], such as in Factor e Farm's case. We also propose paperwork reduction by operating as an un-incorporated entity, with contractually-based fiscal fiduciaries and liability management, operation in the Republic via private contract, and by in-house legal literacy.

===Product Evolution===

A process should be in place for continued maintenance and development of a product. This could be a support community, foundation, or users.

===Fabrication Facilities===

Concrete Flexible Fabrication mechanism exists for others to purchase the product at reasonable cost. This is a means to assuring that a diversity of suppliers exists, such that monopoly is avoided.

===Open Franchising or [[Open Business Model]]===

This point defines how easily one can obtain access to replicable enterprise design. See our motivation with respect to Open Business Models, as described under the [[OSE License]].

There is a number of details that goes into enterprise replications. These are all the standard details found in a [[Business Plan]], plus the actual technical details that go into that plan, such as designs and CAD, fabrication procedures, BOM and sourcing information, economic analysis, ergonomic analysis, and so forth.

If you are interested in replicating an enterprise, then please inquire with us regarding practical considerations. For those interested in replication, we are looking for long-term commitment to provide the necessary due diligence of business model documentation.

===Startup Assistance===

Producer training is the key to assisting others to start up enterprise. Dedicated workshops should be available for others to learn the trade. We plan on offering a 2 year immersion program, which includes not only workshop skills, but agriculture, as well as theoretical and organizational aspects.

=Calculation of a Metric Score=

The questionnaire below can be used to determine whether a product meets the OSE specifications. There are 42 questions, so the maximum score is 42.

===Economic Significance===
*Is it relevant for meeting the material needs of humans?

===Distributive Economics===
*Does the economic model distribute economic power?
'''Transformative Nature of Enterprise'''
*Does it promote community and global resilience?

===Systems Design===
*Does it consider the complete human and natural ecosystem?

===Ecology===
*Is it good for the environment?

===Development Process===
*Is participation in the process entirely voluntary?
*Can anyone join or leave the development group at any time?
*Does the collaborative development process utilize the input of diverse stakeholders?
*Are the steps and results of the development process documented?

===Simplicity of design===
*Is it low Cost?
*Does it have Long Life?
*Is it modular?
*Is it designed for disassembly?

===Design for scalability===
*Can it be scaled up?
*Can it be scaled down?
*Is it easily scalable?

===Localization===
====Materials====
*Are materials used in production local?
*Is raw material production local?

====Production====
*Is product production local?
*Is the machinery used in production process open source?
*Is the machinery used in production process locally fabricated?

===Economic Feasibility and Replicability===
*Is there minimal overhead?
*Is there minimal waste?
*Are R&D costs shared by a number of stakeholders?
*Are services given away?
*Are production facilities Crowd-funded?

===Product Evolution===

*Is there continual produce maintenance?
*Is there continual product development?

===Fabrication Facilities===

*Is there a flexible fabrication mechanism?

===Open Business Model===

*Is there a Business Plan?
*Are there technical details in the business plan?

===Open Documentation===

*Is content Open Source?
*Is content readily accessible (downloadable)?
*Are there design drawings?

====Designs====
*Are design drawings CAD?
*Are fabrication procedures detailed?
*Is economic analysis available?
*Is ergonomic analysis available?

====Bill of Materials (BOM)====
*Is there a parts list?
*Is Sourcing of parts listed?
*Are prices of parts listed?

===Startup Assistance===

*Is producer training available?

=Summary=
In summary, we aim to raise the standards embodied in open source product development efforts by articulating the possibilities. OSE Specification describes all the desirable features that can be embodied in open economic development, under the assumption that maximum advancement of distributive production is the best route to human prosperity.

OSE Specifications, as applied to technology - imply ''liberatory technology'' - defined as technology which serves the true needs of people and liberates time for other pursuits beyond survival. This is distinct from technology which controls people - where in today's world - with ever-advancing technology, people enjoy less free time.

=Application of OSE Specifications to Assessing the Liberatory Potential of Technologies=
OSE Specifications, when applied to production of physical products, allow for transparent assessment of the overall openness or accessibility of ''so-called'' open source products. This specification is intended to help people assess distributive production aspects of projects, by distinguishing between the various degrees of ‘opensource-ness’ embodied in projects. This is because some projects call themselves ‘open source’ when only a small portion of the hardware, or even no physical portion, is open source.

For example, in the case of the [http://green.autoblog.com/2007/10/16/autobloggreen-qanda-open-source-green-vehicle-project/ OS Green Vehicle], the only open source component is an apparent design process, but the output of the design process is proprietary. As quoted from the website, ‘Your rights to use, modify and re-distribute any data from this web site are limited.’ Moreover, the components used in the car are proprietary. Therefore, the OS Green Vehicle has a low OSE Specifications metric score.

Access refers to use for both private or market purposes. The specification is not neutral in its goals, just as no technologies are ever neutral. The intent goes so far as to point out the nuances that contribute to a particular direction of: (1), promoting ecological integrity, (2), contributing to the highest possible quality of life, and (3), creating the widest possible distribution of wealth. Because the open source method of product development has immense potential in transforming the economic system, the OSE Specification aims to address the evaluation of positive change endorsed by various open source projects.

The scope of OSE Specifications is far-reaching: it considers all the steps necessary for a product to be user-accessible. This includes open access to relevant information and affordable access to physical products. The goal is distributive economics.

OSE Specification stipulates access to physical production facilities that can build wealth in re-localized communities. But OSE Specifications go even further: replication and viral spread of wealth - or distributive production. OSE Specifications address the means for replicating the production process itself. This includes not only self-replicating machines and systems, but the development of open business models, training materials, and apprenticeships for entrepreneurs. As the final step, we consider the availability of capitalization assistance within the metric. The capitalization assistance may be part of a new entrepreneur's apprenticeship - where, for example - real products can be made and sold within the apprenticeship. We redefine the 'capital' in 'capitalization assistance' from 'money' to 'the ability to produce just about anything required for business startup at low cost.'

Such level of commitment to the success of replication may imply a hidden agenda behind this program. Indeed there is: the greatest possible empowerment of people and communities to be the masters of their destinies, by unleashed human productivity fueled by open access to information and enabling hardware.

OSE Spec addresses access to both producers and users - both on the individual and community scale. Production could occur by do-it-yourself means on the individual scale in flexible fabrication facilities. The community scale promotes division of labor, and therefore a high standard of living. The OSE Spec addresses the availability of blueprints or digital designs, which can be used readily in manual or automated, computer-controlled fabrication facilities.

[[Category:Standards]]

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Knut Brekken: /* GVCS Spesifikasjoner/Kjerneverdier */

{{Lang|OSE Spesifikasjoner}}

=Introduksjon=

(sist oppdatert Jan 2011)

Før du leser videre, vennligst se {{LinkLang|OSE Mission|OSE Oppdrag}}. OSE Spesifikasjoner er en beregning for å vurdere kvalitetene som bidrar til skapelsen av relokalisert økonomisk produksjon, som et grunnlag for fellesskapsfremskritt i en sammenvevd verden.

OSE Spesifikasjonene er en standard som tar sikte på å definere og evaluere kriteriene til produkter, tjenester, og produksjonen av dem - som tjener til å promotere skapelsen av overflødige økonomier, og dermed, skapelsen av robuste fellesskap. ''Overflod'' eksisterer der et fellesskap bruker sin ressursbase på en slik måte at menneskelige behov og ønsker leveres i overflod - med betydelig overskudd for å drive kulturelt og vitenskapelig fremskritt.

=Punkt for Punkt=

=GVCS Spesifikasjoner/Kjerneverdier=

Disse er OSEs verdier som informerer utviklingen av GVCS som skal nedfelles i utviklingsprosessen, i rekrutteringen av frivillige, i dens korporative struktur, og i alle operasjoner, offentlige og private:

#'''Åpen Kilde''' - vi publiserer fritt våre 3D design, skjemaer, instruksjonsvideoer, budsjetter, og produktveiledninger på vår åpen kilde wiki. Vi streber for å sele samarbeid med et globaldistribuert lag av tekniske bidragsytere. Vi verdsetter åpenhet av våre operasjoner, forretningsmodeller, strategisk utvikling, “kode” (tegninger og design), ledelsesinformasjon, og alle andre aspekter som kan føre til distributiv økonomi. Kommentar: Vårt hovedmål er å bidra til skapelsen av åpen kultur, der deling og samarbeidsutvikling er verdsatt over grådighet og eksklusivitet. Denne typen kultur promoterer liv og vekst, i motsetning til fryktbasert aggressivitet. Åpen kildekultur inkluderer publiserig 'tidlig og ofte' for å avsløre feil og blindveier - der rask vekst oppstår ved å justere mot feil. Tidlig sammenbrudd gir mulighet til å tidlig finne løsninger. Feil og blindveier er overflødige i livet - og merket til et suksessfullt individ er deres evne til å svare på feilene på en måte som fører til vekst og transcendens. ----
#'''Distributiv Økonomi''' – Vi publiserer våre forretningsmodeller åpent slik at andre kan kopiere alle foretak. “Alt vi vet, vet dere.” Dette skal skape virkelig frie foretak og livsgivende konkurranse, i motsetning til monopolkapitalisme eller militarisme. Med ett ord - distributiv økonomi kalles deling. I den politiske forstanden kan dette fenomenet beskrives som desentralisert ingeniørvirksomhet. Det bør nevnes at informasjonen bør være fri, fordi kostnaden av å distribuere informasjon er ubetydelig. Men atomer eller fysiske objekter er imidlertid ikke 'gratis' på samme måte, og betydelig menneskelig energi kreves for å produsere og distribuere fysiske varer.
#'''Lavkostnad''' - Kostnaden av å kjøpe eller lage våre maskiner er, i gjennomsnitt, 5-10x billigere enn å kjøpe fra en industriell produsent- inkludert en gjennomsnitlig kostnad på $25 dollar per arbeidstime for en GVCS fabrikerer. Kommentar:
#'''Modulær''' – Komponentene til GVCS fungerer som utskiftbare moduler. Motorer, deler, sammensetninger, og kraftenheter kan utveklses, der enheter kan grupperes sammen for å diversifisere funksjonaliteten som kan oppnås fra et lite sett av enheter. For å se hvordan forskjellige deler passer sammen - se {{LinkLang|Product Ecologies|Produktøkologier}}.
#'''Brukervennlighet''' – Design-for-demontering, enkelhet, åpenhet, og åpen kilde dokumentasjon tillater brukeren å forstå, ta fra hverandre, modifisere, vedlikeholde, og reparere verktøy lett uten behovet for å være avhengig av dyre reparatører.
#'''Gjør-det-selv''' - Brukeren får kontroll over design, produksjon, og modifisering av GVCS verktøysettet. Gjør-det-selv er ment å promotere lager, utfører, skaper, ikkekonsumerende kultur - i folk som er interessert i å skape deres eget skreddersydde miljø i motsetning til å akseptere enormt standardiserte alternativer.
#'''Lukket Sløyfe Produksjon og Materialsykluser''' – Ethvert produkt burde ikke være sløseri, men et råstoff for en annen prosess. Vårt prosjekt er avhengig av resirkulering av metall til urørt råstoff for å produsere flere GVCS teknologier - og dermed tillate krybbe-til-krybbe produksjonssykluser.
#'''High Performance''' - Performance standards must match or exceed those of industrial counterparts for the GVCS to provide a comparable or better standard of living.
#'''Industrial Efficiency''' - In order to provide a viable choice for a resilient lifestyle, the GVCS platform matches or exceeds productivity standards of industrial counterparts.
#'''Ecological Design''' - Our products promote a harmonious co-existence between nature and humans. The entire process and technology must fit the criteria for being environmentally friendly and regenerative.
#'''Resilience'''– The systems that we are designing are designed to be adaptable. This arises from the ability to modify, scale and replicate the components and systems to meet requirement of constantly changing conditions.
#'''Systems Design''' – Our designs consider the whole system of life support, in terms of hoew the different machines and services interface with one another. Different machines can functions as modules in a wide array of integrated systems. We do not choose technologies with peak point performance, but with peak systems performance as they fit into a resilient community integrated with its natural life support systems. Part of the systems design is synergy – in that the GVCS is intended to attain its maximum potential when all of its components are working with one another.
#'''Lifeteime Design''' – Our products are designed for a lifetime of use – via solid design, user serviceability, open source, DIY design.
#'''Substitutability''' – Our products tend to the substitutability of common resources for less common or strategic resources. Substitutability also applies to the fact that any damaging
#'''Robustness''' – Applications of our work range from the 1st to the 4th worlds, from the city to the country, from high technology to low technology applications, at different scales of operation.
#'''Multipurpose Flexibility''' – Our tools are typically not dedicated devices, but ones that can be used flexibly in a wide range of applications.
#'''Best Practice''' – we focus on optimization of our products to achieve the best possible design and functionality
#'''Simplicity''' - We design for absolute simplicity without sacrificing performance standards
#'''Complete Economy''' – The work of OSE is intended to be a workable blueprint for a complete economy. Our designs are geared for a maker lifestyle on the part of community members. This is also known as a neo-subsistence lifestyle – where communities can provide all the requirements of a complete economy, such that trade is only an option, not a necessity.
#'''Freedom from Material Constraints''' – The GVCS is intended to provide all the material needs of a community in an efficient way. This allows people to have free time, which allows people to choose their pursuits freely, beyond constraints of material scarcity. This is also known as High-Tech Self-Providing.
#'''Division of Labor''' – Our designs focus on the needs of a modern villlage enjoying a high quality of life, as opposed to individual utilization. All of the technologies may be adapted to an individual's use, but division of labor is more desirable for achieving a complete economy in a community.
#'''Scalability and Fractality''' – The GVCS tools are designed to be scalable to different sizes of operations, from individual households to agglomerations of villages (cities). The design should be fractal, in that each unit of operation should be self-contained (cimplete) and resilient.
#'''Village Scale''' – The GVCS is intended to be optimized for a village scale of about 200 people, or Dunbar's number – as the number of people who can maintain face-to-face interaction.
#'''Nonviolence''' – The GVCS is designed to provide for all the needs of a community without killing or stealing from others.
#'''Amicable Social Contract''' – The GVCS toolset is designed to promote a just, equitable, and life-giving social contract for a village community living with the GVCS. The qualities of the GVCS are intended to promote good relationships between a village-scale group of people. The social contract is based on collaborative division of labor, where productivity of individual members contributes to the well-being of the whole community. The basic requirement is lifelong learning and regenerative stewardship of land and resources, along with nonviolence .
#'''Community and Family''' – OSE promotes the reconnection of people to one another as a result of increased freedom from material constraints. This reconnection also includes reconnection to one's true needs, to one's family, and to the global family of all living creatures.
#'''Proven Techniques''' – We focus on time-proven concepts, techniques, and technologies. All are principles are generally regarded as common, historical knowledge or wisdom learned through eons of civilization.
#'''Cross-Disciplinary Integration''' – We provide cutting edge practice in so far as they are integrations of knowledge from many fields and disciplines. We value unabashed boundary-crossing and cross-fertilization, drawing from as many cultures, regions, and time periods as possible.
#'''Sufficiency''' – Our design focuses on sufficiency – ie, we understand that we need to reach a certain level of performance, and that is sufficient. This is distinct from continuous addition of frivolous bells and whistles.
#'''New Economics''' – One aspect of OSE is that it allows for the creation of a resource based economy, where true wealth is based on the value of natural, primarily local resources, where wealth is created from adding value to natural resources by transforming them to human-usable form.
#'''Flexible Fabrication''' – This is a mode of production distinct from specialization. In flexible fabrication, general purpose machinery is used by highly skilled workers to produce a wide array of products – as opposed to specialized machines, operated by highly deskilled workers, producing only a single item. Our means to flexible fabrication is the open source fab lab.
#'''Technological Recursion''' – The flexible fabrication technology also allows producers to produce more complex machines and parts. This allows a local community to, eventually, attain the capacity to produce any technology known to humankind.
#'''Industry 2.0''' – This is a concept that flexible fabrication, combined with a collaboratively-developed, global repository of down-loadable product design has the potential to become the new engine of production. This is particularly useful towards relocalization of productive economies and towards distributive economics. Industry 2.0 is a direct goal of OSE.
#'''Permafacture''' - ecological fabrication with lifetime design.
#'''Local Resources''' – The GVCS is fueled by local resources, such as water, sunlight, rock and soil. Via technological recursion,
#'''Replicability''' – OSE work is intended to be replicable, self-replicating, and viral. The open source nature, low-cost, and simplicity of our designs are key to this.
#'''Meaning''' – Technology, when used appropriately, is intended to reconnect one to meaning, and to natural ecosystems. Reconnection to nature can occur from constant interplay between humans and nature, as natural resources are stewarded responsibly to meet human needs by benign processes.
#'''Appropriate Automation''' – We favor automation of production or other tasks whenever repetitive, difficult, dangerous, or otherwise unrewarding tasks can be carried out with computer assistance instead of human labor. We favor this if this truly increases quality of life and reduces toil, without loss of meaning, violence, or other negative systems consequences.
#'''Long Term Approach''' – OSE is seeking long-term solutions on the 100 year scale into the future, not band-aids on superficial issues. We are looking at issues for the long haul, with lasting peace and stability for humanity as the goal.
#'''Network''' – OSE is interested in creating a network of like-minded communities that follow OSE values, such that cultural exchange can happen between different communities. This refers to the 1000 Global Villages concept - which serve as model communities that influence the rest of the world in a positive way. This brings in an element of mobility into the community social fabric.
#'''Model Community'''- The OSE Village with the GVCS are intended to provide a positive, best-practice example of integrated, meaningful lifestyles along the principles of abundance and prosperity - as a shining point of light to inspire people in many walks of life.
#'''Land and Resource Stewardship''' – Each OSE facility functions as a land steward. Land is not for sale, but is preserved for ever as a permanent site of human heritage and cultural growth. Resources are stewarded so that they improve in quality with time, as opposed to becoming depleted.
#'''Iconoclastic Innovation and Transformation''' – OSE favors iconoclastic approaches which address issues at the root, not symptoms – towards addressing pressing world issues (war, poverty, corruption, distribution of wealth, disease, etc.). We are not looking for mass-culture compromises swayed by political or special interests, but for authentic solutions based on virtues common to all humankind.
#'''Absolute Creative Approaches''' - We do not promote destroying anything, just creating a better solution that makes the old paradigm obsolete. We do not hate any group or politic, because we are all in this together. We believe in positive psychology, inspiration, and bringing out the virtues in people – by appealing to their absolute creative, transcendent potential for solutions. We do not endorse fear- or punishment-based motivation tactics.
#'''Realistic Immediacy''' - We favor a realistic approach that can be implemented today, as opposed to futuristic dreaming. We believe that we have sufficient knowledge and technology today to create an abundant lifestyle for everybody. We focus on a tool set designed for a nominal 200 person village - according to Dunbar's number. This allows for sufficient division of labor to cover just about any technology to be produced locally, while remaining small enough such that organization of such a community is manageable.
#'''Proper Scale'''- We look at the village scale of about 200 people as the optimal scale of human organization for several reasons. First, it's a historically proven number. Second, it follows [[Dunbar's Number]] to allow for persistent and meaningful social interaction. Third, it is easily manageable from an organizational point of view without requiring bureaucratic overhead. Fourth, it is sufficiently large to allow specialization via division of labor. Fifth, it allows for a walking- or biking-distance community. Sixth, it is a basic building block - where larger communities may be designed as units of this small scale for the highest possible resilience - as opposed to organization on a larger scale. Seventh, it has been pointed out by the industrial economist, E. F. Schumacher, in his seminal book, [[Small is Beautiful]], that human organization simply breaks down after it reaches a certain scale.
#'''One World Approach'''- We believe that people in general should live within the means of global resources without depleting their quality or polluting them. This is opposite of what happens in general today.
#'''Miniaturization'''- We believe that the scale of successful human organization at which modern-day technology can be maintained can be scaled down to the village scale - under the assumption of open information flows.
#'''Radical Abundance'''- We believe that there are abundant resources for everybody, and that human social organization should favor institutions that promote abundance, as opposed to scarcity. We favor a technological infrastructure that moves beyond resource scarcity as a dominant underlying force in all of civilization.

=Methods and Strategic Approaches=

#'''Open''' – Open Source Ecology endorses open source culture of sharing and collaborative development throughout, towards the end of distributive economics. This applies at the level of our process, organizational structure, business and products. On the process level, we encourage others to collaborate openly, yet respectfully of other developers' needs. To this end, we are aiming to create collaboration structures and platforms that allow others to collaborate freely, and to publish meaningful results openly. We seek to design all of our operations to be consistent with this principle. We encourage everybody on the development team to be transparent about their work, and to ask openly for collaborative assistance. We encourage everybody to give information away for free – as the cost of sharing information is zero
#'''Distributive Economics''' - We recognize the challenges of sharing information openly – in that someone else can 'steal' an idea and capitalize on it. We address this issue by encouraging people to publish openly, so that prior art makes information accessible to all, and therefore, making information un-patentable and therefore incapable of being appropriated. In order to capture value, we encourage humans to organize around information resource commons, while building in a physical, productive infrastructure to convert information into the substance of modern-day living via benign, industrial processes
#'''Notes on Patents'''. These make sense only in a world based on scarcity. We encourage each community that adopts OSE principles to build complete, open source, economic productivity – where true wealth can be generated easily. In this case, what is the need for patents? If a community can provide all of its needs - then we enter into the concept of sufficiency. State-of-art point technologies that optimize one feature of performance are not necessarily useful for an ecological tool set. We are interested more in overall, or ecological, performance - as opposed to point performance.
#'''Creative Approach''' - There is a number of movements that cater to fears regarding the end of the world or other comprehensive collapse scenarios. Our approach is intended to empower people from a perspective of what is a-priori favorable and benign - whether or not any cataclysm is on the horizon. IT is important to underscore that we focus on positive psychology and transcendence, which we favor over an approach based on fear, because fear-based response is not as likely to create long-lasting solutions.
#'''Modular, lifetime design''' – The core of lifetime design is design-for-disassembly and modularity. Design-for-disassembly is synonymous with user ability to 'look under the hood' of a certain device. Modules are interchangeable units of functionality.
#'''Closed Loop Manufacturing''' – OSE endorses closed loop eco-industry, where waste does not exist as the waste is turned into feedstock for other processes.

=Components of OSE Specifications=

OSE Specifications cover a number of aspects of economically-significant production, covering the development and production aspects:

*Economic significance
*Open documentation
*Distributive economic nature
*Transformative nature of enterprise
*Systems design
*Transparency and participatory nature of production model and development process
*Creation of post-scarcity levels of production
*Simplicity and low cost
*Lifetime, modular design; design-for-disassembly; design-for-scalability
*Localization of material sourcing and of production
*Ecological qualities
*Economic Feasibility and Replicability
**Minimization of waste, overhead, and bureaucracy
**Product Evolution
**Fabrication Facilities
**Open Franchising or Open Business Model
**Startup Assistance

==Economic Significance==

Economic significance refers to the overall economic importance of a given product or service. The assumption here that economic significance is defined on the basis of relevance for meeting the material needs of humans. For example, fuels and tractors constitute multibillion dollar global markets, and are thus economically significant. On the other hand, plain discussion may have little economic significance, if is not more than hot air.

==Open Documentation==

===Open content===

We begin with open content as a foundation – content that is free of restrictions on use or dissemination. The optimal license for content that we promote is the public domain. This keeps it simple from the practical and legal perspective. We have a philosophy that the users should decide for themselves as to how to use the information. We support open licensing. We are not interested in policing.

We believe that to claim something as ‘one’s own’ is arrogant, as it does not address the fact that any single ‘invention’ is simply a small additional to a large pool of existing knowledge that made the ‘invention’ possible. We believe that there is no point in trying to police the patenting of forks, as are simply so many different forks or development paths that could be taken nonetheless: creativity is unlimited. We believe that the more we contribute to the commons, the more new content will be generated.

===Readily accessible or downloadble documentation and design===

Distributed information in the computer age is made most readily accessible if it is available for immediate download from the internet. If material is available in electronic format, it may be manipulated or utilized readily with software tools. For example, digital designs may be edited or used immediately in CAD or CAM. If CAM formats are available, then data at one point in space can be readily transformed into a physical object at another point in space, in the presence of digital fabrication capacities.

===Design Drawings===

This is a start towards replicability.

===Bill of Materials (BOM)===

Next to design drawing, the BOM is the second most important towards replicability. This is a detailed listing of all parts used, sourcing, and prices. Availability of the BOM saves the potential builder countless hours of searching for part availability and for reasonable pricing. Relevant comments should be made alongside the BOM, such as, quality or reliability of certain vendors, their quality of service, and any other useful comments. The only difficulty with a BOM may be that if the audience is global, sourcing may not be readily available or shipping may be prohibitive, so local substitution of parts must be made. If a BOM is available, then the building of a specific product can commence immediately: there is no guessing which parts would work, or which supplier is reliable. At best, the process for one-off individual production can be as follows:
#an individual decides that they need a certain product
#they look that product up on an online repository of open source products, download fabrication procedures and parts lists
#purchase parts locally all on the same day if they are located in an urban area where many suppliers are available
#and start building a certain project.
All these steps can potentially be completed in one day when the BOM is available. Open design drawings and plans are only one aspect, but the critical point to enabling immediate production is the availability of BOMs, as the last step prior to actual fabrication.

Under this scenario, a realistic possibility emerges that a large number of individuals discontinue purchasing slave goods from who-knows-where, and begin to fabricate them locally. This is feasibile on the individual level for anyone equipped with a robust Fab Lab, or when small groups (a few to a dozen people) get together to purchase low-cost, open source, digital fabrication equipment. These people could operate out of backyard garages, rented workshop spaces, co-working facilities, or other community supported manufacturing operations. The types of products that yield themselves particularly to this type of production are those items that fall beyond the class of disposable goods, and are more or less long-use items. These items include electronics, mechanized tools, semi-heavy machinery, green vehicles, renewable energy systems, among others.

====Tools====
[[CAD by Mariano Alvira]] and [[SKDB]] are two different tools that can improve and automate different aspects of handling a BOM.

===Free information===

If information is free, it is most easily accessible.

==Distributive Economics==

Distributive economics refer to economic models that tend to distribute economic power as opposed to monopolizing this power.

==Transformative Nature of Enterprise==

We are interested in transformative economics, or those economics which tend towards community and global resilience, while having qualities that, proactively, move the world away from: concentration of societal power; perennial warfare; loss of meaning; bureaucracy; globalization of economic activity; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak newspeak]; loss of freedom; and so forth.

==Systems Design==

Systems design refers to design of economic paradigms which consider the whole human and natural ecosystem, and the relationships involved, not just an isolated part of that system. For example, non-systems thinking may lead one to conclude that a modern steam engine for transportation is a bad idea compared to biodiesel or fuel alcohol because the thermodynamic efficiency of a steam engine is two times lower than that of diesel engines or gasoline engines. The systems design perspective will claim that the steam engine is a great idea, because biomass pellets can be used as fuel, and the yield of cellulosic biomass per acre is about 10 times higher than the yield of oil or alcohol. The systems thinker will continue, by stating that if the whole system is considered, biomass pellet production is much simpler to accomplish, and that biomass-growing areas can be integrated with other uses such as orcharding or livestock raising, and the systems thinker will continue to make other claims that such an energy source allows for absolute decentralization of production and resilience of communities using the simplest means possible. The point to be made is that the systems thinker can continue to make a large number of claims on how a particular activity is desirable based on a number of systems connections, which the non-systems thinker dismisses as simply not being part of the question.

We believe that destructive non-systems thinking is so pervasive in our society, that in general, individual and societal decision-making is completely partisan, thin on logic, and downright retarded. We are including a metric for systems design in the OSE Specifications to raise awareness of this issue, with a hope, which even if futile, attempts to bring a glimmer of light to the situation.

==Transparency of Production Model and Development Process==

The development process for products, and their production model, should be transparent to any interested observer. This allows for study of, input into, and improvement of the topic of interest. Transparency allows feedback loops to become active, and empowers those who are interested in learning more about a topic. Transparency is one of several qualities of a distributive, economic process.

Transparency of some program implies that the program is open to suggestions, correction, or replication of itself, stemming from an ethical foundation of the given program. Therefore, tools such as non-disclosure agreements, patents, trade secrets, and other means of protectionism are inconsistent with the creation of transparency.

===Development Process===

1. Participation in the development process is entirely voluntary. No compensation for alienation is necessary. As a result, the best designs are produced from the commitment of passionate stakeholders.

2. Anyone may join or leave the development group at any time

3. Collaborative development process utilizes the input of diverse stakeholders

4. Steps and results of the development process are documented

==Creation of Post-Scarcity Levels of Production==

Post-scarcity levels of production imply the availability of effective tools of production, including both hardware and techniques - which allow for the ample meeting of human needs. Post-scarcity levels of production also imply that local, nonstrategic resources can be utilized effectively, reliably, and with the capacity to produce significant surplus. The goal of attaining post-scarcity levels of production of something are thus synonymous with a particular community being able to transcend physical survival as a basis for evolving to pursuits beyond mere survival.

==Simplicity and Low Cost==

The design and implementation of any product or service should be the simplest from both the fabrication and cost perspective, such that it is the most readily replicable. Attaining simplicity is indeed the most difficult design challenge. Most people confuse high performance with extra features, because they externalize the hidden liabilities that accompany the extra features. Simplicity is synonymous with efficient resource use. Simplicity should also apply to the fabrication procedure of an object. As such, simplicity is also synonymous with low cost. The basic design philosophy of OSE is to include simplicity in design and fabrication - ie, design-for-fabrication should be applied.

==Lifetime, Modular Design; Design-for-Disassembly; Design-for-Scalability (DfS)==

(Note: For mainstream reference on lifetime design, see the work of [[Saul Griffith]])

Simplicity of design promotes the features of lifetime, modular, and scalable design-for-disassembly (DfD).

Lifetime design implies that the value of a product does not depreciate over time. This implies freedom from labor required to replace a certain product, which has direct implication for one's access to free time.

Modular design is a design which allows different modules to be used and interchanged, giving the user control over and flexibility with the object of use.

DfD means that parts of modules may be replaced readily, by taking the module apart. This has profound implications to lifetime design.

DfS is more than a design that can be scaled. It is the principle of designing things with ease of scalability as one of the features - ie, design that can be scaled easily. This is a slight improvement over design that can be scaled, in that DfS includes explicit features that make scalability easy.

Scalability means that a basic building block can be used to make larger or smaller versions. This contributes to low cost and efficiency.

===Multipurpose Modular Design===

Objects should be designed so that they are made as building blocks, or modules, of other or larger objects. This way, objects can be modified. Instead of a whole object having to be replaced to add new functionality, a module may be added. This gives products a flexibility that is built into their very nature, such that the user has additional control with minimum expense. Modularity may sometimes be synonymous with inter-operability, and may sometimes be synonymous with scalability. It may contribute to lifetime design if an object is 100% modular and each module may be replaced. Modularity also means that an object may function as a building block of other objects. In all cases, modularity implies that an object may be modified. The combination of flexibility, adaptability, scalability, interoperability are desirable. These features expand the range of applications, increase lifetime, reduce cost, as well as provide and retain high value. In a material world, these are features that contribute to wealth and prosperity. In a nutshell, modularity provides large value and has low associated costs. These are good implications for individual and community well-being.

If modular design is followed, then the type of interoperability of using building blocks leads us to a [[Pattern Language]] of technology. In this pattern language, the modules or building blocks serve as the sentences of a larger language, or technology infrastructure.

===Scalability===

Products should be designed so that they can be scaled up or down - such as by addition of new modules, or using multiples of a part in parallel. For example, a solar concentrator system designed according to the principle of scalability should be a linear design (see [[Solar Power Generator]]), so that it could be enlarged either by lengthening or widening the array.

==Localization of Material Sourcing and of Production==

For community resilience, ability to use local resources is key. While it is important that a community have this ability for essential needs, it is optional, though desirable, for other nonessential items.

Using local resources may necessitate that a given community have additional technology to produce a certain item. For example, if a given community does not have the conditions to grow a certain crop easily, it may want to invest in the additional technology required to grow that crop successfully. Or, if a certain community does not have adequate water, it should invest in well-drilling or roof-catchment technology, instead of importing water from unsecured sources.

A community should thus, in general, strive to increase its technology base to accommodate the provision of all essentials, and not settle on its ability to trade to procure these essentials, as trade may be vulnerable to disruption. Trade is quite acceptable for non-essential items, such as musical instruments, since disruption of such supply does not threaten the survival of a community. The level of technology in which a community is autonomous should be determined on practical grounds.

Moreover, in today's world, we already hear about 'produced locally.' We should add 'sourced locally' to our vocabulary - as resilience implies not only local production, but also local sourcing. Local sourcing typically requires that a community have additional technological infrastructure and knowhow for providing the necessary feedstocks.

===Localization Levels===

*Level 1 - production is local
*Level 2 - sourcing of materials used in production is local
*Level 3 - raw material production is local
*Level 4 - production machinery used in the production process above is open source and locally fabricated

Localization applies to the creation of natural economies, or those economies based on the substance of their own, natural resources, free of supply chain disruptions.

An example of Level 3 is that local aluminum is made by [[Smelting]] aluminum from local clays.

If localization is taken to all the 4 levels, for all necessities of sustaining its population - that means that a region is autonomous, and as such, has no built-in tendency to wage war for others' resources. This is the
critical point of localization - its benign effect on global geopolitical struggle. In simple words, people don't kill and steal.

==Ecological Qualities==

The product of interest must be good for the environment.

==Economic Feasibility and Replicability==

===Minimization of Waste, Overhead, and Bureaucracy===

The key point to the competitiveness of agile, open source enterprise is its lean structure with minimal overhead. Minimization of waste occurs by collaborative development, such that R&D costs are shared by a number of stakeholders. Competitive waste is eliminated by open enterprise giving services away rather than competing for market share, which is the ethical marketing strategy for open enterprise.

Other strategies for keeping overhead low are [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=391 crowd-funding the production facility], such as in Factor e Farm's case. We also propose paperwork reduction by operating as an un-incorporated entity, with contractually-based fiscal fiduciaries and liability management, operation in the Republic via private contract, and by in-house legal literacy.

===Product Evolution===

A process should be in place for continued maintenance and development of a product. This could be a support community, foundation, or users.

===Fabrication Facilities===

Concrete Flexible Fabrication mechanism exists for others to purchase the product at reasonable cost. This is a means to assuring that a diversity of suppliers exists, such that monopoly is avoided.

===Open Franchising or [[Open Business Model]]===

This point defines how easily one can obtain access to replicable enterprise design. See our motivation with respect to Open Business Models, as described under the [[OSE License]].

There is a number of details that goes into enterprise replications. These are all the standard details found in a [[Business Plan]], plus the actual technical details that go into that plan, such as designs and CAD, fabrication procedures, BOM and sourcing information, economic analysis, ergonomic analysis, and so forth.

If you are interested in replicating an enterprise, then please inquire with us regarding practical considerations. For those interested in replication, we are looking for long-term commitment to provide the necessary due diligence of business model documentation.

===Startup Assistance===

Producer training is the key to assisting others to start up enterprise. Dedicated workshops should be available for others to learn the trade. We plan on offering a 2 year immersion program, which includes not only workshop skills, but agriculture, as well as theoretical and organizational aspects.

=Calculation of a Metric Score=

The questionnaire below can be used to determine whether a product meets the OSE specifications. There are 42 questions, so the maximum score is 42.

===Economic Significance===
*Is it relevant for meeting the material needs of humans?

===Distributive Economics===
*Does the economic model distribute economic power?
'''Transformative Nature of Enterprise'''
*Does it promote community and global resilience?

===Systems Design===
*Does it consider the complete human and natural ecosystem?

===Ecology===
*Is it good for the environment?

===Development Process===
*Is participation in the process entirely voluntary?
*Can anyone join or leave the development group at any time?
*Does the collaborative development process utilize the input of diverse stakeholders?
*Are the steps and results of the development process documented?

===Simplicity of design===
*Is it low Cost?
*Does it have Long Life?
*Is it modular?
*Is it designed for disassembly?

===Design for scalability===
*Can it be scaled up?
*Can it be scaled down?
*Is it easily scalable?

===Localization===
====Materials====
*Are materials used in production local?
*Is raw material production local?

====Production====
*Is product production local?
*Is the machinery used in production process open source?
*Is the machinery used in production process locally fabricated?

===Economic Feasibility and Replicability===
*Is there minimal overhead?
*Is there minimal waste?
*Are R&D costs shared by a number of stakeholders?
*Are services given away?
*Are production facilities Crowd-funded?

===Product Evolution===

*Is there continual produce maintenance?
*Is there continual product development?

===Fabrication Facilities===

*Is there a flexible fabrication mechanism?

===Open Business Model===

*Is there a Business Plan?
*Are there technical details in the business plan?

===Open Documentation===

*Is content Open Source?
*Is content readily accessible (downloadable)?
*Are there design drawings?

====Designs====
*Are design drawings CAD?
*Are fabrication procedures detailed?
*Is economic analysis available?
*Is ergonomic analysis available?

====Bill of Materials (BOM)====
*Is there a parts list?
*Is Sourcing of parts listed?
*Are prices of parts listed?

===Startup Assistance===

*Is producer training available?

=Summary=
In summary, we aim to raise the standards embodied in open source product development efforts by articulating the possibilities. OSE Specification describes all the desirable features that can be embodied in open economic development, under the assumption that maximum advancement of distributive production is the best route to human prosperity.

OSE Specifications, as applied to technology - imply ''liberatory technology'' - defined as technology which serves the true needs of people and liberates time for other pursuits beyond survival. This is distinct from technology which controls people - where in today's world - with ever-advancing technology, people enjoy less free time.

=Application of OSE Specifications to Assessing the Liberatory Potential of Technologies=
OSE Specifications, when applied to production of physical products, allow for transparent assessment of the overall openness or accessibility of ''so-called'' open source products. This specification is intended to help people assess distributive production aspects of projects, by distinguishing between the various degrees of ‘opensource-ness’ embodied in projects. This is because some projects call themselves ‘open source’ when only a small portion of the hardware, or even no physical portion, is open source.

For example, in the case of the [http://green.autoblog.com/2007/10/16/autobloggreen-qanda-open-source-green-vehicle-project/ OS Green Vehicle], the only open source component is an apparent design process, but the output of the design process is proprietary. As quoted from the website, ‘Your rights to use, modify and re-distribute any data from this web site are limited.’ Moreover, the components used in the car are proprietary. Therefore, the OS Green Vehicle has a low OSE Specifications metric score.

Access refers to use for both private or market purposes. The specification is not neutral in its goals, just as no technologies are ever neutral. The intent goes so far as to point out the nuances that contribute to a particular direction of: (1), promoting ecological integrity, (2), contributing to the highest possible quality of life, and (3), creating the widest possible distribution of wealth. Because the open source method of product development has immense potential in transforming the economic system, the OSE Specification aims to address the evaluation of positive change endorsed by various open source projects.

The scope of OSE Specifications is far-reaching: it considers all the steps necessary for a product to be user-accessible. This includes open access to relevant information and affordable access to physical products. The goal is distributive economics.

OSE Specification stipulates access to physical production facilities that can build wealth in re-localized communities. But OSE Specifications go even further: replication and viral spread of wealth - or distributive production. OSE Specifications address the means for replicating the production process itself. This includes not only self-replicating machines and systems, but the development of open business models, training materials, and apprenticeships for entrepreneurs. As the final step, we consider the availability of capitalization assistance within the metric. The capitalization assistance may be part of a new entrepreneur's apprenticeship - where, for example - real products can be made and sold within the apprenticeship. We redefine the 'capital' in 'capitalization assistance' from 'money' to 'the ability to produce just about anything required for business startup at low cost.'

Such level of commitment to the success of replication may imply a hidden agenda behind this program. Indeed there is: the greatest possible empowerment of people and communities to be the masters of their destinies, by unleashed human productivity fueled by open access to information and enabling hardware.

OSE Spec addresses access to both producers and users - both on the individual and community scale. Production could occur by do-it-yourself means on the individual scale in flexible fabrication facilities. The community scale promotes division of labor, and therefore a high standard of living. The OSE Spec addresses the availability of blueprints or digital designs, which can be used readily in manual or automated, computer-controlled fabrication facilities.

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Knut Brekken: /* GVCS Spesifikasjoner/Kjerneverdier */

{{Lang|OSE Spesifikasjoner}}

=Introduksjon=

(sist oppdatert Jan 2011)

Før du leser videre, vennligst se {{LinkLang|OSE Mission|OSE Oppdrag}}. OSE Spesifikasjoner er en beregning for å vurdere kvalitetene som bidrar til skapelsen av relokalisert økonomisk produksjon, som et grunnlag for fellesskapsfremskritt i en sammenvevd verden.

OSE Spesifikasjonene er en standard som tar sikte på å definere og evaluere kriteriene til produkter, tjenester, og produksjonen av dem - som tjener til å promotere skapelsen av overflødige økonomier, og dermed, skapelsen av robuste fellesskap. ''Overflod'' eksisterer der et fellesskap bruker sin ressursbase på en slik måte at menneskelige behov og ønsker leveres i overflod - med betydelig overskudd for å drive kulturelt og vitenskapelig fremskritt.

=Punkt for Punkt=

=GVCS Spesifikasjoner/Kjerneverdier=

Disse er OSEs verdier som informerer utviklingen av GVCS som skal nedfelles i utviklingsprosessen, i rekrutteringen av frivillige, i dens korporative struktur, og i alle operasjoner, offentlige og private:

#'''Åpen Kilde''' - vi publiserer fritt våre 3D design, skjemaer, instruksjonsvideoer, budsjetter, og produktveiledninger på vår åpen kilde wiki. Vi streber for å sele samarbeid med et globaldistribuert lag av tekniske bidragsytere. Vi verdsetter åpenhet av våre operasjoner, forretningsmodeller, strategisk utvikling, “kode” (tegninger og design), ledelsesinformasjon, og alle andre aspekter som kan føre til distributiv økonomi. Kommentar: Vårt hovedmål er å bidra til skapelsen av åpen kultur, der deling og samarbeidsutvikling er verdsatt over grådighet og eksklusivitet. Denne typen kultur promoterer liv og vekst, i motsetning til fryktbasert aggressivitet. Åpen kildekultur inkluderer publiserig 'tidlig og ofte' for å avsløre feil og blindveier - der rask vekst oppstår ved å justere mot feil. Tidlig sammenbrudd gir mulighet til å tidlig finne løsninger. Feil og blindveier er overflødige i livet - og merket til et suksessfullt individ er deres evne til å svare på feilene på en måte som fører til vekst og transcendens. ----
#'''Distributiv Økonomi''' – Vi publiserer våre forretningsmodeller åpent slik at andre kan kopiere alle foretak. “Alt vi vet, vet dere.” Dette skal skape virkelig frie foretak og livsgivende konkurranse, i motsetning til monopolkapitalisme eller militarisme. Med ett ord - distributiv økonomi kalles deling. I den politiske forstanden kan dette fenomenet beskrives som desentralisert ingeniørvirksomhet. Det bør nevnes at informasjonen bør være fri, fordi kostnaden av å distribuere informasjon er ubetydelig. Men atomer eller fysiske objekter er imidlertid ikke 'gratis' på samme måte, og betydelig menneskelig energi kreves for å produsere og distribuere fysiske varer.
#'''Lavkostnad''' - Kostnaden av å kjøpe eller lage våre maskiner er, i gjennomsnitt, 5-10x billigere enn å kjøpe fra en industriell produsent- inkludert en gjennomsnitlig kostnad på $25 dollar per arbeidstime for en GVCS fabrikerer. Kommentar:
#'''Modulær''' – Komponentene til GVCS fungerer som utskiftbare moduler. Motorer, deler, sammensetninger, og kraftenheter kan utveklses, der enheter kan grupperes sammen for å diversifisere funksjonaliteten som kan oppnås fra et lite sett av enheter. For å se hvordan forskjellige deler passer sammen - se {{LinkLang|Product Ecologies|Produktøkologier}}.
#'''User Friendliness''' – Design-for-disassembly, simplicity, transparency, and open source documentation allows the user to comprehend, take apart, modifyservice, maintain, and fix tools readily without the need to rely on expensive repairmen.
#'''DIY''' - The user gains control of designing, producing, and modifying the GVCS tool set. DIY is intented to promote the maker, doer, creator, non-consumer culture – in people who are interested in creating their own custom environment as opposed to accepting massively-standardized options.
#'''Closed-Loop Manufacturing and Material Cycle'''s – Any product should never be a waste, but a feedstock for another process. Our project relies on recycling metal into virgin feedstock for producing further GVCS technologies - thereby allowing for cradle-to-cradle manufacturing cycles.
#'''High Performance''' - Performance standards must match or exceed those of industrial counterparts for the GVCS to provide a comparable or better standard of living.
#'''Industrial Efficiency''' - In order to provide a viable choice for a resilient lifestyle, the GVCS platform matches or exceeds productivity standards of industrial counterparts.
#'''Ecological Design''' - Our products promote a harmonious co-existence between nature and humans. The entire process and technology must fit the criteria for being environmentally friendly and regenerative.
#'''Resilience'''– The systems that we are designing are designed to be adaptable. This arises from the ability to modify, scale and replicate the components and systems to meet requirement of constantly changing conditions.
#'''Systems Design''' – Our designs consider the whole system of life support, in terms of hoew the different machines and services interface with one another. Different machines can functions as modules in a wide array of integrated systems. We do not choose technologies with peak point performance, but with peak systems performance as they fit into a resilient community integrated with its natural life support systems. Part of the systems design is synergy – in that the GVCS is intended to attain its maximum potential when all of its components are working with one another.
#'''Lifeteime Design''' – Our products are designed for a lifetime of use – via solid design, user serviceability, open source, DIY design.
#'''Substitutability''' – Our products tend to the substitutability of common resources for less common or strategic resources. Substitutability also applies to the fact that any damaging
#'''Robustness''' – Applications of our work range from the 1st to the 4th worlds, from the city to the country, from high technology to low technology applications, at different scales of operation.
#'''Multipurpose Flexibility''' – Our tools are typically not dedicated devices, but ones that can be used flexibly in a wide range of applications.
#'''Best Practice''' – we focus on optimization of our products to achieve the best possible design and functionality
#'''Simplicity''' - We design for absolute simplicity without sacrificing performance standards
#'''Complete Economy''' – The work of OSE is intended to be a workable blueprint for a complete economy. Our designs are geared for a maker lifestyle on the part of community members. This is also known as a neo-subsistence lifestyle – where communities can provide all the requirements of a complete economy, such that trade is only an option, not a necessity.
#'''Freedom from Material Constraints''' – The GVCS is intended to provide all the material needs of a community in an efficient way. This allows people to have free time, which allows people to choose their pursuits freely, beyond constraints of material scarcity. This is also known as High-Tech Self-Providing.
#'''Division of Labor''' – Our designs focus on the needs of a modern villlage enjoying a high quality of life, as opposed to individual utilization. All of the technologies may be adapted to an individual's use, but division of labor is more desirable for achieving a complete economy in a community.
#'''Scalability and Fractality''' – The GVCS tools are designed to be scalable to different sizes of operations, from individual households to agglomerations of villages (cities). The design should be fractal, in that each unit of operation should be self-contained (cimplete) and resilient.
#'''Village Scale''' – The GVCS is intended to be optimized for a village scale of about 200 people, or Dunbar's number – as the number of people who can maintain face-to-face interaction.
#'''Nonviolence''' – The GVCS is designed to provide for all the needs of a community without killing or stealing from others.
#'''Amicable Social Contract''' – The GVCS toolset is designed to promote a just, equitable, and life-giving social contract for a village community living with the GVCS. The qualities of the GVCS are intended to promote good relationships between a village-scale group of people. The social contract is based on collaborative division of labor, where productivity of individual members contributes to the well-being of the whole community. The basic requirement is lifelong learning and regenerative stewardship of land and resources, along with nonviolence .
#'''Community and Family''' – OSE promotes the reconnection of people to one another as a result of increased freedom from material constraints. This reconnection also includes reconnection to one's true needs, to one's family, and to the global family of all living creatures.
#'''Proven Techniques''' – We focus on time-proven concepts, techniques, and technologies. All are principles are generally regarded as common, historical knowledge or wisdom learned through eons of civilization.
#'''Cross-Disciplinary Integration''' – We provide cutting edge practice in so far as they are integrations of knowledge from many fields and disciplines. We value unabashed boundary-crossing and cross-fertilization, drawing from as many cultures, regions, and time periods as possible.
#'''Sufficiency''' – Our design focuses on sufficiency – ie, we understand that we need to reach a certain level of performance, and that is sufficient. This is distinct from continuous addition of frivolous bells and whistles.
#'''New Economics''' – One aspect of OSE is that it allows for the creation of a resource based economy, where true wealth is based on the value of natural, primarily local resources, where wealth is created from adding value to natural resources by transforming them to human-usable form.
#'''Flexible Fabrication''' – This is a mode of production distinct from specialization. In flexible fabrication, general purpose machinery is used by highly skilled workers to produce a wide array of products – as opposed to specialized machines, operated by highly deskilled workers, producing only a single item. Our means to flexible fabrication is the open source fab lab.
#'''Technological Recursion''' – The flexible fabrication technology also allows producers to produce more complex machines and parts. This allows a local community to, eventually, attain the capacity to produce any technology known to humankind.
#'''Industry 2.0''' – This is a concept that flexible fabrication, combined with a collaboratively-developed, global repository of down-loadable product design has the potential to become the new engine of production. This is particularly useful towards relocalization of productive economies and towards distributive economics. Industry 2.0 is a direct goal of OSE.
#'''Permafacture''' - ecological fabrication with lifetime design.
#'''Local Resources''' – The GVCS is fueled by local resources, such as water, sunlight, rock and soil. Via technological recursion,
#'''Replicability''' – OSE work is intended to be replicable, self-replicating, and viral. The open source nature, low-cost, and simplicity of our designs are key to this.
#'''Meaning''' – Technology, when used appropriately, is intended to reconnect one to meaning, and to natural ecosystems. Reconnection to nature can occur from constant interplay between humans and nature, as natural resources are stewarded responsibly to meet human needs by benign processes.
#'''Appropriate Automation''' – We favor automation of production or other tasks whenever repetitive, difficult, dangerous, or otherwise unrewarding tasks can be carried out with computer assistance instead of human labor. We favor this if this truly increases quality of life and reduces toil, without loss of meaning, violence, or other negative systems consequences.
#'''Long Term Approach''' – OSE is seeking long-term solutions on the 100 year scale into the future, not band-aids on superficial issues. We are looking at issues for the long haul, with lasting peace and stability for humanity as the goal.
#'''Network''' – OSE is interested in creating a network of like-minded communities that follow OSE values, such that cultural exchange can happen between different communities. This refers to the 1000 Global Villages concept - which serve as model communities that influence the rest of the world in a positive way. This brings in an element of mobility into the community social fabric.
#'''Model Community'''- The OSE Village with the GVCS are intended to provide a positive, best-practice example of integrated, meaningful lifestyles along the principles of abundance and prosperity - as a shining point of light to inspire people in many walks of life.
#'''Land and Resource Stewardship''' – Each OSE facility functions as a land steward. Land is not for sale, but is preserved for ever as a permanent site of human heritage and cultural growth. Resources are stewarded so that they improve in quality with time, as opposed to becoming depleted.
#'''Iconoclastic Innovation and Transformation''' – OSE favors iconoclastic approaches which address issues at the root, not symptoms – towards addressing pressing world issues (war, poverty, corruption, distribution of wealth, disease, etc.). We are not looking for mass-culture compromises swayed by political or special interests, but for authentic solutions based on virtues common to all humankind.
#'''Absolute Creative Approaches''' - We do not promote destroying anything, just creating a better solution that makes the old paradigm obsolete. We do not hate any group or politic, because we are all in this together. We believe in positive psychology, inspiration, and bringing out the virtues in people – by appealing to their absolute creative, transcendent potential for solutions. We do not endorse fear- or punishment-based motivation tactics.
#'''Realistic Immediacy''' - We favor a realistic approach that can be implemented today, as opposed to futuristic dreaming. We believe that we have sufficient knowledge and technology today to create an abundant lifestyle for everybody. We focus on a tool set designed for a nominal 200 person village - according to Dunbar's number. This allows for sufficient division of labor to cover just about any technology to be produced locally, while remaining small enough such that organization of such a community is manageable.
#'''Proper Scale'''- We look at the village scale of about 200 people as the optimal scale of human organization for several reasons. First, it's a historically proven number. Second, it follows [[Dunbar's Number]] to allow for persistent and meaningful social interaction. Third, it is easily manageable from an organizational point of view without requiring bureaucratic overhead. Fourth, it is sufficiently large to allow specialization via division of labor. Fifth, it allows for a walking- or biking-distance community. Sixth, it is a basic building block - where larger communities may be designed as units of this small scale for the highest possible resilience - as opposed to organization on a larger scale. Seventh, it has been pointed out by the industrial economist, E. F. Schumacher, in his seminal book, [[Small is Beautiful]], that human organization simply breaks down after it reaches a certain scale.
#'''One World Approach'''- We believe that people in general should live within the means of global resources without depleting their quality or polluting them. This is opposite of what happens in general today.
#'''Miniaturization'''- We believe that the scale of successful human organization at which modern-day technology can be maintained can be scaled down to the village scale - under the assumption of open information flows.
#'''Radical Abundance'''- We believe that there are abundant resources for everybody, and that human social organization should favor institutions that promote abundance, as opposed to scarcity. We favor a technological infrastructure that moves beyond resource scarcity as a dominant underlying force in all of civilization.

=Methods and Strategic Approaches=

#'''Open''' – Open Source Ecology endorses open source culture of sharing and collaborative development throughout, towards the end of distributive economics. This applies at the level of our process, organizational structure, business and products. On the process level, we encourage others to collaborate openly, yet respectfully of other developers' needs. To this end, we are aiming to create collaboration structures and platforms that allow others to collaborate freely, and to publish meaningful results openly. We seek to design all of our operations to be consistent with this principle. We encourage everybody on the development team to be transparent about their work, and to ask openly for collaborative assistance. We encourage everybody to give information away for free – as the cost of sharing information is zero
#'''Distributive Economics''' - We recognize the challenges of sharing information openly – in that someone else can 'steal' an idea and capitalize on it. We address this issue by encouraging people to publish openly, so that prior art makes information accessible to all, and therefore, making information un-patentable and therefore incapable of being appropriated. In order to capture value, we encourage humans to organize around information resource commons, while building in a physical, productive infrastructure to convert information into the substance of modern-day living via benign, industrial processes
#'''Notes on Patents'''. These make sense only in a world based on scarcity. We encourage each community that adopts OSE principles to build complete, open source, economic productivity – where true wealth can be generated easily. In this case, what is the need for patents? If a community can provide all of its needs - then we enter into the concept of sufficiency. State-of-art point technologies that optimize one feature of performance are not necessarily useful for an ecological tool set. We are interested more in overall, or ecological, performance - as opposed to point performance.
#'''Creative Approach''' - There is a number of movements that cater to fears regarding the end of the world or other comprehensive collapse scenarios. Our approach is intended to empower people from a perspective of what is a-priori favorable and benign - whether or not any cataclysm is on the horizon. IT is important to underscore that we focus on positive psychology and transcendence, which we favor over an approach based on fear, because fear-based response is not as likely to create long-lasting solutions.
#'''Modular, lifetime design''' – The core of lifetime design is design-for-disassembly and modularity. Design-for-disassembly is synonymous with user ability to 'look under the hood' of a certain device. Modules are interchangeable units of functionality.
#'''Closed Loop Manufacturing''' – OSE endorses closed loop eco-industry, where waste does not exist as the waste is turned into feedstock for other processes.

=Components of OSE Specifications=

OSE Specifications cover a number of aspects of economically-significant production, covering the development and production aspects:

*Economic significance
*Open documentation
*Distributive economic nature
*Transformative nature of enterprise
*Systems design
*Transparency and participatory nature of production model and development process
*Creation of post-scarcity levels of production
*Simplicity and low cost
*Lifetime, modular design; design-for-disassembly; design-for-scalability
*Localization of material sourcing and of production
*Ecological qualities
*Economic Feasibility and Replicability
**Minimization of waste, overhead, and bureaucracy
**Product Evolution
**Fabrication Facilities
**Open Franchising or Open Business Model
**Startup Assistance

==Economic Significance==

Economic significance refers to the overall economic importance of a given product or service. The assumption here that economic significance is defined on the basis of relevance for meeting the material needs of humans. For example, fuels and tractors constitute multibillion dollar global markets, and are thus economically significant. On the other hand, plain discussion may have little economic significance, if is not more than hot air.

==Open Documentation==

===Open content===

We begin with open content as a foundation – content that is free of restrictions on use or dissemination. The optimal license for content that we promote is the public domain. This keeps it simple from the practical and legal perspective. We have a philosophy that the users should decide for themselves as to how to use the information. We support open licensing. We are not interested in policing.

We believe that to claim something as ‘one’s own’ is arrogant, as it does not address the fact that any single ‘invention’ is simply a small additional to a large pool of existing knowledge that made the ‘invention’ possible. We believe that there is no point in trying to police the patenting of forks, as are simply so many different forks or development paths that could be taken nonetheless: creativity is unlimited. We believe that the more we contribute to the commons, the more new content will be generated.

===Readily accessible or downloadble documentation and design===

Distributed information in the computer age is made most readily accessible if it is available for immediate download from the internet. If material is available in electronic format, it may be manipulated or utilized readily with software tools. For example, digital designs may be edited or used immediately in CAD or CAM. If CAM formats are available, then data at one point in space can be readily transformed into a physical object at another point in space, in the presence of digital fabrication capacities.

===Design Drawings===

This is a start towards replicability.

===Bill of Materials (BOM)===

Next to design drawing, the BOM is the second most important towards replicability. This is a detailed listing of all parts used, sourcing, and prices. Availability of the BOM saves the potential builder countless hours of searching for part availability and for reasonable pricing. Relevant comments should be made alongside the BOM, such as, quality or reliability of certain vendors, their quality of service, and any other useful comments. The only difficulty with a BOM may be that if the audience is global, sourcing may not be readily available or shipping may be prohibitive, so local substitution of parts must be made. If a BOM is available, then the building of a specific product can commence immediately: there is no guessing which parts would work, or which supplier is reliable. At best, the process for one-off individual production can be as follows:
#an individual decides that they need a certain product
#they look that product up on an online repository of open source products, download fabrication procedures and parts lists
#purchase parts locally all on the same day if they are located in an urban area where many suppliers are available
#and start building a certain project.
All these steps can potentially be completed in one day when the BOM is available. Open design drawings and plans are only one aspect, but the critical point to enabling immediate production is the availability of BOMs, as the last step prior to actual fabrication.

Under this scenario, a realistic possibility emerges that a large number of individuals discontinue purchasing slave goods from who-knows-where, and begin to fabricate them locally. This is feasibile on the individual level for anyone equipped with a robust Fab Lab, or when small groups (a few to a dozen people) get together to purchase low-cost, open source, digital fabrication equipment. These people could operate out of backyard garages, rented workshop spaces, co-working facilities, or other community supported manufacturing operations. The types of products that yield themselves particularly to this type of production are those items that fall beyond the class of disposable goods, and are more or less long-use items. These items include electronics, mechanized tools, semi-heavy machinery, green vehicles, renewable energy systems, among others.

====Tools====
[[CAD by Mariano Alvira]] and [[SKDB]] are two different tools that can improve and automate different aspects of handling a BOM.

===Free information===

If information is free, it is most easily accessible.

==Distributive Economics==

Distributive economics refer to economic models that tend to distribute economic power as opposed to monopolizing this power.

==Transformative Nature of Enterprise==

We are interested in transformative economics, or those economics which tend towards community and global resilience, while having qualities that, proactively, move the world away from: concentration of societal power; perennial warfare; loss of meaning; bureaucracy; globalization of economic activity; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak newspeak]; loss of freedom; and so forth.

==Systems Design==

Systems design refers to design of economic paradigms which consider the whole human and natural ecosystem, and the relationships involved, not just an isolated part of that system. For example, non-systems thinking may lead one to conclude that a modern steam engine for transportation is a bad idea compared to biodiesel or fuel alcohol because the thermodynamic efficiency of a steam engine is two times lower than that of diesel engines or gasoline engines. The systems design perspective will claim that the steam engine is a great idea, because biomass pellets can be used as fuel, and the yield of cellulosic biomass per acre is about 10 times higher than the yield of oil or alcohol. The systems thinker will continue, by stating that if the whole system is considered, biomass pellet production is much simpler to accomplish, and that biomass-growing areas can be integrated with other uses such as orcharding or livestock raising, and the systems thinker will continue to make other claims that such an energy source allows for absolute decentralization of production and resilience of communities using the simplest means possible. The point to be made is that the systems thinker can continue to make a large number of claims on how a particular activity is desirable based on a number of systems connections, which the non-systems thinker dismisses as simply not being part of the question.

We believe that destructive non-systems thinking is so pervasive in our society, that in general, individual and societal decision-making is completely partisan, thin on logic, and downright retarded. We are including a metric for systems design in the OSE Specifications to raise awareness of this issue, with a hope, which even if futile, attempts to bring a glimmer of light to the situation.

==Transparency of Production Model and Development Process==

The development process for products, and their production model, should be transparent to any interested observer. This allows for study of, input into, and improvement of the topic of interest. Transparency allows feedback loops to become active, and empowers those who are interested in learning more about a topic. Transparency is one of several qualities of a distributive, economic process.

Transparency of some program implies that the program is open to suggestions, correction, or replication of itself, stemming from an ethical foundation of the given program. Therefore, tools such as non-disclosure agreements, patents, trade secrets, and other means of protectionism are inconsistent with the creation of transparency.

===Development Process===

1. Participation in the development process is entirely voluntary. No compensation for alienation is necessary. As a result, the best designs are produced from the commitment of passionate stakeholders.

2. Anyone may join or leave the development group at any time

3. Collaborative development process utilizes the input of diverse stakeholders

4. Steps and results of the development process are documented

==Creation of Post-Scarcity Levels of Production==

Post-scarcity levels of production imply the availability of effective tools of production, including both hardware and techniques - which allow for the ample meeting of human needs. Post-scarcity levels of production also imply that local, nonstrategic resources can be utilized effectively, reliably, and with the capacity to produce significant surplus. The goal of attaining post-scarcity levels of production of something are thus synonymous with a particular community being able to transcend physical survival as a basis for evolving to pursuits beyond mere survival.

==Simplicity and Low Cost==

The design and implementation of any product or service should be the simplest from both the fabrication and cost perspective, such that it is the most readily replicable. Attaining simplicity is indeed the most difficult design challenge. Most people confuse high performance with extra features, because they externalize the hidden liabilities that accompany the extra features. Simplicity is synonymous with efficient resource use. Simplicity should also apply to the fabrication procedure of an object. As such, simplicity is also synonymous with low cost. The basic design philosophy of OSE is to include simplicity in design and fabrication - ie, design-for-fabrication should be applied.

==Lifetime, Modular Design; Design-for-Disassembly; Design-for-Scalability (DfS)==

(Note: For mainstream reference on lifetime design, see the work of [[Saul Griffith]])

Simplicity of design promotes the features of lifetime, modular, and scalable design-for-disassembly (DfD).

Lifetime design implies that the value of a product does not depreciate over time. This implies freedom from labor required to replace a certain product, which has direct implication for one's access to free time.

Modular design is a design which allows different modules to be used and interchanged, giving the user control over and flexibility with the object of use.

DfD means that parts of modules may be replaced readily, by taking the module apart. This has profound implications to lifetime design.

DfS is more than a design that can be scaled. It is the principle of designing things with ease of scalability as one of the features - ie, design that can be scaled easily. This is a slight improvement over design that can be scaled, in that DfS includes explicit features that make scalability easy.

Scalability means that a basic building block can be used to make larger or smaller versions. This contributes to low cost and efficiency.

===Multipurpose Modular Design===

Objects should be designed so that they are made as building blocks, or modules, of other or larger objects. This way, objects can be modified. Instead of a whole object having to be replaced to add new functionality, a module may be added. This gives products a flexibility that is built into their very nature, such that the user has additional control with minimum expense. Modularity may sometimes be synonymous with inter-operability, and may sometimes be synonymous with scalability. It may contribute to lifetime design if an object is 100% modular and each module may be replaced. Modularity also means that an object may function as a building block of other objects. In all cases, modularity implies that an object may be modified. The combination of flexibility, adaptability, scalability, interoperability are desirable. These features expand the range of applications, increase lifetime, reduce cost, as well as provide and retain high value. In a material world, these are features that contribute to wealth and prosperity. In a nutshell, modularity provides large value and has low associated costs. These are good implications for individual and community well-being.

If modular design is followed, then the type of interoperability of using building blocks leads us to a [[Pattern Language]] of technology. In this pattern language, the modules or building blocks serve as the sentences of a larger language, or technology infrastructure.

===Scalability===

Products should be designed so that they can be scaled up or down - such as by addition of new modules, or using multiples of a part in parallel. For example, a solar concentrator system designed according to the principle of scalability should be a linear design (see [[Solar Power Generator]]), so that it could be enlarged either by lengthening or widening the array.

==Localization of Material Sourcing and of Production==

For community resilience, ability to use local resources is key. While it is important that a community have this ability for essential needs, it is optional, though desirable, for other nonessential items.

Using local resources may necessitate that a given community have additional technology to produce a certain item. For example, if a given community does not have the conditions to grow a certain crop easily, it may want to invest in the additional technology required to grow that crop successfully. Or, if a certain community does not have adequate water, it should invest in well-drilling or roof-catchment technology, instead of importing water from unsecured sources.

A community should thus, in general, strive to increase its technology base to accommodate the provision of all essentials, and not settle on its ability to trade to procure these essentials, as trade may be vulnerable to disruption. Trade is quite acceptable for non-essential items, such as musical instruments, since disruption of such supply does not threaten the survival of a community. The level of technology in which a community is autonomous should be determined on practical grounds.

Moreover, in today's world, we already hear about 'produced locally.' We should add 'sourced locally' to our vocabulary - as resilience implies not only local production, but also local sourcing. Local sourcing typically requires that a community have additional technological infrastructure and knowhow for providing the necessary feedstocks.

===Localization Levels===

*Level 1 - production is local
*Level 2 - sourcing of materials used in production is local
*Level 3 - raw material production is local
*Level 4 - production machinery used in the production process above is open source and locally fabricated

Localization applies to the creation of natural economies, or those economies based on the substance of their own, natural resources, free of supply chain disruptions.

An example of Level 3 is that local aluminum is made by [[Smelting]] aluminum from local clays.

If localization is taken to all the 4 levels, for all necessities of sustaining its population - that means that a region is autonomous, and as such, has no built-in tendency to wage war for others' resources. This is the
critical point of localization - its benign effect on global geopolitical struggle. In simple words, people don't kill and steal.

==Ecological Qualities==

The product of interest must be good for the environment.

==Economic Feasibility and Replicability==

===Minimization of Waste, Overhead, and Bureaucracy===

The key point to the competitiveness of agile, open source enterprise is its lean structure with minimal overhead. Minimization of waste occurs by collaborative development, such that R&D costs are shared by a number of stakeholders. Competitive waste is eliminated by open enterprise giving services away rather than competing for market share, which is the ethical marketing strategy for open enterprise.

Other strategies for keeping overhead low are [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=391 crowd-funding the production facility], such as in Factor e Farm's case. We also propose paperwork reduction by operating as an un-incorporated entity, with contractually-based fiscal fiduciaries and liability management, operation in the Republic via private contract, and by in-house legal literacy.

===Product Evolution===

A process should be in place for continued maintenance and development of a product. This could be a support community, foundation, or users.

===Fabrication Facilities===

Concrete Flexible Fabrication mechanism exists for others to purchase the product at reasonable cost. This is a means to assuring that a diversity of suppliers exists, such that monopoly is avoided.

===Open Franchising or [[Open Business Model]]===

This point defines how easily one can obtain access to replicable enterprise design. See our motivation with respect to Open Business Models, as described under the [[OSE License]].

There is a number of details that goes into enterprise replications. These are all the standard details found in a [[Business Plan]], plus the actual technical details that go into that plan, such as designs and CAD, fabrication procedures, BOM and sourcing information, economic analysis, ergonomic analysis, and so forth.

If you are interested in replicating an enterprise, then please inquire with us regarding practical considerations. For those interested in replication, we are looking for long-term commitment to provide the necessary due diligence of business model documentation.

===Startup Assistance===

Producer training is the key to assisting others to start up enterprise. Dedicated workshops should be available for others to learn the trade. We plan on offering a 2 year immersion program, which includes not only workshop skills, but agriculture, as well as theoretical and organizational aspects.

=Calculation of a Metric Score=

The questionnaire below can be used to determine whether a product meets the OSE specifications. There are 42 questions, so the maximum score is 42.

===Economic Significance===
*Is it relevant for meeting the material needs of humans?

===Distributive Economics===
*Does the economic model distribute economic power?
'''Transformative Nature of Enterprise'''
*Does it promote community and global resilience?

===Systems Design===
*Does it consider the complete human and natural ecosystem?

===Ecology===
*Is it good for the environment?

===Development Process===
*Is participation in the process entirely voluntary?
*Can anyone join or leave the development group at any time?
*Does the collaborative development process utilize the input of diverse stakeholders?
*Are the steps and results of the development process documented?

===Simplicity of design===
*Is it low Cost?
*Does it have Long Life?
*Is it modular?
*Is it designed for disassembly?

===Design for scalability===
*Can it be scaled up?
*Can it be scaled down?
*Is it easily scalable?

===Localization===
====Materials====
*Are materials used in production local?
*Is raw material production local?

====Production====
*Is product production local?
*Is the machinery used in production process open source?
*Is the machinery used in production process locally fabricated?

===Economic Feasibility and Replicability===
*Is there minimal overhead?
*Is there minimal waste?
*Are R&D costs shared by a number of stakeholders?
*Are services given away?
*Are production facilities Crowd-funded?

===Product Evolution===

*Is there continual produce maintenance?
*Is there continual product development?

===Fabrication Facilities===

*Is there a flexible fabrication mechanism?

===Open Business Model===

*Is there a Business Plan?
*Are there technical details in the business plan?

===Open Documentation===

*Is content Open Source?
*Is content readily accessible (downloadable)?
*Are there design drawings?

====Designs====
*Are design drawings CAD?
*Are fabrication procedures detailed?
*Is economic analysis available?
*Is ergonomic analysis available?

====Bill of Materials (BOM)====
*Is there a parts list?
*Is Sourcing of parts listed?
*Are prices of parts listed?

===Startup Assistance===

*Is producer training available?

=Summary=
In summary, we aim to raise the standards embodied in open source product development efforts by articulating the possibilities. OSE Specification describes all the desirable features that can be embodied in open economic development, under the assumption that maximum advancement of distributive production is the best route to human prosperity.

OSE Specifications, as applied to technology - imply ''liberatory technology'' - defined as technology which serves the true needs of people and liberates time for other pursuits beyond survival. This is distinct from technology which controls people - where in today's world - with ever-advancing technology, people enjoy less free time.

=Application of OSE Specifications to Assessing the Liberatory Potential of Technologies=
OSE Specifications, when applied to production of physical products, allow for transparent assessment of the overall openness or accessibility of ''so-called'' open source products. This specification is intended to help people assess distributive production aspects of projects, by distinguishing between the various degrees of ‘opensource-ness’ embodied in projects. This is because some projects call themselves ‘open source’ when only a small portion of the hardware, or even no physical portion, is open source.

For example, in the case of the [http://green.autoblog.com/2007/10/16/autobloggreen-qanda-open-source-green-vehicle-project/ OS Green Vehicle], the only open source component is an apparent design process, but the output of the design process is proprietary. As quoted from the website, ‘Your rights to use, modify and re-distribute any data from this web site are limited.’ Moreover, the components used in the car are proprietary. Therefore, the OS Green Vehicle has a low OSE Specifications metric score.

Access refers to use for both private or market purposes. The specification is not neutral in its goals, just as no technologies are ever neutral. The intent goes so far as to point out the nuances that contribute to a particular direction of: (1), promoting ecological integrity, (2), contributing to the highest possible quality of life, and (3), creating the widest possible distribution of wealth. Because the open source method of product development has immense potential in transforming the economic system, the OSE Specification aims to address the evaluation of positive change endorsed by various open source projects.

The scope of OSE Specifications is far-reaching: it considers all the steps necessary for a product to be user-accessible. This includes open access to relevant information and affordable access to physical products. The goal is distributive economics.

OSE Specification stipulates access to physical production facilities that can build wealth in re-localized communities. But OSE Specifications go even further: replication and viral spread of wealth - or distributive production. OSE Specifications address the means for replicating the production process itself. This includes not only self-replicating machines and systems, but the development of open business models, training materials, and apprenticeships for entrepreneurs. As the final step, we consider the availability of capitalization assistance within the metric. The capitalization assistance may be part of a new entrepreneur's apprenticeship - where, for example - real products can be made and sold within the apprenticeship. We redefine the 'capital' in 'capitalization assistance' from 'money' to 'the ability to produce just about anything required for business startup at low cost.'

Such level of commitment to the success of replication may imply a hidden agenda behind this program. Indeed there is: the greatest possible empowerment of people and communities to be the masters of their destinies, by unleashed human productivity fueled by open access to information and enabling hardware.

OSE Spec addresses access to both producers and users - both on the individual and community scale. Production could occur by do-it-yourself means on the individual scale in flexible fabrication facilities. The community scale promotes division of labor, and therefore a high standard of living. The OSE Spec addresses the availability of blueprints or digital designs, which can be used readily in manual or automated, computer-controlled fabrication facilities.

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{{Lang|OSE Spesifikasjoner}}

=Introduksjon=

(sist oppdatert Jan 2011)

Før du leser videre, vennligst se {{LinkLang|OSE Mission|OSE Oppdrag}}. OSE Spesifikasjoner er en beregning for å vurdere kvalitetene som bidrar til skapelsen av relokalisert økonomisk produksjon, som et grunnlag for fellesskapsfremskritt i en sammenvevd verden.

OSE Spesifikasjonene er en standard som tar sikte på å definere og evaluere kriteriene til produkter, tjenester, og produksjonen av dem - som tjener til å promotere skapelsen av overflødige økonomier, og dermed, skapelsen av robuste fellesskap. ''Overflod'' eksisterer der et fellesskap bruker sin ressursbase på en slik måte at menneskelige behov og ønsker leveres i overflod - med betydelig overskudd for å drive kulturelt og vitenskapelig fremskritt.

=Punkt for Punkt=

=GVCS Spesifikasjoner/Kjerneverdier=

Disse er OSEs verdier som informerer utviklingen av GVCS som skal nedfelles i utviklingsprosessen, i rekrutteringen av frivillige, i dens korporative struktur, og i alle operasjoner, offentlige og private:

#'''Åpen Kilde''' - vi publiserer fritt våre 3D design, skjemaer, instruksjonsvideoer, budsjetter, og produktveiledninger på vår åpen kilde wiki. Vi streber for å sele samarbeid med et globaldistribuert lag av tekniske bidragsytere. Vi verdsetter åpenhet av våre operasjoner, forretningsmodeller, strategisk utvikling, “kode” (tegninger og design), ledelsesinformasjon, og alle andre aspekter som kan føre til distributiv økonomi. Kommentar: Vårt hovedmål er å bidra til skapelsen av åpen kultur, der deling og samarbeidsutvikling er verdsatt over grådighet og eksklusivitet. Denne typen kultur promoterer liv og vekst, i motsetning til fryktbasert aggressivitet. Åpen kildekultur inkluderer publiserig 'tidlig og ofte' for å avsløre feil og blindveier - der rask vekst oppstår ved å justere mot feil. Tidlig sammenbrudd gir mulighet til å tidlig finne løsninger. Feil og blindveier er overflødige i livet - og merket til et suksessfullt individ er deres evne til å svare på feilene på en måte som fører til vekst og transcendens. ----
#'''Distributive Economics''' – We publish our business models openly so that others can replicate any enterprise. “Everything we know, you know.” This is intented to generate truly free enterprise and life-giving competition, as opposed to monopoly capitalism or militarism. In one word - distibutive economics are called sharing. In the political sense, this phenomenon may be described as decentralization engineering. It should be noted that information should be free, because the cost of distributing information is negligible. However, atoms or physical objects are not 'free' in the same sense, as significant human energy is required to produce and distribute physical goods.
#'''Low-Cost''' - The cost of buying or making our machines are, on average, 5-10x cheaper than buying from an industrial manufacturer- including an average labor cost of $25 hour for a GVCS fabricator. Commentary:
#'''Modular''' – Components of the GVCS function as interchangeable modules. Motors, parts, assemblies, and power units can interchange, where units can grouped together to diversify the functionality that is achievable from a small set of units. To see how the different parts fit together - see [[Product Ecologies]].
#'''User Friendliness''' – Design-for-disassembly, simplicity, transparency, and open source documentation allows the user to comprehend, take apart, modifyservice, maintain, and fix tools readily without the need to rely on expensive repairmen.
#'''DIY''' - The user gains control of designing, producing, and modifying the GVCS tool set. DIY is intented to promote the maker, doer, creator, non-consumer culture – in people who are interested in creating their own custom environment as opposed to accepting massively-standardized options.
#'''Closed-Loop Manufacturing and Material Cycle'''s – Any product should never be a waste, but a feedstock for another process. Our project relies on recycling metal into virgin feedstock for producing further GVCS technologies - thereby allowing for cradle-to-cradle manufacturing cycles.
#'''High Performance''' - Performance standards must match or exceed those of industrial counterparts for the GVCS to provide a comparable or better standard of living.
#'''Industrial Efficiency''' - In order to provide a viable choice for a resilient lifestyle, the GVCS platform matches or exceeds productivity standards of industrial counterparts.
#'''Ecological Design''' - Our products promote a harmonious co-existence between nature and humans. The entire process and technology must fit the criteria for being environmentally friendly and regenerative.
#'''Resilience'''– The systems that we are designing are designed to be adaptable. This arises from the ability to modify, scale and replicate the components and systems to meet requirement of constantly changing conditions.
#'''Systems Design''' – Our designs consider the whole system of life support, in terms of hoew the different machines and services interface with one another. Different machines can functions as modules in a wide array of integrated systems. We do not choose technologies with peak point performance, but with peak systems performance as they fit into a resilient community integrated with its natural life support systems. Part of the systems design is synergy – in that the GVCS is intended to attain its maximum potential when all of its components are working with one another.
#'''Lifeteime Design''' – Our products are designed for a lifetime of use – via solid design, user serviceability, open source, DIY design.
#'''Substitutability''' – Our products tend to the substitutability of common resources for less common or strategic resources. Substitutability also applies to the fact that any damaging
#'''Robustness''' – Applications of our work range from the 1st to the 4th worlds, from the city to the country, from high technology to low technology applications, at different scales of operation.
#'''Multipurpose Flexibility''' – Our tools are typically not dedicated devices, but ones that can be used flexibly in a wide range of applications.
#'''Best Practice''' – we focus on optimization of our products to achieve the best possible design and functionality
#'''Simplicity''' - We design for absolute simplicity without sacrificing performance standards
#'''Complete Economy''' – The work of OSE is intended to be a workable blueprint for a complete economy. Our designs are geared for a maker lifestyle on the part of community members. This is also known as a neo-subsistence lifestyle – where communities can provide all the requirements of a complete economy, such that trade is only an option, not a necessity.
#'''Freedom from Material Constraints''' – The GVCS is intended to provide all the material needs of a community in an efficient way. This allows people to have free time, which allows people to choose their pursuits freely, beyond constraints of material scarcity. This is also known as High-Tech Self-Providing.
#'''Division of Labor''' – Our designs focus on the needs of a modern villlage enjoying a high quality of life, as opposed to individual utilization. All of the technologies may be adapted to an individual's use, but division of labor is more desirable for achieving a complete economy in a community.
#'''Scalability and Fractality''' – The GVCS tools are designed to be scalable to different sizes of operations, from individual households to agglomerations of villages (cities). The design should be fractal, in that each unit of operation should be self-contained (cimplete) and resilient.
#'''Village Scale''' – The GVCS is intended to be optimized for a village scale of about 200 people, or Dunbar's number – as the number of people who can maintain face-to-face interaction.
#'''Nonviolence''' – The GVCS is designed to provide for all the needs of a community without killing or stealing from others.
#'''Amicable Social Contract''' – The GVCS toolset is designed to promote a just, equitable, and life-giving social contract for a village community living with the GVCS. The qualities of the GVCS are intended to promote good relationships between a village-scale group of people. The social contract is based on collaborative division of labor, where productivity of individual members contributes to the well-being of the whole community. The basic requirement is lifelong learning and regenerative stewardship of land and resources, along with nonviolence .
#'''Community and Family''' – OSE promotes the reconnection of people to one another as a result of increased freedom from material constraints. This reconnection also includes reconnection to one's true needs, to one's family, and to the global family of all living creatures.
#'''Proven Techniques''' – We focus on time-proven concepts, techniques, and technologies. All are principles are generally regarded as common, historical knowledge or wisdom learned through eons of civilization.
#'''Cross-Disciplinary Integration''' – We provide cutting edge practice in so far as they are integrations of knowledge from many fields and disciplines. We value unabashed boundary-crossing and cross-fertilization, drawing from as many cultures, regions, and time periods as possible.
#'''Sufficiency''' – Our design focuses on sufficiency – ie, we understand that we need to reach a certain level of performance, and that is sufficient. This is distinct from continuous addition of frivolous bells and whistles.
#'''New Economics''' – One aspect of OSE is that it allows for the creation of a resource based economy, where true wealth is based on the value of natural, primarily local resources, where wealth is created from adding value to natural resources by transforming them to human-usable form.
#'''Flexible Fabrication''' – This is a mode of production distinct from specialization. In flexible fabrication, general purpose machinery is used by highly skilled workers to produce a wide array of products – as opposed to specialized machines, operated by highly deskilled workers, producing only a single item. Our means to flexible fabrication is the open source fab lab.
#'''Technological Recursion''' – The flexible fabrication technology also allows producers to produce more complex machines and parts. This allows a local community to, eventually, attain the capacity to produce any technology known to humankind.
#'''Industry 2.0''' – This is a concept that flexible fabrication, combined with a collaboratively-developed, global repository of down-loadable product design has the potential to become the new engine of production. This is particularly useful towards relocalization of productive economies and towards distributive economics. Industry 2.0 is a direct goal of OSE.
#'''Permafacture''' - ecological fabrication with lifetime design.
#'''Local Resources''' – The GVCS is fueled by local resources, such as water, sunlight, rock and soil. Via technological recursion,
#'''Replicability''' – OSE work is intended to be replicable, self-replicating, and viral. The open source nature, low-cost, and simplicity of our designs are key to this.
#'''Meaning''' – Technology, when used appropriately, is intended to reconnect one to meaning, and to natural ecosystems. Reconnection to nature can occur from constant interplay between humans and nature, as natural resources are stewarded responsibly to meet human needs by benign processes.
#'''Appropriate Automation''' – We favor automation of production or other tasks whenever repetitive, difficult, dangerous, or otherwise unrewarding tasks can be carried out with computer assistance instead of human labor. We favor this if this truly increases quality of life and reduces toil, without loss of meaning, violence, or other negative systems consequences.
#'''Long Term Approach''' – OSE is seeking long-term solutions on the 100 year scale into the future, not band-aids on superficial issues. We are looking at issues for the long haul, with lasting peace and stability for humanity as the goal.
#'''Network''' – OSE is interested in creating a network of like-minded communities that follow OSE values, such that cultural exchange can happen between different communities. This refers to the 1000 Global Villages concept - which serve as model communities that influence the rest of the world in a positive way. This brings in an element of mobility into the community social fabric.
#'''Model Community'''- The OSE Village with the GVCS are intended to provide a positive, best-practice example of integrated, meaningful lifestyles along the principles of abundance and prosperity - as a shining point of light to inspire people in many walks of life.
#'''Land and Resource Stewardship''' – Each OSE facility functions as a land steward. Land is not for sale, but is preserved for ever as a permanent site of human heritage and cultural growth. Resources are stewarded so that they improve in quality with time, as opposed to becoming depleted.
#'''Iconoclastic Innovation and Transformation''' – OSE favors iconoclastic approaches which address issues at the root, not symptoms – towards addressing pressing world issues (war, poverty, corruption, distribution of wealth, disease, etc.). We are not looking for mass-culture compromises swayed by political or special interests, but for authentic solutions based on virtues common to all humankind.
#'''Absolute Creative Approaches''' - We do not promote destroying anything, just creating a better solution that makes the old paradigm obsolete. We do not hate any group or politic, because we are all in this together. We believe in positive psychology, inspiration, and bringing out the virtues in people – by appealing to their absolute creative, transcendent potential for solutions. We do not endorse fear- or punishment-based motivation tactics.
#'''Realistic Immediacy''' - We favor a realistic approach that can be implemented today, as opposed to futuristic dreaming. We believe that we have sufficient knowledge and technology today to create an abundant lifestyle for everybody. We focus on a tool set designed for a nominal 200 person village - according to Dunbar's number. This allows for sufficient division of labor to cover just about any technology to be produced locally, while remaining small enough such that organization of such a community is manageable.
#'''Proper Scale'''- We look at the village scale of about 200 people as the optimal scale of human organization for several reasons. First, it's a historically proven number. Second, it follows [[Dunbar's Number]] to allow for persistent and meaningful social interaction. Third, it is easily manageable from an organizational point of view without requiring bureaucratic overhead. Fourth, it is sufficiently large to allow specialization via division of labor. Fifth, it allows for a walking- or biking-distance community. Sixth, it is a basic building block - where larger communities may be designed as units of this small scale for the highest possible resilience - as opposed to organization on a larger scale. Seventh, it has been pointed out by the industrial economist, E. F. Schumacher, in his seminal book, [[Small is Beautiful]], that human organization simply breaks down after it reaches a certain scale.
#'''One World Approach'''- We believe that people in general should live within the means of global resources without depleting their quality or polluting them. This is opposite of what happens in general today.
#'''Miniaturization'''- We believe that the scale of successful human organization at which modern-day technology can be maintained can be scaled down to the village scale - under the assumption of open information flows.
#'''Radical Abundance'''- We believe that there are abundant resources for everybody, and that human social organization should favor institutions that promote abundance, as opposed to scarcity. We favor a technological infrastructure that moves beyond resource scarcity as a dominant underlying force in all of civilization.

=Methods and Strategic Approaches=

#'''Open''' – Open Source Ecology endorses open source culture of sharing and collaborative development throughout, towards the end of distributive economics. This applies at the level of our process, organizational structure, business and products. On the process level, we encourage others to collaborate openly, yet respectfully of other developers' needs. To this end, we are aiming to create collaboration structures and platforms that allow others to collaborate freely, and to publish meaningful results openly. We seek to design all of our operations to be consistent with this principle. We encourage everybody on the development team to be transparent about their work, and to ask openly for collaborative assistance. We encourage everybody to give information away for free – as the cost of sharing information is zero
#'''Distributive Economics''' - We recognize the challenges of sharing information openly – in that someone else can 'steal' an idea and capitalize on it. We address this issue by encouraging people to publish openly, so that prior art makes information accessible to all, and therefore, making information un-patentable and therefore incapable of being appropriated. In order to capture value, we encourage humans to organize around information resource commons, while building in a physical, productive infrastructure to convert information into the substance of modern-day living via benign, industrial processes
#'''Notes on Patents'''. These make sense only in a world based on scarcity. We encourage each community that adopts OSE principles to build complete, open source, economic productivity – where true wealth can be generated easily. In this case, what is the need for patents? If a community can provide all of its needs - then we enter into the concept of sufficiency. State-of-art point technologies that optimize one feature of performance are not necessarily useful for an ecological tool set. We are interested more in overall, or ecological, performance - as opposed to point performance.
#'''Creative Approach''' - There is a number of movements that cater to fears regarding the end of the world or other comprehensive collapse scenarios. Our approach is intended to empower people from a perspective of what is a-priori favorable and benign - whether or not any cataclysm is on the horizon. IT is important to underscore that we focus on positive psychology and transcendence, which we favor over an approach based on fear, because fear-based response is not as likely to create long-lasting solutions.
#'''Modular, lifetime design''' – The core of lifetime design is design-for-disassembly and modularity. Design-for-disassembly is synonymous with user ability to 'look under the hood' of a certain device. Modules are interchangeable units of functionality.
#'''Closed Loop Manufacturing''' – OSE endorses closed loop eco-industry, where waste does not exist as the waste is turned into feedstock for other processes.

=Components of OSE Specifications=

OSE Specifications cover a number of aspects of economically-significant production, covering the development and production aspects:

*Economic significance
*Open documentation
*Distributive economic nature
*Transformative nature of enterprise
*Systems design
*Transparency and participatory nature of production model and development process
*Creation of post-scarcity levels of production
*Simplicity and low cost
*Lifetime, modular design; design-for-disassembly; design-for-scalability
*Localization of material sourcing and of production
*Ecological qualities
*Economic Feasibility and Replicability
**Minimization of waste, overhead, and bureaucracy
**Product Evolution
**Fabrication Facilities
**Open Franchising or Open Business Model
**Startup Assistance

==Economic Significance==

Economic significance refers to the overall economic importance of a given product or service. The assumption here that economic significance is defined on the basis of relevance for meeting the material needs of humans. For example, fuels and tractors constitute multibillion dollar global markets, and are thus economically significant. On the other hand, plain discussion may have little economic significance, if is not more than hot air.

==Open Documentation==

===Open content===

We begin with open content as a foundation – content that is free of restrictions on use or dissemination. The optimal license for content that we promote is the public domain. This keeps it simple from the practical and legal perspective. We have a philosophy that the users should decide for themselves as to how to use the information. We support open licensing. We are not interested in policing.

We believe that to claim something as ‘one’s own’ is arrogant, as it does not address the fact that any single ‘invention’ is simply a small additional to a large pool of existing knowledge that made the ‘invention’ possible. We believe that there is no point in trying to police the patenting of forks, as are simply so many different forks or development paths that could be taken nonetheless: creativity is unlimited. We believe that the more we contribute to the commons, the more new content will be generated.

===Readily accessible or downloadble documentation and design===

Distributed information in the computer age is made most readily accessible if it is available for immediate download from the internet. If material is available in electronic format, it may be manipulated or utilized readily with software tools. For example, digital designs may be edited or used immediately in CAD or CAM. If CAM formats are available, then data at one point in space can be readily transformed into a physical object at another point in space, in the presence of digital fabrication capacities.

===Design Drawings===

This is a start towards replicability.

===Bill of Materials (BOM)===

Next to design drawing, the BOM is the second most important towards replicability. This is a detailed listing of all parts used, sourcing, and prices. Availability of the BOM saves the potential builder countless hours of searching for part availability and for reasonable pricing. Relevant comments should be made alongside the BOM, such as, quality or reliability of certain vendors, their quality of service, and any other useful comments. The only difficulty with a BOM may be that if the audience is global, sourcing may not be readily available or shipping may be prohibitive, so local substitution of parts must be made. If a BOM is available, then the building of a specific product can commence immediately: there is no guessing which parts would work, or which supplier is reliable. At best, the process for one-off individual production can be as follows:
#an individual decides that they need a certain product
#they look that product up on an online repository of open source products, download fabrication procedures and parts lists
#purchase parts locally all on the same day if they are located in an urban area where many suppliers are available
#and start building a certain project.
All these steps can potentially be completed in one day when the BOM is available. Open design drawings and plans are only one aspect, but the critical point to enabling immediate production is the availability of BOMs, as the last step prior to actual fabrication.

Under this scenario, a realistic possibility emerges that a large number of individuals discontinue purchasing slave goods from who-knows-where, and begin to fabricate them locally. This is feasibile on the individual level for anyone equipped with a robust Fab Lab, or when small groups (a few to a dozen people) get together to purchase low-cost, open source, digital fabrication equipment. These people could operate out of backyard garages, rented workshop spaces, co-working facilities, or other community supported manufacturing operations. The types of products that yield themselves particularly to this type of production are those items that fall beyond the class of disposable goods, and are more or less long-use items. These items include electronics, mechanized tools, semi-heavy machinery, green vehicles, renewable energy systems, among others.

====Tools====
[[CAD by Mariano Alvira]] and [[SKDB]] are two different tools that can improve and automate different aspects of handling a BOM.

===Free information===

If information is free, it is most easily accessible.

==Distributive Economics==

Distributive economics refer to economic models that tend to distribute economic power as opposed to monopolizing this power.

==Transformative Nature of Enterprise==

We are interested in transformative economics, or those economics which tend towards community and global resilience, while having qualities that, proactively, move the world away from: concentration of societal power; perennial warfare; loss of meaning; bureaucracy; globalization of economic activity; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak newspeak]; loss of freedom; and so forth.

==Systems Design==

Systems design refers to design of economic paradigms which consider the whole human and natural ecosystem, and the relationships involved, not just an isolated part of that system. For example, non-systems thinking may lead one to conclude that a modern steam engine for transportation is a bad idea compared to biodiesel or fuel alcohol because the thermodynamic efficiency of a steam engine is two times lower than that of diesel engines or gasoline engines. The systems design perspective will claim that the steam engine is a great idea, because biomass pellets can be used as fuel, and the yield of cellulosic biomass per acre is about 10 times higher than the yield of oil or alcohol. The systems thinker will continue, by stating that if the whole system is considered, biomass pellet production is much simpler to accomplish, and that biomass-growing areas can be integrated with other uses such as orcharding or livestock raising, and the systems thinker will continue to make other claims that such an energy source allows for absolute decentralization of production and resilience of communities using the simplest means possible. The point to be made is that the systems thinker can continue to make a large number of claims on how a particular activity is desirable based on a number of systems connections, which the non-systems thinker dismisses as simply not being part of the question.

We believe that destructive non-systems thinking is so pervasive in our society, that in general, individual and societal decision-making is completely partisan, thin on logic, and downright retarded. We are including a metric for systems design in the OSE Specifications to raise awareness of this issue, with a hope, which even if futile, attempts to bring a glimmer of light to the situation.

==Transparency of Production Model and Development Process==

The development process for products, and their production model, should be transparent to any interested observer. This allows for study of, input into, and improvement of the topic of interest. Transparency allows feedback loops to become active, and empowers those who are interested in learning more about a topic. Transparency is one of several qualities of a distributive, economic process.

Transparency of some program implies that the program is open to suggestions, correction, or replication of itself, stemming from an ethical foundation of the given program. Therefore, tools such as non-disclosure agreements, patents, trade secrets, and other means of protectionism are inconsistent with the creation of transparency.

===Development Process===

1. Participation in the development process is entirely voluntary. No compensation for alienation is necessary. As a result, the best designs are produced from the commitment of passionate stakeholders.

2. Anyone may join or leave the development group at any time

3. Collaborative development process utilizes the input of diverse stakeholders

4. Steps and results of the development process are documented

==Creation of Post-Scarcity Levels of Production==

Post-scarcity levels of production imply the availability of effective tools of production, including both hardware and techniques - which allow for the ample meeting of human needs. Post-scarcity levels of production also imply that local, nonstrategic resources can be utilized effectively, reliably, and with the capacity to produce significant surplus. The goal of attaining post-scarcity levels of production of something are thus synonymous with a particular community being able to transcend physical survival as a basis for evolving to pursuits beyond mere survival.

==Simplicity and Low Cost==

The design and implementation of any product or service should be the simplest from both the fabrication and cost perspective, such that it is the most readily replicable. Attaining simplicity is indeed the most difficult design challenge. Most people confuse high performance with extra features, because they externalize the hidden liabilities that accompany the extra features. Simplicity is synonymous with efficient resource use. Simplicity should also apply to the fabrication procedure of an object. As such, simplicity is also synonymous with low cost. The basic design philosophy of OSE is to include simplicity in design and fabrication - ie, design-for-fabrication should be applied.

==Lifetime, Modular Design; Design-for-Disassembly; Design-for-Scalability (DfS)==

(Note: For mainstream reference on lifetime design, see the work of [[Saul Griffith]])

Simplicity of design promotes the features of lifetime, modular, and scalable design-for-disassembly (DfD).

Lifetime design implies that the value of a product does not depreciate over time. This implies freedom from labor required to replace a certain product, which has direct implication for one's access to free time.

Modular design is a design which allows different modules to be used and interchanged, giving the user control over and flexibility with the object of use.

DfD means that parts of modules may be replaced readily, by taking the module apart. This has profound implications to lifetime design.

DfS is more than a design that can be scaled. It is the principle of designing things with ease of scalability as one of the features - ie, design that can be scaled easily. This is a slight improvement over design that can be scaled, in that DfS includes explicit features that make scalability easy.

Scalability means that a basic building block can be used to make larger or smaller versions. This contributes to low cost and efficiency.

===Multipurpose Modular Design===

Objects should be designed so that they are made as building blocks, or modules, of other or larger objects. This way, objects can be modified. Instead of a whole object having to be replaced to add new functionality, a module may be added. This gives products a flexibility that is built into their very nature, such that the user has additional control with minimum expense. Modularity may sometimes be synonymous with inter-operability, and may sometimes be synonymous with scalability. It may contribute to lifetime design if an object is 100% modular and each module may be replaced. Modularity also means that an object may function as a building block of other objects. In all cases, modularity implies that an object may be modified. The combination of flexibility, adaptability, scalability, interoperability are desirable. These features expand the range of applications, increase lifetime, reduce cost, as well as provide and retain high value. In a material world, these are features that contribute to wealth and prosperity. In a nutshell, modularity provides large value and has low associated costs. These are good implications for individual and community well-being.

If modular design is followed, then the type of interoperability of using building blocks leads us to a [[Pattern Language]] of technology. In this pattern language, the modules or building blocks serve as the sentences of a larger language, or technology infrastructure.

===Scalability===

Products should be designed so that they can be scaled up or down - such as by addition of new modules, or using multiples of a part in parallel. For example, a solar concentrator system designed according to the principle of scalability should be a linear design (see [[Solar Power Generator]]), so that it could be enlarged either by lengthening or widening the array.

==Localization of Material Sourcing and of Production==

For community resilience, ability to use local resources is key. While it is important that a community have this ability for essential needs, it is optional, though desirable, for other nonessential items.

Using local resources may necessitate that a given community have additional technology to produce a certain item. For example, if a given community does not have the conditions to grow a certain crop easily, it may want to invest in the additional technology required to grow that crop successfully. Or, if a certain community does not have adequate water, it should invest in well-drilling or roof-catchment technology, instead of importing water from unsecured sources.

A community should thus, in general, strive to increase its technology base to accommodate the provision of all essentials, and not settle on its ability to trade to procure these essentials, as trade may be vulnerable to disruption. Trade is quite acceptable for non-essential items, such as musical instruments, since disruption of such supply does not threaten the survival of a community. The level of technology in which a community is autonomous should be determined on practical grounds.

Moreover, in today's world, we already hear about 'produced locally.' We should add 'sourced locally' to our vocabulary - as resilience implies not only local production, but also local sourcing. Local sourcing typically requires that a community have additional technological infrastructure and knowhow for providing the necessary feedstocks.

===Localization Levels===

*Level 1 - production is local
*Level 2 - sourcing of materials used in production is local
*Level 3 - raw material production is local
*Level 4 - production machinery used in the production process above is open source and locally fabricated

Localization applies to the creation of natural economies, or those economies based on the substance of their own, natural resources, free of supply chain disruptions.

An example of Level 3 is that local aluminum is made by [[Smelting]] aluminum from local clays.

If localization is taken to all the 4 levels, for all necessities of sustaining its population - that means that a region is autonomous, and as such, has no built-in tendency to wage war for others' resources. This is the
critical point of localization - its benign effect on global geopolitical struggle. In simple words, people don't kill and steal.

==Ecological Qualities==

The product of interest must be good for the environment.

==Economic Feasibility and Replicability==

===Minimization of Waste, Overhead, and Bureaucracy===

The key point to the competitiveness of agile, open source enterprise is its lean structure with minimal overhead. Minimization of waste occurs by collaborative development, such that R&D costs are shared by a number of stakeholders. Competitive waste is eliminated by open enterprise giving services away rather than competing for market share, which is the ethical marketing strategy for open enterprise.

Other strategies for keeping overhead low are [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=391 crowd-funding the production facility], such as in Factor e Farm's case. We also propose paperwork reduction by operating as an un-incorporated entity, with contractually-based fiscal fiduciaries and liability management, operation in the Republic via private contract, and by in-house legal literacy.

===Product Evolution===

A process should be in place for continued maintenance and development of a product. This could be a support community, foundation, or users.

===Fabrication Facilities===

Concrete Flexible Fabrication mechanism exists for others to purchase the product at reasonable cost. This is a means to assuring that a diversity of suppliers exists, such that monopoly is avoided.

===Open Franchising or [[Open Business Model]]===

This point defines how easily one can obtain access to replicable enterprise design. See our motivation with respect to Open Business Models, as described under the [[OSE License]].

There is a number of details that goes into enterprise replications. These are all the standard details found in a [[Business Plan]], plus the actual technical details that go into that plan, such as designs and CAD, fabrication procedures, BOM and sourcing information, economic analysis, ergonomic analysis, and so forth.

If you are interested in replicating an enterprise, then please inquire with us regarding practical considerations. For those interested in replication, we are looking for long-term commitment to provide the necessary due diligence of business model documentation.

===Startup Assistance===

Producer training is the key to assisting others to start up enterprise. Dedicated workshops should be available for others to learn the trade. We plan on offering a 2 year immersion program, which includes not only workshop skills, but agriculture, as well as theoretical and organizational aspects.

=Calculation of a Metric Score=

The questionnaire below can be used to determine whether a product meets the OSE specifications. There are 42 questions, so the maximum score is 42.

===Economic Significance===
*Is it relevant for meeting the material needs of humans?

===Distributive Economics===
*Does the economic model distribute economic power?
'''Transformative Nature of Enterprise'''
*Does it promote community and global resilience?

===Systems Design===
*Does it consider the complete human and natural ecosystem?

===Ecology===
*Is it good for the environment?

===Development Process===
*Is participation in the process entirely voluntary?
*Can anyone join or leave the development group at any time?
*Does the collaborative development process utilize the input of diverse stakeholders?
*Are the steps and results of the development process documented?

===Simplicity of design===
*Is it low Cost?
*Does it have Long Life?
*Is it modular?
*Is it designed for disassembly?

===Design for scalability===
*Can it be scaled up?
*Can it be scaled down?
*Is it easily scalable?

===Localization===
====Materials====
*Are materials used in production local?
*Is raw material production local?

====Production====
*Is product production local?
*Is the machinery used in production process open source?
*Is the machinery used in production process locally fabricated?

===Economic Feasibility and Replicability===
*Is there minimal overhead?
*Is there minimal waste?
*Are R&D costs shared by a number of stakeholders?
*Are services given away?
*Are production facilities Crowd-funded?

===Product Evolution===

*Is there continual produce maintenance?
*Is there continual product development?

===Fabrication Facilities===

*Is there a flexible fabrication mechanism?

===Open Business Model===

*Is there a Business Plan?
*Are there technical details in the business plan?

===Open Documentation===

*Is content Open Source?
*Is content readily accessible (downloadable)?
*Are there design drawings?

====Designs====
*Are design drawings CAD?
*Are fabrication procedures detailed?
*Is economic analysis available?
*Is ergonomic analysis available?

====Bill of Materials (BOM)====
*Is there a parts list?
*Is Sourcing of parts listed?
*Are prices of parts listed?

===Startup Assistance===

*Is producer training available?

=Summary=
In summary, we aim to raise the standards embodied in open source product development efforts by articulating the possibilities. OSE Specification describes all the desirable features that can be embodied in open economic development, under the assumption that maximum advancement of distributive production is the best route to human prosperity.

OSE Specifications, as applied to technology - imply ''liberatory technology'' - defined as technology which serves the true needs of people and liberates time for other pursuits beyond survival. This is distinct from technology which controls people - where in today's world - with ever-advancing technology, people enjoy less free time.

=Application of OSE Specifications to Assessing the Liberatory Potential of Technologies=
OSE Specifications, when applied to production of physical products, allow for transparent assessment of the overall openness or accessibility of ''so-called'' open source products. This specification is intended to help people assess distributive production aspects of projects, by distinguishing between the various degrees of ‘opensource-ness’ embodied in projects. This is because some projects call themselves ‘open source’ when only a small portion of the hardware, or even no physical portion, is open source.

For example, in the case of the [http://green.autoblog.com/2007/10/16/autobloggreen-qanda-open-source-green-vehicle-project/ OS Green Vehicle], the only open source component is an apparent design process, but the output of the design process is proprietary. As quoted from the website, ‘Your rights to use, modify and re-distribute any data from this web site are limited.’ Moreover, the components used in the car are proprietary. Therefore, the OS Green Vehicle has a low OSE Specifications metric score.

Access refers to use for both private or market purposes. The specification is not neutral in its goals, just as no technologies are ever neutral. The intent goes so far as to point out the nuances that contribute to a particular direction of: (1), promoting ecological integrity, (2), contributing to the highest possible quality of life, and (3), creating the widest possible distribution of wealth. Because the open source method of product development has immense potential in transforming the economic system, the OSE Specification aims to address the evaluation of positive change endorsed by various open source projects.

The scope of OSE Specifications is far-reaching: it considers all the steps necessary for a product to be user-accessible. This includes open access to relevant information and affordable access to physical products. The goal is distributive economics.

OSE Specification stipulates access to physical production facilities that can build wealth in re-localized communities. But OSE Specifications go even further: replication and viral spread of wealth - or distributive production. OSE Specifications address the means for replicating the production process itself. This includes not only self-replicating machines and systems, but the development of open business models, training materials, and apprenticeships for entrepreneurs. As the final step, we consider the availability of capitalization assistance within the metric. The capitalization assistance may be part of a new entrepreneur's apprenticeship - where, for example - real products can be made and sold within the apprenticeship. We redefine the 'capital' in 'capitalization assistance' from 'money' to 'the ability to produce just about anything required for business startup at low cost.'

Such level of commitment to the success of replication may imply a hidden agenda behind this program. Indeed there is: the greatest possible empowerment of people and communities to be the masters of their destinies, by unleashed human productivity fueled by open access to information and enabling hardware.

OSE Spec addresses access to both producers and users - both on the individual and community scale. Production could occur by do-it-yourself means on the individual scale in flexible fabrication facilities. The community scale promotes division of labor, and therefore a high standard of living. The OSE Spec addresses the availability of blueprints or digital designs, which can be used readily in manual or automated, computer-controlled fabrication facilities.

[[Category:Standards]]

Outreach 2010/no

2011-05-24T15:36:14Z

Knut Brekken:

{{Lang|Formidling 2010}}Dette dokumentet er ment å være en pågående logg av markedsføringsformidlinger fra 1 nov. 2010, med innledende fokus på Transition Town bevegelsen. Dette består av den innledende 'føler' e-post malen, i tillegg til en oppfølging e-post mal. E-post diskusjoner vil bli lagt inn i tabellen hvis det mottas svar.

== Kontakter og resultater: ==
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|- style="background-color: LightSteelBlue; font-weight: bold;"
!Organization
!Contact Information
!Details
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!Post Carbon Institute<br/>(Post Carbon Institute provides individuals, communities, businesses, and governments with the resources needed to understand and respond to the interrelated economic, energy, and environmental crises that define the 21st century. We envision a world of resilient communities and re-localized economies that thrive within ecological bounds.)
|[http://www.postcarbon.org]<br/>[mailto:tod@postcarbon.org Tod Brilliant]
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Response received and follow-up sent
|-align="left"
!The Berkana Institute<br/>(The Berkana Exchange is an ecosystem of learning centers, grassroots-based initiatives, individuals, regional learning communities and movements all working to create healthy and resilient communities.)
|[http://www.berkana.org]<br/>[mailto:bob@berkana.org Bob Stilger]<br/>CC:[mailto:lizzie@berkana.org Lizzie Riesenberg]
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Pending
|-align="left"
!Global Ecovillage Network<br/>(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.)
|[http://gen.ecovillage.org]<br/>[mailto:contact@ecovillage.org Jessie Du Boe]
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Response received and follow-up sent
|-align="left"
!About FOUR YEARS. GO.<br/>(FOUR YEARS. GO. is a campaign to catalyze and empower a fundamental shift in the direction of humanity, inspiring collaborative action, connecting individuals and organizations, and amplifying best practices and successes.)
|[http://www.fouryearsgo.org]<br/>[mailto:orgs@fouryearsgo.org Allied Organization Inquiries]
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Pending
|-align="left"
!Transition US<br/>(Transition US is a nonprofit organization that provides inspiration, encouragement, support, networking, and training for Transition Initiatives across the United States. )
|[http://www.transitionus.org Transition US]<br/>[mailto:info@transitionus.org Info]
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Response received and follow-up sent
|-align="left"
!Global Transition In Action<br/>(TRANSITION UNITED STATES is an informal, "social networking" site for those interested in exploring and/or implementing the Transition model in U.S. communities.)
|[http://transitioninaction.com]<br/>Private Messaged [http://transitioninaction.com/profile/LesSquires Les Squires].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Response received and follow-up sent
|-align="left"
!Electromagnate<br/>(We are a small group of hackerspace members who are dedicated to showing the maker and hacker community to the world.)
|[http://www.electromagnate.com]<br/>[mailto:info@electromagnate.com Info].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Pending
|-align="left"
!Transition Town Ashland
|[http://www.transitiontownashland.org]<br/>[mailto:ttacontact@gmail.com Info].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Response received and follow-up sent
|-align="left"
!Transition Town Oklahoma City
|[http://www.goinglocalokc.com]<br/>[mailto:info@goinglocalokc.com Info].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Pending
|-align="left"
!Transition Town Portland
|[http://www.thedirt.org/tpdx]<br/>[http://www.thedirt.org/tpdx/contact Info].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Response received and follow-up sent
|
|-align="left"
!Transition Town San Diego
|[http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/san-diego]<br/>[http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/san-diego Contact form].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Pending
|
|-align="left"
!Transition Town Seattle
|[http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/sustainable-northeast-seattle]<br/>[http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/sustainable-northeast-seattle Contact form].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Pending
|
|-align="left"
!Transition Town Houston
|[http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/houston]<br/>[http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/houston Contact form].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Pending
|
|-align="left"
!Transition Town Central Ohio
|[http://www.simplyliving.org/transition]<br/>[mailto:hello@simplyliving.org Mary Cunnyngham].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Pending
|
|-align="left"
!Transition Town Los Angeles
|[http://www.transitionla.org/]<br/>[mailto:legacyla@gmail.com Joanne P].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Response received and follow-up sent
|
|-align="left"
!Transition Town Texas
|[http://transitiontexas.ning.com]<br/>[http://transitiontexas.ning.com/forum/topics/a-call-for-collaborative Forum Post].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Pending
|
|-align="left"
![[Auroville Earth Institute]]
|[http://www.earth-auroville.com/index.php?nav=about&lang_code=en]<br/>[http://www.earth-auroville.com/index.php?nav=contact contact Info].
|Status: To be contacted
|
|-align="left"
![[Ecoescuela El Manzano]], from Chile
|http://www.ecoescuela.cl/<br/>.
|Status: Contacted. Waiting for reply
|
|-align="left"
!Consul for Guyana in Rio de Janeiro
|<br/>.
|Status: Contacted. Waiting for reply
|
|-align="left"
!Transition Town Albany-Capital District
|[http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/albany-capital-district-transition-network]<br/>[mailto:dhochfelder@albany.edu David Hochfelder].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Pending
|
|-align="left"
!Transition Town Anchorage
|[http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/anchorage-transition-mullers]<br/>[http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/anchorage-transition-mullers Contact form].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Pending
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|-align="left"
!Transition Town Anderson
|[http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/anderson]<br/>[mailto:transitionanderson@gmail.com Info].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Pending
|
|-align="left"
!Transition Town Ann Arbor
|[http://www.transitionannarbor.org/]<br/>[mailto:info@transitionannarbor.org Info].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Pending
|
|-align="left"
!Transition Town Vermont
|[http://transitionvermont.ning.com]<br/>[http://transitionvermont.ning.com/forum/topics/a-call-for-collaborative Forum Post].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Pending
|
|-align="left"
!Transition Town Albany California
|[http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/albany]<br/>[http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/albany Contact form].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Pending
|
|-align="left"
!Transition Town Amherst
|[http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/amherst]<br/>[http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/amherst Contact form].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Pending
|
|}

== Further Marketing Opportunities: ==
* [[CEB Stakeholders]]
* List of all Transition Town initiatives: http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives

== Initial 'Feeler' Email Template: ==
Dear [Organization],

I recently stumbled upon your initiative at http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives and I wholeheartedly agree with your efforts to bring people together around transition. I feel that your organizational vision aligns very much with my own values as well as the volunteer work I am currently doing for Open Source Ecology. Have you heard of us? We are building, what we call, the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) – a set of 40 open source machines meant to jump-start community resilience and lower the barriers-to-entry.

The machines are being built and shared via open source methods, so we can freely provide the information and plans necessary to build resilient communities from the ground up. We are 100% crowd-funded by supporters, which we call True Fans --and we welcome you to join us. This is our latest video showcasing the GVCS, which was created by a True Fan: http://vimeo.com/16431347

We would be grateful if you could pass our work on to your membership, partners and friends, and encourage them to support and collaborate with us. We are also interested in speaking engagements. The commitment of a single new True Fan is enough to fund a trip for guest speaking or a presentation by the founder of Open Source Ecology, [[Marcin Jakubowski]], Ph.D. This month we will be on a tour in California to present our vision and progress to several Transition Town initiatives. It is in this light that we believe everyone should have access to the tools necessary to create true community resilience. For more information, see our blog: http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/ and our main (beta) organizational platform at http://openecology.org/

Deep Regards,
Open Source Ecology

== Follow-up Email Template: ==

Greetings [contact person]!

Thank you so much for your response. We are currently in the process of integrating a network of collaborators and developers at http://openecology.org/, which will be our main organizational website for the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). We appreciate the part you play in making the GVCS a reality! Please stay in touch with any follow-up questions. Again, we are available to give presentations at your convenience. Feel free to contact us at any point and together may we uplift the world for a brighter future!

Deep regards,
Open Source Ecology

=Communications=
Hi Marcin -

We received your email and would be interested in hearing more about what you do.
What is your presentation like? Film/powerpoint/lecture?
What is your goal? Awareness-building? Finding people to learn your technologies? Fundraising?
Is there a charge for your presentation?
What dates were you planning to be in L.A.?

We have several Transition groups across the greater L.A. area and I can poll them to see which ones would like to host.

Joanne P, Transition Los Angeles, www.TransitionLA.org

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Hello Adam,
Thank you for contacting the Global Ecovillage Network. I looked at your website and agree that your mission closely aligns with that of our network. GEN does not currently have a set membership but each region disperses information in their own way, so I am copying your message to the GEN Board of Directors (that represent each of the GEN regions) so that they might get to know your group and the effort you all have set out to accomplish.
I hope the board will contact you for ways that we can support each others work and accomplish more in our effort towards a planet in balance. Keep up the great work!
Sincerely, Jessica DuBoe GEN Administrative Assistant

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Adam,

Cutting to the chase: We're blown away by what you're doing. How did we not know of you before?

We'd love to talk more and be kept in the loop on what you're doing. In the mean time, I'll spread the word about your vid and blog via FB and Twitter right now.

Seriously. Amazing and inspiring work. How did it go with BFI? I know one of the board members over there....

Tod Brilliant
Strategy & Communications

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Hi Mitch,

Looks very cool and have forwarded it on to a few different groups. If you make it up to Portland, Oregon, please let me know.

thanks,

+ Jeremy

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Dear Adam,

Thank you for contacting us.

I Forwarded your email to my TTA colleagues, so we can consider how we might wish to connect with your enterprise.

Take care,
Lance

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Adam,

I just saw this email and I really like the idea of the Global Village Construction Set.

I think that the GVCS and the inclusion of Open Source is a real game changer.

I recently fabricated an electric auger that I successfully used for a Geothermal Heat Pump. You might be interested.

I also have successfully re-purposed a small dehumidifier into a very efficient heat pump. Again, you might be interested.

I looked at the Power Cube, great idea!

I wasn't able to find any drawings or construction details, which I assume would be fundamental to the Open Source concept.

Please advise.

Best Regards,

-Jim Wrathall

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Welcome Adam,

Great to see your interest in Transition! Welcome to TRANSITION IN ACTION.

http://transitioninaction.com/group/linktransitionvermontusa is your link to our new Transition page for your neighbors in Vermont. Feel free to join in the activities. Use the COMMENT WALL to say Hello to the others. Reinforce the good things they are doing. Mention something you're interested in. Ask a question. Start a discussion. Let me know if you would like to be an Admin on this page to help build and maintain your group's Resume. Have fun!

On the local scene, it would be spot on for all our members if you would consider including a link to Open Source Ecology (http://openfarmtech.org/weblog) in our registry of organizations, localities, companies, products, services, Twitterers, Facebooks, Meetups, etc. supporting Transition and Sustainability. Here's the page to create the link -- http://transitioninaction.com/groups/group/new. I'll be glad to help launch and build your link.

You can see all our 315+ groups at http://transitioninaction.com/groups. Use Search on this page to find a specific group. Join as many as you like. Let me know when you have questions about details.
-Les Squires
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Hi Adam
For some reason your email want to my junk mail folder which I seldom check, hence my slow response to your email!

I am seeing Marcin's presentation this Wednesday and am really looking forward to it. I love what you are doing.

I have cc'd Shelby - so she can add this to our newsletter.

I look forward to promoting this as widely as we can.

Sincerely,

Carolyne Stayton
Transition US

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http://transitioninaction.com/group/opensourceecology/user/list
http://transitioninaction.com/forum/topics/a-call-for-collaborative

[[Category:Marketing]]
[[Category:Presentations]]
[[Category:Collaboration]]

Outreach 2010/no

2011-05-24T15:35:55Z

Knut Brekken:

{{Lang|Formidling 2010}}Dette dokumentet er meng å være en pågående logg av markedsføringsformidlinger fra 1 nov. 2010, med innledende fokus på Transition Town bevegelsen. Dette består av den innledende 'føler' e-post malen, i tillegg til en oppfølging e-post mal. E-post diskusjoner vil bli lagt inn i tabellen hvis det mottas svar.

== Kontakter og resultater: ==
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!Organization
!Contact Information
!Details
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!Post Carbon Institute<br/>(Post Carbon Institute provides individuals, communities, businesses, and governments with the resources needed to understand and respond to the interrelated economic, energy, and environmental crises that define the 21st century. We envision a world of resilient communities and re-localized economies that thrive within ecological bounds.)
|[http://www.postcarbon.org]<br/>[mailto:tod@postcarbon.org Tod Brilliant]
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Response received and follow-up sent
|-align="left"
!The Berkana Institute<br/>(The Berkana Exchange is an ecosystem of learning centers, grassroots-based initiatives, individuals, regional learning communities and movements all working to create healthy and resilient communities.)
|[http://www.berkana.org]<br/>[mailto:bob@berkana.org Bob Stilger]<br/>CC:[mailto:lizzie@berkana.org Lizzie Riesenberg]
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Pending
|-align="left"
!Global Ecovillage Network<br/>(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.)
|[http://gen.ecovillage.org]<br/>[mailto:contact@ecovillage.org Jessie Du Boe]
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Response received and follow-up sent
|-align="left"
!About FOUR YEARS. GO.<br/>(FOUR YEARS. GO. is a campaign to catalyze and empower a fundamental shift in the direction of humanity, inspiring collaborative action, connecting individuals and organizations, and amplifying best practices and successes.)
|[http://www.fouryearsgo.org]<br/>[mailto:orgs@fouryearsgo.org Allied Organization Inquiries]
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Pending
|-align="left"
!Transition US<br/>(Transition US is a nonprofit organization that provides inspiration, encouragement, support, networking, and training for Transition Initiatives across the United States. )
|[http://www.transitionus.org Transition US]<br/>[mailto:info@transitionus.org Info]
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Response received and follow-up sent
|-align="left"
!Global Transition In Action<br/>(TRANSITION UNITED STATES is an informal, "social networking" site for those interested in exploring and/or implementing the Transition model in U.S. communities.)
|[http://transitioninaction.com]<br/>Private Messaged [http://transitioninaction.com/profile/LesSquires Les Squires].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Response received and follow-up sent
|-align="left"
!Electromagnate<br/>(We are a small group of hackerspace members who are dedicated to showing the maker and hacker community to the world.)
|[http://www.electromagnate.com]<br/>[mailto:info@electromagnate.com Info].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Pending
|-align="left"
!Transition Town Ashland
|[http://www.transitiontownashland.org]<br/>[mailto:ttacontact@gmail.com Info].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Response received and follow-up sent
|-align="left"
!Transition Town Oklahoma City
|[http://www.goinglocalokc.com]<br/>[mailto:info@goinglocalokc.com Info].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Pending
|-align="left"
!Transition Town Portland
|[http://www.thedirt.org/tpdx]<br/>[http://www.thedirt.org/tpdx/contact Info].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Response received and follow-up sent
|
|-align="left"
!Transition Town San Diego
|[http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/san-diego]<br/>[http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/san-diego Contact form].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Pending
|
|-align="left"
!Transition Town Seattle
|[http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/sustainable-northeast-seattle]<br/>[http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/sustainable-northeast-seattle Contact form].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Pending
|
|-align="left"
!Transition Town Houston
|[http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/houston]<br/>[http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/houston Contact form].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Pending
|
|-align="left"
!Transition Town Central Ohio
|[http://www.simplyliving.org/transition]<br/>[mailto:hello@simplyliving.org Mary Cunnyngham].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Pending
|
|-align="left"
!Transition Town Los Angeles
|[http://www.transitionla.org/]<br/>[mailto:legacyla@gmail.com Joanne P].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Response received and follow-up sent
|
|-align="left"
!Transition Town Texas
|[http://transitiontexas.ning.com]<br/>[http://transitiontexas.ning.com/forum/topics/a-call-for-collaborative Forum Post].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Pending
|
|-align="left"
![[Auroville Earth Institute]]
|[http://www.earth-auroville.com/index.php?nav=about&lang_code=en]<br/>[http://www.earth-auroville.com/index.php?nav=contact contact Info].
|Status: To be contacted
|
|-align="left"
![[Ecoescuela El Manzano]], from Chile
|http://www.ecoescuela.cl/<br/>.
|Status: Contacted. Waiting for reply
|
|-align="left"
!Consul for Guyana in Rio de Janeiro
|<br/>.
|Status: Contacted. Waiting for reply
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|-align="left"
!Transition Town Albany-Capital District
|[http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/albany-capital-district-transition-network]<br/>[mailto:dhochfelder@albany.edu David Hochfelder].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Pending
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|-align="left"
!Transition Town Anchorage
|[http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/anchorage-transition-mullers]<br/>[http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/anchorage-transition-mullers Contact form].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Pending
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|-align="left"
!Transition Town Anderson
|[http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/anderson]<br/>[mailto:transitionanderson@gmail.com Info].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Pending
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|-align="left"
!Transition Town Ann Arbor
|[http://www.transitionannarbor.org/]<br/>[mailto:info@transitionannarbor.org Info].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Pending
|
|-align="left"
!Transition Town Vermont
|[http://transitionvermont.ning.com]<br/>[http://transitionvermont.ning.com/forum/topics/a-call-for-collaborative Forum Post].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Pending
|
|-align="left"
!Transition Town Albany California
|[http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/albany]<br/>[http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/albany Contact form].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Pending
|
|-align="left"
!Transition Town Amherst
|[http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/amherst]<br/>[http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/amherst Contact form].
|Status: Contacted<br/>Result: Pending
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|}

== Further Marketing Opportunities: ==
* [[CEB Stakeholders]]
* List of all Transition Town initiatives: http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives

== Initial 'Feeler' Email Template: ==
Dear [Organization],

I recently stumbled upon your initiative at http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives and I wholeheartedly agree with your efforts to bring people together around transition. I feel that your organizational vision aligns very much with my own values as well as the volunteer work I am currently doing for Open Source Ecology. Have you heard of us? We are building, what we call, the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) – a set of 40 open source machines meant to jump-start community resilience and lower the barriers-to-entry.

The machines are being built and shared via open source methods, so we can freely provide the information and plans necessary to build resilient communities from the ground up. We are 100% crowd-funded by supporters, which we call True Fans --and we welcome you to join us. This is our latest video showcasing the GVCS, which was created by a True Fan: http://vimeo.com/16431347

We would be grateful if you could pass our work on to your membership, partners and friends, and encourage them to support and collaborate with us. We are also interested in speaking engagements. The commitment of a single new True Fan is enough to fund a trip for guest speaking or a presentation by the founder of Open Source Ecology, [[Marcin Jakubowski]], Ph.D. This month we will be on a tour in California to present our vision and progress to several Transition Town initiatives. It is in this light that we believe everyone should have access to the tools necessary to create true community resilience. For more information, see our blog: http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/ and our main (beta) organizational platform at http://openecology.org/

Deep Regards,
Open Source Ecology

== Follow-up Email Template: ==

Greetings [contact person]!

Thank you so much for your response. We are currently in the process of integrating a network of collaborators and developers at http://openecology.org/, which will be our main organizational website for the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). We appreciate the part you play in making the GVCS a reality! Please stay in touch with any follow-up questions. Again, we are available to give presentations at your convenience. Feel free to contact us at any point and together may we uplift the world for a brighter future!

Deep regards,
Open Source Ecology

=Communications=
Hi Marcin -

We received your email and would be interested in hearing more about what you do.
What is your presentation like? Film/powerpoint/lecture?
What is your goal? Awareness-building? Finding people to learn your technologies? Fundraising?
Is there a charge for your presentation?
What dates were you planning to be in L.A.?

We have several Transition groups across the greater L.A. area and I can poll them to see which ones would like to host.

Joanne P, Transition Los Angeles, www.TransitionLA.org

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Hello Adam,
Thank you for contacting the Global Ecovillage Network. I looked at your website and agree that your mission closely aligns with that of our network. GEN does not currently have a set membership but each region disperses information in their own way, so I am copying your message to the GEN Board of Directors (that represent each of the GEN regions) so that they might get to know your group and the effort you all have set out to accomplish.
I hope the board will contact you for ways that we can support each others work and accomplish more in our effort towards a planet in balance. Keep up the great work!
Sincerely, Jessica DuBoe GEN Administrative Assistant

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Adam,

Cutting to the chase: We're blown away by what you're doing. How did we not know of you before?

We'd love to talk more and be kept in the loop on what you're doing. In the mean time, I'll spread the word about your vid and blog via FB and Twitter right now.

Seriously. Amazing and inspiring work. How did it go with BFI? I know one of the board members over there....

Tod Brilliant
Strategy & Communications

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Hi Mitch,

Looks very cool and have forwarded it on to a few different groups. If you make it up to Portland, Oregon, please let me know.

thanks,

+ Jeremy

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Dear Adam,

Thank you for contacting us.

I Forwarded your email to my TTA colleagues, so we can consider how we might wish to connect with your enterprise.

Take care,
Lance

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Adam,

I just saw this email and I really like the idea of the Global Village Construction Set.

I think that the GVCS and the inclusion of Open Source is a real game changer.

I recently fabricated an electric auger that I successfully used for a Geothermal Heat Pump. You might be interested.

I also have successfully re-purposed a small dehumidifier into a very efficient heat pump. Again, you might be interested.

I looked at the Power Cube, great idea!

I wasn't able to find any drawings or construction details, which I assume would be fundamental to the Open Source concept.

Please advise.

Best Regards,

-Jim Wrathall

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Welcome Adam,

Great to see your interest in Transition! Welcome to TRANSITION IN ACTION.

http://transitioninaction.com/group/linktransitionvermontusa is your link to our new Transition page for your neighbors in Vermont. Feel free to join in the activities. Use the COMMENT WALL to say Hello to the others. Reinforce the good things they are doing. Mention something you're interested in. Ask a question. Start a discussion. Let me know if you would like to be an Admin on this page to help build and maintain your group's Resume. Have fun!

On the local scene, it would be spot on for all our members if you would consider including a link to Open Source Ecology (http://openfarmtech.org/weblog) in our registry of organizations, localities, companies, products, services, Twitterers, Facebooks, Meetups, etc. supporting Transition and Sustainability. Here's the page to create the link -- http://transitioninaction.com/groups/group/new. I'll be glad to help launch and build your link.

You can see all our 315+ groups at http://transitioninaction.com/groups. Use Search on this page to find a specific group. Join as many as you like. Let me know when you have questions about details.
-Les Squires
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Hi Adam
For some reason your email want to my junk mail folder which I seldom check, hence my slow response to your email!

I am seeing Marcin's presentation this Wednesday and am really looking forward to it. I love what you are doing.

I have cc'd Shelby - so she can add this to our newsletter.

I look forward to promoting this as widely as we can.

Sincerely,

Carolyne Stayton
Transition US

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http://transitioninaction.com/group/opensourceecology/user/list
http://transitioninaction.com/forum/topics/a-call-for-collaborative

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2011-05-24T15:31:21Z

Knut Brekken:

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2011-05-24T15:31:06Z

Knut Brekken:

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2011-05-24T15:30:06Z

Knut Brekken:

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True Fans/no

2011-05-24T14:55:05Z

Knut Brekken:

{{Lang|Sanne Tilhengere}}
[[Image:100fans.jpg]]

=Introduksjon=

Vi kan jobbe på {{LinkLang|GVCS}} på fulltid takket være generøsiteten av våre donasjoner. Kevin Kellys innflytelsesrike essay [http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fans.php 1000 Sanne Tilhengere] foreslo en finansieringsstruktur der 1000 støttespillere hver måned donerer en liten sum for å opprettholde et prosjekt de virkelig har tro på. Vi ser etter 1000 Sanne Tilhengere som hver lover $10 hver måned som del av {{LinkLang|1000 Squared|1000 Kvadrert}} Kampanjen.

På denne siden kan du også lese hvordan folk som deg har blitt med i kampanjen. I fra Mai 2011 har vi passert 300 Sanne Tilhengere.

Vi har også fått ønsker om større donasjonsalternativer. Som svar har vi laget Gull, Gull Ekstra, Platinum, og Engel abbonnement for $20, $30, $50, og $100 per måned, respektivt, i tillegg til Standardabbonnementet på $10/måned.

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=Video Introductions=
*Marcin Jakubowski - August, 2010 - <html><object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14161032&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14161032&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/14161032">Marcin's Personlige Introduksjon til Sanne Tilhengere</a> fra <a href="http://vimeo.com/user2016419">Marcin Jakubowski</a> på <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p></html>

*Adam Mitchell - August, 2010 - <html><object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14138729&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14138729&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/14138729">Sanne Tilhengere Introduksjon</a> fra <a href="http://vimeo.com/user2333113">Adam Mitchell</a> på <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p></html>

=Sanne Tilhengere=

{| style="width:100%"
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| '''Erick Lavoie''', Location
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|[[Image:Erick_lavoie.jpg|thumb|Erick Lavoie. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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{| style="width:100%"
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| '''Ilya Tabakh''', Location
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|[[Image:Ilya_tabakh.jpg‎|thumb|Ilya Tabakh. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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{| style="width:100%"
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| '''Haren''', Location
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|[[Image:Haren.jpg|thumb|Haren. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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{| style="width:100%"
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| '''Bruce Lambert''', Location
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|[[Image:Bruce_Lambert_head_shot_2007.jpg‎|thumb|Bruce Lambert. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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{| style="width:100%"
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| '''Craig Ambrose''', Location
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|[[Image:Craigambrose.jpg‎|thumb|Craig Ambrose. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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{| style="width:100%"
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| '''Jeff Kinzer''', Location
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|[[Image:JeffKinzer.JPG|thumb|Jeff Kinzer. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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{| style="width:100%"
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| '''Gabriel Perez''', Location
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|[[Image:Gabriel_perez.jpg|thumb|Gabriel Perez. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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{| style="width:100%"
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| '''Josh Arrowsmith''', Location
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|[[Image:Josh_arrowsmith.jpg‎|thumb|Josh Arrowsmith. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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{| style="width:100%"
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| '''Antonius Stoiculescu''', Location
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|[[Image:Antonius_stoiculescu.JPG‎|thumb|Antonius Stoiculescu. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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{| style="width:100%"
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| '''Rafa Font''', Location
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|[[Image:Rafa_font.jpg|thumb|Rafa Font. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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{| style="width:100%"
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| '''Steve Hepting''', Location
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|[[Image:Steve_hepting.png‎|thumb|Steve Hepting. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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{| style="width:100%"
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| '''Bob Waldrop''', Location
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|[[Image:Bob_waldrop.jpg‎|thumb|Bob Waldrop. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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{| style="width:100%"
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| '''Nick Sissons''', Location
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|[[Image:Nick_sissons.jpg‎|thumb|Nick Sissons. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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{| style="width:100%"
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| '''Karl Botha''', Location
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|[[Image:Karl_botha.jpg‎|thumb|Karl Botha. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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{| style="width:100%"
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| '''Walter Wood''', Location
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|[[Image:Walter wood.jpg|thumb|Walter Wood. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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{| style="width:100%"
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| '''Matthew Smaus''', Location
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|[[Image:Matthew_smaus.jpg‎|thumb|Matthew Smaus. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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{| style="width:100%"
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| '''Luis Ospina''', Location
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|[[Image:Luis_Ospina.JPG|thumb|Luis Ospina. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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{| style="width:100%"
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| '''Matthew Clark''', Location
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|[[Image:MatthewClarkTrueFan.jpg|thumb|Matthew Clark. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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{| style="width:100%"
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| '''Stu Perera''', Location
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|[[Image:Stu_perera.jpg|thumb|Stu Perera. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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{| style="width:100%"
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| '''Brett Irish''', Location
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|[[Image:Brett_Irish.jpg|thumb|Brett Irish. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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{| style="width:100%"
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| '''Antoine Malouin''', Location
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|[[Image:Antoine_Malouin.jpg|thumb|Antoine Malouin. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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{| style="width:100%"
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| '''Danzig Andersson''', Location
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|[[Image:Danzigandersson.jpg|thumb|Danzig Andersson. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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{| style="width:100%"
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| '''Ricardo Pereira Filho''', Location
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|[[Image:Ricardo_pereira_filho.jpg‎|thumb|Ricardo Pereira Filho. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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{| style="width:100%"
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| '''Ted Mosher''', Location
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|[[Image:Ted_mosher.JPG|thumb|Ted Mosher. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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| '''[http://monda.hu László Monda]''', Szeged, Ungarn
Mitt navn er László Monda og jeg er en Fri- og Åpen Kilde programvare/
maskinvareentusiast og en proffesjonell programvareutvikler.
I de siste årene har jeg blitt kjent med forskjellige teknologier som
3D printing, elektronikk, printede kretskortdesign, mikrokontrollerprogrammering
og sånt som har fått meg til å innse det enorme potensialet all denne
teknologien kan tilby folk.

Av alle de forskjellige tror jeg ikke bare at OSE er den
mest ambisiøse, men jeg tror det virkelig har potensialet til å
forandre verden til det bedre. Vi burde ikke gjøre oss avhengige
av bedrifter som hovedsakelig tenker på seg selv når vi kan ha
tillit til oss selv og være opptatt av hverandre og med miljøet.

Jeg er stolt av å ta del i dette engasjementet og ser frem til hva
fremtiden kan bringe.
|[[Image:Laszlo_Monda.png|thumb|László Monda. Medlem siden Mai 2011.]]
|}

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| '''[[User:Mjn|Mark Norton]]''', Willseyville, NY, USA
En venn av meg henviste meg til Marcin's TED talk. Etter å ha sett den, var det ingen vei tilbake. Jeg har vært fasinert av Skaperbevegelsen i mange år nå, men har aldri helt hatt motivasjonen til å bli med, til tross for at jeg er nevenyttig. Jeg bor på en liten gård som kona og jeg har gjort om til et selvforsynt hjem som vi håper ev gang vil forsyne alle våre behov. Gårder trenger verktøy, og det slo meg at GVCS var en storartet måte å få det jeg trengte på - ved å bokstavelig talt bygge dem selv. Jeg er programvareutvikler av yrke og jeg har jobbet med flere tiltak med åpen kilde i løpet av årene, så jeg forstår ganske godt hvorfor arbeidet til OSE er så viktig og også noen av utfordringene det har i vente, spesielt rundt opprettholdbarhet. Derfor er jeg villig til å støtte det jeg sier jeg støtter og bli en Sann Tilhenger.
|[[Image:flannel_sm.JPG|thumb|Mark Norton. Medlem siden April 2011.]]
|}

{| style="width:100%"
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| '''[[Dan Miner]]''', New York City, USA
Jeg er glad for at i fra våren 2011, etter utgivelsen av Marcins TED talk, får OSE i det minste en liten fraksjon av oppmerksomheten det fortjener. Hvis flere folk forsto at det drivstofftømming, internasjonale ressurskriger, og klimaforandringer vil gjøre med globalisert produksjon og distribusjon, ville de vært, ah, veldig urolige - og ville løpt for å bestille deres egne Global Village Construction Set. Ikke sikker på om OSE vil bli mer populært enn Lady Gaga - men la oss gjøre oss klare til å oppskalere produksjonen nå! - Dan Miner, New York City - www.beyondoilnyc.org
|[[Image:Dan_Miner-waterfront-5-10.JPG‎|thumb|Dan Miner. Medlem siden Februar 2011.]]
|}

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| '''Javier Rivera''', Spania

Vil se en verdensomspennende Ressursbasert Økonomi, støtter Venusprosjektet ({{LinkLang|Zeitgeist}}) og ble en Sann Tilhenger av OSE i Februar 2011. Ble medlem av wikien dagene etterpå, og prøver å hjelpe med dette fantastiske arbeidet. Jeg ser på OSE som et virkelig skritt i en RBE retning - Dette er bare et nødvendig prosjekt for å skape en åpen verden. Stå på!

|[[Image:javier.jpg|thumb|200px|Javier Riviera. Medlem siden Februar 2011.]]
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| '''Etienne Duport''', Frankrike

Jeg skulle ønske jeg oppdaget OSE prosjektet for lenge siden. Det er veldig spennende! Forhåpentligvis vil alle en dag kunne kopiere disse verktøyene for å leve sine egne autonome liv. Siden jeg er så langt fra moderskipet i Missouri, er donasjoner en smart løsning for å støtte opp om OSE. Må Kraften være med deg ;-)"

|[[Image:etienne.jpg|thumb|200px|Etienne. Medlem siden Februar 2011.]]
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| '''Rasmus Kiehl''', Toronto, Kanada

La oss ta tilbake økonomien! (flere detaljer {{LinkLang|Tim-Rasmus_Kiehl|på min side}} i lagdyrkningsseksjonen).

|[[Image:Rasmus_Kiehl2010.jpg|thumb|200px|Rasmus. Medlem siden Februar 2009.]]
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| '''Steffen Lemmerzahl''', Zurich, Sveits

Global Village Construction Set passer veldig godt med settet av arbeid
som jeg setter veldig stor pris på, slik som prosjektene til D55.dk og
Atelier Van Lieshout innen kunst eller Paolo Soleri innen arkitektur.
Ettersom jeg selv er arkitekt (http://www.slik.ch) med bakgrunn i
CNC-bygde strukturer og parametrisk arkitektur
(http://www.caad.arch.ethz.ch) tenker jeg i en lignende retning
slik dere gjør, så jeg er glad for å kunne støtte deres storartede prosjekt
med min lille donasjon!

|[[Image:steffenlemmerzahl.jpg|thumb|200px|Steffen Lemmerzahl. Medlem siden Februar, 2011.]]
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| '''Angela''', Colorado, USA

Mange ville virkelig tjene på det gruppen din har oppnådd og tingene som kommer. Bravo! Vær så snill å FORTSETT MED DET!. Vi ser på deres suksess og vet at ditt arbeid er veldig viktig og det kunne ikke skjedd på et mer kritisk tidspunkt. Det er så mange mennesker i så mange områder som vil blomstre med verktøyene du vil tilby. I tillegg kan det hende vi får bruk for dem også! Vi har eiendom som har mange trær som ligger og som må kuttes. Områder som må jevnes, og stier som må gjenopprettes, osv. Lykke til og våre beste ønsker til alle dere.

|[[Image:angelah.jpg|thumb|200px|Angela. Medlem siden Februar, 2011.]]
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| '''Charles Kraus''', Storbritannia

Arbeidet dere gjør (og jeg siterer Facebookstatusen min) er “Bokstavelig talt det mest fantastiske prosjektet jeg har sett”.

Jeg har vært interessert i ideen av å være selvforsynt i lang tid, og har faktisk hatt en drøm om å en dag kjøpe min egen øy og begynne et helt selvforsynt samfunn som lever av landet. Det kommer åpenbart aldri til å skje, men uten drømmene våre, hva annet er det å leve for?

Så når jeg ser en hel gruppe individer dedikere tid og energi til bokstavelig talt fundamentet av drømmene mine, følte jeg at jeg måtte bidra med noe, faktisk så er deres sak den første jeg noen sinne har gitt til på månedlig basis!

Det jeg gjerne ville sett er et tall fullstendig selvforsynte småbyer arrangert, Jeg har i løpet av årene besøkt noen kommunale landbruksprosjekt i Israel, men mesteparten av disse har måttet stenge, så jeg håper at med ditt konstruksjonssett kan du forbedre prosjekter som har kommet før. Jeg tror også at med litt arbeid kan verktøyene dine være veldig nyttig i den tredje verden Afrika osv, så å se dine verktøy bli satt i praksis hadde vært flott.

|[[Image:charleskraus.jpg|thumb|200px|Charles Kraus. Medlem siden Februar, 2011.]]
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| '''Joe Ventura''', California, USA

I was extremely excited to learn about Open Source Ecology's work, especially [http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/Global_Village_Construction_Set The Global Village Construction Set]. I'm a communications professional for NGOs and nonprofit organizations. Through my work, I've traveled around the world, including large parts of Asia and Africa. These experiences overseas convinced me of the need for thoughtful planning around the coming transition from a fossil fuel-based economy. I'm hoping that my small monthly contribution will enable this project to continue and expand its impact.
|[[Image:joeventura.jpg|thumb|200px|Joe Ventura. Medlem siden Februar, 2011.]]
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| '''Hans Sendelbach''', Washington State, USA

The core issues underneath all this are really quite serious in nature. In my heart I have known for years what is happening, but the momentum in society is so powerful that it makes it easy to ignore the truth. A few months ago I watched the documentary Collapse, which is a long interview with Michael Ruppert. It shook me out of my state of denial.

In my mind this all comes down to a simple science experiment. If you put bacteria on a growth medium like agar in a petri dish, the population will explode exponentially until the food runs out. The population will plateau and drop off. The plateau and drop off are from two factors, the lack of food and poisoning from waste build up. With humans we need to broaden the definition of food and waste to include the food and waste of our infrastructure such as oil and the waste products from its consumption that leak into the air, soil and water. We are in the same position as the bacteria.

Thankfully organisms are smart and can sense there environment and adjust their growth according to the availability of nutrients or other factors. They are also adaptable and can even evolve new methods of metabolism in order to survive and thrive. Bacteria for example exchange rings of RNA with each other that allow them to generate novel enzymes, so they may adjust their function to match their environment.

RNA is coded information that controls chemical behavior. This sentence is also coded information. Your organism and mine are exchanging data, so that we may tailor our personal and infrastructural metabolism to better fit the ecological limitations we are sensing. This is the heart of what natural systems do.

Open Source Ecology has the potential to facilitate the rapid adaptation of our infrastructural metabolism. My hope is that we will learn how to weave our communities back into the complex fabric of life.

Thank you Marcin et al. for stepping forward with the concept for this movement.

|[[Image:hanssendelbach.jpg|thumb|200px|Hans Sendelbach. Medlem siden Januar, 2011.]]
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| '''Judith Katz''', California, USA

I joined because I think it's high time we develop more sustainable ways to live on this planet and OSE is a viable step in that direction.

|[[Image:judithkatz.jpg|thumb|200px|Judith Katz. Medlem siden Januar, 2011.]]
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| '''Giulia Vianello''', Italy

I think that the [present] economy isn't the right way to run the world. I'm talking about people who can lose everything for more money, even their life. So, maybe that's the most important reason why i have decided to subscribe to your project. I'm sad because the life of many people i know, depends on money. And i want to change this. I think that all environmental problems we actually have on the earth are initially caused by ignorance, and the ignorance is a convenient way to earn. So from your work i would like to see come out free knowledge for all people, so they would be able to better this world through the knowledge and consequent skills acquired from the open source mind!
In this way everyone would understand that we can be free in every aspect of our life, and a free man is a good man. The kit you're building is fantastic and I'm happy to be able to benefit from your work in the future. Thank you very much.

|[[Image:giulia.jpg|thumb|200px|Giulia Vianello. Medlem siden Januar, 2011.]]
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| '''Marcu Knoesen''', Cape Town, South Africa

I can clearly see the need to attain all the goals as set out in OSE. The future has to be more localised. The path we are on at the moment will not end well. It is time to make a course correction in a big way.

|[[Image:marcu.jpg|thumb|200px|Marcu Knoesen. Medlem siden Januar, 2011.]]
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| '''Robert Morris'''

I saw the [http://www.grist.org/article/food-2010-12-29-farmer-scientists-want-to-hack-society article in Grist] today, and have spent the past couple hours looking through your materials. Fascinating stuff.

I have often said that all you need for paradise on earth for 100 people is 5 engineers and a couple doctors. It is gratifying to see that someone is attempting to put it into practice.

My work is not similar at all. My last semester of law school starts on Monday, and I will be embarking on a soul-crushing cubicle-dwelling existence this fall. Happy to be contributing to a new approach, if only in a small way.

|[[Image:robertmorris.jpg|thumb|200px|Robert Morris. Medlem siden Desember, 2010.]]
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| '''Floyd Earl Smith''', San Francisco Bay Area, California

I’m proud to join my fellow True Fans of Open Source Ecology. The Global Village Construction Set embodies human creativity and potential, and at the same time unleashes it. Together we True Fans are supporting less use of fossil fuels for farming, better use of precious fresh water, and slowing and surviving climate change, while improving, not damaging, the land.

|[[Image:floydsmith.jpg|thumb|200px|Floyd Earl Smith. Medlem siden Desember, 2010.]]
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| '''Jonathan Rivera''', Houston, Texas

The work you guys are doing is great! And you guys all deserve support from everyone with a conviction for this cause. I know my contribution is not much but I hope to continue to support any way I can. The resource based economy is an idea that has given me motivation to change my life for the best.

|[[Image:jonathanrivera.jpg|thumb|200px|Jonathan Rivera. Medlem siden Desember, 2010.]]
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| '''Georgy Korablev''', Vancouver, Canada

I am a mathematics student; I support OSE project because it is an audacious step towards the true freedom and liberation of people. I am tired to see countries like Canada spending $35 billion on interest payments annually, and only $3 billion on infrastructure and technology development. I'm tired to see debt growing. I'm tired to see roads broken, schools closed, human rights violated, wars started, technology restrained, people starved, taxes grown, education made into a business, income gap grown, secrets kept from the people, fake government, mindless jobs in corporations competing for a market share, overproduction, manufactured demand and overconsumption, low quality products, inflation, fake research and fake research based on fake research, dollar signs in people's eyes, greed, lies.

People, look around and realize that all the improvement that we had in our lives is due to industrial revolution and rapid development of technology that made things 1000-fold cheaper or more; it is not due lawyers in the government; not due to stock growth, bank loans or corporations.
It is due to people MAKING THINGS, NOT PROFITS. And these people shall have our full support.
|[[Image:georgy.jpg|thumb|200px|Georgy Korablev. Medlem siden Desember, 2010.]]
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| '''Julia Valentine''', California, USA

I recently became a True Fan as a financial supporter. I am a mother, teacher, Permaculturist, and inhabitant of Planet Earth. All of these endeavors require a sense of hope and a belief in the resilience of our species and of Nature as a whole. Where we stand as a society today, in the midst of the industrial growth machine, leaves us lacking in both hope and resilience. I have a base need to foster these qualities, and to create a more livable future for the children I care for and guide into adulthood. I have a true belief in the ingenuity and flexibility of our species to create a new paradigm. OSE is the actual physical manifestation of our amazing capacity to change. To truly change, we must imagine and then create. The humans behind Factor e Farm and Open Source Ecology have imagined and created. They are on their way - leading by example - to this fruitful future I also work to manifest. I am pleased to have the hard work and creative genius of OSE be open to me as a tool to use for building my abundant future and the future of my community. Thank you for daring to both imagine and create.

|[[Image:Juliavalentine.jpg|thumb|200px|Julia Valentine. Medlem siden November, 2010.]]
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| '''Amanda Packard''', Missouri, USA

I am intrigued and inspired by people offering viable solutions to the challenges facing humanity. And above that, people manifesting those solutions ''now'' – Open Source Ecology is doing just that.

I have had the honor of visiting Factor e Farm and seeing some of the tools of GVCS in action – I am deeply moved by this vision and the people behind it, who value not only tangible exhibitions of development, but also a holistic spiritual/meditation practice. I am excited to proudly join others in supporting Open Source Ecology in this paradigm-shifting revolution.
|[[Image:amanda.jpg|thumb|Amanda Packard. Medlem siden November, 2010.]]
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| '''Christian Shearer''', Pacific Northwest, USA
Originally from the Pacific Northwest of the United States, Christian Shearer is the founder and Managing Director of the Panya Project (www.panyaproject.org). He has over six years of permaculture experience, working and living at Lost Valley Education Center outside of Eugene, Oregon, and now residing at the Panya Project in northern Thailand for over five years. He is a permaculture consultant with Terra Genesis International (www.terra-genesis.com), an advisory board member of We Forest (www.weforest.com), a natural builder, a food forest enthusiast, a musician, a certified educator and has extensive knowledge of tropical permaculture systems. He teaches permaculture around the world (Thailand, Malaysia, India, Taiwan, and even Missouri!) and is excited to continue sharing his passion for a better world and learning from all involved!

He is excited to be a True Fan of Open Ecology, because the ultimate goal of what the people at Open Ecology are doing is perfectly in line with the intentions of Permaculture. The synergy between the two could be very powerful in helping to usher in a new way of being for people on this planet based on local production, resiliency and an engaged populace, with more of a focus on the well-being and health of people rather than the economic progress of the wealthy. Christian is proud to lend his support to a movement like Open Ecology that fills such an important niche in helping to bring about the vision of a Permanent Culture.
|[[Image:christiansprofile.jpg|thumb|Christian Shearer, Medlem siden November, 2010.]]
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| '''Nathanael Dinwiddie''', Lawrence, KS, USA
I attended a presentation given by Marcin at the Lawrence Public Library on November 22, 2010. I appreciate Marcin's effort and enthusiasm for this compelling project. I have long been inspired by the vision of Jacque Fresco, and Marcin is generally preparing the beginning stages for the achievement of that grand vision. We must evolve in the way of this project.
|[[File:P1010717.JPG|thumb|Nathanael Dinwiddie. Medlem siden November 2011.]]
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| '''Isaiah Saxon''', Aptos, USA
I'm a filmmaker, technologist, and one of the instigators of an egalitarian community of 17 people, called Trout Gulch, where we are building a studio, village, farm, and maker space inspired by the actions of Christopher Alexander, Will Allen, Sepp Holzer, and Marcin. My film team, [http://www.esquire.com/features/best-and-brightest-2009/encyclopedia-pictura-1209 Encyclopedia Pictura], is working with hollywood to create a new populist heroic myth for the maker movement.

I'm anticipating that the entire GVCS will be created and documented, then replicated by mechanics, geeks, hippies, weekend warriors, and tough guys that are into their trucks. I think OSE is contributing tangibly and symbolically to the greater cultural shift toward localism, authenticity, and DIY green tech.
|[[Image:Isaiah.jpg|thumb|Isaiah Saxon. Medlem siden August 4, 2010.]]
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| '''David Crary''', Seattle, USA
I have been really searching to find people out there who are actually experimenting with new forms of social organization where it is possible to create advanced culture - that is thriving in abundance and largely autonomous, creating a model for everyone...so kudos to you guys. Keep up the great work!
|[[Image:davidcrary.jpg|thumb|David Crary, Seattle, USA. Medlem siden Juli, 2010.]]
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| '''Benjamin Kaplin'''
I'm a mechanical engineering student, and I support the OSE because a completed Open Source Village kit would represent several orders of magnitude of improvement over existing projects to improve living conditions around the globe with technology. I grew up reading Stephenson, and one of the most powerful images in his book <em>Diamond Age</em> is The Seed, a nanotechnology McGuffin that one of the main characters devotes his life to that would take the control of production and self-determination out of the hands of the McCorporations and put it into the hands of revolutionaries and the impoverished.
Needless to say, nanotech is still several decades away from that dream, and contributing to the True Fans campaign helps a realistic Seed program without pulling me away from my studies.
|[[Image:0213090948.jpg|thumb|Benjamin Kaplin]]
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| '''Paul D. Mamigonian'''
The Open Source Ecology group are making self sufficient living real. Through the Zeitgeist movement and groups like the Open Source Ecology the example is being set that we can come away from the corrupt monetary system. How many times do you hear people say " BUT WHAT CAN WE DO?". There IS SO MUCH THAT can be done and IS BEING DONE. THE TIME IS RIGHT, THE METHODS ARE HERE AND SO IS THE TECHNOLOGY. Please see my site www.livegreenliveclean.org. The Open Source Ecology group are leading the way, and it's up to us all to follow their lead.
|[[Image:paulm.jpg|thumb|Paul D. Mamigonian]]
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| '''Marcin Jakubowski''', opensourceecology at gmail dot com, marcin_ose on Skype
I started the campaign because I have observed how little of humanity's true potential has been tapped. Everyone slaves their life away to a system that is crumbling at the seams. I believe that we can all reach absolute prosperity and evolve to freedom - by becoming skilled and productive [[Integrated Humans]], and by helping anyone else to do the same. History has shown that this is a general formula for lasting prosperity. As long as we're wise, it should be trivial to get beyond the economics of scarcity. We need to show the world how to build the world's first, replicable, open source Global Village.
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| '''Scott Akridge'''
As I get older I'm more and more interested in helping people. A couple weeks back I enlisted the help of a friend to help in developing a CEB press when I began doing research and found www.openfarmtech.org with the open source CEB press. I continued looking for more information but kept coming back to this site for more info and learned more about the project and found I wanted to get involved. I started by becoming a member and donating $10 a month with plans to build the CEB press and build a couple structures then make the effort a cooperative. After reading more I've decided to also build a sawmill, assuming I can recruit some help. I think this is a great project and am excited to be a part of it in a small way.
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| '''Toby Martin'''
I support OSE because...
* It's an intelligent and direct effort to address some of the most serious problems we face as individuals and as a society.
* It's one of the most interesting and creative projects I've ever heard of.
* I see no reason in principle that it can't improve people's lives.
* It's actually happening.
|[[Image:TF2.jpg|thumb|Toby Martin]]
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| '''Lucas González''', imagina (dot) canarias at gmail dot com [[Image:lucas.JPG|thumb|Lucas Gonzalez]]
I support OSE because both the model and the elements add some important missing pieces to what I perceive is going on.
* I think it's important to have local possibilities for water, food and energy everywhere. Not just at the household level but more importantly at the village or more aggregated levels. Even if you end up buying stuff from elsewhere, it's best if that happens by choice, not by necessity. It was not by choice when things were local by default and it's not by choice now that things are global by default.
* The whole process of open sharing of ideas, processes, know-how is intriguing and, at the very least, extremely fun to watch. (I really wish I had more time to join in myself, but I'm doing things that need doing. So I [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Video_translation translate], [http://imagina-canarias.blogspot.com/search/label/open%20farm%20tech tell others], and chip in with a little cash, less than what others spend in smoking. My choice.)
* I'm particularly interested in some items for specific locations. Energy for water in sunny places is a must. Shelter and water collection systems. You name it.
* Do we really know how far and how fast this can go? I think there's bound to be a catalitic process so that more and more technologies will come out openly, in an exciting incarnation of the Stone Soup story. So I want to help keep the fire going.
* It really looks like this can be done, should be done, will be done in 2 years. Less than 2 years now. The whole world now has a sense of urgency, I feel. I'd like to see what we can do after this. But the time is ripe for this, now.
* It's interesting to note how open content gives us a sense of ownership. Many have felt that with software. I want to see that with hardware.
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'''Joseph Zarr''', joseph.zarr@gmail.com [[Image:DSC_0169.JPG|thumb|Joseph Zarr]]

I am an anthropologist, a farmer, and a permaculturist by training. I support OSE because, well, let's be frank: This is arguably the coolest project on the planet. I am most attracted to Factor E Farm and OSE because of the overall themes of personal improvement (via daily spiritual and physical discipline - in whatever forms a person deems appropriate), human production, and an intertwined personal and community growth. We must collaboratively market the ownership of our futures.

"For less than the price of one coffee per week, for less than the price of one first class stamp per day, you can help change the world. Subscribe!"

As our resource pool dwindles globally, largely due to corporate theft and errant industrial practices, we will have to produce locally and 'in-source'. With a dwindling petroleum base, our dream of cheap energy will disappear. These are simple facts. We must invest human energies in locally-based solutions. We must ignore our propagandized 'reality' and create a meaningful existence together.
With drastically increasing populations (estimated 70 million per year), we must teach ourselves the merits of collaboration, co-housing, and SHARING. My opinion is the era of individualized ownership is archaic and ill-advised. Only by sharing and producing what we actually need, and sharing what we already have (be it skills, books, resources etc.), will we experience the next stage of cultural progress. Hopefully, in the not so distant future our children's hands will not deform due to excessive playing of video games but, rather, they will callous, strengthen and scar due to meaningful labor and a 'hands-on' reality; i.e. literacy, numeracy, production = freedom. The only debts we owe are to ourselves and our community. Let's pay up.

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| '''Josef Davies-Coates'''
I'm founder United Diversity and co-founder of The Open Co-op and support this project because of all the many many VERY cool projects I follow, this is perhaps the most inspiring and important. I can't think of a better way I could possibly spend my money.
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| '''Reto Stauss''', reto.stauss(at)gmail.com, rstauss on Skype

I am mainly attracted by the momentum this projects develops. And of course because it is not talking but doing. My hope is that inspires my own little project (actually it already did): [http://manufakturingruendung.ch/en open source goods produced by small, agile manufactories]. Lucas, Joseph, sign your points.
|[[Image:Reto.jpg|thumb|Reto Stauss]]
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| '''Geoff Capper''', geoff (at) floodstreetfarmlet.net
I am supporting OSE because it is showing us that it is possible to regain control over the complex systems that to an extent have come to rule our lives. We can build our own machinery, we can build our own future, we can be free. The activity at Factor e Farm is truly inspiring, and I hope to use many of the products building up our own small farm, which may hopefully inspire others locally.
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| '''Tom Lindsey''', thomas.lindsey at gmail dot com
I support OSE because I want Factor e Farm to succeed so I can use the tools they are developing, replicate Factor e Farm, and create a future of freedom for myself and loved ones.
|[[Image:tomlindsey.jpg|thumb|Tom Lindsey and Boomer]]
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| '''Edward Miller''', embraceunity -at- gmail dot com
I became a true fan because I would like to see our civilization become more resilient by using decentralized technological solutions, and to evolve towards a post-scarcity society. I plan to move on site soon to help build a RepRap machine.
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| '''Jussi Haverinen''', haverinen.jussi at gmail dot com
I'm a strong believer in power of free software approach to technology and very interested in transformative technology and it's effect on society. Politically I'm an social ecologist and I do think that the main task that has to be done is to abolish capitalism and the state through direct democracy in the cities and neighbourhoods (confederated together of course). My skills: mostly computer knowledge, relatively good unix admin skills, and some language skills but that's about it. I only have limited knowledge of farming, construction, electronics, handcraft, but I'm willing to learn.
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| '''Mark Thomas''', factore at thomastechcon dot com
My wife and I are serial homesteaders--we built up a goat dairy from scratch in South Africa, a [http://thomasphotos.wordpress.com small livestock farm in Appalachia], and are just starting on a lambing operation in Southside Virginia.

Politically, I base my ethics on the [[Nonaggression Axiom]] and I do think that the main task that has to be done is to abolish democracy and the state through direct capitalism. Apologies to Jussi above! I do my political writing at [http://distributedrepublic.net/blog/mark Distributed Republic] and much of my reading at [http://mises.org/ the Ludwig von Mises Institute].
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| '''David Voeller''', carefulwiththat at gmail dot com
Open Source Ecology is applying knowledge and skill in the most effective way possible, to create a livable future. The convergence of Permaculture principles and Open Source methodology has been a long time coming. Open Source has shown us that technological advancement need not be encumbered by destructive and wasteful hierarchical control. Permaculture has taught us that a fulfilling and ethical life is not only possible, but realistic in a variety of climates and conditions. Open Source Ecology's work has the possibility to allow many more people to live within their resources; and to drastically increase the quality of life for those already doing so.
|[[Image:David Voeller.jpg|thumb|David Voeller]]
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| '''Eric Hunting''', TheMillennialProject at gmail.com
We are on the cusp of a transformation in the nature of our civilization. A fundamental shift in the way just about everything works in our society predicated on the evolution of the processes and technologies by which just about everything in our habitat is made. Emerging digital fabrication technology combined with emerging awareness of the factors of industrial sustainability are not only changing how we make things but who is making them and where. Industrial Age paradigms that have been concentrating industrial, economic, and political power for a century are failing in the face of a progressive shrinking, smartening, and demassifying of the tools of production and communication. Open Source Ecology is on the cutting edge of this transformation, pursuing and cultivating a spectrum of tools, new and old, that can realize a radical new level of sustainable community self-sufficiency with the intent of disseminating these tools globally. The Factor E Farm project is an incubator for a nascent movement with world-sweeping potential.
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| '''[http://blog.erikdebruijn.nl/ Erik de Bruijn]''', ose at erikdebruijn.nl
We've heard about, or even experienced, the collaborative power of passionate individuals around the world. When they join hands, contributing their energy, freely sharing their ideas and building on them, this mode of production can be highly productive. It may well outperform the traditionally closed 'institutional' mode of production, like Wikipedia is giving us an abundance of knowledge at no cost. OSE attempts, and is actually very successful at extending this notion of knowledge sharing into a way of living.
They codify and freely reveal their knowledge into design files and rich instructional material such as video tutorials. Those serve to inspire, but also to practically make this concept replicable and effective.
|[[Image:erikdebruijn.jpg|thumb|Erik de Bruijn]]
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| '''A. N. Alias''', anon23bf at nyx dot net
I support OSE because we need viable alternatives to the military-industrial complex as a foundation for survival in the near future, particularly if predictions about the coming hyperinflationary depression turn out to be well founded.
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| '''[http://ollehost.dk/blog/ Olle Jonsson]''', olle.jonsson at gmail dot com
I had seen the impressive LifeTrac project on the web, but when I heard about the [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=1254 RepLab] initiative, I was hooked. I'm just a random web developer, but I want to help push toward a generalized, open digital fabrication toolkit. When each hackerspace, lab, and interested individual has access to equipment like that, things get really interesting.
|[[Image:olleolleolle.jpg|thumb|Olle Jonsson]]
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| '''Maureen''', baubo at dishmail.net
I support factor E open source farm because when the cheap industrial food machine breaks down for lack of diesel fuel and capital, people are going to be shocked, angry and then desperate to learn a new way of living. OSE is not just a theory, a book or a blue print. It’s an open source physical model of a DIY food, energy and shelter producing system. Large-scale industrialization was largely a wrong turn for humanity. By shrinking the scale, localizing throughputs, working smarter and sharing information globally we can create a bright new future – a true renaissance. Factor E farm is breaking trail for us all. I can’t think of a better investment.
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| '''[http://bit.ly/elifarley-buzz Elifarley]''', ''my first name'' @opensourceecology.org

I found out about Open Source Ecology after watching the Zeitgeist Addendum movie. That movie sparkled my curiosity and I started a quest to understand the problems and possible solutions to our society's needs.

In this quest, I found out some very exciting ideas, groups and people, like the Transition Towns movement (concerned with peak oil), The Venus Project and RBE Foundation (moneyless, cybernated society), Common Good Bank (alternative currency system), RepRap (self-replicating, open source 3D printer), the P2P Foundation, and the OSE site, to name a few.

You may have noticed that all these projects and movements seem to have a common goal, they all seem to propose that we forget all artificial limitations (and scarcity) and we all seek union to improve our lives and sustainability. Without artificial limitations, we all can have much much better lives. That's the message I can hear all these people and movements resounding.

I'd say that The Venus Project champions ideas, whereas OSE materializes them, performing concrete actions that will move our world forward.

I'm confident that our small contributions to this cause will add up and have a tremendous positive result for everybody.

''(In Portuguese)''

Descobri o site da Open Source Ecology depois de assistir ao filme Zeitgeist Addendum. Esse filme despertou minha curiosidade e então comecei uma busca para entender os problemas e as possíveis soluções para a nossa sociedade.

Nessa busca, descobri algumas ideias, grupos e pessoas muito interessantes, como o movimento Transition Towns (preocupado com a dependência ao petróleo), o Venus Project e a RBE Foundation (sociedade sem uso do dinheiro, automatizada), Banco do Bem Comum (sistema de moeda alternativa), RepRap (impressora 3D de desenho aberto, auto-replicante), a Fundação P2P, e o site OSE, dentro vários outros.

Vocês podem ter notado que todos esses projetos e movimentos parecem ter um objetivo comum, eles parecem propor que esqueçamos todas as limitações artificiais (e escassez) e que todos busquemos união para melhorar nossas vidas e sustentabilidade. Sem limitações artificiais, todos nós podemos viver muito melhor. Essa é a mensagem que eu posso escutar todas essas pessoas e movimentos ressoando.

Eu diria que o Venus Project dissemina ideias, enquanto que a OSE as materializa, realizando ações concretas que irão avançar o nosso mundo.

Estou confiante que nossas pequenas contribuições a essa causa irão se juntar e terão um resultado tremendamente positivo para todo o mundo.
|[[Image:Ecruz.jpg|thumb|Elifarley Cruz]]
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| '''Shaun Warkentin'''
What money buys is technology, luxury. What technology and luxury buy are pleasure, physical health, and free time for the intellectual, spiritual, relational, creative pursuits that are the constitutive properties of real wealth (a widening of awareness and knowledge) unavailable within a purely subsistence economy. The equation linking money to wealth must be broken (along with the power structures that encroach upon the agency and freedom of most of humanity and the biosphere). OSE appears to be demonstrating how this might be achieved.
|[[Image:Shaun_jump.jpg|thumb|Shaun Warkentin]]
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| '''Aigars Brūvelis''', abruvelis at gmail dot com
This is it. Linux will fully replace windows and in 50 years Open Source Harware will replace most of the commerce. Get on with it.
|[[Image:aigarsbruvelis.jpg|thumb|Aigars Bruvelis from Latvia/UK]]
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| '''Lucas''',
I contribute to OSE because I got tired of all the organizations that claim to be "promoting" sustainability through advocacy and lobbying, which usually merely contributes to the inertia and complexity of our current patently unsustainable society without producing any truly meaningful effect on regular peoples' relation to the economy and planet. We need tangible means and methods to take our lives into our own hands and reduce our reliance on global industrial market structures, not rhetoric and posturing. OSE is one of the few operations that has taken up the task of rebuilding and redesigning material existence to cope with the inevitability of a resource-scarce future. The advancements made at this important project are setting precedents that simply are not being set anywhere else, and I hope to personally be using some of the methods and technologies being developed; from that standpoint, I view my financial contribution as an investment, not a gift. At some point in time those of us who philosophically stand opposed to the dominant paradigms of mass consumerism and ecological exceptionalism must stop talking and starting acting, and OSE is doing just that.
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| '''Peter Koeleman'''
I would love to see the Factor e Farm evolve into a self-sufficient, renewable and socially superior society.

The technological steps towards freedom that the Factor e Farm project take are very interesting to me because I am an IT specialist. I had a taste of gcode a long while back and work with Linux every day as my primairy OS. The modular hardware design makes this technology easy to comprehend and use, even for non-engineers like myself.

The freedom part of this project is what I think will be the most important part of the near future in escaping a corporate ruled society of ever more money spending (=debt building) consumers. The need for economic growth simply isn't sustainable. Those who manufacture and manage their own resources are the only ones who know the real cost of things.
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| '''Daniel Slate''', danieldavidslate + gmail and the rest
This is the real thing, and what you're doing is absolutely necessary. The numerous possibilities that can grow from this...general resilience, a reboot/revision of kibbutzim/moshavim in America or elsewhere, so many other possibilities...building the platform is worth doing. Ideas become real through action. What I see coming out of this work is a way to test out applied philosophies of responsible liberty.
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| '''Adam Mitchell''', mitch dot ad at gmail dot com
If organizations were measured in terms of ''relevancy'' of work, ''loftiness'' of their goals and their ability to ''inspire'' others, Open Source Ecology --''no doubt''-- would be at the top of anyone's list. I am proud to support their endeavor, however small, in hopes that together we can build a better world and encourage others to become more [[Integrated Humans]].
|[[Image:Fiji.jpg|thumb|Adam Mitchell]]
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| '''Anna Przychodzki'''
I was very excited to discover the work of Open Source Ecology; I had no idea people were doing this. I stopped taking science class in my second year of high school so the technical stuff goes way over my head... what I do understand is the intent of the work and the implications of success. The life I want is out of reach for now... but if I support OSE, maybe I can have it in the future. OSE seems to bring us closer to what I believe are our birth-rights: sustainability, economic freedom and quality of life by way of human ingenuity and cooperation, not competition.
|[[Image:annaprzychodzki.jpg|thumb|Anna Przychodzki]]
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| '''Nathan Luedtke'''

I think I found out about Factor E Farm through John Robb's blog Global Guerillas, or at least through that general section of the net, which I am interested in and have been following for some time. I have been tracking your project for a little over a year, and was inspired to contribute when i saw that recently you seem to have hit a tipping point and have been making quick progress which probably will require a little more cashflow.

In terms of what I would like to see come out of it- exactly what you are doing. All of the positive movements that I see out there- Permaculture, Open Source, Transition, etc etc- all of them are integrated in your program. With OSE/FEF, you have a very scientific/rational approach that I appreciate. Long term, I would love to see OSE ideas spread and populate worldwide, and see the technology package implemented and developed further at other sites, both in the USA and as a more successful "technology transfer" to the third world.
|[[Image:nathanluedtke.jpg|thumb|Nathan Luedtke.]]
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'''Devin Balkind'''
An abundant future is dependent on open technologies that fulfill people's most basic needs: food, water and shelter. The fact that this type of work isn't widely recognized as the foundation of a more efficient, equitable and enlightened civilization is a testament to the confusion of our times. Consider me at your service.
|[[Image:DevinProfile.jpg|thumb|Devin Balkind, Since August 2010]]
|[[Image:DevinProfile2.jpg|thumb|Devin Balkind for real.]]
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| '''Ivan Garcia''', ivan at movimientozeitgeist dot org
I've been a OSS programmer for like 8 years now and I love the idea of OS Hardware and the great suistaniblity revolution that the OSE guys are doing. I'm also a supporter of the Zeitgeist Movement in Spain and they both share very similar goals. What you are doing is absolutelly necessary and meaningful for our future!
|[[Image:ivangarcia.jpg|thumb|Ivan Garcia]]
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| [http://permakent.com/ '''J. Kent Hastings'''], USA
The OSE (Open Source Ecology) "True Fan" program is a grass roots way to crowdsource funding for the goal to develop the essential 40 pieces required to make up the complete "Resilient Community Construction Set," an advanced industrial economy in a box that can be deployed inexpensively anywhere in the world.

The cost is reduced to one tenth normal thanks to the savings from using open source software and hardware designs. The components are essential to life and work in the system rather than just decorative knick knacks or toys that Makers like to dabble with and are "designed for disassembly" so each component, like the Life Trac tractor for example, is easy to repair with bolts and simple tools such as wrenches, and easy to modify and improve.
|[[Image:permakent.jpg|thumb|J. Kent Hastings, Medlem siden August 2010]]
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| '''Søren Poulsen''', Denmark
Words like ''empowerment'' or ''freedom'' get a whole new meaning when you talk about
having the skill set, to create everything you need from nothing.
|[[Image:Soeren_Poulsen.jpg|thumb|Søren Poulsen|130px]]
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| [[Nikolay Georgiev]], Karlsruhe, Germany
Open Source Ecology is based on Natural Principles which consequences have been shown to be positive for a lot of natural and technological systems.

* Decentralization (instead of Centralization) of Power – proven pattern in a lot of networks, like technology (internet, web site development, …) and human relationships (politics, religion/spirituality, family, …).
* Self-Sufficiency – basic needs for living are covered and produced by the local people. No need for dependence. In the future if there is dependency it will be in the form of collaboration.
* Openness – sharing documentation, product design and development process. Being able to change and adapt the products.
* Product Quality – life-time, modular and systems Design.
* Collaboration (instead of using other people for self-interest) – getting people together by purpose and values, and not by force, is much better for the producers and the consumers as well.
* Replicability – giving birth of open sourced, modern-living villages is just amazing! Having the choice of replicability saves a lot of time and work.

It is crucially important that we go beyond life of survival. Survival mode is pushing everyone to take resources from other people, not considering their allowance, health and their community. When we are in survival mode we often neglect our own values and push other people in order to survive.

When we reach the state of living where all basic needs are covered, every person on this planet will have much bigger possibility to develop his own potential. Right now only a very small percentage of the human population have the time and possibilities to develop themselves – to guide their own life in the direction they want, to contribute to the society by using their abilities in their fullness. Most people in the world are fighting, struggling, working only for their own survival or that of their own families, and higher goals and desires like developing themselves and contributing to society are not possible and of low priority.

We need new models of economy and living based on openness, giving and sharing. Open Source Ecology is headed clearly in this direction, giving back freedom to where it belongs.

|[[Image:Nikolaygeorgiev-tall.jpg‎|thumb|Nikolay Georgiev, Medlem siden September 2010]]
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| '''Dario Figueira''', Portugal, wurmdario at gmail dot com
I became a true fan simply because I was already monetarily supporting a NGO. And for me, you seem to be doing better work, or more important work than they were. So please continue XD.
[[User:WurmD|WurmD]] 23 August 2010 (UTC)
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| '''Matthias''', neodynos-at-googlemail-dot-com
Thinking about what's wrong with the world, I found that huge aggregations of power and of money are the main tools we as humans use to oppress and exploit. That led me to support Open Source Ecology as a decentralized alternative.

And while I am convinced that the ultimate solution (one that transcends even death) is not to be found through technology but rather through sound theology -- I am also convinced that the work of OSE can provide all of us with a better world ''until'' death.
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| '''Chris Berry''', France
What immediately impressed me about what you are doing is that...... well, this is something that could actually work. Much of the ecology movement seems to really depend on shifting human nature (ie modern capitalism will work just fine so long as people breed a bit less, consume a bit less, etc- its never going to work, at best we'll destroy the planet in the next 200 years instead of the next 50).

People need to be offered something genuinely
better. And really, when you look at it, it shouldn't be difficult to beat this modern lifestyle based on greed and envy and selfishness, with rampant crime and suicide and mental illness, people drowning in debt, and every system we depend on falling to pieces in front of us.
|[[Image:chrisberry.jpg|thumb|Chris Berry, Medlem siden Oktober, 2010.]]
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| '''Stewart Easton''', Vancouver, Canada
I was exposed your work through listening to VTV’s show in the archives. I have a background in biology, but I work in finance, so I have taken the route of “those who can not do, help”. The help in my case is money and I will spread the word of your work as I spend much time on other forums debating the merits of an RBE, and I always use your organization as an example of people building the technology to advance the concept.

I am part of the Vancouver Chapter of the Zeitgeist movement and I think the work you are doing is great and we as a movement need to do more to help you with your goals. You are building the technology that is going to make an RBE possible.
|[[Image:stewarteaston.jpg|thumb|Stewart Easton, Medlem siden September, 2010.]]
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| '''Daniel Morlan''', Indiana, USA

I will be watching you folks closely. I heard you on the V-Radio show a couple of times, and your methodology is far more inspiring to me than the mere lip-service that most put out, including myself. (I am the “editor in chief” of the Indiana Zeitgeist Newsletter.) and an acquaintance of Neil Kiernan, and I am enthralled with what you folks are doing.
|[[Image:danielmorlan.jpg|thumb|Daniel Morlan, Medlem siden August, 2010.]]
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| '''Shakti Saraswati''', Brisbane, Australia (mail at shakti dot id dot au)

I have come to the Open Source Ecology, from the Zeitgeist movement and see this as a natural transition from something quite absurd to a more practical way to live our lives. By doing nothing we have allowed this silly profit system overrule common sense and go so viral as to be totally dysfunctional. Society spends all of its time solving problems that are symptomatic and never go any deeper to find causal remedy.

The fact that people can earn money without actually contributing anything of substance is an unbelievable waste of potential usefulness. 80% of the population do this while fiddling the figures, they are totally consumed. Imagine if that problem solving potential was put to good use.

As a musician I find it an incredible distraction living in a society that has not, after 5000 years of civilisation, actually become civilised yet. A lot of the mental energy that I need to improve myself as a musician is wasted basically trying to survive. I have learned to live off the smell of an oily rag, and my priority is improving myself to the detriment of living comfort, and that is because society does not work efficiently.

I see Open source Ecology as the first rung in the ladder to improving all that ails the world. The important thing to mention here is the fact that everything that each individual knows is the collection of their experience of everyone else around them, so they have no right to exclusivity and have a duty to share. There is no reason why all land and resources should not benefit all people. The understanding of this will eliminate all the unnecessary conflict that we have today. The challenge is to put it into practice for the greater good without sacrificing the individual. This will happen when we share the workload and become responsible.

Fulfilment in life comes from hands on achievement and when everybody is contributing instead of building locks and walls while fiddling figures, I bet we have a much more harmonious and luxurious lifestyle without the fear. The real challenges will be then what will affect us all as a human species, rather than just individual survival.

So thank you Open Source Ecology for putting the wheels in motion of the ground-up transition to self-sustaining systems open for the improvement of all who contribute, not just those who wish to profit and exploit.

|[[Image:Shakti.jpg|thumb|Shakti Saraswati. Medlem siden Nov., 2009.]]
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'''Carolyn Phillips''', Adelaide, Australia [[File:Cari.jpg |thumb|Carolyn]]

I’ve always liked smart, lean design and this project seems both smart and lean. I hope you make some headway without the bureaucratic bloat that seems to ultimately spoil good ideas.
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2011-05-24T14:54:19Z

Knut Brekken:

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=Introduksjon=

Vi kan jobbe på {{LinkLang|GVCS}} på fulltid takket være generøsiteten av våre donasjoner. Kevin Kellys innflytelsesrike essay [http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fans.php 1000 Sanne Tilhengere] foreslo en finansieringsstruktur der 1000 støttespillere hver måned donerer en liten sum for å opprettholde et prosjekt de virkelig har tro på. Vi ser etter 1000 Sanne Tilhengere som hver lover $10 hver måned som del av {{LinkLang|1000 Squared|1000 Kvadrert}} Kampanjen.

På denne siden kan du også lese hvordan folk som deg har blitt med i kampanjen. I fra Mai 2011 har vi passert 300 Sanne Tilhengere.

Vi har også fått ønsker om større donasjonsalternativer. Som svar har vi laget Gull, Gull Ekstra, Platinum, og Engel abbonnement for $20, $30, $50, og $100 per måned, respektivt,,i tillegg til Standardabbonnementet på $10/måned.

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=Video Introductions=
*Marcin Jakubowski - August, 2010 - <html><object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14161032&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14161032&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/14161032">Marcin's Personlige Introduksjon til Sanne Tilhengere</a> fra <a href="http://vimeo.com/user2016419">Marcin Jakubowski</a> på <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p></html>

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=Sanne Tilhengere=

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| '''Haren''', Location
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|[[Image:Bruce_Lambert_head_shot_2007.jpg‎|thumb|Bruce Lambert. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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|[[Image:Nick_sissons.jpg‎|thumb|Nick Sissons. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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|[[Image:Stu_perera.jpg|thumb|Stu Perera. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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| '''Brett Irish''', Location
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|[[Image:Brett_Irish.jpg|thumb|Brett Irish. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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| '''Antoine Malouin''', Location
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|[[Image:Antoine_Malouin.jpg|thumb|Antoine Malouin. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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|[[Image:Danzigandersson.jpg|thumb|Danzig Andersson. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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|[[Image:Ricardo_pereira_filho.jpg‎|thumb|Ricardo Pereira Filho. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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|[[Image:Ted_mosher.JPG|thumb|Ted Mosher. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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| '''[http://monda.hu László Monda]''', Szeged, Ungarn
Mitt navn er László Monda og jeg er en Fri- og Åpen Kilde programvare/
maskinvareentusiast og en proffesjonell programvareutvikler.
I de siste årene har jeg blitt kjent med forskjellige teknologier som
3D printing, elektronikk, printede kretskortdesign, mikrokontrollerprogrammering
og sånt som har fått meg til å innse det enorme potensialet all denne
teknologien kan tilby folk.

Av alle de forskjellige tror jeg ikke bare at OSE er den
mest ambisiøse, men jeg tror det virkelig har potensialet til å
forandre verden til det bedre. Vi burde ikke gjøre oss avhengige
av bedrifter som hovedsakelig tenker på seg selv når vi kan ha
tillit til oss selv og være opptatt av hverandre og med miljøet.

Jeg er stolt av å ta del i dette engasjementet og ser frem til hva
fremtiden kan bringe.
|[[Image:Laszlo_Monda.png|thumb|László Monda. Medlem siden Mai 2011.]]
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| '''[[User:Mjn|Mark Norton]]''', Willseyville, NY, USA
En venn av meg henviste meg til Marcin's TED talk. Etter å ha sett den, var det ingen vei tilbake. Jeg har vært fasinert av Skaperbevegelsen i mange år nå, men har aldri helt hatt motivasjonen til å bli med, til tross for at jeg er nevenyttig. Jeg bor på en liten gård som kona og jeg har gjort om til et selvforsynt hjem som vi håper ev gang vil forsyne alle våre behov. Gårder trenger verktøy, og det slo meg at GVCS var en storartet måte å få det jeg trengte på - ved å bokstavelig talt bygge dem selv. Jeg er programvareutvikler av yrke og jeg har jobbet med flere tiltak med åpen kilde i løpet av årene, så jeg forstår ganske godt hvorfor arbeidet til OSE er så viktig og også noen av utfordringene det har i vente, spesielt rundt opprettholdbarhet. Derfor er jeg villig til å støtte det jeg sier jeg støtter og bli en Sann Tilhenger.
|[[Image:flannel_sm.JPG|thumb|Mark Norton. Medlem siden April 2011.]]
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| '''[[Dan Miner]]''', New York City, USA
Jeg er glad for at i fra våren 2011, etter utgivelsen av Marcins TED talk, får OSE i det minste en liten fraksjon av oppmerksomheten det fortjener. Hvis flere folk forsto at det drivstofftømming, internasjonale ressurskriger, og klimaforandringer vil gjøre med globalisert produksjon og distribusjon, ville de vært, ah, veldig urolige - og ville løpt for å bestille deres egne Global Village Construction Set. Ikke sikker på om OSE vil bli mer populært enn Lady Gaga - men la oss gjøre oss klare til å oppskalere produksjonen nå! - Dan Miner, New York City - www.beyondoilnyc.org
|[[Image:Dan_Miner-waterfront-5-10.JPG‎|thumb|Dan Miner. Medlem siden Februar 2011.]]
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| '''Javier Rivera''', Spania

Vil se en verdensomspennende Ressursbasert Økonomi, støtter Venusprosjektet ({{LinkLang|Zeitgeist}}) og ble en Sann Tilhenger av OSE i Februar 2011. Ble medlem av wikien dagene etterpå, og prøver å hjelpe med dette fantastiske arbeidet. Jeg ser på OSE som et virkelig skritt i en RBE retning - Dette er bare et nødvendig prosjekt for å skape en åpen verden. Stå på!

|[[Image:javier.jpg|thumb|200px|Javier Riviera. Medlem siden Februar 2011.]]
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| '''Etienne Duport''', Frankrike

Jeg skulle ønske jeg oppdaget OSE prosjektet for lenge siden. Det er veldig spennende! Forhåpentligvis vil alle en dag kunne kopiere disse verktøyene for å leve sine egne autonome liv. Siden jeg er så langt fra moderskipet i Missouri, er donasjoner en smart løsning for å støtte opp om OSE. Må Kraften være med deg ;-)"

|[[Image:etienne.jpg|thumb|200px|Etienne. Medlem siden Februar 2011.]]
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| '''Rasmus Kiehl''', Toronto, Kanada

La oss ta tilbake økonomien! (flere detaljer {{LinkLang|Tim-Rasmus_Kiehl|på min side}} i lagdyrkningsseksjonen).

|[[Image:Rasmus_Kiehl2010.jpg|thumb|200px|Rasmus. Medlem siden Februar 2009.]]
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| '''Steffen Lemmerzahl''', Zurich, Sveits

Global Village Construction Set passer veldig godt med settet av arbeid
som jeg setter veldig stor pris på, slik som prosjektene til D55.dk og
Atelier Van Lieshout innen kunst eller Paolo Soleri innen arkitektur.
Ettersom jeg selv er arkitekt (http://www.slik.ch) med bakgrunn i
CNC-bygde strukturer og parametrisk arkitektur
(http://www.caad.arch.ethz.ch) tenker jeg i en lignende retning
slik dere gjør, så jeg er glad for å kunne støtte deres storartede prosjekt
med min lille donasjon!

|[[Image:steffenlemmerzahl.jpg|thumb|200px|Steffen Lemmerzahl. Medlem siden Februar, 2011.]]
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| '''Angela''', Colorado, USA

Mange ville virkelig tjene på det gruppen din har oppnådd og tingene som kommer. Bravo! Vær så snill å FORTSETT MED DET!. Vi ser på deres suksess og vet at ditt arbeid er veldig viktig og det kunne ikke skjedd på et mer kritisk tidspunkt. Det er så mange mennesker i så mange områder som vil blomstre med verktøyene du vil tilby. I tillegg kan det hende vi får bruk for dem også! Vi har eiendom som har mange trær som ligger og som må kuttes. Områder som må jevnes, og stier som må gjenopprettes, osv. Lykke til og våre beste ønsker til alle dere.

|[[Image:angelah.jpg|thumb|200px|Angela. Medlem siden Februar, 2011.]]
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| '''Charles Kraus''', Storbritannia

Arbeidet dere gjør (og jeg siterer Facebookstatusen min) er “Bokstavelig talt det mest fantastiske prosjektet jeg har sett”.

Jeg har vært interessert i ideen av å være selvforsynt i lang tid, og har faktisk hatt en drøm om å en dag kjøpe min egen øy og begynne et helt selvforsynt samfunn som lever av landet. Det kommer åpenbart aldri til å skje, men uten drømmene våre, hva annet er det å leve for?

Så når jeg ser en hel gruppe individer dedikere tid og energi til bokstavelig talt fundamentet av drømmene mine, følte jeg at jeg måtte bidra med noe, faktisk så er deres sak den første jeg noen sinne har gitt til på månedlig basis!

Det jeg gjerne ville sett er et tall fullstendig selvforsynte småbyer arrangert, Jeg har i løpet av årene besøkt noen kommunale landbruksprosjekt i Israel, men mesteparten av disse har måttet stenge, så jeg håper at med ditt konstruksjonssett kan du forbedre prosjekter som har kommet før. Jeg tror også at med litt arbeid kan verktøyene dine være veldig nyttig i den tredje verden Afrika osv, så å se dine verktøy bli satt i praksis hadde vært flott.

|[[Image:charleskraus.jpg|thumb|200px|Charles Kraus. Medlem siden Februar, 2011.]]
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| '''Joe Ventura''', California, USA

I was extremely excited to learn about Open Source Ecology's work, especially [http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/Global_Village_Construction_Set The Global Village Construction Set]. I'm a communications professional for NGOs and nonprofit organizations. Through my work, I've traveled around the world, including large parts of Asia and Africa. These experiences overseas convinced me of the need for thoughtful planning around the coming transition from a fossil fuel-based economy. I'm hoping that my small monthly contribution will enable this project to continue and expand its impact.
|[[Image:joeventura.jpg|thumb|200px|Joe Ventura. Medlem siden Februar, 2011.]]
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| '''Hans Sendelbach''', Washington State, USA

The core issues underneath all this are really quite serious in nature. In my heart I have known for years what is happening, but the momentum in society is so powerful that it makes it easy to ignore the truth. A few months ago I watched the documentary Collapse, which is a long interview with Michael Ruppert. It shook me out of my state of denial.

In my mind this all comes down to a simple science experiment. If you put bacteria on a growth medium like agar in a petri dish, the population will explode exponentially until the food runs out. The population will plateau and drop off. The plateau and drop off are from two factors, the lack of food and poisoning from waste build up. With humans we need to broaden the definition of food and waste to include the food and waste of our infrastructure such as oil and the waste products from its consumption that leak into the air, soil and water. We are in the same position as the bacteria.

Thankfully organisms are smart and can sense there environment and adjust their growth according to the availability of nutrients or other factors. They are also adaptable and can even evolve new methods of metabolism in order to survive and thrive. Bacteria for example exchange rings of RNA with each other that allow them to generate novel enzymes, so they may adjust their function to match their environment.

RNA is coded information that controls chemical behavior. This sentence is also coded information. Your organism and mine are exchanging data, so that we may tailor our personal and infrastructural metabolism to better fit the ecological limitations we are sensing. This is the heart of what natural systems do.

Open Source Ecology has the potential to facilitate the rapid adaptation of our infrastructural metabolism. My hope is that we will learn how to weave our communities back into the complex fabric of life.

Thank you Marcin et al. for stepping forward with the concept for this movement.

|[[Image:hanssendelbach.jpg|thumb|200px|Hans Sendelbach. Medlem siden Januar, 2011.]]
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| '''Judith Katz''', California, USA

I joined because I think it's high time we develop more sustainable ways to live on this planet and OSE is a viable step in that direction.

|[[Image:judithkatz.jpg|thumb|200px|Judith Katz. Medlem siden Januar, 2011.]]
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| '''Giulia Vianello''', Italy

I think that the [present] economy isn't the right way to run the world. I'm talking about people who can lose everything for more money, even their life. So, maybe that's the most important reason why i have decided to subscribe to your project. I'm sad because the life of many people i know, depends on money. And i want to change this. I think that all environmental problems we actually have on the earth are initially caused by ignorance, and the ignorance is a convenient way to earn. So from your work i would like to see come out free knowledge for all people, so they would be able to better this world through the knowledge and consequent skills acquired from the open source mind!
In this way everyone would understand that we can be free in every aspect of our life, and a free man is a good man. The kit you're building is fantastic and I'm happy to be able to benefit from your work in the future. Thank you very much.

|[[Image:giulia.jpg|thumb|200px|Giulia Vianello. Medlem siden Januar, 2011.]]
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| '''Marcu Knoesen''', Cape Town, South Africa

I can clearly see the need to attain all the goals as set out in OSE. The future has to be more localised. The path we are on at the moment will not end well. It is time to make a course correction in a big way.

|[[Image:marcu.jpg|thumb|200px|Marcu Knoesen. Medlem siden Januar, 2011.]]
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| '''Robert Morris'''

I saw the [http://www.grist.org/article/food-2010-12-29-farmer-scientists-want-to-hack-society article in Grist] today, and have spent the past couple hours looking through your materials. Fascinating stuff.

I have often said that all you need for paradise on earth for 100 people is 5 engineers and a couple doctors. It is gratifying to see that someone is attempting to put it into practice.

My work is not similar at all. My last semester of law school starts on Monday, and I will be embarking on a soul-crushing cubicle-dwelling existence this fall. Happy to be contributing to a new approach, if only in a small way.

|[[Image:robertmorris.jpg|thumb|200px|Robert Morris. Medlem siden Desember, 2010.]]
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| '''Floyd Earl Smith''', San Francisco Bay Area, California

I’m proud to join my fellow True Fans of Open Source Ecology. The Global Village Construction Set embodies human creativity and potential, and at the same time unleashes it. Together we True Fans are supporting less use of fossil fuels for farming, better use of precious fresh water, and slowing and surviving climate change, while improving, not damaging, the land.

|[[Image:floydsmith.jpg|thumb|200px|Floyd Earl Smith. Medlem siden Desember, 2010.]]
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| '''Jonathan Rivera''', Houston, Texas

The work you guys are doing is great! And you guys all deserve support from everyone with a conviction for this cause. I know my contribution is not much but I hope to continue to support any way I can. The resource based economy is an idea that has given me motivation to change my life for the best.

|[[Image:jonathanrivera.jpg|thumb|200px|Jonathan Rivera. Medlem siden Desember, 2010.]]
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| '''Georgy Korablev''', Vancouver, Canada

I am a mathematics student; I support OSE project because it is an audacious step towards the true freedom and liberation of people. I am tired to see countries like Canada spending $35 billion on interest payments annually, and only $3 billion on infrastructure and technology development. I'm tired to see debt growing. I'm tired to see roads broken, schools closed, human rights violated, wars started, technology restrained, people starved, taxes grown, education made into a business, income gap grown, secrets kept from the people, fake government, mindless jobs in corporations competing for a market share, overproduction, manufactured demand and overconsumption, low quality products, inflation, fake research and fake research based on fake research, dollar signs in people's eyes, greed, lies.

People, look around and realize that all the improvement that we had in our lives is due to industrial revolution and rapid development of technology that made things 1000-fold cheaper or more; it is not due lawyers in the government; not due to stock growth, bank loans or corporations.
It is due to people MAKING THINGS, NOT PROFITS. And these people shall have our full support.
|[[Image:georgy.jpg|thumb|200px|Georgy Korablev. Medlem siden Desember, 2010.]]
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| '''Julia Valentine''', California, USA

I recently became a True Fan as a financial supporter. I am a mother, teacher, Permaculturist, and inhabitant of Planet Earth. All of these endeavors require a sense of hope and a belief in the resilience of our species and of Nature as a whole. Where we stand as a society today, in the midst of the industrial growth machine, leaves us lacking in both hope and resilience. I have a base need to foster these qualities, and to create a more livable future for the children I care for and guide into adulthood. I have a true belief in the ingenuity and flexibility of our species to create a new paradigm. OSE is the actual physical manifestation of our amazing capacity to change. To truly change, we must imagine and then create. The humans behind Factor e Farm and Open Source Ecology have imagined and created. They are on their way - leading by example - to this fruitful future I also work to manifest. I am pleased to have the hard work and creative genius of OSE be open to me as a tool to use for building my abundant future and the future of my community. Thank you for daring to both imagine and create.

|[[Image:Juliavalentine.jpg|thumb|200px|Julia Valentine. Medlem siden November, 2010.]]
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| '''Amanda Packard''', Missouri, USA

I am intrigued and inspired by people offering viable solutions to the challenges facing humanity. And above that, people manifesting those solutions ''now'' – Open Source Ecology is doing just that.

I have had the honor of visiting Factor e Farm and seeing some of the tools of GVCS in action – I am deeply moved by this vision and the people behind it, who value not only tangible exhibitions of development, but also a holistic spiritual/meditation practice. I am excited to proudly join others in supporting Open Source Ecology in this paradigm-shifting revolution.
|[[Image:amanda.jpg|thumb|Amanda Packard. Medlem siden November, 2010.]]
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| '''Christian Shearer''', Pacific Northwest, USA
Originally from the Pacific Northwest of the United States, Christian Shearer is the founder and Managing Director of the Panya Project (www.panyaproject.org). He has over six years of permaculture experience, working and living at Lost Valley Education Center outside of Eugene, Oregon, and now residing at the Panya Project in northern Thailand for over five years. He is a permaculture consultant with Terra Genesis International (www.terra-genesis.com), an advisory board member of We Forest (www.weforest.com), a natural builder, a food forest enthusiast, a musician, a certified educator and has extensive knowledge of tropical permaculture systems. He teaches permaculture around the world (Thailand, Malaysia, India, Taiwan, and even Missouri!) and is excited to continue sharing his passion for a better world and learning from all involved!

He is excited to be a True Fan of Open Ecology, because the ultimate goal of what the people at Open Ecology are doing is perfectly in line with the intentions of Permaculture. The synergy between the two could be very powerful in helping to usher in a new way of being for people on this planet based on local production, resiliency and an engaged populace, with more of a focus on the well-being and health of people rather than the economic progress of the wealthy. Christian is proud to lend his support to a movement like Open Ecology that fills such an important niche in helping to bring about the vision of a Permanent Culture.
|[[Image:christiansprofile.jpg|thumb|Christian Shearer, Medlem siden November, 2010.]]
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| '''Nathanael Dinwiddie''', Lawrence, KS, USA
I attended a presentation given by Marcin at the Lawrence Public Library on November 22, 2010. I appreciate Marcin's effort and enthusiasm for this compelling project. I have long been inspired by the vision of Jacque Fresco, and Marcin is generally preparing the beginning stages for the achievement of that grand vision. We must evolve in the way of this project.
|[[File:P1010717.JPG|thumb|Nathanael Dinwiddie. Medlem siden November 2011.]]
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| '''Isaiah Saxon''', Aptos, USA
I'm a filmmaker, technologist, and one of the instigators of an egalitarian community of 17 people, called Trout Gulch, where we are building a studio, village, farm, and maker space inspired by the actions of Christopher Alexander, Will Allen, Sepp Holzer, and Marcin. My film team, [http://www.esquire.com/features/best-and-brightest-2009/encyclopedia-pictura-1209 Encyclopedia Pictura], is working with hollywood to create a new populist heroic myth for the maker movement.

I'm anticipating that the entire GVCS will be created and documented, then replicated by mechanics, geeks, hippies, weekend warriors, and tough guys that are into their trucks. I think OSE is contributing tangibly and symbolically to the greater cultural shift toward localism, authenticity, and DIY green tech.
|[[Image:Isaiah.jpg|thumb|Isaiah Saxon. Medlem siden August 4, 2010.]]
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| '''David Crary''', Seattle, USA
I have been really searching to find people out there who are actually experimenting with new forms of social organization where it is possible to create advanced culture - that is thriving in abundance and largely autonomous, creating a model for everyone...so kudos to you guys. Keep up the great work!
|[[Image:davidcrary.jpg|thumb|David Crary, Seattle, USA. Medlem siden Juli, 2010.]]
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| '''Benjamin Kaplin'''
I'm a mechanical engineering student, and I support the OSE because a completed Open Source Village kit would represent several orders of magnitude of improvement over existing projects to improve living conditions around the globe with technology. I grew up reading Stephenson, and one of the most powerful images in his book <em>Diamond Age</em> is The Seed, a nanotechnology McGuffin that one of the main characters devotes his life to that would take the control of production and self-determination out of the hands of the McCorporations and put it into the hands of revolutionaries and the impoverished.
Needless to say, nanotech is still several decades away from that dream, and contributing to the True Fans campaign helps a realistic Seed program without pulling me away from my studies.
|[[Image:0213090948.jpg|thumb|Benjamin Kaplin]]
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| '''Paul D. Mamigonian'''
The Open Source Ecology group are making self sufficient living real. Through the Zeitgeist movement and groups like the Open Source Ecology the example is being set that we can come away from the corrupt monetary system. How many times do you hear people say " BUT WHAT CAN WE DO?". There IS SO MUCH THAT can be done and IS BEING DONE. THE TIME IS RIGHT, THE METHODS ARE HERE AND SO IS THE TECHNOLOGY. Please see my site www.livegreenliveclean.org. The Open Source Ecology group are leading the way, and it's up to us all to follow their lead.
|[[Image:paulm.jpg|thumb|Paul D. Mamigonian]]
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| '''Marcin Jakubowski''', opensourceecology at gmail dot com, marcin_ose on Skype
I started the campaign because I have observed how little of humanity's true potential has been tapped. Everyone slaves their life away to a system that is crumbling at the seams. I believe that we can all reach absolute prosperity and evolve to freedom - by becoming skilled and productive [[Integrated Humans]], and by helping anyone else to do the same. History has shown that this is a general formula for lasting prosperity. As long as we're wise, it should be trivial to get beyond the economics of scarcity. We need to show the world how to build the world's first, replicable, open source Global Village.
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| '''Scott Akridge'''
As I get older I'm more and more interested in helping people. A couple weeks back I enlisted the help of a friend to help in developing a CEB press when I began doing research and found www.openfarmtech.org with the open source CEB press. I continued looking for more information but kept coming back to this site for more info and learned more about the project and found I wanted to get involved. I started by becoming a member and donating $10 a month with plans to build the CEB press and build a couple structures then make the effort a cooperative. After reading more I've decided to also build a sawmill, assuming I can recruit some help. I think this is a great project and am excited to be a part of it in a small way.
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| '''Toby Martin'''
I support OSE because...
* It's an intelligent and direct effort to address some of the most serious problems we face as individuals and as a society.
* It's one of the most interesting and creative projects I've ever heard of.
* I see no reason in principle that it can't improve people's lives.
* It's actually happening.
|[[Image:TF2.jpg|thumb|Toby Martin]]
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| '''Lucas González''', imagina (dot) canarias at gmail dot com [[Image:lucas.JPG|thumb|Lucas Gonzalez]]
I support OSE because both the model and the elements add some important missing pieces to what I perceive is going on.
* I think it's important to have local possibilities for water, food and energy everywhere. Not just at the household level but more importantly at the village or more aggregated levels. Even if you end up buying stuff from elsewhere, it's best if that happens by choice, not by necessity. It was not by choice when things were local by default and it's not by choice now that things are global by default.
* The whole process of open sharing of ideas, processes, know-how is intriguing and, at the very least, extremely fun to watch. (I really wish I had more time to join in myself, but I'm doing things that need doing. So I [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Video_translation translate], [http://imagina-canarias.blogspot.com/search/label/open%20farm%20tech tell others], and chip in with a little cash, less than what others spend in smoking. My choice.)
* I'm particularly interested in some items for specific locations. Energy for water in sunny places is a must. Shelter and water collection systems. You name it.
* Do we really know how far and how fast this can go? I think there's bound to be a catalitic process so that more and more technologies will come out openly, in an exciting incarnation of the Stone Soup story. So I want to help keep the fire going.
* It really looks like this can be done, should be done, will be done in 2 years. Less than 2 years now. The whole world now has a sense of urgency, I feel. I'd like to see what we can do after this. But the time is ripe for this, now.
* It's interesting to note how open content gives us a sense of ownership. Many have felt that with software. I want to see that with hardware.
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'''Joseph Zarr''', joseph.zarr@gmail.com [[Image:DSC_0169.JPG|thumb|Joseph Zarr]]

I am an anthropologist, a farmer, and a permaculturist by training. I support OSE because, well, let's be frank: This is arguably the coolest project on the planet. I am most attracted to Factor E Farm and OSE because of the overall themes of personal improvement (via daily spiritual and physical discipline - in whatever forms a person deems appropriate), human production, and an intertwined personal and community growth. We must collaboratively market the ownership of our futures.

"For less than the price of one coffee per week, for less than the price of one first class stamp per day, you can help change the world. Subscribe!"

As our resource pool dwindles globally, largely due to corporate theft and errant industrial practices, we will have to produce locally and 'in-source'. With a dwindling petroleum base, our dream of cheap energy will disappear. These are simple facts. We must invest human energies in locally-based solutions. We must ignore our propagandized 'reality' and create a meaningful existence together.
With drastically increasing populations (estimated 70 million per year), we must teach ourselves the merits of collaboration, co-housing, and SHARING. My opinion is the era of individualized ownership is archaic and ill-advised. Only by sharing and producing what we actually need, and sharing what we already have (be it skills, books, resources etc.), will we experience the next stage of cultural progress. Hopefully, in the not so distant future our children's hands will not deform due to excessive playing of video games but, rather, they will callous, strengthen and scar due to meaningful labor and a 'hands-on' reality; i.e. literacy, numeracy, production = freedom. The only debts we owe are to ourselves and our community. Let's pay up.

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| '''Josef Davies-Coates'''
I'm founder United Diversity and co-founder of The Open Co-op and support this project because of all the many many VERY cool projects I follow, this is perhaps the most inspiring and important. I can't think of a better way I could possibly spend my money.
|[[Image:jdaviescoates.jpg|thumb|Josef Davies-Coates]]
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| '''Reto Stauss''', reto.stauss(at)gmail.com, rstauss on Skype

I am mainly attracted by the momentum this projects develops. And of course because it is not talking but doing. My hope is that inspires my own little project (actually it already did): [http://manufakturingruendung.ch/en open source goods produced by small, agile manufactories]. Lucas, Joseph, sign your points.
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| '''Geoff Capper''', geoff (at) floodstreetfarmlet.net
I am supporting OSE because it is showing us that it is possible to regain control over the complex systems that to an extent have come to rule our lives. We can build our own machinery, we can build our own future, we can be free. The activity at Factor e Farm is truly inspiring, and I hope to use many of the products building up our own small farm, which may hopefully inspire others locally.
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| '''Tom Lindsey''', thomas.lindsey at gmail dot com
I support OSE because I want Factor e Farm to succeed so I can use the tools they are developing, replicate Factor e Farm, and create a future of freedom for myself and loved ones.
|[[Image:tomlindsey.jpg|thumb|Tom Lindsey and Boomer]]
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| '''Edward Miller''', embraceunity -at- gmail dot com
I became a true fan because I would like to see our civilization become more resilient by using decentralized technological solutions, and to evolve towards a post-scarcity society. I plan to move on site soon to help build a RepRap machine.
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| '''Jussi Haverinen''', haverinen.jussi at gmail dot com
I'm a strong believer in power of free software approach to technology and very interested in transformative technology and it's effect on society. Politically I'm an social ecologist and I do think that the main task that has to be done is to abolish capitalism and the state through direct democracy in the cities and neighbourhoods (confederated together of course). My skills: mostly computer knowledge, relatively good unix admin skills, and some language skills but that's about it. I only have limited knowledge of farming, construction, electronics, handcraft, but I'm willing to learn.
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| '''Mark Thomas''', factore at thomastechcon dot com
My wife and I are serial homesteaders--we built up a goat dairy from scratch in South Africa, a [http://thomasphotos.wordpress.com small livestock farm in Appalachia], and are just starting on a lambing operation in Southside Virginia.

Politically, I base my ethics on the [[Nonaggression Axiom]] and I do think that the main task that has to be done is to abolish democracy and the state through direct capitalism. Apologies to Jussi above! I do my political writing at [http://distributedrepublic.net/blog/mark Distributed Republic] and much of my reading at [http://mises.org/ the Ludwig von Mises Institute].
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| '''David Voeller''', carefulwiththat at gmail dot com
Open Source Ecology is applying knowledge and skill in the most effective way possible, to create a livable future. The convergence of Permaculture principles and Open Source methodology has been a long time coming. Open Source has shown us that technological advancement need not be encumbered by destructive and wasteful hierarchical control. Permaculture has taught us that a fulfilling and ethical life is not only possible, but realistic in a variety of climates and conditions. Open Source Ecology's work has the possibility to allow many more people to live within their resources; and to drastically increase the quality of life for those already doing so.
|[[Image:David Voeller.jpg|thumb|David Voeller]]
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| '''Eric Hunting''', TheMillennialProject at gmail.com
We are on the cusp of a transformation in the nature of our civilization. A fundamental shift in the way just about everything works in our society predicated on the evolution of the processes and technologies by which just about everything in our habitat is made. Emerging digital fabrication technology combined with emerging awareness of the factors of industrial sustainability are not only changing how we make things but who is making them and where. Industrial Age paradigms that have been concentrating industrial, economic, and political power for a century are failing in the face of a progressive shrinking, smartening, and demassifying of the tools of production and communication. Open Source Ecology is on the cutting edge of this transformation, pursuing and cultivating a spectrum of tools, new and old, that can realize a radical new level of sustainable community self-sufficiency with the intent of disseminating these tools globally. The Factor E Farm project is an incubator for a nascent movement with world-sweeping potential.
|[[Image:EricHuntingAv.jpg|thumb|Eric Hunting]]
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| '''[http://blog.erikdebruijn.nl/ Erik de Bruijn]''', ose at erikdebruijn.nl
We've heard about, or even experienced, the collaborative power of passionate individuals around the world. When they join hands, contributing their energy, freely sharing their ideas and building on them, this mode of production can be highly productive. It may well outperform the traditionally closed 'institutional' mode of production, like Wikipedia is giving us an abundance of knowledge at no cost. OSE attempts, and is actually very successful at extending this notion of knowledge sharing into a way of living.
They codify and freely reveal their knowledge into design files and rich instructional material such as video tutorials. Those serve to inspire, but also to practically make this concept replicable and effective.
|[[Image:erikdebruijn.jpg|thumb|Erik de Bruijn]]
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| '''A. N. Alias''', anon23bf at nyx dot net
I support OSE because we need viable alternatives to the military-industrial complex as a foundation for survival in the near future, particularly if predictions about the coming hyperinflationary depression turn out to be well founded.
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| '''[http://ollehost.dk/blog/ Olle Jonsson]''', olle.jonsson at gmail dot com
I had seen the impressive LifeTrac project on the web, but when I heard about the [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=1254 RepLab] initiative, I was hooked. I'm just a random web developer, but I want to help push toward a generalized, open digital fabrication toolkit. When each hackerspace, lab, and interested individual has access to equipment like that, things get really interesting.
|[[Image:olleolleolle.jpg|thumb|Olle Jonsson]]
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| '''Maureen''', baubo at dishmail.net
I support factor E open source farm because when the cheap industrial food machine breaks down for lack of diesel fuel and capital, people are going to be shocked, angry and then desperate to learn a new way of living. OSE is not just a theory, a book or a blue print. It’s an open source physical model of a DIY food, energy and shelter producing system. Large-scale industrialization was largely a wrong turn for humanity. By shrinking the scale, localizing throughputs, working smarter and sharing information globally we can create a bright new future – a true renaissance. Factor E farm is breaking trail for us all. I can’t think of a better investment.
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| '''[http://bit.ly/elifarley-buzz Elifarley]''', ''my first name'' @opensourceecology.org

I found out about Open Source Ecology after watching the Zeitgeist Addendum movie. That movie sparkled my curiosity and I started a quest to understand the problems and possible solutions to our society's needs.

In this quest, I found out some very exciting ideas, groups and people, like the Transition Towns movement (concerned with peak oil), The Venus Project and RBE Foundation (moneyless, cybernated society), Common Good Bank (alternative currency system), RepRap (self-replicating, open source 3D printer), the P2P Foundation, and the OSE site, to name a few.

You may have noticed that all these projects and movements seem to have a common goal, they all seem to propose that we forget all artificial limitations (and scarcity) and we all seek union to improve our lives and sustainability. Without artificial limitations, we all can have much much better lives. That's the message I can hear all these people and movements resounding.

I'd say that The Venus Project champions ideas, whereas OSE materializes them, performing concrete actions that will move our world forward.

I'm confident that our small contributions to this cause will add up and have a tremendous positive result for everybody.

''(In Portuguese)''

Descobri o site da Open Source Ecology depois de assistir ao filme Zeitgeist Addendum. Esse filme despertou minha curiosidade e então comecei uma busca para entender os problemas e as possíveis soluções para a nossa sociedade.

Nessa busca, descobri algumas ideias, grupos e pessoas muito interessantes, como o movimento Transition Towns (preocupado com a dependência ao petróleo), o Venus Project e a RBE Foundation (sociedade sem uso do dinheiro, automatizada), Banco do Bem Comum (sistema de moeda alternativa), RepRap (impressora 3D de desenho aberto, auto-replicante), a Fundação P2P, e o site OSE, dentro vários outros.

Vocês podem ter notado que todos esses projetos e movimentos parecem ter um objetivo comum, eles parecem propor que esqueçamos todas as limitações artificiais (e escassez) e que todos busquemos união para melhorar nossas vidas e sustentabilidade. Sem limitações artificiais, todos nós podemos viver muito melhor. Essa é a mensagem que eu posso escutar todas essas pessoas e movimentos ressoando.

Eu diria que o Venus Project dissemina ideias, enquanto que a OSE as materializa, realizando ações concretas que irão avançar o nosso mundo.

Estou confiante que nossas pequenas contribuições a essa causa irão se juntar e terão um resultado tremendamente positivo para todo o mundo.
|[[Image:Ecruz.jpg|thumb|Elifarley Cruz]]
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| '''Shaun Warkentin'''
What money buys is technology, luxury. What technology and luxury buy are pleasure, physical health, and free time for the intellectual, spiritual, relational, creative pursuits that are the constitutive properties of real wealth (a widening of awareness and knowledge) unavailable within a purely subsistence economy. The equation linking money to wealth must be broken (along with the power structures that encroach upon the agency and freedom of most of humanity and the biosphere). OSE appears to be demonstrating how this might be achieved.
|[[Image:Shaun_jump.jpg|thumb|Shaun Warkentin]]
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| '''Aigars Brūvelis''', abruvelis at gmail dot com
This is it. Linux will fully replace windows and in 50 years Open Source Harware will replace most of the commerce. Get on with it.
|[[Image:aigarsbruvelis.jpg|thumb|Aigars Bruvelis from Latvia/UK]]
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| '''Lucas''',
I contribute to OSE because I got tired of all the organizations that claim to be "promoting" sustainability through advocacy and lobbying, which usually merely contributes to the inertia and complexity of our current patently unsustainable society without producing any truly meaningful effect on regular peoples' relation to the economy and planet. We need tangible means and methods to take our lives into our own hands and reduce our reliance on global industrial market structures, not rhetoric and posturing. OSE is one of the few operations that has taken up the task of rebuilding and redesigning material existence to cope with the inevitability of a resource-scarce future. The advancements made at this important project are setting precedents that simply are not being set anywhere else, and I hope to personally be using some of the methods and technologies being developed; from that standpoint, I view my financial contribution as an investment, not a gift. At some point in time those of us who philosophically stand opposed to the dominant paradigms of mass consumerism and ecological exceptionalism must stop talking and starting acting, and OSE is doing just that.
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| '''Peter Koeleman'''
I would love to see the Factor e Farm evolve into a self-sufficient, renewable and socially superior society.

The technological steps towards freedom that the Factor e Farm project take are very interesting to me because I am an IT specialist. I had a taste of gcode a long while back and work with Linux every day as my primairy OS. The modular hardware design makes this technology easy to comprehend and use, even for non-engineers like myself.

The freedom part of this project is what I think will be the most important part of the near future in escaping a corporate ruled society of ever more money spending (=debt building) consumers. The need for economic growth simply isn't sustainable. Those who manufacture and manage their own resources are the only ones who know the real cost of things.
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| '''Daniel Slate''', danieldavidslate + gmail and the rest
This is the real thing, and what you're doing is absolutely necessary. The numerous possibilities that can grow from this...general resilience, a reboot/revision of kibbutzim/moshavim in America or elsewhere, so many other possibilities...building the platform is worth doing. Ideas become real through action. What I see coming out of this work is a way to test out applied philosophies of responsible liberty.
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| '''Adam Mitchell''', mitch dot ad at gmail dot com
If organizations were measured in terms of ''relevancy'' of work, ''loftiness'' of their goals and their ability to ''inspire'' others, Open Source Ecology --''no doubt''-- would be at the top of anyone's list. I am proud to support their endeavor, however small, in hopes that together we can build a better world and encourage others to become more [[Integrated Humans]].
|[[Image:Fiji.jpg|thumb|Adam Mitchell]]
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| '''Anna Przychodzki'''
I was very excited to discover the work of Open Source Ecology; I had no idea people were doing this. I stopped taking science class in my second year of high school so the technical stuff goes way over my head... what I do understand is the intent of the work and the implications of success. The life I want is out of reach for now... but if I support OSE, maybe I can have it in the future. OSE seems to bring us closer to what I believe are our birth-rights: sustainability, economic freedom and quality of life by way of human ingenuity and cooperation, not competition.
|[[Image:annaprzychodzki.jpg|thumb|Anna Przychodzki]]
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| '''Nathan Luedtke'''

I think I found out about Factor E Farm through John Robb's blog Global Guerillas, or at least through that general section of the net, which I am interested in and have been following for some time. I have been tracking your project for a little over a year, and was inspired to contribute when i saw that recently you seem to have hit a tipping point and have been making quick progress which probably will require a little more cashflow.

In terms of what I would like to see come out of it- exactly what you are doing. All of the positive movements that I see out there- Permaculture, Open Source, Transition, etc etc- all of them are integrated in your program. With OSE/FEF, you have a very scientific/rational approach that I appreciate. Long term, I would love to see OSE ideas spread and populate worldwide, and see the technology package implemented and developed further at other sites, both in the USA and as a more successful "technology transfer" to the third world.
|[[Image:nathanluedtke.jpg|thumb|Nathan Luedtke.]]
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'''Devin Balkind'''
An abundant future is dependent on open technologies that fulfill people's most basic needs: food, water and shelter. The fact that this type of work isn't widely recognized as the foundation of a more efficient, equitable and enlightened civilization is a testament to the confusion of our times. Consider me at your service.
|[[Image:DevinProfile.jpg|thumb|Devin Balkind, Since August 2010]]
|[[Image:DevinProfile2.jpg|thumb|Devin Balkind for real.]]
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| '''Ivan Garcia''', ivan at movimientozeitgeist dot org
I've been a OSS programmer for like 8 years now and I love the idea of OS Hardware and the great suistaniblity revolution that the OSE guys are doing. I'm also a supporter of the Zeitgeist Movement in Spain and they both share very similar goals. What you are doing is absolutelly necessary and meaningful for our future!
|[[Image:ivangarcia.jpg|thumb|Ivan Garcia]]
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| [http://permakent.com/ '''J. Kent Hastings'''], USA
The OSE (Open Source Ecology) "True Fan" program is a grass roots way to crowdsource funding for the goal to develop the essential 40 pieces required to make up the complete "Resilient Community Construction Set," an advanced industrial economy in a box that can be deployed inexpensively anywhere in the world.

The cost is reduced to one tenth normal thanks to the savings from using open source software and hardware designs. The components are essential to life and work in the system rather than just decorative knick knacks or toys that Makers like to dabble with and are "designed for disassembly" so each component, like the Life Trac tractor for example, is easy to repair with bolts and simple tools such as wrenches, and easy to modify and improve.
|[[Image:permakent.jpg|thumb|J. Kent Hastings, Medlem siden August 2010]]
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| '''Søren Poulsen''', Denmark
Words like ''empowerment'' or ''freedom'' get a whole new meaning when you talk about
having the skill set, to create everything you need from nothing.
|[[Image:Soeren_Poulsen.jpg|thumb|Søren Poulsen|130px]]
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| [[Nikolay Georgiev]], Karlsruhe, Germany
Open Source Ecology is based on Natural Principles which consequences have been shown to be positive for a lot of natural and technological systems.

* Decentralization (instead of Centralization) of Power – proven pattern in a lot of networks, like technology (internet, web site development, …) and human relationships (politics, religion/spirituality, family, …).
* Self-Sufficiency – basic needs for living are covered and produced by the local people. No need for dependence. In the future if there is dependency it will be in the form of collaboration.
* Openness – sharing documentation, product design and development process. Being able to change and adapt the products.
* Product Quality – life-time, modular and systems Design.
* Collaboration (instead of using other people for self-interest) – getting people together by purpose and values, and not by force, is much better for the producers and the consumers as well.
* Replicability – giving birth of open sourced, modern-living villages is just amazing! Having the choice of replicability saves a lot of time and work.

It is crucially important that we go beyond life of survival. Survival mode is pushing everyone to take resources from other people, not considering their allowance, health and their community. When we are in survival mode we often neglect our own values and push other people in order to survive.

When we reach the state of living where all basic needs are covered, every person on this planet will have much bigger possibility to develop his own potential. Right now only a very small percentage of the human population have the time and possibilities to develop themselves – to guide their own life in the direction they want, to contribute to the society by using their abilities in their fullness. Most people in the world are fighting, struggling, working only for their own survival or that of their own families, and higher goals and desires like developing themselves and contributing to society are not possible and of low priority.

We need new models of economy and living based on openness, giving and sharing. Open Source Ecology is headed clearly in this direction, giving back freedom to where it belongs.

|[[Image:Nikolaygeorgiev-tall.jpg‎|thumb|Nikolay Georgiev, Medlem siden September 2010]]
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| '''Dario Figueira''', Portugal, wurmdario at gmail dot com
I became a true fan simply because I was already monetarily supporting a NGO. And for me, you seem to be doing better work, or more important work than they were. So please continue XD.
[[User:WurmD|WurmD]] 23 August 2010 (UTC)
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| '''Matthias''', neodynos-at-googlemail-dot-com
Thinking about what's wrong with the world, I found that huge aggregations of power and of money are the main tools we as humans use to oppress and exploit. That led me to support Open Source Ecology as a decentralized alternative.

And while I am convinced that the ultimate solution (one that transcends even death) is not to be found through technology but rather through sound theology -- I am also convinced that the work of OSE can provide all of us with a better world ''until'' death.
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| '''Chris Berry''', France
What immediately impressed me about what you are doing is that...... well, this is something that could actually work. Much of the ecology movement seems to really depend on shifting human nature (ie modern capitalism will work just fine so long as people breed a bit less, consume a bit less, etc- its never going to work, at best we'll destroy the planet in the next 200 years instead of the next 50).

People need to be offered something genuinely
better. And really, when you look at it, it shouldn't be difficult to beat this modern lifestyle based on greed and envy and selfishness, with rampant crime and suicide and mental illness, people drowning in debt, and every system we depend on falling to pieces in front of us.
|[[Image:chrisberry.jpg|thumb|Chris Berry, Medlem siden Oktober, 2010.]]
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| '''Stewart Easton''', Vancouver, Canada
I was exposed your work through listening to VTV’s show in the archives. I have a background in biology, but I work in finance, so I have taken the route of “those who can not do, help”. The help in my case is money and I will spread the word of your work as I spend much time on other forums debating the merits of an RBE, and I always use your organization as an example of people building the technology to advance the concept.

I am part of the Vancouver Chapter of the Zeitgeist movement and I think the work you are doing is great and we as a movement need to do more to help you with your goals. You are building the technology that is going to make an RBE possible.
|[[Image:stewarteaston.jpg|thumb|Stewart Easton, Medlem siden September, 2010.]]
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| '''Daniel Morlan''', Indiana, USA

I will be watching you folks closely. I heard you on the V-Radio show a couple of times, and your methodology is far more inspiring to me than the mere lip-service that most put out, including myself. (I am the “editor in chief” of the Indiana Zeitgeist Newsletter.) and an acquaintance of Neil Kiernan, and I am enthralled with what you folks are doing.
|[[Image:danielmorlan.jpg|thumb|Daniel Morlan, Medlem siden August, 2010.]]
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| '''Shakti Saraswati''', Brisbane, Australia (mail at shakti dot id dot au)

I have come to the Open Source Ecology, from the Zeitgeist movement and see this as a natural transition from something quite absurd to a more practical way to live our lives. By doing nothing we have allowed this silly profit system overrule common sense and go so viral as to be totally dysfunctional. Society spends all of its time solving problems that are symptomatic and never go any deeper to find causal remedy.

The fact that people can earn money without actually contributing anything of substance is an unbelievable waste of potential usefulness. 80% of the population do this while fiddling the figures, they are totally consumed. Imagine if that problem solving potential was put to good use.

As a musician I find it an incredible distraction living in a society that has not, after 5000 years of civilisation, actually become civilised yet. A lot of the mental energy that I need to improve myself as a musician is wasted basically trying to survive. I have learned to live off the smell of an oily rag, and my priority is improving myself to the detriment of living comfort, and that is because society does not work efficiently.

I see Open source Ecology as the first rung in the ladder to improving all that ails the world. The important thing to mention here is the fact that everything that each individual knows is the collection of their experience of everyone else around them, so they have no right to exclusivity and have a duty to share. There is no reason why all land and resources should not benefit all people. The understanding of this will eliminate all the unnecessary conflict that we have today. The challenge is to put it into practice for the greater good without sacrificing the individual. This will happen when we share the workload and become responsible.

Fulfilment in life comes from hands on achievement and when everybody is contributing instead of building locks and walls while fiddling figures, I bet we have a much more harmonious and luxurious lifestyle without the fear. The real challenges will be then what will affect us all as a human species, rather than just individual survival.

So thank you Open Source Ecology for putting the wheels in motion of the ground-up transition to self-sustaining systems open for the improvement of all who contribute, not just those who wish to profit and exploit.

|[[Image:Shakti.jpg|thumb|Shakti Saraswati. Medlem siden Nov., 2009.]]
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'''Carolyn Phillips''', Adelaide, Australia [[File:Cari.jpg |thumb|Carolyn]]

I’ve always liked smart, lean design and this project seems both smart and lean. I hope you make some headway without the bureaucratic bloat that seems to ultimately spoil good ideas.
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=Introduksjon=

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På denne siden kan du også lese hvordan folk som deg har blitt med i kampanjen. I fra Mai 2011 har vi passert 300 Sanne Tilhengere.

Vi har også fått ønsker om større donasjonsalternativer. Som svar har vi laget Gull, Gull Ekstra, Platinum, og Engel abbonnement for $20, $30, $50, og $100 per måned, respektivt,,i tillegg til Standardabbonnementet på $10/måned.

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=Video Introductions=
*Marcin Jakubowski - August, 2010 - <html><object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14161032&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14161032&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/14161032">Marcin's Personlige Introduksjon til Sanne Tilhengere</a> fra <a href="http://vimeo.com/user2016419">Marcin Jakubowski</a> på <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p></html>

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=Sanne Tilhengere=

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| '''Rafa Font''', Location
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|[[Image:Rafa_font.jpg|thumb|Rafa Font. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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| '''Steve Hepting''', Location
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|[[Image:Steve_hepting.png‎|thumb|Steve Hepting. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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| '''Bob Waldrop''', Location
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|[[Image:Bob_waldrop.jpg‎|thumb|Bob Waldrop. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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| '''Nick Sissons''', Location
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|[[Image:Nick_sissons.jpg‎|thumb|Nick Sissons. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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| '''Karl Botha''', Location
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|[[Image:Karl_botha.jpg‎|thumb|Karl Botha. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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| '''Walter Wood''', Location
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|[[Image:Walter wood.jpg|thumb|Walter Wood. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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| '''Matthew Smaus''', Location
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|[[Image:Matthew_smaus.jpg‎|thumb|Matthew Smaus. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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| '''Luis Ospina''', Location
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|[[Image:Luis_Ospina.JPG|thumb|Luis Ospina. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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| '''Matthew Clark''', Location
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|[[Image:MatthewClarkTrueFan.jpg|thumb|Matthew Clark. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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| '''Stu Perera''', Location
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|[[Image:Stu_perera.jpg|thumb|Stu Perera. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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| '''Brett Irish''', Location
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|[[Image:Brett_Irish.jpg|thumb|Brett Irish. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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| '''Antoine Malouin''', Location
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|[[Image:Antoine_Malouin.jpg|thumb|Antoine Malouin. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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| '''Danzig Andersson''', Location
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|[[Image:Danzigandersson.jpg|thumb|Danzig Andersson. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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| '''Ricardo Pereira Filho''', Location
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|[[Image:Ricardo_pereira_filho.jpg‎|thumb|Ricardo Pereira Filho. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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| '''Ted Mosher''', Location
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|[[Image:Ted_mosher.JPG|thumb|Ted Mosher. Joined AAA 2011.]]
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| '''[http://monda.hu László Monda]''', Szeged, Ungarn
Mitt navn er László Monda og jeg er en Fri- og Åpen Kilde programvare/
maskinvareentusiast og en proffesjonell programvareutvikler.
I de siste årene har jeg blitt kjent med forskjellige teknologier som
3D printing, elektronikk, printede kretskortdesign, mikrokontrollerprogrammering
og sånt som har fått meg til å innse det enorme potensialet all denne
teknologien kan tilby folk.

Av alle de forskjellige tror jeg ikke bare at OSE er den
mest ambisiøse, men jeg tror det virkelig har potensialet til å
forandre verden til det bedre. Vi burde ikke gjøre oss avhengige
av bedrifter som hovedsakelig tenker på seg selv når vi kan ha
tillit til oss selv og være opptatt av hverandre og med miljøet.

Jeg er stolt av å ta del i dette engasjementet og ser frem til hva
fremtiden kan bringe.
|[[Image:Laszlo_Monda.png|thumb|László Monda. Medlem siden Mai 2011.]]
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| '''[[User:Mjn|Mark Norton]]''', Willseyville, NY, USA
En venn av meg henviste meg til Marcin's TED talk. Etter å ha sett den, var det ingen vei tilbake. Jeg har vært fasinert av Skaperbevegelsen i mange år nå, men har aldri helt hatt motivasjonen til å bli med, til tross for at jeg er nevenyttig. Jeg bor på en liten gård som kona og jeg har gjort om til et selvforsynt hjem som vi håper ev gang vil forsyne alle våre behov. Gårder trenger verktøy, og det slo meg at GVCS var en storartet måte å få det jeg trengte på - ved å bokstavelig talt bygge dem selv. Jeg er programvareutvikler av yrke og jeg har jobbet med flere tiltak med åpen kilde i løpet av årene, så jeg forstår ganske godt hvorfor arbeidet til OSE er så viktig og også noen av utfordringene det har i vente, spesielt rundt opprettholdbarhet. Derfor er jeg villig til å støtte det jeg sier jeg støtter og bli en Sann Tilhenger.
|[[Image:flannel_sm.JPG|thumb|Mark Norton. Medlem siden April 2011.]]
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| '''[[Dan Miner]]''', New York City, USA
Jeg er glad for at i fra våren 2011, etter utgivelsen av Marcins TED talk, får OSE i det minste en liten fraksjon av oppmerksomheten det fortjener. Hvis flere folk forsto at det drivstofftømming, internasjonale ressurskriger, og klimaforandringer vil gjøre med globalisert produksjon og distribusjon, ville de vært, ah, veldig urolige - og ville løpt for å bestille deres egne Global Village Construction Set. Ikke sikker på om OSE vil bli mer populært enn Lady Gaga - men la oss gjøre oss klare til å oppskalere produksjonen nå! - Dan Miner, New York City - www.beyondoilnyc.org
|[[Image:Dan_Miner-waterfront-5-10.JPG‎|thumb|Dan Miner. Medlem siden Februar 2011.]]
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| '''Javier Rivera''', Spania

Vil se en verdensomspennende Ressursbasert Økonomi, støtter Venusprosjektet ({{LinkLang|Zeitgeist}}) og ble en Sann Tilhenger av OSE i Februar 2011. Ble medlem av wikien dagene etterpå, og prøver å hjelpe med dette fantastiske arbeidet. Jeg ser på OSE som et virkelig skritt i en RBE retning - Dette er bare et nødvendig prosjekt for å skape en åpen verden. Stå på!

|[[Image:javier.jpg|thumb|200px|Javier Riviera. Medlem siden Februar 2011.]]
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| '''Etienne Duport''', Frankrike

Jeg skulle ønske jeg oppdaget OSE prosjektet for lenge siden. Det er veldig spennende! Forhåpentligvis vil alle en dag kunne kopiere disse verktøyene for å leve sine egne autonome liv. Siden jeg er så langt fra moderskipet i Missouri, er donasjoner en smart løsning for å støtte opp om OSE. Må Kraften være med deg ;-)"

|[[Image:etienne.jpg|thumb|200px|Etienne. Medlem siden Februar 2011.]]
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| '''Rasmus Kiehl''', Toronto, Kanada

La oss ta tilbake økonomien! (flere detaljer {{LinkLang|Tim-Rasmus_Kiehl|på min side}} i lagdyrkningsseksjonen).

|[[Image:Rasmus_Kiehl2010.jpg|thumb|200px|Rasmus. Medlem siden Februar 2009.]]
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| '''Steffen Lemmerzahl''', Zurich, Sveits

Global Village Construction Set passer veldig godt med settet av arbeid
som jeg setter veldig stor pris på, slik som prosjektene til D55.dk og
Atelier Van Lieshout innen kunst eller Paolo Soleri innen arkitektur.
Ettersom jeg selv er arkitekt (http://www.slik.ch) med bakgrunn i
CNC-bygde strukturer og parametrisk arkitektur
(http://www.caad.arch.ethz.ch) tenker jeg i en lignende retning
slik dere gjør, så jeg er glad for å kunne støtte deres storartede prosjekt
med min lille donasjon!

|[[Image:steffenlemmerzahl.jpg|thumb|200px|Steffen Lemmerzahl. Medlem siden Februar, 2011.]]
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| '''Angela''', Colorado, USA

Mange ville virkelig tjene på det gruppen din har oppnådd og tingene som kommer. Bravo! Vær så snill å FORTSETT MED DET!. Vi ser på deres suksess og vet at ditt arbeid er veldig viktig og det kunne ikke skjedd på et mer kritisk tidspunkt. Det er så mange mennesker i så mange områder som vil blomstre med verktøyene du vil tilby. I tillegg kan det hende vi får bruk for dem også! Vi har eiendom som har mange trær som ligger og som må kuttes. Områder som må jevnes, og stier som må gjenopprettes, osv. Lykke til og våre beste ønsker til alle dere.

|[[Image:angelah.jpg|thumb|200px|Angela. Medlem siden Februar, 2011.]]
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| '''Charles Kraus''', Storbritannia

Arbeidet dere gjør (og jeg siterer Facebookstatusen min) er “Bokstavelig talt det mest fantastiske prosjektet jeg har sett”.

Jeg har vært interessert i ideen av å være selvforsynt i lang tid, og har faktisk hatt en drøm om å en dag kjøpe min egen øy og begynne et helt selvforsynt samfunn som lever av landet. Det kommer åpenbart aldri til å skje, men uten drømmene våre, hva annet er det å leve for?

Så når jeg ser en hel gruppe individer dedikere tid og energi til bokstavelig talt fundamentet av drømmene mine, følte jeg at jeg måtte bidra med noe, faktisk så er deres sak den første jeg noen sinne har gitt til på månedlig basis!

Det jeg gjerne ville sett er et tall fullstendig selvforsynte småbyer arrangert, Jeg har i løpet av årene besøkt noen kommunale landbruksprosjekt i Israel, men mesteparten av disse har måttet stenge, så jeg håper at med ditt konstruksjonssett kan du forbedre prosjekter som har kommet før. Jeg tror også at med litt arbeid kan verktøyene dine være veldig nyttig i den tredje verden Afrika osv, så å se dine verktøy bli satt i praksis hadde vært flott.

|[[Image:charleskraus.jpg|thumb|200px|Charles Kraus. Medlem siden Februar, 2011.]]
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| '''Joe Ventura''', California, USA

I was extremely excited to learn about Open Source Ecology's work, especially [http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/Global_Village_Construction_Set The Global Village Construction Set]. I'm a communications professional for NGOs and nonprofit organizations. Through my work, I've traveled around the world, including large parts of Asia and Africa. These experiences overseas convinced me of the need for thoughtful planning around the coming transition from a fossil fuel-based economy. I'm hoping that my small monthly contribution will enable this project to continue and expand its impact.
|[[Image:joeventura.jpg|thumb|200px|Joe Ventura. Medlem siden Februar, 2011.]]
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| '''Hans Sendelbach''', Washington State, USA

The core issues underneath all this are really quite serious in nature. In my heart I have known for years what is happening, but the momentum in society is so powerful that it makes it easy to ignore the truth. A few months ago I watched the documentary Collapse, which is a long interview with Michael Ruppert. It shook me out of my state of denial.

In my mind this all comes down to a simple science experiment. If you put bacteria on a growth medium like agar in a petri dish, the population will explode exponentially until the food runs out. The population will plateau and drop off. The plateau and drop off are from two factors, the lack of food and poisoning from waste build up. With humans we need to broaden the definition of food and waste to include the food and waste of our infrastructure such as oil and the waste products from its consumption that leak into the air, soil and water. We are in the same position as the bacteria.

Thankfully organisms are smart and can sense there environment and adjust their growth according to the availability of nutrients or other factors. They are also adaptable and can even evolve new methods of metabolism in order to survive and thrive. Bacteria for example exchange rings of RNA with each other that allow them to generate novel enzymes, so they may adjust their function to match their environment.

RNA is coded information that controls chemical behavior. This sentence is also coded information. Your organism and mine are exchanging data, so that we may tailor our personal and infrastructural metabolism to better fit the ecological limitations we are sensing. This is the heart of what natural systems do.

Open Source Ecology has the potential to facilitate the rapid adaptation of our infrastructural metabolism. My hope is that we will learn how to weave our communities back into the complex fabric of life.

Thank you Marcin et al. for stepping forward with the concept for this movement.

|[[Image:hanssendelbach.jpg|thumb|200px|Hans Sendelbach. Medlem siden Januar, 2011.]]
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| '''Judith Katz''', California, USA

I joined because I think it's high time we develop more sustainable ways to live on this planet and OSE is a viable step in that direction.

|[[Image:judithkatz.jpg|thumb|200px|Judith Katz. Medlem siden Januar, 2011.]]
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| '''Giulia Vianello''', Italy

I think that the [present] economy isn't the right way to run the world. I'm talking about people who can lose everything for more money, even their life. So, maybe that's the most important reason why i have decided to subscribe to your project. I'm sad because the life of many people i know, depends on money. And i want to change this. I think that all environmental problems we actually have on the earth are initially caused by ignorance, and the ignorance is a convenient way to earn. So from your work i would like to see come out free knowledge for all people, so they would be able to better this world through the knowledge and consequent skills acquired from the open source mind!
In this way everyone would understand that we can be free in every aspect of our life, and a free man is a good man. The kit you're building is fantastic and I'm happy to be able to benefit from your work in the future. Thank you very much.

|[[Image:giulia.jpg|thumb|200px|Giulia Vianello. Medlem siden Januar, 2011.]]
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| '''Marcu Knoesen''', Cape Town, South Africa

I can clearly see the need to attain all the goals as set out in OSE. The future has to be more localised. The path we are on at the moment will not end well. It is time to make a course correction in a big way.

|[[Image:marcu.jpg|thumb|200px|Marcu Knoesen. Medlem siden Januar, 2011.]]
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| '''Robert Morris'''

I saw the [http://www.grist.org/article/food-2010-12-29-farmer-scientists-want-to-hack-society article in Grist] today, and have spent the past couple hours looking through your materials. Fascinating stuff.

I have often said that all you need for paradise on earth for 100 people is 5 engineers and a couple doctors. It is gratifying to see that someone is attempting to put it into practice.

My work is not similar at all. My last semester of law school starts on Monday, and I will be embarking on a soul-crushing cubicle-dwelling existence this fall. Happy to be contributing to a new approach, if only in a small way.

|[[Image:robertmorris.jpg|thumb|200px|Robert Morris. Medlem siden Desember, 2010.]]
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| '''Floyd Earl Smith''', San Francisco Bay Area, California

I’m proud to join my fellow True Fans of Open Source Ecology. The Global Village Construction Set embodies human creativity and potential, and at the same time unleashes it. Together we True Fans are supporting less use of fossil fuels for farming, better use of precious fresh water, and slowing and surviving climate change, while improving, not damaging, the land.

|[[Image:floydsmith.jpg|thumb|200px|Floyd Earl Smith. Medlem siden Desember, 2010.]]
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| '''Jonathan Rivera''', Houston, Texas

The work you guys are doing is great! And you guys all deserve support from everyone with a conviction for this cause. I know my contribution is not much but I hope to continue to support any way I can. The resource based economy is an idea that has given me motivation to change my life for the best.

|[[Image:jonathanrivera.jpg|thumb|200px|Jonathan Rivera. Medlem siden Desember, 2010.]]
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| '''Georgy Korablev''', Vancouver, Canada

I am a mathematics student; I support OSE project because it is an audacious step towards the true freedom and liberation of people. I am tired to see countries like Canada spending $35 billion on interest payments annually, and only $3 billion on infrastructure and technology development. I'm tired to see debt growing. I'm tired to see roads broken, schools closed, human rights violated, wars started, technology restrained, people starved, taxes grown, education made into a business, income gap grown, secrets kept from the people, fake government, mindless jobs in corporations competing for a market share, overproduction, manufactured demand and overconsumption, low quality products, inflation, fake research and fake research based on fake research, dollar signs in people's eyes, greed, lies.

People, look around and realize that all the improvement that we had in our lives is due to industrial revolution and rapid development of technology that made things 1000-fold cheaper or more; it is not due lawyers in the government; not due to stock growth, bank loans or corporations.
It is due to people MAKING THINGS, NOT PROFITS. And these people shall have our full support.
|[[Image:georgy.jpg|thumb|200px|Georgy Korablev. Medlem siden Desember, 2010.]]
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| '''Julia Valentine''', California, USA

I recently became a True Fan as a financial supporter. I am a mother, teacher, Permaculturist, and inhabitant of Planet Earth. All of these endeavors require a sense of hope and a belief in the resilience of our species and of Nature as a whole. Where we stand as a society today, in the midst of the industrial growth machine, leaves us lacking in both hope and resilience. I have a base need to foster these qualities, and to create a more livable future for the children I care for and guide into adulthood. I have a true belief in the ingenuity and flexibility of our species to create a new paradigm. OSE is the actual physical manifestation of our amazing capacity to change. To truly change, we must imagine and then create. The humans behind Factor e Farm and Open Source Ecology have imagined and created. They are on their way - leading by example - to this fruitful future I also work to manifest. I am pleased to have the hard work and creative genius of OSE be open to me as a tool to use for building my abundant future and the future of my community. Thank you for daring to both imagine and create.

|[[Image:Juliavalentine.jpg|thumb|200px|Julia Valentine. Medlem siden November, 2010.]]
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| '''Amanda Packard''', Missouri, USA

I am intrigued and inspired by people offering viable solutions to the challenges facing humanity. And above that, people manifesting those solutions ''now'' – Open Source Ecology is doing just that.

I have had the honor of visiting Factor e Farm and seeing some of the tools of GVCS in action – I am deeply moved by this vision and the people behind it, who value not only tangible exhibitions of development, but also a holistic spiritual/meditation practice. I am excited to proudly join others in supporting Open Source Ecology in this paradigm-shifting revolution.
|[[Image:amanda.jpg|thumb|Amanda Packard. Medlem siden November, 2010.]]
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| '''Christian Shearer''', Pacific Northwest, USA
Originally from the Pacific Northwest of the United States, Christian Shearer is the founder and Managing Director of the Panya Project (www.panyaproject.org). He has over six years of permaculture experience, working and living at Lost Valley Education Center outside of Eugene, Oregon, and now residing at the Panya Project in northern Thailand for over five years. He is a permaculture consultant with Terra Genesis International (www.terra-genesis.com), an advisory board member of We Forest (www.weforest.com), a natural builder, a food forest enthusiast, a musician, a certified educator and has extensive knowledge of tropical permaculture systems. He teaches permaculture around the world (Thailand, Malaysia, India, Taiwan, and even Missouri!) and is excited to continue sharing his passion for a better world and learning from all involved!

He is excited to be a True Fan of Open Ecology, because the ultimate goal of what the people at Open Ecology are doing is perfectly in line with the intentions of Permaculture. The synergy between the two could be very powerful in helping to usher in a new way of being for people on this planet based on local production, resiliency and an engaged populace, with more of a focus on the well-being and health of people rather than the economic progress of the wealthy. Christian is proud to lend his support to a movement like Open Ecology that fills such an important niche in helping to bring about the vision of a Permanent Culture.
|[[Image:christiansprofile.jpg|thumb|Christian Shearer, Medlem siden November, 2010.]]
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| '''Nathanael Dinwiddie''', Lawrence, KS, USA
I attended a presentation given by Marcin at the Lawrence Public Library on November 22, 2010. I appreciate Marcin's effort and enthusiasm for this compelling project. I have long been inspired by the vision of Jacque Fresco, and Marcin is generally preparing the beginning stages for the achievement of that grand vision. We must evolve in the way of this project.
|[[File:P1010717.JPG|thumb|Nathanael Dinwiddie. Medlem siden November 2011.]]
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| '''Isaiah Saxon''', Aptos, USA
I'm a filmmaker, technologist, and one of the instigators of an egalitarian community of 17 people, called Trout Gulch, where we are building a studio, village, farm, and maker space inspired by the actions of Christopher Alexander, Will Allen, Sepp Holzer, and Marcin. My film team, [http://www.esquire.com/features/best-and-brightest-2009/encyclopedia-pictura-1209 Encyclopedia Pictura], is working with hollywood to create a new populist heroic myth for the maker movement.

I'm anticipating that the entire GVCS will be created and documented, then replicated by mechanics, geeks, hippies, weekend warriors, and tough guys that are into their trucks. I think OSE is contributing tangibly and symbolically to the greater cultural shift toward localism, authenticity, and DIY green tech.
|[[Image:Isaiah.jpg|thumb|Isaiah Saxon. Medlem siden August 4, 2010.]]
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| '''David Crary''', Seattle, USA
I have been really searching to find people out there who are actually experimenting with new forms of social organization where it is possible to create advanced culture - that is thriving in abundance and largely autonomous, creating a model for everyone...so kudos to you guys. Keep up the great work!
|[[Image:davidcrary.jpg|thumb|David Crary, Seattle, USA. Medlem siden Juli, 2010.]]
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| '''Benjamin Kaplin'''
I'm a mechanical engineering student, and I support the OSE because a completed Open Source Village kit would represent several orders of magnitude of improvement over existing projects to improve living conditions around the globe with technology. I grew up reading Stephenson, and one of the most powerful images in his book <em>Diamond Age</em> is The Seed, a nanotechnology McGuffin that one of the main characters devotes his life to that would take the control of production and self-determination out of the hands of the McCorporations and put it into the hands of revolutionaries and the impoverished.
Needless to say, nanotech is still several decades away from that dream, and contributing to the True Fans campaign helps a realistic Seed program without pulling me away from my studies.
|[[Image:0213090948.jpg|thumb|Benjamin Kaplin]]
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| '''Paul D. Mamigonian'''
The Open Source Ecology group are making self sufficient living real. Through the Zeitgeist movement and groups like the Open Source Ecology the example is being set that we can come away from the corrupt monetary system. How many times do you hear people say " BUT WHAT CAN WE DO?". There IS SO MUCH THAT can be done and IS BEING DONE. THE TIME IS RIGHT, THE METHODS ARE HERE AND SO IS THE TECHNOLOGY. Please see my site www.livegreenliveclean.org. The Open Source Ecology group are leading the way, and it's up to us all to follow their lead.
|[[Image:paulm.jpg|thumb|Paul D. Mamigonian]]
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| '''Marcin Jakubowski''', opensourceecology at gmail dot com, marcin_ose on Skype
I started the campaign because I have observed how little of humanity's true potential has been tapped. Everyone slaves their life away to a system that is crumbling at the seams. I believe that we can all reach absolute prosperity and evolve to freedom - by becoming skilled and productive [[Integrated Humans]], and by helping anyone else to do the same. History has shown that this is a general formula for lasting prosperity. As long as we're wise, it should be trivial to get beyond the economics of scarcity. We need to show the world how to build the world's first, replicable, open source Global Village.
|[[Image:marcin.jpg|thumb|Marcin Jakubowski]]
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| '''Scott Akridge'''
As I get older I'm more and more interested in helping people. A couple weeks back I enlisted the help of a friend to help in developing a CEB press when I began doing research and found www.openfarmtech.org with the open source CEB press. I continued looking for more information but kept coming back to this site for more info and learned more about the project and found I wanted to get involved. I started by becoming a member and donating $10 a month with plans to build the CEB press and build a couple structures then make the effort a cooperative. After reading more I've decided to also build a sawmill, assuming I can recruit some help. I think this is a great project and am excited to be a part of it in a small way.
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| '''Toby Martin'''
I support OSE because...
* It's an intelligent and direct effort to address some of the most serious problems we face as individuals and as a society.
* It's one of the most interesting and creative projects I've ever heard of.
* I see no reason in principle that it can't improve people's lives.
* It's actually happening.
|[[Image:TF2.jpg|thumb|Toby Martin]]
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| '''Lucas González''', imagina (dot) canarias at gmail dot com [[Image:lucas.JPG|thumb|Lucas Gonzalez]]
I support OSE because both the model and the elements add some important missing pieces to what I perceive is going on.
* I think it's important to have local possibilities for water, food and energy everywhere. Not just at the household level but more importantly at the village or more aggregated levels. Even if you end up buying stuff from elsewhere, it's best if that happens by choice, not by necessity. It was not by choice when things were local by default and it's not by choice now that things are global by default.
* The whole process of open sharing of ideas, processes, know-how is intriguing and, at the very least, extremely fun to watch. (I really wish I had more time to join in myself, but I'm doing things that need doing. So I [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Video_translation translate], [http://imagina-canarias.blogspot.com/search/label/open%20farm%20tech tell others], and chip in with a little cash, less than what others spend in smoking. My choice.)
* I'm particularly interested in some items for specific locations. Energy for water in sunny places is a must. Shelter and water collection systems. You name it.
* Do we really know how far and how fast this can go? I think there's bound to be a catalitic process so that more and more technologies will come out openly, in an exciting incarnation of the Stone Soup story. So I want to help keep the fire going.
* It really looks like this can be done, should be done, will be done in 2 years. Less than 2 years now. The whole world now has a sense of urgency, I feel. I'd like to see what we can do after this. But the time is ripe for this, now.
* It's interesting to note how open content gives us a sense of ownership. Many have felt that with software. I want to see that with hardware.
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'''Joseph Zarr''', joseph.zarr@gmail.com [[Image:DSC_0169.JPG|thumb|Joseph Zarr]]

I am an anthropologist, a farmer, and a permaculturist by training. I support OSE because, well, let's be frank: This is arguably the coolest project on the planet. I am most attracted to Factor E Farm and OSE because of the overall themes of personal improvement (via daily spiritual and physical discipline - in whatever forms a person deems appropriate), human production, and an intertwined personal and community growth. We must collaboratively market the ownership of our futures.

"For less than the price of one coffee per week, for less than the price of one first class stamp per day, you can help change the world. Subscribe!"

As our resource pool dwindles globally, largely due to corporate theft and errant industrial practices, we will have to produce locally and 'in-source'. With a dwindling petroleum base, our dream of cheap energy will disappear. These are simple facts. We must invest human energies in locally-based solutions. We must ignore our propagandized 'reality' and create a meaningful existence together.
With drastically increasing populations (estimated 70 million per year), we must teach ourselves the merits of collaboration, co-housing, and SHARING. My opinion is the era of individualized ownership is archaic and ill-advised. Only by sharing and producing what we actually need, and sharing what we already have (be it skills, books, resources etc.), will we experience the next stage of cultural progress. Hopefully, in the not so distant future our children's hands will not deform due to excessive playing of video games but, rather, they will callous, strengthen and scar due to meaningful labor and a 'hands-on' reality; i.e. literacy, numeracy, production = freedom. The only debts we owe are to ourselves and our community. Let's pay up.

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I'm founder United Diversity and co-founder of The Open Co-op and support this project because of all the many many VERY cool projects I follow, this is perhaps the most inspiring and important. I can't think of a better way I could possibly spend my money.
|[[Image:jdaviescoates.jpg|thumb|Josef Davies-Coates]]
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| '''Reto Stauss''', reto.stauss(at)gmail.com, rstauss on Skype

I am mainly attracted by the momentum this projects develops. And of course because it is not talking but doing. My hope is that inspires my own little project (actually it already did): [http://manufakturingruendung.ch/en open source goods produced by small, agile manufactories]. Lucas, Joseph, sign your points.
|[[Image:Reto.jpg|thumb|Reto Stauss]]
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| '''Geoff Capper''', geoff (at) floodstreetfarmlet.net
I am supporting OSE because it is showing us that it is possible to regain control over the complex systems that to an extent have come to rule our lives. We can build our own machinery, we can build our own future, we can be free. The activity at Factor e Farm is truly inspiring, and I hope to use many of the products building up our own small farm, which may hopefully inspire others locally.
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| '''Tom Lindsey''', thomas.lindsey at gmail dot com
I support OSE because I want Factor e Farm to succeed so I can use the tools they are developing, replicate Factor e Farm, and create a future of freedom for myself and loved ones.
|[[Image:tomlindsey.jpg|thumb|Tom Lindsey and Boomer]]
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| '''Edward Miller''', embraceunity -at- gmail dot com
I became a true fan because I would like to see our civilization become more resilient by using decentralized technological solutions, and to evolve towards a post-scarcity society. I plan to move on site soon to help build a RepRap machine.
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| '''Jussi Haverinen''', haverinen.jussi at gmail dot com
I'm a strong believer in power of free software approach to technology and very interested in transformative technology and it's effect on society. Politically I'm an social ecologist and I do think that the main task that has to be done is to abolish capitalism and the state through direct democracy in the cities and neighbourhoods (confederated together of course). My skills: mostly computer knowledge, relatively good unix admin skills, and some language skills but that's about it. I only have limited knowledge of farming, construction, electronics, handcraft, but I'm willing to learn.
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| '''Mark Thomas''', factore at thomastechcon dot com
My wife and I are serial homesteaders--we built up a goat dairy from scratch in South Africa, a [http://thomasphotos.wordpress.com small livestock farm in Appalachia], and are just starting on a lambing operation in Southside Virginia.

Politically, I base my ethics on the [[Nonaggression Axiom]] and I do think that the main task that has to be done is to abolish democracy and the state through direct capitalism. Apologies to Jussi above! I do my political writing at [http://distributedrepublic.net/blog/mark Distributed Republic] and much of my reading at [http://mises.org/ the Ludwig von Mises Institute].
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| '''David Voeller''', carefulwiththat at gmail dot com
Open Source Ecology is applying knowledge and skill in the most effective way possible, to create a livable future. The convergence of Permaculture principles and Open Source methodology has been a long time coming. Open Source has shown us that technological advancement need not be encumbered by destructive and wasteful hierarchical control. Permaculture has taught us that a fulfilling and ethical life is not only possible, but realistic in a variety of climates and conditions. Open Source Ecology's work has the possibility to allow many more people to live within their resources; and to drastically increase the quality of life for those already doing so.
|[[Image:David Voeller.jpg|thumb|David Voeller]]
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| '''Eric Hunting''', TheMillennialProject at gmail.com
We are on the cusp of a transformation in the nature of our civilization. A fundamental shift in the way just about everything works in our society predicated on the evolution of the processes and technologies by which just about everything in our habitat is made. Emerging digital fabrication technology combined with emerging awareness of the factors of industrial sustainability are not only changing how we make things but who is making them and where. Industrial Age paradigms that have been concentrating industrial, economic, and political power for a century are failing in the face of a progressive shrinking, smartening, and demassifying of the tools of production and communication. Open Source Ecology is on the cutting edge of this transformation, pursuing and cultivating a spectrum of tools, new and old, that can realize a radical new level of sustainable community self-sufficiency with the intent of disseminating these tools globally. The Factor E Farm project is an incubator for a nascent movement with world-sweeping potential.
|[[Image:EricHuntingAv.jpg|thumb|Eric Hunting]]
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| '''[http://blog.erikdebruijn.nl/ Erik de Bruijn]''', ose at erikdebruijn.nl
We've heard about, or even experienced, the collaborative power of passionate individuals around the world. When they join hands, contributing their energy, freely sharing their ideas and building on them, this mode of production can be highly productive. It may well outperform the traditionally closed 'institutional' mode of production, like Wikipedia is giving us an abundance of knowledge at no cost. OSE attempts, and is actually very successful at extending this notion of knowledge sharing into a way of living.
They codify and freely reveal their knowledge into design files and rich instructional material such as video tutorials. Those serve to inspire, but also to practically make this concept replicable and effective.
|[[Image:erikdebruijn.jpg|thumb|Erik de Bruijn]]
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| '''A. N. Alias''', anon23bf at nyx dot net
I support OSE because we need viable alternatives to the military-industrial complex as a foundation for survival in the near future, particularly if predictions about the coming hyperinflationary depression turn out to be well founded.
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| '''[http://ollehost.dk/blog/ Olle Jonsson]''', olle.jonsson at gmail dot com
I had seen the impressive LifeTrac project on the web, but when I heard about the [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=1254 RepLab] initiative, I was hooked. I'm just a random web developer, but I want to help push toward a generalized, open digital fabrication toolkit. When each hackerspace, lab, and interested individual has access to equipment like that, things get really interesting.
|[[Image:olleolleolle.jpg|thumb|Olle Jonsson]]
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| '''Maureen''', baubo at dishmail.net
I support factor E open source farm because when the cheap industrial food machine breaks down for lack of diesel fuel and capital, people are going to be shocked, angry and then desperate to learn a new way of living. OSE is not just a theory, a book or a blue print. It’s an open source physical model of a DIY food, energy and shelter producing system. Large-scale industrialization was largely a wrong turn for humanity. By shrinking the scale, localizing throughputs, working smarter and sharing information globally we can create a bright new future – a true renaissance. Factor E farm is breaking trail for us all. I can’t think of a better investment.
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| '''[http://bit.ly/elifarley-buzz Elifarley]''', ''my first name'' @opensourceecology.org

I found out about Open Source Ecology after watching the Zeitgeist Addendum movie. That movie sparkled my curiosity and I started a quest to understand the problems and possible solutions to our society's needs.

In this quest, I found out some very exciting ideas, groups and people, like the Transition Towns movement (concerned with peak oil), The Venus Project and RBE Foundation (moneyless, cybernated society), Common Good Bank (alternative currency system), RepRap (self-replicating, open source 3D printer), the P2P Foundation, and the OSE site, to name a few.

You may have noticed that all these projects and movements seem to have a common goal, they all seem to propose that we forget all artificial limitations (and scarcity) and we all seek union to improve our lives and sustainability. Without artificial limitations, we all can have much much better lives. That's the message I can hear all these people and movements resounding.

I'd say that The Venus Project champions ideas, whereas OSE materializes them, performing concrete actions that will move our world forward.

I'm confident that our small contributions to this cause will add up and have a tremendous positive result for everybody.

''(In Portuguese)''

Descobri o site da Open Source Ecology depois de assistir ao filme Zeitgeist Addendum. Esse filme despertou minha curiosidade e então comecei uma busca para entender os problemas e as possíveis soluções para a nossa sociedade.

Nessa busca, descobri algumas ideias, grupos e pessoas muito interessantes, como o movimento Transition Towns (preocupado com a dependência ao petróleo), o Venus Project e a RBE Foundation (sociedade sem uso do dinheiro, automatizada), Banco do Bem Comum (sistema de moeda alternativa), RepRap (impressora 3D de desenho aberto, auto-replicante), a Fundação P2P, e o site OSE, dentro vários outros.

Vocês podem ter notado que todos esses projetos e movimentos parecem ter um objetivo comum, eles parecem propor que esqueçamos todas as limitações artificiais (e escassez) e que todos busquemos união para melhorar nossas vidas e sustentabilidade. Sem limitações artificiais, todos nós podemos viver muito melhor. Essa é a mensagem que eu posso escutar todas essas pessoas e movimentos ressoando.

Eu diria que o Venus Project dissemina ideias, enquanto que a OSE as materializa, realizando ações concretas que irão avançar o nosso mundo.

Estou confiante que nossas pequenas contribuições a essa causa irão se juntar e terão um resultado tremendamente positivo para todo o mundo.
|[[Image:Ecruz.jpg|thumb|Elifarley Cruz]]
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| '''Shaun Warkentin'''
What money buys is technology, luxury. What technology and luxury buy are pleasure, physical health, and free time for the intellectual, spiritual, relational, creative pursuits that are the constitutive properties of real wealth (a widening of awareness and knowledge) unavailable within a purely subsistence economy. The equation linking money to wealth must be broken (along with the power structures that encroach upon the agency and freedom of most of humanity and the biosphere). OSE appears to be demonstrating how this might be achieved.
|[[Image:Shaun_jump.jpg|thumb|Shaun Warkentin]]
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| '''Aigars Brūvelis''', abruvelis at gmail dot com
This is it. Linux will fully replace windows and in 50 years Open Source Harware will replace most of the commerce. Get on with it.
|[[Image:aigarsbruvelis.jpg|thumb|Aigars Bruvelis from Latvia/UK]]
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| '''Lucas''',
I contribute to OSE because I got tired of all the organizations that claim to be "promoting" sustainability through advocacy and lobbying, which usually merely contributes to the inertia and complexity of our current patently unsustainable society without producing any truly meaningful effect on regular peoples' relation to the economy and planet. We need tangible means and methods to take our lives into our own hands and reduce our reliance on global industrial market structures, not rhetoric and posturing. OSE is one of the few operations that has taken up the task of rebuilding and redesigning material existence to cope with the inevitability of a resource-scarce future. The advancements made at this important project are setting precedents that simply are not being set anywhere else, and I hope to personally be using some of the methods and technologies being developed; from that standpoint, I view my financial contribution as an investment, not a gift. At some point in time those of us who philosophically stand opposed to the dominant paradigms of mass consumerism and ecological exceptionalism must stop talking and starting acting, and OSE is doing just that.
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| '''Peter Koeleman'''
I would love to see the Factor e Farm evolve into a self-sufficient, renewable and socially superior society.

The technological steps towards freedom that the Factor e Farm project take are very interesting to me because I am an IT specialist. I had a taste of gcode a long while back and work with Linux every day as my primairy OS. The modular hardware design makes this technology easy to comprehend and use, even for non-engineers like myself.

The freedom part of this project is what I think will be the most important part of the near future in escaping a corporate ruled society of ever more money spending (=debt building) consumers. The need for economic growth simply isn't sustainable. Those who manufacture and manage their own resources are the only ones who know the real cost of things.
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| '''Daniel Slate''', danieldavidslate + gmail and the rest
This is the real thing, and what you're doing is absolutely necessary. The numerous possibilities that can grow from this...general resilience, a reboot/revision of kibbutzim/moshavim in America or elsewhere, so many other possibilities...building the platform is worth doing. Ideas become real through action. What I see coming out of this work is a way to test out applied philosophies of responsible liberty.
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| '''Adam Mitchell''', mitch dot ad at gmail dot com
If organizations were measured in terms of ''relevancy'' of work, ''loftiness'' of their goals and their ability to ''inspire'' others, Open Source Ecology --''no doubt''-- would be at the top of anyone's list. I am proud to support their endeavor, however small, in hopes that together we can build a better world and encourage others to become more [[Integrated Humans]].
|[[Image:Fiji.jpg|thumb|Adam Mitchell]]
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| '''Anna Przychodzki'''
I was very excited to discover the work of Open Source Ecology; I had no idea people were doing this. I stopped taking science class in my second year of high school so the technical stuff goes way over my head... what I do understand is the intent of the work and the implications of success. The life I want is out of reach for now... but if I support OSE, maybe I can have it in the future. OSE seems to bring us closer to what I believe are our birth-rights: sustainability, economic freedom and quality of life by way of human ingenuity and cooperation, not competition.
|[[Image:annaprzychodzki.jpg|thumb|Anna Przychodzki]]
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| '''Nathan Luedtke'''

I think I found out about Factor E Farm through John Robb's blog Global Guerillas, or at least through that general section of the net, which I am interested in and have been following for some time. I have been tracking your project for a little over a year, and was inspired to contribute when i saw that recently you seem to have hit a tipping point and have been making quick progress which probably will require a little more cashflow.

In terms of what I would like to see come out of it- exactly what you are doing. All of the positive movements that I see out there- Permaculture, Open Source, Transition, etc etc- all of them are integrated in your program. With OSE/FEF, you have a very scientific/rational approach that I appreciate. Long term, I would love to see OSE ideas spread and populate worldwide, and see the technology package implemented and developed further at other sites, both in the USA and as a more successful "technology transfer" to the third world.
|[[Image:nathanluedtke.jpg|thumb|Nathan Luedtke.]]
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'''Devin Balkind'''
An abundant future is dependent on open technologies that fulfill people's most basic needs: food, water and shelter. The fact that this type of work isn't widely recognized as the foundation of a more efficient, equitable and enlightened civilization is a testament to the confusion of our times. Consider me at your service.
|[[Image:DevinProfile.jpg|thumb|Devin Balkind, Since August 2010]]
|[[Image:DevinProfile2.jpg|thumb|Devin Balkind for real.]]
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| '''Ivan Garcia''', ivan at movimientozeitgeist dot org
I've been a OSS programmer for like 8 years now and I love the idea of OS Hardware and the great suistaniblity revolution that the OSE guys are doing. I'm also a supporter of the Zeitgeist Movement in Spain and they both share very similar goals. What you are doing is absolutelly necessary and meaningful for our future!
|[[Image:ivangarcia.jpg|thumb|Ivan Garcia]]
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| [http://permakent.com/ '''J. Kent Hastings'''], USA
The OSE (Open Source Ecology) "True Fan" program is a grass roots way to crowdsource funding for the goal to develop the essential 40 pieces required to make up the complete "Resilient Community Construction Set," an advanced industrial economy in a box that can be deployed inexpensively anywhere in the world.

The cost is reduced to one tenth normal thanks to the savings from using open source software and hardware designs. The components are essential to life and work in the system rather than just decorative knick knacks or toys that Makers like to dabble with and are "designed for disassembly" so each component, like the Life Trac tractor for example, is easy to repair with bolts and simple tools such as wrenches, and easy to modify and improve.
|[[Image:permakent.jpg|thumb|J. Kent Hastings, Medlem siden August 2010]]
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| '''Søren Poulsen''', Denmark
Words like ''empowerment'' or ''freedom'' get a whole new meaning when you talk about
having the skill set, to create everything you need from nothing.
|[[Image:Soeren_Poulsen.jpg|thumb|Søren Poulsen|130px]]
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| [[Nikolay Georgiev]], Karlsruhe, Germany
Open Source Ecology is based on Natural Principles which consequences have been shown to be positive for a lot of natural and technological systems.

* Decentralization (instead of Centralization) of Power – proven pattern in a lot of networks, like technology (internet, web site development, …) and human relationships (politics, religion/spirituality, family, …).
* Self-Sufficiency – basic needs for living are covered and produced by the local people. No need for dependence. In the future if there is dependency it will be in the form of collaboration.
* Openness – sharing documentation, product design and development process. Being able to change and adapt the products.
* Product Quality – life-time, modular and systems Design.
* Collaboration (instead of using other people for self-interest) – getting people together by purpose and values, and not by force, is much better for the producers and the consumers as well.
* Replicability – giving birth of open sourced, modern-living villages is just amazing! Having the choice of replicability saves a lot of time and work.

It is crucially important that we go beyond life of survival. Survival mode is pushing everyone to take resources from other people, not considering their allowance, health and their community. When we are in survival mode we often neglect our own values and push other people in order to survive.

When we reach the state of living where all basic needs are covered, every person on this planet will have much bigger possibility to develop his own potential. Right now only a very small percentage of the human population have the time and possibilities to develop themselves – to guide their own life in the direction they want, to contribute to the society by using their abilities in their fullness. Most people in the world are fighting, struggling, working only for their own survival or that of their own families, and higher goals and desires like developing themselves and contributing to society are not possible and of low priority.

We need new models of economy and living based on openness, giving and sharing. Open Source Ecology is headed clearly in this direction, giving back freedom to where it belongs.

|[[Image:Nikolaygeorgiev-tall.jpg‎|thumb|Nikolay Georgiev, Medlem siden September 2010]]
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| '''Dario Figueira''', Portugal, wurmdario at gmail dot com
I became a true fan simply because I was already monetarily supporting a NGO. And for me, you seem to be doing better work, or more important work than they were. So please continue XD.
[[User:WurmD|WurmD]] 23 August 2010 (UTC)
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| '''Matthias''', neodynos-at-googlemail-dot-com
Thinking about what's wrong with the world, I found that huge aggregations of power and of money are the main tools we as humans use to oppress and exploit. That led me to support Open Source Ecology as a decentralized alternative.

And while I am convinced that the ultimate solution (one that transcends even death) is not to be found through technology but rather through sound theology -- I am also convinced that the work of OSE can provide all of us with a better world ''until'' death.
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| '''Chris Berry''', France
What immediately impressed me about what you are doing is that...... well, this is something that could actually work. Much of the ecology movement seems to really depend on shifting human nature (ie modern capitalism will work just fine so long as people breed a bit less, consume a bit less, etc- its never going to work, at best we'll destroy the planet in the next 200 years instead of the next 50).

People need to be offered something genuinely
better. And really, when you look at it, it shouldn't be difficult to beat this modern lifestyle based on greed and envy and selfishness, with rampant crime and suicide and mental illness, people drowning in debt, and every system we depend on falling to pieces in front of us.
|[[Image:chrisberry.jpg|thumb|Chris Berry, Medlem siden Oktober, 2010.]]
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| '''Stewart Easton''', Vancouver, Canada
I was exposed your work through listening to VTV’s show in the archives. I have a background in biology, but I work in finance, so I have taken the route of “those who can not do, help”. The help in my case is money and I will spread the word of your work as I spend much time on other forums debating the merits of an RBE, and I always use your organization as an example of people building the technology to advance the concept.

I am part of the Vancouver Chapter of the Zeitgeist movement and I think the work you are doing is great and we as a movement need to do more to help you with your goals. You are building the technology that is going to make an RBE possible.
|[[Image:stewarteaston.jpg|thumb|Stewart Easton, Medlem siden September, 2010.]]
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| '''Daniel Morlan''', Indiana, USA

I will be watching you folks closely. I heard you on the V-Radio show a couple of times, and your methodology is far more inspiring to me than the mere lip-service that most put out, including myself. (I am the “editor in chief” of the Indiana Zeitgeist Newsletter.) and an acquaintance of Neil Kiernan, and I am enthralled with what you folks are doing.
|[[Image:danielmorlan.jpg|thumb|Daniel Morlan, Medlem siden August, 2010.]]
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| '''Shakti Saraswati''', Brisbane, Australia (mail at shakti dot id dot au)

I have come to the Open Source Ecology, from the Zeitgeist movement and see this as a natural transition from something quite absurd to a more practical way to live our lives. By doing nothing we have allowed this silly profit system overrule common sense and go so viral as to be totally dysfunctional. Society spends all of its time solving problems that are symptomatic and never go any deeper to find causal remedy.

The fact that people can earn money without actually contributing anything of substance is an unbelievable waste of potential usefulness. 80% of the population do this while fiddling the figures, they are totally consumed. Imagine if that problem solving potential was put to good use.

As a musician I find it an incredible distraction living in a society that has not, after 5000 years of civilisation, actually become civilised yet. A lot of the mental energy that I need to improve myself as a musician is wasted basically trying to survive. I have learned to live off the smell of an oily rag, and my priority is improving myself to the detriment of living comfort, and that is because society does not work efficiently.

I see Open source Ecology as the first rung in the ladder to improving all that ails the world. The important thing to mention here is the fact that everything that each individual knows is the collection of their experience of everyone else around them, so they have no right to exclusivity and have a duty to share. There is no reason why all land and resources should not benefit all people. The understanding of this will eliminate all the unnecessary conflict that we have today. The challenge is to put it into practice for the greater good without sacrificing the individual. This will happen when we share the workload and become responsible.

Fulfilment in life comes from hands on achievement and when everybody is contributing instead of building locks and walls while fiddling figures, I bet we have a much more harmonious and luxurious lifestyle without the fear. The real challenges will be then what will affect us all as a human species, rather than just individual survival.

So thank you Open Source Ecology for putting the wheels in motion of the ground-up transition to self-sustaining systems open for the improvement of all who contribute, not just those who wish to profit and exploit.

|[[Image:Shakti.jpg|thumb|Shakti Saraswati. Medlem siden Nov., 2009.]]
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'''Carolyn Phillips''', Adelaide, Australia [[File:Cari.jpg |thumb|Carolyn]]

I’ve always liked smart, lean design and this project seems both smart and lean. I hope you make some headway without the bureaucratic bloat that seems to ultimately spoil good ideas.
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=Video Introductions=
*Marcin Jakubowski - August, 2010 - <html><object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14161032&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14161032&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/14161032">Marcin's Personlige Introduksjon til Sanne Tilhengere</a> fra <a href="http://vimeo.com/user2016419">Marcin Jakubowski</a> på <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p></html>

*Adam Mitchell - August, 2010 - <html><object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14138729&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14138729&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/14138729">Sanne Tilhengere Introduksjon</a> fra <a href="http://vimeo.com/user2333113">Adam Mitchell</a> på <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p></html>

=Sanne Tilhengere=

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| '''[http://monda.hu László Monda]''', Szeged, Ungarn
Mitt navn er László Monda og jeg er en Fri- og Åpen Kilde programvare/
maskinvareentusiast og en proffesjonell programvareutvikler.
I de siste årene har jeg blitt kjent med forskjellige teknologier som
3D printing, elektronikk, printede kretskortdesign, mikrokontrollerprogrammering
og sånt som har fått meg til å innse det enorme potensialet all denne
teknologien kan tilby folk.

Av alle de forskjellige tror jeg ikke bare at OSE er den
mest ambisiøse, men jeg tror det virkelig har potensialet til å
forandre verden til det bedre. Vi burde ikke gjøre oss avhengige
av bedrifter som hovedsakelig tenker på seg selv når vi kan ha
tillit til oss selv og være opptatt av hverandre og med miljøet.

Jeg er stolt av å ta del i dette engasjementet og ser frem til hva
fremtiden kan bringe.
|[[Image:Laszlo_Monda.png|thumb|László Monda. Medlem siden Mai 2011.]]
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| '''[[User:Mjn|Mark Norton]]''', Willseyville, NY, USA
En venn av meg henviste meg til Marcin's TED talk. Etter å ha sett den, var det ingen vei tilbake. Jeg har vært fasinert av Skaperbevegelsen i mange år nå, men har aldri helt hatt motivasjonen til å bli med, til tross for at jeg er nevenyttig. Jeg bor på en liten gård som kona og jeg har gjort om til et selvforsynt hjem som vi håper ev gang vil forsyne alle våre behov. Gårder trenger verktøy, og det slo meg at GVCS var en storartet måte å få det jeg trengte på - ved å bokstavelig talt bygge dem selv. Jeg er programvareutvikler av yrke og jeg har jobbet med flere tiltak med åpen kilde i løpet av årene, så jeg forstår ganske godt hvorfor arbeidet til OSE er så viktig og også noen av utfordringene det har i vente, spesielt rundt opprettholdbarhet. Derfor er jeg villig til å støtte det jeg sier jeg støtter og bli en Sann Tilhenger.
|[[Image:flannel_sm.JPG|thumb|Mark Norton. Medlem siden April 2011.]]
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| '''[[Dan Miner]]''', New York City, USA
Jeg er glad for at i fra våren 2011, etter utgivelsen av Marcins TED talk, får OSE i det minste en liten fraksjon av oppmerksomheten det fortjener. Hvis flere folk forsto at det drivstofftømming, internasjonale ressurskriger, og klimaforandringer vil gjøre med globalisert produksjon og distribusjon, ville de vært, ah, veldig urolige - og ville løpt for å bestille deres egne Global Village Construction Set. Ikke sikker på om OSE vil bli mer populært enn Lady Gaga - men la oss gjøre oss klare til å oppskalere produksjonen nå! - Dan Miner, New York City - www.beyondoilnyc.org
|[[Image:Dan_Miner-waterfront-5-10.JPG‎|thumb|Dan Miner. Medlem siden Februar 2011.]]
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| '''Javier Rivera''', Spania

Vil se en verdensomspennende Ressursbasert Økonomi, støtter Venusprosjektet ({{LinkLang|Zeitgeist}}) og ble en Sann Tilhenger av OSE i Februar 2011. Ble medlem av wikien dagene etterpå, og prøver å hjelpe med dette fantastiske arbeidet. Jeg ser på OSE som et virkelig skritt i en RBE retning - Dette er bare et nødvendig prosjekt for å skape en åpen verden. Stå på!

|[[Image:javier.jpg|thumb|200px|Javier Riviera. Medlem siden Februar 2011.]]
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| '''Etienne Duport''', Frankrike

Jeg skulle ønske jeg oppdaget OSE prosjektet for lenge siden. Det er veldig spennende! Forhåpentligvis vil alle en dag kunne kopiere disse verktøyene for å leve sine egne autonome liv. Siden jeg er så langt fra moderskipet i Missouri, er donasjoner en smart løsning for å støtte opp om OSE. Må Kraften være med deg ;-)"

|[[Image:etienne.jpg|thumb|200px|Etienne. Medlem siden Februar 2011.]]
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| '''Rasmus Kiehl''', Toronto, Kanada

La oss ta tilbake økonomien! (flere detaljer {{LinkLang|Tim-Rasmus_Kiehl|på min side}} i lagdyrkningsseksjonen).

|[[Image:Rasmus_Kiehl2010.jpg|thumb|200px|Rasmus. Medlem siden Februar 2009.]]
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| '''Steffen Lemmerzahl''', Zurich, Sveits

Global Village Construction Set passer veldig godt med settet av arbeid
som jeg setter veldig stor pris på, slik som prosjektene til D55.dk og
Atelier Van Lieshout innen kunst eller Paolo Soleri innen arkitektur.
Ettersom jeg selv er arkitekt (http://www.slik.ch) med bakgrunn i
CNC-bygde strukturer og parametrisk arkitektur
(http://www.caad.arch.ethz.ch) tenker jeg i en lignende retning
slik dere gjør, så jeg er glad for å kunne støtte deres storartede prosjekt
med min lille donasjon!

|[[Image:steffenlemmerzahl.jpg|thumb|200px|Steffen Lemmerzahl. Medlem siden Februar, 2011.]]
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| '''Angela''', Colorado, USA

Mange ville virkelig tjene på det gruppen din har oppnådd og tingene som kommer. Bravo! Vær så snill å FORTSETT MED DET!. Vi ser på deres suksess og vet at ditt arbeid er veldig viktig og det kunne ikke skjedd på et mer kritisk tidspunkt. Det er så mange mennesker i så mange områder som vil blomstre med verktøyene du vil tilby. I tillegg kan det hende vi får bruk for dem også! Vi har eiendom som har mange trær som ligger og som må kuttes. Områder som må jevnes, og stier som må gjenopprettes, osv. Lykke til og våre beste ønsker til alle dere.

|[[Image:angelah.jpg|thumb|200px|Angela. Medlem siden Februar, 2011.]]
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| '''Charles Kraus''', Storbritannia

Arbeidet dere gjør (og jeg siterer Facebookstatusen min) er “Bokstavelig talt det mest fantastiske prosjektet jeg har sett”.

Jeg har vært interessert i ideen av å være selvforsynt i lang tid, og har faktisk hatt en drøm om å en dag kjøpe min egen øy og begynne et helt selvforsynt samfunn som lever av landet. Det kommer åpenbart aldri til å skje, men uten drømmene våre, hva annet er det å leve for?

Så når jeg ser en hel gruppe individer dedikere tid og energi til bokstavelig talt fundamentet av drømmene mine, følte jeg at jeg måtte bidra med noe, faktisk så er deres sak den første jeg noen sinne har gitt til på månedlig basis!

Det jeg gjerne ville sett er et tall fullstendig selvforsynte småbyer arrangert, Jeg har i løpet av årene besøkt noen kommunale landbruksprosjekt i Israel, men mesteparten av disse har måttet stenge, så jeg håper at med ditt konstruksjonssett kan du forbedre prosjekter som har kommet før. Jeg tror også at med litt arbeid kan verktøyene dine være veldig nyttig i den tredje verden Afrika osv, så å se dine verktøy bli satt i praksis hadde vært flott.

|[[Image:charleskraus.jpg|thumb|200px|Charles Kraus. Medlem siden Februar, 2011.]]
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| '''Joe Ventura''', California, USA

I was extremely excited to learn about Open Source Ecology's work, especially [http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/Global_Village_Construction_Set The Global Village Construction Set]. I'm a communications professional for NGOs and nonprofit organizations. Through my work, I've traveled around the world, including large parts of Asia and Africa. These experiences overseas convinced me of the need for thoughtful planning around the coming transition from a fossil fuel-based economy. I'm hoping that my small monthly contribution will enable this project to continue and expand its impact.
|[[Image:joeventura.jpg|thumb|200px|Joe Ventura. Medlem siden Februar, 2011.]]
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| '''Hans Sendelbach''', Washington State, USA

The core issues underneath all this are really quite serious in nature. In my heart I have known for years what is happening, but the momentum in society is so powerful that it makes it easy to ignore the truth. A few months ago I watched the documentary Collapse, which is a long interview with Michael Ruppert. It shook me out of my state of denial.

In my mind this all comes down to a simple science experiment. If you put bacteria on a growth medium like agar in a petri dish, the population will explode exponentially until the food runs out. The population will plateau and drop off. The plateau and drop off are from two factors, the lack of food and poisoning from waste build up. With humans we need to broaden the definition of food and waste to include the food and waste of our infrastructure such as oil and the waste products from its consumption that leak into the air, soil and water. We are in the same position as the bacteria.

Thankfully organisms are smart and can sense there environment and adjust their growth according to the availability of nutrients or other factors. They are also adaptable and can even evolve new methods of metabolism in order to survive and thrive. Bacteria for example exchange rings of RNA with each other that allow them to generate novel enzymes, so they may adjust their function to match their environment.

RNA is coded information that controls chemical behavior. This sentence is also coded information. Your organism and mine are exchanging data, so that we may tailor our personal and infrastructural metabolism to better fit the ecological limitations we are sensing. This is the heart of what natural systems do.

Open Source Ecology has the potential to facilitate the rapid adaptation of our infrastructural metabolism. My hope is that we will learn how to weave our communities back into the complex fabric of life.

Thank you Marcin et al. for stepping forward with the concept for this movement.

|[[Image:hanssendelbach.jpg|thumb|200px|Hans Sendelbach. Medlem siden Januar, 2011.]]
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| '''Judith Katz''', California, USA

I joined because I think it's high time we develop more sustainable ways to live on this planet and OSE is a viable step in that direction.

|[[Image:judithkatz.jpg|thumb|200px|Judith Katz. Medlem siden Januar, 2011.]]
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| '''Giulia Vianello''', Italy

I think that the [present] economy isn't the right way to run the world. I'm talking about people who can lose everything for more money, even their life. So, maybe that's the most important reason why i have decided to subscribe to your project. I'm sad because the life of many people i know, depends on money. And i want to change this. I think that all environmental problems we actually have on the earth are initially caused by ignorance, and the ignorance is a convenient way to earn. So from your work i would like to see come out free knowledge for all people, so they would be able to better this world through the knowledge and consequent skills acquired from the open source mind!
In this way everyone would understand that we can be free in every aspect of our life, and a free man is a good man. The kit you're building is fantastic and I'm happy to be able to benefit from your work in the future. Thank you very much.

|[[Image:giulia.jpg|thumb|200px|Giulia Vianello. Medlem siden Januar, 2011.]]
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| '''Marcu Knoesen''', Cape Town, South Africa

I can clearly see the need to attain all the goals as set out in OSE. The future has to be more localised. The path we are on at the moment will not end well. It is time to make a course correction in a big way.

|[[Image:marcu.jpg|thumb|200px|Marcu Knoesen. Medlem siden Januar, 2011.]]
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| '''Robert Morris'''

I saw the [http://www.grist.org/article/food-2010-12-29-farmer-scientists-want-to-hack-society article in Grist] today, and have spent the past couple hours looking through your materials. Fascinating stuff.

I have often said that all you need for paradise on earth for 100 people is 5 engineers and a couple doctors. It is gratifying to see that someone is attempting to put it into practice.

My work is not similar at all. My last semester of law school starts on Monday, and I will be embarking on a soul-crushing cubicle-dwelling existence this fall. Happy to be contributing to a new approach, if only in a small way.

|[[Image:robertmorris.jpg|thumb|200px|Robert Morris. Medlem siden Desember, 2010.]]
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| '''Floyd Earl Smith''', San Francisco Bay Area, California

I’m proud to join my fellow True Fans of Open Source Ecology. The Global Village Construction Set embodies human creativity and potential, and at the same time unleashes it. Together we True Fans are supporting less use of fossil fuels for farming, better use of precious fresh water, and slowing and surviving climate change, while improving, not damaging, the land.

|[[Image:floydsmith.jpg|thumb|200px|Floyd Earl Smith. Medlem siden Desember, 2010.]]
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| '''Jonathan Rivera''', Houston, Texas

The work you guys are doing is great! And you guys all deserve support from everyone with a conviction for this cause. I know my contribution is not much but I hope to continue to support any way I can. The resource based economy is an idea that has given me motivation to change my life for the best.

|[[Image:jonathanrivera.jpg|thumb|200px|Jonathan Rivera. Medlem siden Desember, 2010.]]
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| '''Georgy Korablev''', Vancouver, Canada

I am a mathematics student; I support OSE project because it is an audacious step towards the true freedom and liberation of people. I am tired to see countries like Canada spending $35 billion on interest payments annually, and only $3 billion on infrastructure and technology development. I'm tired to see debt growing. I'm tired to see roads broken, schools closed, human rights violated, wars started, technology restrained, people starved, taxes grown, education made into a business, income gap grown, secrets kept from the people, fake government, mindless jobs in corporations competing for a market share, overproduction, manufactured demand and overconsumption, low quality products, inflation, fake research and fake research based on fake research, dollar signs in people's eyes, greed, lies.

People, look around and realize that all the improvement that we had in our lives is due to industrial revolution and rapid development of technology that made things 1000-fold cheaper or more; it is not due lawyers in the government; not due to stock growth, bank loans or corporations.
It is due to people MAKING THINGS, NOT PROFITS. And these people shall have our full support.
|[[Image:georgy.jpg|thumb|200px|Georgy Korablev. Medlem siden Desember, 2010.]]
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| '''Julia Valentine''', California, USA

I recently became a True Fan as a financial supporter. I am a mother, teacher, Permaculturist, and inhabitant of Planet Earth. All of these endeavors require a sense of hope and a belief in the resilience of our species and of Nature as a whole. Where we stand as a society today, in the midst of the industrial growth machine, leaves us lacking in both hope and resilience. I have a base need to foster these qualities, and to create a more livable future for the children I care for and guide into adulthood. I have a true belief in the ingenuity and flexibility of our species to create a new paradigm. OSE is the actual physical manifestation of our amazing capacity to change. To truly change, we must imagine and then create. The humans behind Factor e Farm and Open Source Ecology have imagined and created. They are on their way - leading by example - to this fruitful future I also work to manifest. I am pleased to have the hard work and creative genius of OSE be open to me as a tool to use for building my abundant future and the future of my community. Thank you for daring to both imagine and create.

|[[Image:Juliavalentine.jpg|thumb|200px|Julia Valentine. Medlem siden November, 2010.]]
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| '''Amanda Packard''', Missouri, USA

I am intrigued and inspired by people offering viable solutions to the challenges facing humanity. And above that, people manifesting those solutions ''now'' – Open Source Ecology is doing just that.

I have had the honor of visiting Factor e Farm and seeing some of the tools of GVCS in action – I am deeply moved by this vision and the people behind it, who value not only tangible exhibitions of development, but also a holistic spiritual/meditation practice. I am excited to proudly join others in supporting Open Source Ecology in this paradigm-shifting revolution.
|[[Image:amanda.jpg|thumb|Amanda Packard. Medlem siden November, 2010.]]
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| '''Christian Shearer''', Pacific Northwest, USA
Originally from the Pacific Northwest of the United States, Christian Shearer is the founder and Managing Director of the Panya Project (www.panyaproject.org). He has over six years of permaculture experience, working and living at Lost Valley Education Center outside of Eugene, Oregon, and now residing at the Panya Project in northern Thailand for over five years. He is a permaculture consultant with Terra Genesis International (www.terra-genesis.com), an advisory board member of We Forest (www.weforest.com), a natural builder, a food forest enthusiast, a musician, a certified educator and has extensive knowledge of tropical permaculture systems. He teaches permaculture around the world (Thailand, Malaysia, India, Taiwan, and even Missouri!) and is excited to continue sharing his passion for a better world and learning from all involved!

He is excited to be a True Fan of Open Ecology, because the ultimate goal of what the people at Open Ecology are doing is perfectly in line with the intentions of Permaculture. The synergy between the two could be very powerful in helping to usher in a new way of being for people on this planet based on local production, resiliency and an engaged populace, with more of a focus on the well-being and health of people rather than the economic progress of the wealthy. Christian is proud to lend his support to a movement like Open Ecology that fills such an important niche in helping to bring about the vision of a Permanent Culture.
|[[Image:christiansprofile.jpg|thumb|Christian Shearer, Medlem siden November, 2010.]]
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| '''Nathanael Dinwiddie''', Lawrence, KS, USA
I attended a presentation given by Marcin at the Lawrence Public Library on November 22, 2010. I appreciate Marcin's effort and enthusiasm for this compelling project. I have long been inspired by the vision of Jacque Fresco, and Marcin is generally preparing the beginning stages for the achievement of that grand vision. We must evolve in the way of this project.
|[[File:P1010717.JPG|thumb|Nathanael Dinwiddie. Medlem siden November 2011.]]
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| '''Isaiah Saxon''', Aptos, USA
I'm a filmmaker, technologist, and one of the instigators of an egalitarian community of 17 people, called Trout Gulch, where we are building a studio, village, farm, and maker space inspired by the actions of Christopher Alexander, Will Allen, Sepp Holzer, and Marcin. My film team, [http://www.esquire.com/features/best-and-brightest-2009/encyclopedia-pictura-1209 Encyclopedia Pictura], is working with hollywood to create a new populist heroic myth for the maker movement.

I'm anticipating that the entire GVCS will be created and documented, then replicated by mechanics, geeks, hippies, weekend warriors, and tough guys that are into their trucks. I think OSE is contributing tangibly and symbolically to the greater cultural shift toward localism, authenticity, and DIY green tech.
|[[Image:Isaiah.jpg|thumb|Isaiah Saxon. Medlem siden August 4, 2010.]]
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| '''David Crary''', Seattle, USA
I have been really searching to find people out there who are actually experimenting with new forms of social organization where it is possible to create advanced culture - that is thriving in abundance and largely autonomous, creating a model for everyone...so kudos to you guys. Keep up the great work!
|[[Image:davidcrary.jpg|thumb|David Crary, Seattle, USA. Medlem siden Juli, 2010.]]
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| '''Benjamin Kaplin'''
I'm a mechanical engineering student, and I support the OSE because a completed Open Source Village kit would represent several orders of magnitude of improvement over existing projects to improve living conditions around the globe with technology. I grew up reading Stephenson, and one of the most powerful images in his book <em>Diamond Age</em> is The Seed, a nanotechnology McGuffin that one of the main characters devotes his life to that would take the control of production and self-determination out of the hands of the McCorporations and put it into the hands of revolutionaries and the impoverished.
Needless to say, nanotech is still several decades away from that dream, and contributing to the True Fans campaign helps a realistic Seed program without pulling me away from my studies.
|[[Image:0213090948.jpg|thumb|Benjamin Kaplin]]
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| '''Paul D. Mamigonian'''
The Open Source Ecology group are making self sufficient living real. Through the Zeitgeist movement and groups like the Open Source Ecology the example is being set that we can come away from the corrupt monetary system. How many times do you hear people say " BUT WHAT CAN WE DO?". There IS SO MUCH THAT can be done and IS BEING DONE. THE TIME IS RIGHT, THE METHODS ARE HERE AND SO IS THE TECHNOLOGY. Please see my site www.livegreenliveclean.org. The Open Source Ecology group are leading the way, and it's up to us all to follow their lead.
|[[Image:paulm.jpg|thumb|Paul D. Mamigonian]]
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| '''Marcin Jakubowski''', opensourceecology at gmail dot com, marcin_ose on Skype
I started the campaign because I have observed how little of humanity's true potential has been tapped. Everyone slaves their life away to a system that is crumbling at the seams. I believe that we can all reach absolute prosperity and evolve to freedom - by becoming skilled and productive [[Integrated Humans]], and by helping anyone else to do the same. History has shown that this is a general formula for lasting prosperity. As long as we're wise, it should be trivial to get beyond the economics of scarcity. We need to show the world how to build the world's first, replicable, open source Global Village.
|[[Image:marcin.jpg|thumb|Marcin Jakubowski]]
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| '''Scott Akridge'''
As I get older I'm more and more interested in helping people. A couple weeks back I enlisted the help of a friend to help in developing a CEB press when I began doing research and found www.openfarmtech.org with the open source CEB press. I continued looking for more information but kept coming back to this site for more info and learned more about the project and found I wanted to get involved. I started by becoming a member and donating $10 a month with plans to build the CEB press and build a couple structures then make the effort a cooperative. After reading more I've decided to also build a sawmill, assuming I can recruit some help. I think this is a great project and am excited to be a part of it in a small way.
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| '''Toby Martin'''
I support OSE because...
* It's an intelligent and direct effort to address some of the most serious problems we face as individuals and as a society.
* It's one of the most interesting and creative projects I've ever heard of.
* I see no reason in principle that it can't improve people's lives.
* It's actually happening.
|[[Image:TF2.jpg|thumb|Toby Martin]]
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| '''Lucas González''', imagina (dot) canarias at gmail dot com [[Image:lucas.JPG|thumb|Lucas Gonzalez]]
I support OSE because both the model and the elements add some important missing pieces to what I perceive is going on.
* I think it's important to have local possibilities for water, food and energy everywhere. Not just at the household level but more importantly at the village or more aggregated levels. Even if you end up buying stuff from elsewhere, it's best if that happens by choice, not by necessity. It was not by choice when things were local by default and it's not by choice now that things are global by default.
* The whole process of open sharing of ideas, processes, know-how is intriguing and, at the very least, extremely fun to watch. (I really wish I had more time to join in myself, but I'm doing things that need doing. So I [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Video_translation translate], [http://imagina-canarias.blogspot.com/search/label/open%20farm%20tech tell others], and chip in with a little cash, less than what others spend in smoking. My choice.)
* I'm particularly interested in some items for specific locations. Energy for water in sunny places is a must. Shelter and water collection systems. You name it.
* Do we really know how far and how fast this can go? I think there's bound to be a catalitic process so that more and more technologies will come out openly, in an exciting incarnation of the Stone Soup story. So I want to help keep the fire going.
* It really looks like this can be done, should be done, will be done in 2 years. Less than 2 years now. The whole world now has a sense of urgency, I feel. I'd like to see what we can do after this. But the time is ripe for this, now.
* It's interesting to note how open content gives us a sense of ownership. Many have felt that with software. I want to see that with hardware.
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'''Joseph Zarr''', joseph.zarr@gmail.com [[Image:DSC_0169.JPG|thumb|Joseph Zarr]]

I am an anthropologist, a farmer, and a permaculturist by training. I support OSE because, well, let's be frank: This is arguably the coolest project on the planet. I am most attracted to Factor E Farm and OSE because of the overall themes of personal improvement (via daily spiritual and physical discipline - in whatever forms a person deems appropriate), human production, and an intertwined personal and community growth. We must collaboratively market the ownership of our futures.

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As our resource pool dwindles globally, largely due to corporate theft and errant industrial practices, we will have to produce locally and 'in-source'. With a dwindling petroleum base, our dream of cheap energy will disappear. These are simple facts. We must invest human energies in locally-based solutions. We must ignore our propagandized 'reality' and create a meaningful existence together.
With drastically increasing populations (estimated 70 million per year), we must teach ourselves the merits of collaboration, co-housing, and SHARING. My opinion is the era of individualized ownership is archaic and ill-advised. Only by sharing and producing what we actually need, and sharing what we already have (be it skills, books, resources etc.), will we experience the next stage of cultural progress. Hopefully, in the not so distant future our children's hands will not deform due to excessive playing of video games but, rather, they will callous, strengthen and scar due to meaningful labor and a 'hands-on' reality; i.e. literacy, numeracy, production = freedom. The only debts we owe are to ourselves and our community. Let's pay up.

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| '''Josef Davies-Coates'''
I'm founder United Diversity and co-founder of The Open Co-op and support this project because of all the many many VERY cool projects I follow, this is perhaps the most inspiring and important. I can't think of a better way I could possibly spend my money.
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| '''Reto Stauss''', reto.stauss(at)gmail.com, rstauss on Skype

I am mainly attracted by the momentum this projects develops. And of course because it is not talking but doing. My hope is that inspires my own little project (actually it already did): [http://manufakturingruendung.ch/en open source goods produced by small, agile manufactories]. Lucas, Joseph, sign your points.
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| '''Geoff Capper''', geoff (at) floodstreetfarmlet.net
I am supporting OSE because it is showing us that it is possible to regain control over the complex systems that to an extent have come to rule our lives. We can build our own machinery, we can build our own future, we can be free. The activity at Factor e Farm is truly inspiring, and I hope to use many of the products building up our own small farm, which may hopefully inspire others locally.
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| '''Tom Lindsey''', thomas.lindsey at gmail dot com
I support OSE because I want Factor e Farm to succeed so I can use the tools they are developing, replicate Factor e Farm, and create a future of freedom for myself and loved ones.
|[[Image:tomlindsey.jpg|thumb|Tom Lindsey and Boomer]]
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| '''Edward Miller''', embraceunity -at- gmail dot com
I became a true fan because I would like to see our civilization become more resilient by using decentralized technological solutions, and to evolve towards a post-scarcity society. I plan to move on site soon to help build a RepRap machine.
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| '''Jussi Haverinen''', haverinen.jussi at gmail dot com
I'm a strong believer in power of free software approach to technology and very interested in transformative technology and it's effect on society. Politically I'm an social ecologist and I do think that the main task that has to be done is to abolish capitalism and the state through direct democracy in the cities and neighbourhoods (confederated together of course). My skills: mostly computer knowledge, relatively good unix admin skills, and some language skills but that's about it. I only have limited knowledge of farming, construction, electronics, handcraft, but I'm willing to learn.
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| '''Mark Thomas''', factore at thomastechcon dot com
My wife and I are serial homesteaders--we built up a goat dairy from scratch in South Africa, a [http://thomasphotos.wordpress.com small livestock farm in Appalachia], and are just starting on a lambing operation in Southside Virginia.

Politically, I base my ethics on the [[Nonaggression Axiom]] and I do think that the main task that has to be done is to abolish democracy and the state through direct capitalism. Apologies to Jussi above! I do my political writing at [http://distributedrepublic.net/blog/mark Distributed Republic] and much of my reading at [http://mises.org/ the Ludwig von Mises Institute].
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| '''David Voeller''', carefulwiththat at gmail dot com
Open Source Ecology is applying knowledge and skill in the most effective way possible, to create a livable future. The convergence of Permaculture principles and Open Source methodology has been a long time coming. Open Source has shown us that technological advancement need not be encumbered by destructive and wasteful hierarchical control. Permaculture has taught us that a fulfilling and ethical life is not only possible, but realistic in a variety of climates and conditions. Open Source Ecology's work has the possibility to allow many more people to live within their resources; and to drastically increase the quality of life for those already doing so.
|[[Image:David Voeller.jpg|thumb|David Voeller]]
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| '''Eric Hunting''', TheMillennialProject at gmail.com
We are on the cusp of a transformation in the nature of our civilization. A fundamental shift in the way just about everything works in our society predicated on the evolution of the processes and technologies by which just about everything in our habitat is made. Emerging digital fabrication technology combined with emerging awareness of the factors of industrial sustainability are not only changing how we make things but who is making them and where. Industrial Age paradigms that have been concentrating industrial, economic, and political power for a century are failing in the face of a progressive shrinking, smartening, and demassifying of the tools of production and communication. Open Source Ecology is on the cutting edge of this transformation, pursuing and cultivating a spectrum of tools, new and old, that can realize a radical new level of sustainable community self-sufficiency with the intent of disseminating these tools globally. The Factor E Farm project is an incubator for a nascent movement with world-sweeping potential.
|[[Image:EricHuntingAv.jpg|thumb|Eric Hunting]]
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| '''[http://blog.erikdebruijn.nl/ Erik de Bruijn]''', ose at erikdebruijn.nl
We've heard about, or even experienced, the collaborative power of passionate individuals around the world. When they join hands, contributing their energy, freely sharing their ideas and building on them, this mode of production can be highly productive. It may well outperform the traditionally closed 'institutional' mode of production, like Wikipedia is giving us an abundance of knowledge at no cost. OSE attempts, and is actually very successful at extending this notion of knowledge sharing into a way of living.
They codify and freely reveal their knowledge into design files and rich instructional material such as video tutorials. Those serve to inspire, but also to practically make this concept replicable and effective.
|[[Image:erikdebruijn.jpg|thumb|Erik de Bruijn]]
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| '''A. N. Alias''', anon23bf at nyx dot net
I support OSE because we need viable alternatives to the military-industrial complex as a foundation for survival in the near future, particularly if predictions about the coming hyperinflationary depression turn out to be well founded.
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| '''[http://ollehost.dk/blog/ Olle Jonsson]''', olle.jonsson at gmail dot com
I had seen the impressive LifeTrac project on the web, but when I heard about the [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=1254 RepLab] initiative, I was hooked. I'm just a random web developer, but I want to help push toward a generalized, open digital fabrication toolkit. When each hackerspace, lab, and interested individual has access to equipment like that, things get really interesting.
|[[Image:olleolleolle.jpg|thumb|Olle Jonsson]]
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| '''Maureen''', baubo at dishmail.net
I support factor E open source farm because when the cheap industrial food machine breaks down for lack of diesel fuel and capital, people are going to be shocked, angry and then desperate to learn a new way of living. OSE is not just a theory, a book or a blue print. It’s an open source physical model of a DIY food, energy and shelter producing system. Large-scale industrialization was largely a wrong turn for humanity. By shrinking the scale, localizing throughputs, working smarter and sharing information globally we can create a bright new future – a true renaissance. Factor E farm is breaking trail for us all. I can’t think of a better investment.
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| '''[http://bit.ly/elifarley-buzz Elifarley]''', ''my first name'' @opensourceecology.org

I found out about Open Source Ecology after watching the Zeitgeist Addendum movie. That movie sparkled my curiosity and I started a quest to understand the problems and possible solutions to our society's needs.

In this quest, I found out some very exciting ideas, groups and people, like the Transition Towns movement (concerned with peak oil), The Venus Project and RBE Foundation (moneyless, cybernated society), Common Good Bank (alternative currency system), RepRap (self-replicating, open source 3D printer), the P2P Foundation, and the OSE site, to name a few.

You may have noticed that all these projects and movements seem to have a common goal, they all seem to propose that we forget all artificial limitations (and scarcity) and we all seek union to improve our lives and sustainability. Without artificial limitations, we all can have much much better lives. That's the message I can hear all these people and movements resounding.

I'd say that The Venus Project champions ideas, whereas OSE materializes them, performing concrete actions that will move our world forward.

I'm confident that our small contributions to this cause will add up and have a tremendous positive result for everybody.

''(In Portuguese)''

Descobri o site da Open Source Ecology depois de assistir ao filme Zeitgeist Addendum. Esse filme despertou minha curiosidade e então comecei uma busca para entender os problemas e as possíveis soluções para a nossa sociedade.

Nessa busca, descobri algumas ideias, grupos e pessoas muito interessantes, como o movimento Transition Towns (preocupado com a dependência ao petróleo), o Venus Project e a RBE Foundation (sociedade sem uso do dinheiro, automatizada), Banco do Bem Comum (sistema de moeda alternativa), RepRap (impressora 3D de desenho aberto, auto-replicante), a Fundação P2P, e o site OSE, dentro vários outros.

Vocês podem ter notado que todos esses projetos e movimentos parecem ter um objetivo comum, eles parecem propor que esqueçamos todas as limitações artificiais (e escassez) e que todos busquemos união para melhorar nossas vidas e sustentabilidade. Sem limitações artificiais, todos nós podemos viver muito melhor. Essa é a mensagem que eu posso escutar todas essas pessoas e movimentos ressoando.

Eu diria que o Venus Project dissemina ideias, enquanto que a OSE as materializa, realizando ações concretas que irão avançar o nosso mundo.

Estou confiante que nossas pequenas contribuições a essa causa irão se juntar e terão um resultado tremendamente positivo para todo o mundo.
|[[Image:Ecruz.jpg|thumb|Elifarley Cruz]]
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| '''Shaun Warkentin'''
What money buys is technology, luxury. What technology and luxury buy are pleasure, physical health, and free time for the intellectual, spiritual, relational, creative pursuits that are the constitutive properties of real wealth (a widening of awareness and knowledge) unavailable within a purely subsistence economy. The equation linking money to wealth must be broken (along with the power structures that encroach upon the agency and freedom of most of humanity and the biosphere). OSE appears to be demonstrating how this might be achieved.
|[[Image:Shaun_jump.jpg|thumb|Shaun Warkentin]]
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| '''Aigars Brūvelis''', abruvelis at gmail dot com
This is it. Linux will fully replace windows and in 50 years Open Source Harware will replace most of the commerce. Get on with it.
|[[Image:aigarsbruvelis.jpg|thumb|Aigars Bruvelis from Latvia/UK]]
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| '''Lucas''',
I contribute to OSE because I got tired of all the organizations that claim to be "promoting" sustainability through advocacy and lobbying, which usually merely contributes to the inertia and complexity of our current patently unsustainable society without producing any truly meaningful effect on regular peoples' relation to the economy and planet. We need tangible means and methods to take our lives into our own hands and reduce our reliance on global industrial market structures, not rhetoric and posturing. OSE is one of the few operations that has taken up the task of rebuilding and redesigning material existence to cope with the inevitability of a resource-scarce future. The advancements made at this important project are setting precedents that simply are not being set anywhere else, and I hope to personally be using some of the methods and technologies being developed; from that standpoint, I view my financial contribution as an investment, not a gift. At some point in time those of us who philosophically stand opposed to the dominant paradigms of mass consumerism and ecological exceptionalism must stop talking and starting acting, and OSE is doing just that.
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| '''Peter Koeleman'''
I would love to see the Factor e Farm evolve into a self-sufficient, renewable and socially superior society.

The technological steps towards freedom that the Factor e Farm project take are very interesting to me because I am an IT specialist. I had a taste of gcode a long while back and work with Linux every day as my primairy OS. The modular hardware design makes this technology easy to comprehend and use, even for non-engineers like myself.

The freedom part of this project is what I think will be the most important part of the near future in escaping a corporate ruled society of ever more money spending (=debt building) consumers. The need for economic growth simply isn't sustainable. Those who manufacture and manage their own resources are the only ones who know the real cost of things.
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| '''Daniel Slate''', danieldavidslate + gmail and the rest
This is the real thing, and what you're doing is absolutely necessary. The numerous possibilities that can grow from this...general resilience, a reboot/revision of kibbutzim/moshavim in America or elsewhere, so many other possibilities...building the platform is worth doing. Ideas become real through action. What I see coming out of this work is a way to test out applied philosophies of responsible liberty.
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| '''Adam Mitchell''', mitch dot ad at gmail dot com
If organizations were measured in terms of ''relevancy'' of work, ''loftiness'' of their goals and their ability to ''inspire'' others, Open Source Ecology --''no doubt''-- would be at the top of anyone's list. I am proud to support their endeavor, however small, in hopes that together we can build a better world and encourage others to become more [[Integrated Humans]].
|[[Image:Fiji.jpg|thumb|Adam Mitchell]]
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| '''Anna Przychodzki'''
I was very excited to discover the work of Open Source Ecology; I had no idea people were doing this. I stopped taking science class in my second year of high school so the technical stuff goes way over my head... what I do understand is the intent of the work and the implications of success. The life I want is out of reach for now... but if I support OSE, maybe I can have it in the future. OSE seems to bring us closer to what I believe are our birth-rights: sustainability, economic freedom and quality of life by way of human ingenuity and cooperation, not competition.
|[[Image:annaprzychodzki.jpg|thumb|Anna Przychodzki]]
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| '''Nathan Luedtke'''

I think I found out about Factor E Farm through John Robb's blog Global Guerillas, or at least through that general section of the net, which I am interested in and have been following for some time. I have been tracking your project for a little over a year, and was inspired to contribute when i saw that recently you seem to have hit a tipping point and have been making quick progress which probably will require a little more cashflow.

In terms of what I would like to see come out of it- exactly what you are doing. All of the positive movements that I see out there- Permaculture, Open Source, Transition, etc etc- all of them are integrated in your program. With OSE/FEF, you have a very scientific/rational approach that I appreciate. Long term, I would love to see OSE ideas spread and populate worldwide, and see the technology package implemented and developed further at other sites, both in the USA and as a more successful "technology transfer" to the third world.
|[[Image:nathanluedtke.jpg|thumb|Nathan Luedtke.]]
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'''Devin Balkind'''
An abundant future is dependent on open technologies that fulfill people's most basic needs: food, water and shelter. The fact that this type of work isn't widely recognized as the foundation of a more efficient, equitable and enlightened civilization is a testament to the confusion of our times. Consider me at your service.
|[[Image:DevinProfile.jpg|thumb|Devin Balkind, Since August 2010]]
|[[Image:DevinProfile2.jpg|thumb|Devin Balkind for real.]]
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| '''Ivan Garcia''', ivan at movimientozeitgeist dot org
I've been a OSS programmer for like 8 years now and I love the idea of OS Hardware and the great suistaniblity revolution that the OSE guys are doing. I'm also a supporter of the Zeitgeist Movement in Spain and they both share very similar goals. What you are doing is absolutelly necessary and meaningful for our future!
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| [http://permakent.com/ '''J. Kent Hastings'''], USA
The OSE (Open Source Ecology) "True Fan" program is a grass roots way to crowdsource funding for the goal to develop the essential 40 pieces required to make up the complete "Resilient Community Construction Set," an advanced industrial economy in a box that can be deployed inexpensively anywhere in the world.

The cost is reduced to one tenth normal thanks to the savings from using open source software and hardware designs. The components are essential to life and work in the system rather than just decorative knick knacks or toys that Makers like to dabble with and are "designed for disassembly" so each component, like the Life Trac tractor for example, is easy to repair with bolts and simple tools such as wrenches, and easy to modify and improve.
|[[Image:permakent.jpg|thumb|J. Kent Hastings, Medlem siden August 2010]]
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| '''Søren Poulsen''', Denmark
Words like ''empowerment'' or ''freedom'' get a whole new meaning when you talk about
having the skill set, to create everything you need from nothing.
|[[Image:Soeren_Poulsen.jpg|thumb|Søren Poulsen|130px]]
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| [[Nikolay Georgiev]], Karlsruhe, Germany
Open Source Ecology is based on Natural Principles which consequences have been shown to be positive for a lot of natural and technological systems.

* Decentralization (instead of Centralization) of Power – proven pattern in a lot of networks, like technology (internet, web site development, …) and human relationships (politics, religion/spirituality, family, …).
* Self-Sufficiency – basic needs for living are covered and produced by the local people. No need for dependence. In the future if there is dependency it will be in the form of collaboration.
* Openness – sharing documentation, product design and development process. Being able to change and adapt the products.
* Product Quality – life-time, modular and systems Design.
* Collaboration (instead of using other people for self-interest) – getting people together by purpose and values, and not by force, is much better for the producers and the consumers as well.
* Replicability – giving birth of open sourced, modern-living villages is just amazing! Having the choice of replicability saves a lot of time and work.

It is crucially important that we go beyond life of survival. Survival mode is pushing everyone to take resources from other people, not considering their allowance, health and their community. When we are in survival mode we often neglect our own values and push other people in order to survive.

When we reach the state of living where all basic needs are covered, every person on this planet will have much bigger possibility to develop his own potential. Right now only a very small percentage of the human population have the time and possibilities to develop themselves – to guide their own life in the direction they want, to contribute to the society by using their abilities in their fullness. Most people in the world are fighting, struggling, working only for their own survival or that of their own families, and higher goals and desires like developing themselves and contributing to society are not possible and of low priority.

We need new models of economy and living based on openness, giving and sharing. Open Source Ecology is headed clearly in this direction, giving back freedom to where it belongs.

|[[Image:Nikolaygeorgiev-tall.jpg‎|thumb|Nikolay Georgiev, Medlem siden September 2010]]
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| '''Dario Figueira''', Portugal, wurmdario at gmail dot com
I became a true fan simply because I was already monetarily supporting a NGO. And for me, you seem to be doing better work, or more important work than they were. So please continue XD.
[[User:WurmD|WurmD]] 23 August 2010 (UTC)
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| '''Matthias''', neodynos-at-googlemail-dot-com
Thinking about what's wrong with the world, I found that huge aggregations of power and of money are the main tools we as humans use to oppress and exploit. That led me to support Open Source Ecology as a decentralized alternative.

And while I am convinced that the ultimate solution (one that transcends even death) is not to be found through technology but rather through sound theology -- I am also convinced that the work of OSE can provide all of us with a better world ''until'' death.
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| '''Chris Berry''', France
What immediately impressed me about what you are doing is that...... well, this is something that could actually work. Much of the ecology movement seems to really depend on shifting human nature (ie modern capitalism will work just fine so long as people breed a bit less, consume a bit less, etc- its never going to work, at best we'll destroy the planet in the next 200 years instead of the next 50).

People need to be offered something genuinely
better. And really, when you look at it, it shouldn't be difficult to beat this modern lifestyle based on greed and envy and selfishness, with rampant crime and suicide and mental illness, people drowning in debt, and every system we depend on falling to pieces in front of us.
|[[Image:chrisberry.jpg|thumb|Chris Berry, Medlem siden Oktober, 2010.]]
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| '''Stewart Easton''', Vancouver, Canada
I was exposed your work through listening to VTV’s show in the archives. I have a background in biology, but I work in finance, so I have taken the route of “those who can not do, help”. The help in my case is money and I will spread the word of your work as I spend much time on other forums debating the merits of an RBE, and I always use your organization as an example of people building the technology to advance the concept.

I am part of the Vancouver Chapter of the Zeitgeist movement and I think the work you are doing is great and we as a movement need to do more to help you with your goals. You are building the technology that is going to make an RBE possible.
|[[Image:stewarteaston.jpg|thumb|Stewart Easton, Medlem siden September, 2010.]]
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| '''Daniel Morlan''', Indiana, USA

I will be watching you folks closely. I heard you on the V-Radio show a couple of times, and your methodology is far more inspiring to me than the mere lip-service that most put out, including myself. (I am the “editor in chief” of the Indiana Zeitgeist Newsletter.) and an acquaintance of Neil Kiernan, and I am enthralled with what you folks are doing.
|[[Image:danielmorlan.jpg|thumb|Daniel Morlan, Medlem siden August, 2010.]]
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| '''Shakti Saraswati''', Brisbane, Australia (mail at shakti dot id dot au)

I have come to the Open Source Ecology, from the Zeitgeist movement and see this as a natural transition from something quite absurd to a more practical way to live our lives. By doing nothing we have allowed this silly profit system overrule common sense and go so viral as to be totally dysfunctional. Society spends all of its time solving problems that are symptomatic and never go any deeper to find causal remedy.

The fact that people can earn money without actually contributing anything of substance is an unbelievable waste of potential usefulness. 80% of the population do this while fiddling the figures, they are totally consumed. Imagine if that problem solving potential was put to good use.

As a musician I find it an incredible distraction living in a society that has not, after 5000 years of civilisation, actually become civilised yet. A lot of the mental energy that I need to improve myself as a musician is wasted basically trying to survive. I have learned to live off the smell of an oily rag, and my priority is improving myself to the detriment of living comfort, and that is because society does not work efficiently.

I see Open source Ecology as the first rung in the ladder to improving all that ails the world. The important thing to mention here is the fact that everything that each individual knows is the collection of their experience of everyone else around them, so they have no right to exclusivity and have a duty to share. There is no reason why all land and resources should not benefit all people. The understanding of this will eliminate all the unnecessary conflict that we have today. The challenge is to put it into practice for the greater good without sacrificing the individual. This will happen when we share the workload and become responsible.

Fulfilment in life comes from hands on achievement and when everybody is contributing instead of building locks and walls while fiddling figures, I bet we have a much more harmonious and luxurious lifestyle without the fear. The real challenges will be then what will affect us all as a human species, rather than just individual survival.

So thank you Open Source Ecology for putting the wheels in motion of the ground-up transition to self-sustaining systems open for the improvement of all who contribute, not just those who wish to profit and exploit.

|[[Image:Shakti.jpg|thumb|Shakti Saraswati. Medlem siden Nov., 2009.]]
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'''Carolyn Phillips''', Adelaide, Australia [[File:Cari.jpg |thumb|Carolyn]]

I’ve always liked smart, lean design and this project seems both smart and lean. I hope you make some headway without the bureaucratic bloat that seems to ultimately spoil good ideas.
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OSE Specifications/no

2011-05-16T17:52:19Z

Knut Brekken: /* Point by Point */

{{Lang|OSE Spesifikasjoner}}

=Introduksjon=

(sist oppdatert Jan 2011)

Før du leser videre, vennligst se {{LinkLang|OSE Mission|OSE Oppdrag}}. OSE Spesifikasjoner er en beregning for å vurdere kvalitetene som bidrar til skapelsen av relokalisert økonomisk produksjon, som et grunnlag for fellesskapsfremskritt i en sammenvevd verden.

OSE Spesifikasjonene er en standard som tar sikte på å definere og evaluere kriteriene til produkter, tjenester, og produksjonen av dem - som tjener til å promotere skapelsen av overflødige økonomier, og dermed, skapelsen av robuste fellesskap. ''Overflod'' eksisterer der et fellesskap bruker sin ressursbase på en slik måte at menneskelige behov og ønsker leveres i overflod - med betydelig overskudd for å drive kulturelt og vitenskapelig fremskritt.

=Punkt for Punkt=

=GVCS Specifications/Core Values=

These are the values of OSE that inform the development of the GVCS which are to be embodied in the development process, in the recruitment of volunteers, in its corporate structure, and in all operations, public and private:

#'''Open Source''' - we freely publish our 3d designs, schematics, instructional videos, budgets, and product manuals on our open source wiki. We strive to harness open collaboration with a globally-distributed team of technical contributors. We value transparency of our operations, business model, strategic development, “code” (blueprints and designs), management information, and any other aspects that can lead to distributive economics. Commentary: Our main goal is to contribute to the creation of open culture, where sharing and collaborative development are valued over greed and exclusiveness. This type of culture promotes life and growth, as opposed to fear-based aggressiveness. Open source culture icludes publishing 'early and often' to expose errors and dead ends – where rapid growth occurs by adjusting to failure. Failing early allows solutions to be found early. Failure and dead ends are abundant in life – and the mark of a successful individual is their ability to respond to failure in a manner that leads to growth and transcendence.
#'''Distributive Economics''' – We publish our business models openly so that others can replicate any enterprise. “Everything we know, you know.” This is intented to generate truly free enterprise and life-giving competition, as opposed to monopoly capitalism or militarism. In one word - distibutive economics are called sharing. In the political sense, this phenomenon may be described as decentralization engineering. It should be noted that information should be free, because the cost of distributing information is negligible. However, atoms or physical objects are not 'free' in the same sense, as significant human energy is required to produce and distribute physical goods.
#'''Low-Cost''' - The cost of buying or making our machines are, on average, 5-10x cheaper than buying from an industrial manufacturer- including an average labor cost of $25 hour for a GVCS fabricator. Commentary:
#'''Modular''' – Components of the GVCS function as interchangeable modules. Motors, parts, assemblies, and power units can interchange, where units can grouped together to diversify the functionality that is achievable from a small set of units. To see how the different parts fit together - see [[Product Ecologies]].
#'''User Friendliness''' – Design-for-disassembly, simplicity, transparency, and open source documentation allows the user to comprehend, take apart, modifyservice, maintain, and fix tools readily without the need to rely on expensive repairmen.
#'''DIY''' - The user gains control of designing, producing, and modifying the GVCS tool set. DIY is intented to promote the maker, doer, creator, non-consumer culture – in people who are interested in creating their own custom environment as opposed to accepting massively-standardized options.
#'''Closed-Loop Manufacturing and Material Cycle'''s – Any product should never be a waste, but a feedstock for another process. Our project relies on recycling metal into virgin feedstock for producing further GVCS technologies - thereby allowing for cradle-to-cradle manufacturing cycles.
#'''High Performance''' - Performance standards must match or exceed those of industrial counterparts for the GVCS to provide a comparable or better standard of living.
#'''Industrial Efficiency''' - In order to provide a viable choice for a resilient lifestyle, the GVCS platform matches or exceeds productivity standards of industrial counterparts.
#'''Ecological Design''' - Our products promote a harmonious co-existence between nature and humans. The entire process and technology must fit the criteria for being environmentally friendly and regenerative.
#'''Resilience'''– The systems that we are designing are designed to be adaptable. This arises from the ability to modify, scale and replicate the components and systems to meet requirement of constantly changing conditions.
#'''Systems Design''' – Our designs consider the whole system of life support, in terms of hoew the different machines and services interface with one another. Different machines can functions as modules in a wide array of integrated systems. We do not choose technologies with peak point performance, but with peak systems performance as they fit into a resilient community integrated with its natural life support systems. Part of the systems design is synergy – in that the GVCS is intended to attain its maximum potential when all of its components are working with one another.
#'''Lifeteime Design''' – Our products are designed for a lifetime of use – via solid design, user serviceability, open source, DIY design.
#'''Substitutability''' – Our products tend to the substitutability of common resources for less common or strategic resources. Substitutability also applies to the fact that any damaging
#'''Robustness''' – Applications of our work range from the 1st to the 4th worlds, from the city to the country, from high technology to low technology applications, at different scales of operation.
#'''Multipurpose Flexibility''' – Our tools are typically not dedicated devices, but ones that can be used flexibly in a wide range of applications.
#'''Best Practice''' – we focus on optimization of our products to achieve the best possible design and functionality
#'''Simplicity''' - We design for absolute simplicity without sacrificing performance standards
#'''Complete Economy''' – The work of OSE is intended to be a workable blueprint for a complete economy. Our designs are geared for a maker lifestyle on the part of community members. This is also known as a neo-subsistence lifestyle – where communities can provide all the requirements of a complete economy, such that trade is only an option, not a necessity.
#'''Freedom from Material Constraints''' – The GVCS is intended to provide all the material needs of a community in an efficient way. This allows people to have free time, which allows people to choose their pursuits freely, beyond constraints of material scarcity. This is also known as High-Tech Self-Providing.
#'''Division of Labor''' – Our designs focus on the needs of a modern villlage enjoying a high quality of life, as opposed to individual utilization. All of the technologies may be adapted to an individual's use, but division of labor is more desirable for achieving a complete economy in a community.
#'''Scalability and Fractality''' – The GVCS tools are designed to be scalable to different sizes of operations, from individual households to agglomerations of villages (cities). The design should be fractal, in that each unit of operation should be self-contained (cimplete) and resilient.
#'''Village Scale''' – The GVCS is intended to be optimized for a village scale of about 200 people, or Dunbar's number – as the number of people who can maintain face-to-face interaction.
#'''Nonviolence''' – The GVCS is designed to provide for all the needs of a community without killing or stealing from others.
#'''Amicable Social Contract''' – The GVCS toolset is designed to promote a just, equitable, and life-giving social contract for a village community living with the GVCS. The qualities of the GVCS are intended to promote good relationships between a village-scale group of people. The social contract is based on collaborative division of labor, where productivity of individual members contributes to the well-being of the whole community. The basic requirement is lifelong learning and regenerative stewardship of land and resources, along with nonviolence .
#'''Community and Family''' – OSE promotes the reconnection of people to one another as a result of increased freedom from material constraints. This reconnection also includes reconnection to one's true needs, to one's family, and to the global family of all living creatures.
#'''Proven Techniques''' – We focus on time-proven concepts, techniques, and technologies. All are principles are generally regarded as common, historical knowledge or wisdom learned through eons of civilization.
#'''Cross-Disciplinary Integration''' – We provide cutting edge practice in so far as they are integrations of knowledge from many fields and disciplines. We value unabashed boundary-crossing and cross-fertilization, drawing from as many cultures, regions, and time periods as possible.
#'''Sufficiency''' – Our design focuses on sufficiency – ie, we understand that we need to reach a certain level of performance, and that is sufficient. This is distinct from continuous addition of frivolous bells and whistles.
#'''New Economics''' – One aspect of OSE is that it allows for the creation of a resource based economy, where true wealth is based on the value of natural, primarily local resources, where wealth is created from adding value to natural resources by transforming them to human-usable form.
#'''Flexible Fabrication''' – This is a mode of production distinct from specialization. In flexible fabrication, general purpose machinery is used by highly skilled workers to produce a wide array of products – as opposed to specialized machines, operated by highly deskilled workers, producing only a single item. Our means to flexible fabrication is the open source fab lab.
#'''Technological Recursion''' – The flexible fabrication technology also allows producers to produce more complex machines and parts. This allows a local community to, eventually, attain the capacity to produce any technology known to humankind.
#'''Industry 2.0''' – This is a concept that flexible fabrication, combined with a collaboratively-developed, global repository of down-loadable product design has the potential to become the new engine of production. This is particularly useful towards relocalization of productive economies and towards distributive economics. Industry 2.0 is a direct goal of OSE.
#'''Permafacture''' - ecological fabrication with lifetime design.
#'''Local Resources''' – The GVCS is fueled by local resources, such as water, sunlight, rock and soil. Via technological recursion,
#'''Replicability''' – OSE work is intended to be replicable, self-replicating, and viral. The open source nature, low-cost, and simplicity of our designs are key to this.
#'''Meaning''' – Technology, when used appropriately, is intended to reconnect one to meaning, and to natural ecosystems. Reconnection to nature can occur from constant interplay between humans and nature, as natural resources are stewarded responsibly to meet human needs by benign processes.
#'''Appropriate Automation''' – We favor automation of production or other tasks whenever repetitive, difficult, dangerous, or otherwise unrewarding tasks can be carried out with computer assistance instead of human labor. We favor this if this truly increases quality of life and reduces toil, without loss of meaning, violence, or other negative systems consequences.
#'''Long Term Approach''' – OSE is seeking long-term solutions on the 100 year scale into the future, not band-aids on superficial issues. We are looking at issues for the long haul, with lasting peace and stability for humanity as the goal.
#'''Network''' – OSE is interested in creating a network of like-minded communities that follow OSE values, such that cultural exchange can happen between different communities. This refers to the 1000 Global Villages concept - which serve as model communities that influence the rest of the world in a positive way. This brings in an element of mobility into the community social fabric.
#'''Model Community'''- The OSE Village with the GVCS are intended to provide a positive, best-practice example of integrated, meaningful lifestyles along the principles of abundance and prosperity - as a shining point of light to inspire people in many walks of life.
#'''Land and Resource Stewardship''' – Each OSE facility functions as a land steward. Land is not for sale, but is preserved for ever as a permanent site of human heritage and cultural growth. Resources are stewarded so that they improve in quality with time, as opposed to becoming depleted.
#'''Iconoclastic Innovation and Transformation''' – OSE favors iconoclastic approaches which address issues at the root, not symptoms – towards addressing pressing world issues (war, poverty, corruption, distribution of wealth, disease, etc.). We are not looking for mass-culture compromises swayed by political or special interests, but for authentic solutions based on virtues common to all humankind.
#'''Absolute Creative Approaches''' - We do not promote destroying anything, just creating a better solution that makes the old paradigm obsolete. We do not hate any group or politic, because we are all in this together. We believe in positive psychology, inspiration, and bringing out the virtues in people – by appealing to their absolute creative, transcendent potential for solutions. We do not endorse fear- or punishment-based motivation tactics.
#'''Realistic Immediacy''' - We favor a realistic approach that can be implemented today, as opposed to futuristic dreaming. We believe that we have sufficient knowledge and technology today to create an abundant lifestyle for everybody. We focus on a tool set designed for a nominal 200 person village - according to Dunbar's number. This allows for sufficient division of labor to cover just about any technology to be produced locally, while remaining small enough such that organization of such a community is manageable.
#'''Proper Scale'''- We look at the village scale of about 200 people as the optimal scale of human organization for several reasons. First, it's a historically proven number. Second, it follows [[Dunbar's Number]] to allow for persistent and meaningful social interaction. Third, it is easily manageable from an organizational point of view without requiring bureaucratic overhead. Fourth, it is sufficiently large to allow specialization via division of labor. Fifth, it allows for a walking- or biking-distance community. Sixth, it is a basic building block - where larger communities may be designed as units of this small scale for the highest possible resilience - as opposed to organization on a larger scale. Seventh, it has been pointed out by the industrial economist, E. F. Schumacher, in his seminal book, [[Small is Beautiful]], that human organization simply breaks down after it reaches a certain scale.
#'''One World Approach'''- We believe that people in general should live within the means of global resources without depleting their quality or polluting them. This is opposite of what happens in general today.
#'''Miniaturization'''- We believe that the scale of successful human organization at which modern-day technology can be maintained can be scaled down to the village scale - under the assumption of open information flows.
#'''Radical Abundance'''- We believe that there are abundant resources for everybody, and that human social organization should favor institutions that promote abundance, as opposed to scarcity. We favor a technological infrastructure that moves beyond resource scarcity as a dominant underlying force in all of civilization.

=Methods and Strategic Approaches=

#'''Open''' – Open Source Ecology endorses open source culture of sharing and collaborative development throughout, towards the end of distributive economics. This applies at the level of our process, organizational structure, business and products. On the process level, we encourage others to collaborate openly, yet respectfully of other developers' needs. To this end, we are aiming to create collaboration structures and platforms that allow others to collaborate freely, and to publish meaningful results openly. We seek to design all of our operations to be consistent with this principle. We encourage everybody on the development team to be transparent about their work, and to ask openly for collaborative assistance. We encourage everybody to give information away for free – as the cost of sharing information is zero
#'''Distributive Economics''' - We recognize the challenges of sharing information openly – in that someone else can 'steal' an idea and capitalize on it. We address this issue by encouraging people to publish openly, so that prior art makes information accessible to all, and therefore, making information un-patentable and therefore incapable of being appropriated. In order to capture value, we encourage humans to organize around information resource commons, while building in a physical, productive infrastructure to convert information into the substance of modern-day living via benign, industrial processes
#'''Notes on Patents'''. These make sense only in a world based on scarcity. We encourage each community that adopts OSE principles to build complete, open source, economic productivity – where true wealth can be generated easily. In this case, what is the need for patents? If a community can provide all of its needs - then we enter into the concept of sufficiency. State-of-art point technologies that optimize one feature of performance are not necessarily useful for an ecological tool set. We are interested more in overall, or ecological, performance - as opposed to point performance.
#'''Creative Approach''' - There is a number of movements that cater to fears regarding the end of the world or other comprehensive collapse scenarios. Our approach is intended to empower people from a perspective of what is a-priori favorable and benign - whether or not any cataclysm is on the horizon. IT is important to underscore that we focus on positive psychology and transcendence, which we favor over an approach based on fear, because fear-based response is not as likely to create long-lasting solutions.
#'''Modular, lifetime design''' – The core of lifetime design is design-for-disassembly and modularity. Design-for-disassembly is synonymous with user ability to 'look under the hood' of a certain device. Modules are interchangeable units of functionality.
#'''Closed Loop Manufacturing''' – OSE endorses closed loop eco-industry, where waste does not exist as the waste is turned into feedstock for other processes.

=Components of OSE Specifications=

OSE Specifications cover a number of aspects of economically-significant production, covering the development and production aspects:

*Economic significance
*Open documentation
*Distributive economic nature
*Transformative nature of enterprise
*Systems design
*Transparency and participatory nature of production model and development process
*Creation of post-scarcity levels of production
*Simplicity and low cost
*Lifetime, modular design; design-for-disassembly; design-for-scalability
*Localization of material sourcing and of production
*Ecological qualities
*Economic Feasibility and Replicability
**Minimization of waste, overhead, and bureaucracy
**Product Evolution
**Fabrication Facilities
**Open Franchising or Open Business Model
**Startup Assistance

==Economic Significance==

Economic significance refers to the overall economic importance of a given product or service. The assumption here that economic significance is defined on the basis of relevance for meeting the material needs of humans. For example, fuels and tractors constitute multibillion dollar global markets, and are thus economically significant. On the other hand, plain discussion may have little economic significance, if is not more than hot air.

==Open Documentation==

===Open content===

We begin with open content as a foundation – content that is free of restrictions on use or dissemination. The optimal license for content that we promote is the public domain. This keeps it simple from the practical and legal perspective. We have a philosophy that the users should decide for themselves as to how to use the information. We support open licensing. We are not interested in policing.

We believe that to claim something as ‘one’s own’ is arrogant, as it does not address the fact that any single ‘invention’ is simply a small additional to a large pool of existing knowledge that made the ‘invention’ possible. We believe that there is no point in trying to police the patenting of forks, as are simply so many different forks or development paths that could be taken nonetheless: creativity is unlimited. We believe that the more we contribute to the commons, the more new content will be generated.

===Readily accessible or downloadble documentation and design===

Distributed information in the computer age is made most readily accessible if it is available for immediate download from the internet. If material is available in electronic format, it may be manipulated or utilized readily with software tools. For example, digital designs may be edited or used immediately in CAD or CAM. If CAM formats are available, then data at one point in space can be readily transformed into a physical object at another point in space, in the presence of digital fabrication capacities.

===Design Drawings===

This is a start towards replicability.

===Bill of Materials (BOM)===

Next to design drawing, the BOM is the second most important towards replicability. This is a detailed listing of all parts used, sourcing, and prices. Availability of the BOM saves the potential builder countless hours of searching for part availability and for reasonable pricing. Relevant comments should be made alongside the BOM, such as, quality or reliability of certain vendors, their quality of service, and any other useful comments. The only difficulty with a BOM may be that if the audience is global, sourcing may not be readily available or shipping may be prohibitive, so local substitution of parts must be made. If a BOM is available, then the building of a specific product can commence immediately: there is no guessing which parts would work, or which supplier is reliable. At best, the process for one-off individual production can be as follows:
#an individual decides that they need a certain product
#they look that product up on an online repository of open source products, download fabrication procedures and parts lists
#purchase parts locally all on the same day if they are located in an urban area where many suppliers are available
#and start building a certain project.
All these steps can potentially be completed in one day when the BOM is available. Open design drawings and plans are only one aspect, but the critical point to enabling immediate production is the availability of BOMs, as the last step prior to actual fabrication.

Under this scenario, a realistic possibility emerges that a large number of individuals discontinue purchasing slave goods from who-knows-where, and begin to fabricate them locally. This is feasibile on the individual level for anyone equipped with a robust Fab Lab, or when small groups (a few to a dozen people) get together to purchase low-cost, open source, digital fabrication equipment. These people could operate out of backyard garages, rented workshop spaces, co-working facilities, or other community supported manufacturing operations. The types of products that yield themselves particularly to this type of production are those items that fall beyond the class of disposable goods, and are more or less long-use items. These items include electronics, mechanized tools, semi-heavy machinery, green vehicles, renewable energy systems, among others.

====Tools====
[[CAD by Mariano Alvira]] and [[SKDB]] are two different tools that can improve and automate different aspects of handling a BOM.

===Free information===

If information is free, it is most easily accessible.

==Distributive Economics==

Distributive economics refer to economic models that tend to distribute economic power as opposed to monopolizing this power.

==Transformative Nature of Enterprise==

We are interested in transformative economics, or those economics which tend towards community and global resilience, while having qualities that, proactively, move the world away from: concentration of societal power; perennial warfare; loss of meaning; bureaucracy; globalization of economic activity; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak newspeak]; loss of freedom; and so forth.

==Systems Design==

Systems design refers to design of economic paradigms which consider the whole human and natural ecosystem, and the relationships involved, not just an isolated part of that system. For example, non-systems thinking may lead one to conclude that a modern steam engine for transportation is a bad idea compared to biodiesel or fuel alcohol because the thermodynamic efficiency of a steam engine is two times lower than that of diesel engines or gasoline engines. The systems design perspective will claim that the steam engine is a great idea, because biomass pellets can be used as fuel, and the yield of cellulosic biomass per acre is about 10 times higher than the yield of oil or alcohol. The systems thinker will continue, by stating that if the whole system is considered, biomass pellet production is much simpler to accomplish, and that biomass-growing areas can be integrated with other uses such as orcharding or livestock raising, and the systems thinker will continue to make other claims that such an energy source allows for absolute decentralization of production and resilience of communities using the simplest means possible. The point to be made is that the systems thinker can continue to make a large number of claims on how a particular activity is desirable based on a number of systems connections, which the non-systems thinker dismisses as simply not being part of the question.

We believe that destructive non-systems thinking is so pervasive in our society, that in general, individual and societal decision-making is completely partisan, thin on logic, and downright retarded. We are including a metric for systems design in the OSE Specifications to raise awareness of this issue, with a hope, which even if futile, attempts to bring a glimmer of light to the situation.

==Transparency of Production Model and Development Process==

The development process for products, and their production model, should be transparent to any interested observer. This allows for study of, input into, and improvement of the topic of interest. Transparency allows feedback loops to become active, and empowers those who are interested in learning more about a topic. Transparency is one of several qualities of a distributive, economic process.

Transparency of some program implies that the program is open to suggestions, correction, or replication of itself, stemming from an ethical foundation of the given program. Therefore, tools such as non-disclosure agreements, patents, trade secrets, and other means of protectionism are inconsistent with the creation of transparency.

===Development Process===

1. Participation in the development process is entirely voluntary. No compensation for alienation is necessary. As a result, the best designs are produced from the commitment of passionate stakeholders.

2. Anyone may join or leave the development group at any time

3. Collaborative development process utilizes the input of diverse stakeholders

4. Steps and results of the development process are documented

==Creation of Post-Scarcity Levels of Production==

Post-scarcity levels of production imply the availability of effective tools of production, including both hardware and techniques - which allow for the ample meeting of human needs. Post-scarcity levels of production also imply that local, nonstrategic resources can be utilized effectively, reliably, and with the capacity to produce significant surplus. The goal of attaining post-scarcity levels of production of something are thus synonymous with a particular community being able to transcend physical survival as a basis for evolving to pursuits beyond mere survival.

==Simplicity and Low Cost==

The design and implementation of any product or service should be the simplest from both the fabrication and cost perspective, such that it is the most readily replicable. Attaining simplicity is indeed the most difficult design challenge. Most people confuse high performance with extra features, because they externalize the hidden liabilities that accompany the extra features. Simplicity is synonymous with efficient resource use. Simplicity should also apply to the fabrication procedure of an object. As such, simplicity is also synonymous with low cost. The basic design philosophy of OSE is to include simplicity in design and fabrication - ie, design-for-fabrication should be applied.

==Lifetime, Modular Design; Design-for-Disassembly; Design-for-Scalability (DfS)==

(Note: For mainstream reference on lifetime design, see the work of [[Saul Griffith]])

Simplicity of design promotes the features of lifetime, modular, and scalable design-for-disassembly (DfD).

Lifetime design implies that the value of a product does not depreciate over time. This implies freedom from labor required to replace a certain product, which has direct implication for one's access to free time.

Modular design is a design which allows different modules to be used and interchanged, giving the user control over and flexibility with the object of use.

DfD means that parts of modules may be replaced readily, by taking the module apart. This has profound implications to lifetime design.

DfS is more than a design that can be scaled. It is the principle of designing things with ease of scalability as one of the features - ie, design that can be scaled easily. This is a slight improvement over design that can be scaled, in that DfS includes explicit features that make scalability easy.

Scalability means that a basic building block can be used to make larger or smaller versions. This contributes to low cost and efficiency.

===Multipurpose Modular Design===

Objects should be designed so that they are made as building blocks, or modules, of other or larger objects. This way, objects can be modified. Instead of a whole object having to be replaced to add new functionality, a module may be added. This gives products a flexibility that is built into their very nature, such that the user has additional control with minimum expense. Modularity may sometimes be synonymous with inter-operability, and may sometimes be synonymous with scalability. It may contribute to lifetime design if an object is 100% modular and each module may be replaced. Modularity also means that an object may function as a building block of other objects. In all cases, modularity implies that an object may be modified. The combination of flexibility, adaptability, scalability, interoperability are desirable. These features expand the range of applications, increase lifetime, reduce cost, as well as provide and retain high value. In a material world, these are features that contribute to wealth and prosperity. In a nutshell, modularity provides large value and has low associated costs. These are good implications for individual and community well-being.

If modular design is followed, then the type of interoperability of using building blocks leads us to a [[Pattern Language]] of technology. In this pattern language, the modules or building blocks serve as the sentences of a larger language, or technology infrastructure.

===Scalability===

Products should be designed so that they can be scaled up or down - such as by addition of new modules, or using multiples of a part in parallel. For example, a solar concentrator system designed according to the principle of scalability should be a linear design (see [[Solar Power Generator]]), so that it could be enlarged either by lengthening or widening the array.

==Localization of Material Sourcing and of Production==

For community resilience, ability to use local resources is key. While it is important that a community have this ability for essential needs, it is optional, though desirable, for other nonessential items.

Using local resources may necessitate that a given community have additional technology to produce a certain item. For example, if a given community does not have the conditions to grow a certain crop easily, it may want to invest in the additional technology required to grow that crop successfully. Or, if a certain community does not have adequate water, it should invest in well-drilling or roof-catchment technology, instead of importing water from unsecured sources.

A community should thus, in general, strive to increase its technology base to accommodate the provision of all essentials, and not settle on its ability to trade to procure these essentials, as trade may be vulnerable to disruption. Trade is quite acceptable for non-essential items, such as musical instruments, since disruption of such supply does not threaten the survival of a community. The level of technology in which a community is autonomous should be determined on practical grounds.

Moreover, in today's world, we already hear about 'produced locally.' We should add 'sourced locally' to our vocabulary - as resilience implies not only local production, but also local sourcing. Local sourcing typically requires that a community have additional technological infrastructure and knowhow for providing the necessary feedstocks.

===Localization Levels===

*Level 1 - production is local
*Level 2 - sourcing of materials used in production is local
*Level 3 - raw material production is local
*Level 4 - production machinery used in the production process above is open source and locally fabricated

Localization applies to the creation of natural economies, or those economies based on the substance of their own, natural resources, free of supply chain disruptions.

An example of Level 3 is that local aluminum is made by [[Smelting]] aluminum from local clays.

If localization is taken to all the 4 levels, for all necessities of sustaining its population - that means that a region is autonomous, and as such, has no built-in tendency to wage war for others' resources. This is the
critical point of localization - its benign effect on global geopolitical struggle. In simple words, people don't kill and steal.

==Ecological Qualities==

The product of interest must be good for the environment.

==Economic Feasibility and Replicability==

===Minimization of Waste, Overhead, and Bureaucracy===

The key point to the competitiveness of agile, open source enterprise is its lean structure with minimal overhead. Minimization of waste occurs by collaborative development, such that R&D costs are shared by a number of stakeholders. Competitive waste is eliminated by open enterprise giving services away rather than competing for market share, which is the ethical marketing strategy for open enterprise.

Other strategies for keeping overhead low are [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=391 crowd-funding the production facility], such as in Factor e Farm's case. We also propose paperwork reduction by operating as an un-incorporated entity, with contractually-based fiscal fiduciaries and liability management, operation in the Republic via private contract, and by in-house legal literacy.

===Product Evolution===

A process should be in place for continued maintenance and development of a product. This could be a support community, foundation, or users.

===Fabrication Facilities===

Concrete Flexible Fabrication mechanism exists for others to purchase the product at reasonable cost. This is a means to assuring that a diversity of suppliers exists, such that monopoly is avoided.

===Open Franchising or [[Open Business Model]]===

This point defines how easily one can obtain access to replicable enterprise design. See our motivation with respect to Open Business Models, as described under the [[OSE License]].

There is a number of details that goes into enterprise replications. These are all the standard details found in a [[Business Plan]], plus the actual technical details that go into that plan, such as designs and CAD, fabrication procedures, BOM and sourcing information, economic analysis, ergonomic analysis, and so forth.

If you are interested in replicating an enterprise, then please inquire with us regarding practical considerations. For those interested in replication, we are looking for long-term commitment to provide the necessary due diligence of business model documentation.

===Startup Assistance===

Producer training is the key to assisting others to start up enterprise. Dedicated workshops should be available for others to learn the trade. We plan on offering a 2 year immersion program, which includes not only workshop skills, but agriculture, as well as theoretical and organizational aspects.

=Calculation of a Metric Score=

The questionnaire below can be used to determine whether a product meets the OSE specifications. There are 42 questions, so the maximum score is 42.

===Economic Significance===
*Is it relevant for meeting the material needs of humans?

===Distributive Economics===
*Does the economic model distribute economic power?
'''Transformative Nature of Enterprise'''
*Does it promote community and global resilience?

===Systems Design===
*Does it consider the complete human and natural ecosystem?

===Ecology===
*Is it good for the environment?

===Development Process===
*Is participation in the process entirely voluntary?
*Can anyone join or leave the development group at any time?
*Does the collaborative development process utilize the input of diverse stakeholders?
*Are the steps and results of the development process documented?

===Simplicity of design===
*Is it low Cost?
*Does it have Long Life?
*Is it modular?
*Is it designed for disassembly?

===Design for scalability===
*Can it be scaled up?
*Can it be scaled down?
*Is it easily scalable?

===Localization===
====Materials====
*Are materials used in production local?
*Is raw material production local?

====Production====
*Is product production local?
*Is the machinery used in production process open source?
*Is the machinery used in production process locally fabricated?

===Economic Feasibility and Replicability===
*Is there minimal overhead?
*Is there minimal waste?
*Are R&D costs shared by a number of stakeholders?
*Are services given away?
*Are production facilities Crowd-funded?

===Product Evolution===

*Is there continual produce maintenance?
*Is there continual product development?

===Fabrication Facilities===

*Is there a flexible fabrication mechanism?

===Open Business Model===

*Is there a Business Plan?
*Are there technical details in the business plan?

===Open Documentation===

*Is content Open Source?
*Is content readily accessible (downloadable)?
*Are there design drawings?

====Designs====
*Are design drawings CAD?
*Are fabrication procedures detailed?
*Is economic analysis available?
*Is ergonomic analysis available?

====Bill of Materials (BOM)====
*Is there a parts list?
*Is Sourcing of parts listed?
*Are prices of parts listed?

===Startup Assistance===

*Is producer training available?

=Summary=
In summary, we aim to raise the standards embodied in open source product development efforts by articulating the possibilities. OSE Specification describes all the desirable features that can be embodied in open economic development, under the assumption that maximum advancement of distributive production is the best route to human prosperity.

OSE Specifications, as applied to technology - imply ''liberatory technology'' - defined as technology which serves the true needs of people and liberates time for other pursuits beyond survival. This is distinct from technology which controls people - where in today's world - with ever-advancing technology, people enjoy less free time.

=Application of OSE Specifications to Assessing the Liberatory Potential of Technologies=
OSE Specifications, when applied to production of physical products, allow for transparent assessment of the overall openness or accessibility of ''so-called'' open source products. This specification is intended to help people assess distributive production aspects of projects, by distinguishing between the various degrees of ‘opensource-ness’ embodied in projects. This is because some projects call themselves ‘open source’ when only a small portion of the hardware, or even no physical portion, is open source.

For example, in the case of the [http://green.autoblog.com/2007/10/16/autobloggreen-qanda-open-source-green-vehicle-project/ OS Green Vehicle], the only open source component is an apparent design process, but the output of the design process is proprietary. As quoted from the website, ‘Your rights to use, modify and re-distribute any data from this web site are limited.’ Moreover, the components used in the car are proprietary. Therefore, the OS Green Vehicle has a low OSE Specifications metric score.

Access refers to use for both private or market purposes. The specification is not neutral in its goals, just as no technologies are ever neutral. The intent goes so far as to point out the nuances that contribute to a particular direction of: (1), promoting ecological integrity, (2), contributing to the highest possible quality of life, and (3), creating the widest possible distribution of wealth. Because the open source method of product development has immense potential in transforming the economic system, the OSE Specification aims to address the evaluation of positive change endorsed by various open source projects.

The scope of OSE Specifications is far-reaching: it considers all the steps necessary for a product to be user-accessible. This includes open access to relevant information and affordable access to physical products. The goal is distributive economics.

OSE Specification stipulates access to physical production facilities that can build wealth in re-localized communities. But OSE Specifications go even further: replication and viral spread of wealth - or distributive production. OSE Specifications address the means for replicating the production process itself. This includes not only self-replicating machines and systems, but the development of open business models, training materials, and apprenticeships for entrepreneurs. As the final step, we consider the availability of capitalization assistance within the metric. The capitalization assistance may be part of a new entrepreneur's apprenticeship - where, for example - real products can be made and sold within the apprenticeship. We redefine the 'capital' in 'capitalization assistance' from 'money' to 'the ability to produce just about anything required for business startup at low cost.'

Such level of commitment to the success of replication may imply a hidden agenda behind this program. Indeed there is: the greatest possible empowerment of people and communities to be the masters of their destinies, by unleashed human productivity fueled by open access to information and enabling hardware.

OSE Spec addresses access to both producers and users - both on the individual and community scale. Production could occur by do-it-yourself means on the individual scale in flexible fabrication facilities. The community scale promotes division of labor, and therefore a high standard of living. The OSE Spec addresses the availability of blueprints or digital designs, which can be used readily in manual or automated, computer-controlled fabrication facilities.

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2011-05-15T09:50:34Z

Knut Brekken: /* Sanne Tilhengere */

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=Introduksjon=

Vi kan jobbe på {{LinkLang|GVCS}} på fulltid takket være generøsiteten av våre donasjoner. Kevin Kellys innflytelsesrike essay [http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fans.php 1000 foreslo Sanne Tilhengere en finansieringsstruktur der 1000 støttespillerer hver måned donerer en liten sum for å opprettholde et prosjekt de virkelig har tro på. Vi ser etter 1000 Sanne Tilhengere som hver lover $10 hver måned som del av {{LinkLang|1000 Squared|1000 Kvadrert}} Kampanjen.

På denne siden kan du også lese hvordan folk som deg har blitt med i kampanjen. I fra Mai 2011 har vi passert 300 Sanne Tilhengere.

Vi har også fått ønsker om større donasjonsalternativer. Som svar har vi laget Gull, Gull Ekstra, Platinum, og Engel abbonnement for $20, $30, $50, og $100 per måned, respektivt,,i tillegg til Standardabbonnementet på $10/måned.

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=Video Introductions=
*Marcin Jakubowski - August, 2010 - <html><object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14161032&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14161032&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/14161032">Marcin's Personlige Introduksjon til Sanne Tilhengere</a> fra <a href="http://vimeo.com/user2016419">Marcin Jakubowski</a> på <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p></html>

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=Sanne Tilhengere=

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| '''[http://monda.hu László Monda]''', Szeged, Ungarn
Mitt navn er László Monda og jeg er en Fri- og Åpen Kilde programvare/
maskinvareentusiast og en proffesjonell programvareutvikler.
I de siste årene har jeg blitt kjent med forskjellige teknologier som
3D printing, elektronikk, printede kretskortdesign, mikrokontrollerprogrammering
og sånt som har fått meg til å innse det enorme potensialet all denne
teknologien kan tilby folk.

Av alle de forskjellige tror jeg ikke bare at OSE er den
mest ambisiøse, men jeg tror det virkelig har potensialet til å
forandre verden til det bedre. Vi burde ikke gjøre oss avhengige
av bedrifter som hovedsakelig tenker på seg selv når vi kan ha
tillit til oss selv og være opptatt av hverandre og med miljøet.

Jeg er stolt av å ta del i dette engasjementet og ser frem til hva
fremtiden kan bringe.
|[[Image:Laszlo_Monda.png|thumb|László Monda. Medlem siden Mai 2011.]]
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| '''[[User:Mjn|Mark Norton]]''', Willseyville, NY, USA
En venn av meg henviste meg til Marcin's TED talk. Etter å ha sett den, var det ingen vei tilbake. Jeg har vært fasinert av Skaperbevegelsen i mange år nå, men har aldri helt hatt motivasjonen til å bli med, til tross for at jeg er nevenyttig. Jeg bor på en liten gård som kona og jeg har gjort om til et selvforsynt hjem som vi håper ev gang vil forsyne alle våre behov. Gårder trenger verktøy, og det slo meg at GVCS var en storartet måte å få det jeg trengte på - ved å bokstavelig talt bygge dem selv. Jeg er programvareutvikler av yrke og jeg har jobbet med flere tiltak med åpen kilde i løpet av årene, så jeg forstår ganske godt hvorfor arbeidet til OSE er så viktig og også noen av utfordringene det har i vente, spesielt rundt opprettholdbarhet. Derfor er jeg villig til å støtte det jeg sier jeg støtter og bli en Sann Tilhenger.
|[[Image:flannel_sm.JPG|thumb|Mark Norton. Medlem siden April 2011.]]
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| '''[[Dan Miner]]''', New York City, USA
Jeg er glad for at i fra våren 2011, etter utgivelsen av Marcins TED talk, får OSE i det minste en liten fraksjon av oppmerksomheten det fortjener. Hvis flere folk forsto at det drivstofftømming, internasjonale ressurskriger, og klimaforandringer vil gjøre med globalisert produksjon og distribusjon, ville de vært, ah, veldig urolige - og ville løpt for å bestille deres egne Global Village Construction Set. Ikke sikker på om OSE vil bli mer populært enn Lady Gaga - men la oss gjøre oss klare til å oppskalere produksjonen nå! - Dan Miner, New York City - www.beyondoilnyc.org
|[[Image:Dan_Miner-waterfront-5-10.JPG‎|thumb|Dan Miner. Medlem siden Februar 2011.]]
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| '''Javier Rivera''', Spania

Vil se en verdensomspennende Ressursbasert Økonomi, støtter Venusprosjektet ({{LinkLang|Zeitgeist}}) og ble en Sann Tilhenger av OSE i Februar 2011. Ble medlem av wikien dagene etterpå, og prøver å hjelpe med dette fantastiske arbeidet. Jeg ser på OSE som et virkelig skritt i en RBE retning - Dette er bare et nødvendig prosjekt for å skape en åpen verden. Stå på!

|[[Image:javier.jpg|thumb|200px|Javier Riviera. Medlem siden Februar 2011.]]
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| '''Etienne Duport''', Frankrike

Jeg skulle ønske jeg oppdaget OSE prosjektet for lenge siden. Det er veldig spennende! Forhåpentligvis vil alle en dag kunne kopiere disse verktøyene for å leve sine egne autonome liv. Siden jeg er så langt fra moderskipet i Missouri, er donasjoner en smart løsning for å støtte opp om OSE. Må Kraften være med deg ;-)"

|[[Image:etienne.jpg|thumb|200px|Etienne. Medlem siden Februar 2011.]]
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| '''Rasmus Kiehl''', Toronto, Kanada

La oss ta tilbake økonomien! (flere detaljer {{LinkLang|Tim-Rasmus_Kiehl|på min side}} i lagdyrkningsseksjonen).

|[[Image:Rasmus_Kiehl2010.jpg|thumb|200px|Rasmus. Medlem siden Februar 2009.]]
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| '''Steffen Lemmerzahl''', Zurich, Sveits

Global Village Construction Set passer veldig godt med settet av arbeid
som jeg setter veldig stor pris på, slik som prosjektene til D55.dk og
Atelier Van Lieshout innen kunst eller Paolo Soleri innen arkitektur.
Ettersom jeg selv er arkitekt (http://www.slik.ch) med bakgrunn i
CNC-bygde strukturer og parametrisk arkitektur
(http://www.caad.arch.ethz.ch) tenker jeg i en lignende retning
slik dere gjør, så jeg er glad for å kunne støtte deres storartede prosjekt
med min lille donasjon!

|[[Image:steffenlemmerzahl.jpg|thumb|200px|Steffen Lemmerzahl. Medlem siden Februar, 2011.]]
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| '''Angela''', Colorado, USA

Mange ville virkelig tjene på det gruppen din har oppnådd og tingene som kommer. Bravo! Vær så snill å FORTSETT MED DET!. Vi ser på deres suksess og vet at ditt arbeid er veldig viktig og det kunne ikke skjedd på et mer kritisk tidspunkt. Det er så mange mennesker i så mange områder som vil blomstre med verktøyene du vil tilby. I tillegg kan det hende vi får bruk for dem også! Vi har eiendom som har mange trær som ligger og som må kuttes. Områder som må jevnes, og stier som må gjenopprettes, osv. Lykke til og våre beste ønsker til alle dere.

|[[Image:angelah.jpg|thumb|200px|Angela. Medlem siden Februar, 2011.]]
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| '''Charles Kraus''', Storbritannia

Arbeidet dere gjør (og jeg siterer Facebookstatusen min) er “Bokstavelig talt det mest fantastiske prosjektet jeg har sett”.

Jeg har vært interessert i ideen av å være selvforsynt i lang tid, og har faktisk hatt en drøm om å en dag kjøpe min egen øy og begynne et helt selvforsynt samfunn som lever av landet. Det kommer åpenbart aldri til å skje, men uten drømmene våre, hva annet er det å leve for?

Så når jeg ser en hel gruppe individer dedikere tid og energi til bokstavelig talt fundamentet av drømmene mine, følte jeg at jeg måtte bidra med noe, faktisk så er deres sak den første jeg noen sinne har gitt til på månedlig basis!

Det jeg gjerne ville sett er et tall fullstendig selvforsynte småbyer arrangert, Jeg har i løpet av årene besøkt noen kommunale landbruksprosjekt i Israel, men mesteparten av disse har måttet stenge, så jeg håper at med ditt konstruksjonssett kan du forbedre prosjekter som har kommet før. Jeg tror også at med litt arbeid kan verktøyene dine være veldig nyttig i den tredje verden Afrika osv, så å se dine verktøy bli satt i praksis hadde vært flott.

|[[Image:charleskraus.jpg|thumb|200px|Charles Kraus. Medlem siden Februar, 2011.]]
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| '''Joe Ventura''', California, USA

I was extremely excited to learn about Open Source Ecology's work, especially [http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/Global_Village_Construction_Set The Global Village Construction Set]. I'm a communications professional for NGOs and nonprofit organizations. Through my work, I've traveled around the world, including large parts of Asia and Africa. These experiences overseas convinced me of the need for thoughtful planning around the coming transition from a fossil fuel-based economy. I'm hoping that my small monthly contribution will enable this project to continue and expand its impact.
|[[Image:joeventura.jpg|thumb|200px|Joe Ventura. Joined February, 2011.]]
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| '''Hans Sendelbach''', Washington State, USA

The core issues underneath all this are really quite serious in nature. In my heart I have known for years what is happening, but the momentum in society is so powerful that it makes it easy to ignore the truth. A few months ago I watched the documentary Collapse, which is a long interview with Michael Ruppert. It shook me out of my state of denial.

In my mind this all comes down to a simple science experiment. If you put bacteria on a growth medium like agar in a petri dish, the population will explode exponentially until the food runs out. The population will plateau and drop off. The plateau and drop off are from two factors, the lack of food and poisoning from waste build up. With humans we need to broaden the definition of food and waste to include the food and waste of our infrastructure such as oil and the waste products from its consumption that leak into the air, soil and water. We are in the same position as the bacteria.

Thankfully organisms are smart and can sense there environment and adjust their growth according to the availability of nutrients or other factors. They are also adaptable and can even evolve new methods of metabolism in order to survive and thrive. Bacteria for example exchange rings of RNA with each other that allow them to generate novel enzymes, so they may adjust their function to match their environment.

RNA is coded information that controls chemical behavior. This sentence is also coded information. Your organism and mine are exchanging data, so that we may tailor our personal and infrastructural metabolism to better fit the ecological limitations we are sensing. This is the heart of what natural systems do.

Open Source Ecology has the potential to facilitate the rapid adaptation of our infrastructural metabolism. My hope is that we will learn how to weave our communities back into the complex fabric of life.

Thank you Marcin et al. for stepping forward with the concept for this movement.

|[[Image:hanssendelbach.jpg|thumb|200px|Hans Sendelbach. Joined January, 2011.]]
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| '''Judith Katz''', California, USA

I joined because I think it's high time we develop more sustainable ways to live on this planet and OSE is a viable step in that direction.

|[[Image:judithkatz.jpg|thumb|200px|Judith Katz. Joined January, 2011.]]
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| '''Giulia Vianello''', Italy

I think that the [present] economy isn't the right way to run the world. I'm talking about people who can lose everything for more money, even their life. So, maybe that's the most important reason why i have decided to subscribe to your project. I'm sad because the life of many people i know, depends on money. And i want to change this. I think that all environmental problems we actually have on the earth are initially caused by ignorance, and the ignorance is a convenient way to earn. So from your work i would like to see come out free knowledge for all people, so they would be able to better this world through the knowledge and consequent skills acquired from the open source mind!
In this way everyone would understand that we can be free in every aspect of our life, and a free man is a good man. The kit you're building is fantastic and I'm happy to be able to benefit from your work in the future. Thank you very much.

|[[Image:giulia.jpg|thumb|200px|Giulia Vianello. Joined January, 2011.]]
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| '''Marcu Knoesen''', Cape Town, South Africa

I can clearly see the need to attain all the goals as set out in OSE. The future has to be more localised. The path we are on at the moment will not end well. It is time to make a course correction in a big way.

|[[Image:marcu.jpg|thumb|200px|Marcu Knoesen. Joined January, 2011.]]
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| '''Robert Morris'''

I saw the [http://www.grist.org/article/food-2010-12-29-farmer-scientists-want-to-hack-society article in Grist] today, and have spent the past couple hours looking through your materials. Fascinating stuff.

I have often said that all you need for paradise on earth for 100 people is 5 engineers and a couple doctors. It is gratifying to see that someone is attempting to put it into practice.

My work is not similar at all. My last semester of law school starts on Monday, and I will be embarking on a soul-crushing cubicle-dwelling existence this fall. Happy to be contributing to a new approach, if only in a small way.

|[[Image:robertmorris.jpg|thumb|200px|Robert Morris. Joined December, 2010.]]
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| '''Floyd Earl Smith''', San Francisco Bay Area, California

I’m proud to join my fellow True Fans of Open Source Ecology. The Global Village Construction Set embodies human creativity and potential, and at the same time unleashes it. Together we True Fans are supporting less use of fossil fuels for farming, better use of precious fresh water, and slowing and surviving climate change, while improving, not damaging, the land.

|[[Image:floydsmith.jpg|thumb|200px|Floyd Earl Smith. Joined December, 2010.]]
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| '''Jonathan Rivera''', Houston, Texas

The work you guys are doing is great! And you guys all deserve support from everyone with a conviction for this cause. I know my contribution is not much but I hope to continue to support any way I can. The resource based economy is an idea that has given me motivation to change my life for the best.

|[[Image:jonathanrivera.jpg|thumb|200px|Jonathan Rivera. Joined December, 2010.]]
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| '''Georgy Korablev''', Vancouver, Canada

I am a mathematics student; I support OSE project because it is an audacious step towards the true freedom and liberation of people. I am tired to see countries like Canada spending $35 billion on interest payments annually, and only $3 billion on infrastructure and technology development. I'm tired to see debt growing. I'm tired to see roads broken, schools closed, human rights violated, wars started, technology restrained, people starved, taxes grown, education made into a business, income gap grown, secrets kept from the people, fake government, mindless jobs in corporations competing for a market share, overproduction, manufactured demand and overconsumption, low quality products, inflation, fake research and fake research based on fake research, dollar signs in people's eyes, greed, lies.

People, look around and realize that all the improvement that we had in our lives is due to industrial revolution and rapid development of technology that made things 1000-fold cheaper or more; it is not due lawyers in the government; not due to stock growth, bank loans or corporations.
It is due to people MAKING THINGS, NOT PROFITS. And these people shall have our full support.
|[[Image:georgy.jpg|thumb|200px|Georgy Korablev. Joined December, 2010.]]
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| '''Julia Valentine''', California, USA

I recently became a True Fan as a financial supporter. I am a mother, teacher, Permaculturist, and inhabitant of Planet Earth. All of these endeavors require a sense of hope and a belief in the resilience of our species and of Nature as a whole. Where we stand as a society today, in the midst of the industrial growth machine, leaves us lacking in both hope and resilience. I have a base need to foster these qualities, and to create a more livable future for the children I care for and guide into adulthood. I have a true belief in the ingenuity and flexibility of our species to create a new paradigm. OSE is the actual physical manifestation of our amazing capacity to change. To truly change, we must imagine and then create. The humans behind Factor e Farm and Open Source Ecology have imagined and created. They are on their way - leading by example - to this fruitful future I also work to manifest. I am pleased to have the hard work and creative genius of OSE be open to me as a tool to use for building my abundant future and the future of my community. Thank you for daring to both imagine and create.

|[[Image:Juliavalentine.jpg|thumb|200px|Julia Valentine. Joined November, 2010.]]
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| '''Amanda Packard''', Missouri, USA

I am intrigued and inspired by people offering viable solutions to the challenges facing humanity. And above that, people manifesting those solutions ''now'' – Open Source Ecology is doing just that.

I have had the honor of visiting Factor e Farm and seeing some of the tools of GVCS in action – I am deeply moved by this vision and the people behind it, who value not only tangible exhibitions of development, but also a holistic spiritual/meditation practice. I am excited to proudly join others in supporting Open Source Ecology in this paradigm-shifting revolution.
|[[Image:amanda.jpg|thumb|Amanda Packard. Joined November, 2010.]]
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| '''Christian Shearer''', Pacific Northwest, USA
Originally from the Pacific Northwest of the United States, Christian Shearer is the founder and Managing Director of the Panya Project (www.panyaproject.org). He has over six years of permaculture experience, working and living at Lost Valley Education Center outside of Eugene, Oregon, and now residing at the Panya Project in northern Thailand for over five years. He is a permaculture consultant with Terra Genesis International (www.terra-genesis.com), an advisory board member of We Forest (www.weforest.com), a natural builder, a food forest enthusiast, a musician, a certified educator and has extensive knowledge of tropical permaculture systems. He teaches permaculture around the world (Thailand, Malaysia, India, Taiwan, and even Missouri!) and is excited to continue sharing his passion for a better world and learning from all involved!

He is excited to be a True Fan of Open Ecology, because the ultimate goal of what the people at Open Ecology are doing is perfectly in line with the intentions of Permaculture. The synergy between the two could be very powerful in helping to usher in a new way of being for people on this planet based on local production, resiliency and an engaged populace, with more of a focus on the well-being and health of people rather than the economic progress of the wealthy. Christian is proud to lend his support to a movement like Open Ecology that fills such an important niche in helping to bring about the vision of a Permanent Culture.
|[[Image:christiansprofile.jpg|thumb|Christian Shearer, joined November, 2010.]]
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| '''Nathanael Dinwiddie''', Lawrence, KS, USA
I attended a presentation given by Marcin at the Lawrence Public Library on November 22, 2010. I appreciate Marcin's effort and enthusiasm for this compelling project. I have long been inspired by the vision of Jacque Fresco, and Marcin is generally preparing the beginning stages for the achievement of that grand vision. We must evolve in the way of this project.
|[[File:P1010717.JPG|thumb|Nathanael Dinwiddie. Joined November 2011.]]
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| '''Isaiah Saxon''', Aptos, USA
I'm a filmmaker, technologist, and one of the instigators of an egalitarian community of 17 people, called Trout Gulch, where we are building a studio, village, farm, and maker space inspired by the actions of Christopher Alexander, Will Allen, Sepp Holzer, and Marcin. My film team, [http://www.esquire.com/features/best-and-brightest-2009/encyclopedia-pictura-1209 Encyclopedia Pictura], is working with hollywood to create a new populist heroic myth for the maker movement.

I'm anticipating that the entire GVCS will be created and documented, then replicated by mechanics, geeks, hippies, weekend warriors, and tough guys that are into their trucks. I think OSE is contributing tangibly and symbolically to the greater cultural shift toward localism, authenticity, and DIY green tech.
|[[Image:Isaiah.jpg|thumb|Isaiah Saxon. Joined August 4, 2010.]]
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| '''David Crary''', Seattle, USA
I have been really searching to find people out there who are actually experimenting with new forms of social organization where it is possible to create advanced culture - that is thriving in abundance and largely autonomous, creating a model for everyone...so kudos to you guys. Keep up the great work!
|[[Image:davidcrary.jpg|thumb|David Crary, Seattle, USA. Joined July, 2010.]]
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| '''Benjamin Kaplin'''
I'm a mechanical engineering student, and I support the OSE because a completed Open Source Village kit would represent several orders of magnitude of improvement over existing projects to improve living conditions around the globe with technology. I grew up reading Stephenson, and one of the most powerful images in his book <em>Diamond Age</em> is The Seed, a nanotechnology McGuffin that one of the main characters devotes his life to that would take the control of production and self-determination out of the hands of the McCorporations and put it into the hands of revolutionaries and the impoverished.
Needless to say, nanotech is still several decades away from that dream, and contributing to the True Fans campaign helps a realistic Seed program without pulling me away from my studies.
|[[Image:0213090948.jpg|thumb|Benjamin Kaplin]]
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| '''Paul D. Mamigonian'''
The Open Source Ecology group are making self sufficient living real. Through the Zeitgeist movement and groups like the Open Source Ecology the example is being set that we can come away from the corrupt monetary system. How many times do you hear people say " BUT WHAT CAN WE DO?". There IS SO MUCH THAT can be done and IS BEING DONE. THE TIME IS RIGHT, THE METHODS ARE HERE AND SO IS THE TECHNOLOGY. Please see my site www.livegreenliveclean.org. The Open Source Ecology group are leading the way, and it's up to us all to follow their lead.
|[[Image:paulm.jpg|thumb|Paul D. Mamigonian]]
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| '''Marcin Jakubowski''', opensourceecology at gmail dot com, marcin_ose on Skype
I started the campaign because I have observed how little of humanity's true potential has been tapped. Everyone slaves their life away to a system that is crumbling at the seams. I believe that we can all reach absolute prosperity and evolve to freedom - by becoming skilled and productive [[Integrated Humans]], and by helping anyone else to do the same. History has shown that this is a general formula for lasting prosperity. As long as we're wise, it should be trivial to get beyond the economics of scarcity. We need to show the world how to build the world's first, replicable, open source Global Village.
|[[Image:marcin.jpg|thumb|Marcin Jakubowski]]
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| '''Scott Akridge'''
As I get older I'm more and more interested in helping people. A couple weeks back I enlisted the help of a friend to help in developing a CEB press when I began doing research and found www.openfarmtech.org with the open source CEB press. I continued looking for more information but kept coming back to this site for more info and learned more about the project and found I wanted to get involved. I started by becoming a member and donating $10 a month with plans to build the CEB press and build a couple structures then make the effort a cooperative. After reading more I've decided to also build a sawmill, assuming I can recruit some help. I think this is a great project and am excited to be a part of it in a small way.
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| '''Toby Martin'''
I support OSE because...
* It's an intelligent and direct effort to address some of the most serious problems we face as individuals and as a society.
* It's one of the most interesting and creative projects I've ever heard of.
* I see no reason in principle that it can't improve people's lives.
* It's actually happening.
|[[Image:TF2.jpg|thumb|Toby Martin]]
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| '''Lucas González''', imagina (dot) canarias at gmail dot com [[Image:lucas.JPG|thumb|Lucas Gonzalez]]
I support OSE because both the model and the elements add some important missing pieces to what I perceive is going on.
* I think it's important to have local possibilities for water, food and energy everywhere. Not just at the household level but more importantly at the village or more aggregated levels. Even if you end up buying stuff from elsewhere, it's best if that happens by choice, not by necessity. It was not by choice when things were local by default and it's not by choice now that things are global by default.
* The whole process of open sharing of ideas, processes, know-how is intriguing and, at the very least, extremely fun to watch. (I really wish I had more time to join in myself, but I'm doing things that need doing. So I [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Video_translation translate], [http://imagina-canarias.blogspot.com/search/label/open%20farm%20tech tell others], and chip in with a little cash, less than what others spend in smoking. My choice.)
* I'm particularly interested in some items for specific locations. Energy for water in sunny places is a must. Shelter and water collection systems. You name it.
* Do we really know how far and how fast this can go? I think there's bound to be a catalitic process so that more and more technologies will come out openly, in an exciting incarnation of the Stone Soup story. So I want to help keep the fire going.
* It really looks like this can be done, should be done, will be done in 2 years. Less than 2 years now. The whole world now has a sense of urgency, I feel. I'd like to see what we can do after this. But the time is ripe for this, now.
* It's interesting to note how open content gives us a sense of ownership. Many have felt that with software. I want to see that with hardware.
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'''Joseph Zarr''', joseph.zarr@gmail.com [[Image:DSC_0169.JPG|thumb|Joseph Zarr]]

I am an anthropologist, a farmer, and a permaculturist by training. I support OSE because, well, let's be frank: This is arguably the coolest project on the planet. I am most attracted to Factor E Farm and OSE because of the overall themes of personal improvement (via daily spiritual and physical discipline - in whatever forms a person deems appropriate), human production, and an intertwined personal and community growth. We must collaboratively market the ownership of our futures.

"For less than the price of one coffee per week, for less than the price of one first class stamp per day, you can help change the world. Subscribe!"

As our resource pool dwindles globally, largely due to corporate theft and errant industrial practices, we will have to produce locally and 'in-source'. With a dwindling petroleum base, our dream of cheap energy will disappear. These are simple facts. We must invest human energies in locally-based solutions. We must ignore our propagandized 'reality' and create a meaningful existence together.
With drastically increasing populations (estimated 70 million per year), we must teach ourselves the merits of collaboration, co-housing, and SHARING. My opinion is the era of individualized ownership is archaic and ill-advised. Only by sharing and producing what we actually need, and sharing what we already have (be it skills, books, resources etc.), will we experience the next stage of cultural progress. Hopefully, in the not so distant future our children's hands will not deform due to excessive playing of video games but, rather, they will callous, strengthen and scar due to meaningful labor and a 'hands-on' reality; i.e. literacy, numeracy, production = freedom. The only debts we owe are to ourselves and our community. Let's pay up.

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| '''Josef Davies-Coates'''
I'm founder United Diversity and co-founder of The Open Co-op and support this project because of all the many many VERY cool projects I follow, this is perhaps the most inspiring and important. I can't think of a better way I could possibly spend my money.
|[[Image:jdaviescoates.jpg|thumb|Josef Davies-Coates]]
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| '''Reto Stauss''', reto.stauss(at)gmail.com, rstauss on Skype

I am mainly attracted by the momentum this projects develops. And of course because it is not talking but doing. My hope is that inspires my own little project (actually it already did): [http://manufakturingruendung.ch/en open source goods produced by small, agile manufactories]. Lucas, Joseph, sign your points.
|[[Image:Reto.jpg|thumb|Reto Stauss]]
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| '''Geoff Capper''', geoff (at) floodstreetfarmlet.net
I am supporting OSE because it is showing us that it is possible to regain control over the complex systems that to an extent have come to rule our lives. We can build our own machinery, we can build our own future, we can be free. The activity at Factor e Farm is truly inspiring, and I hope to use many of the products building up our own small farm, which may hopefully inspire others locally.
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| '''Tom Lindsey''', thomas.lindsey at gmail dot com
I support OSE because I want Factor e Farm to succeed so I can use the tools they are developing, replicate Factor e Farm, and create a future of freedom for myself and loved ones.
|[[Image:tomlindsey.jpg|thumb|Tom Lindsey and Boomer]]
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| '''Edward Miller''', embraceunity -at- gmail dot com
I became a true fan because I would like to see our civilization become more resilient by using decentralized technological solutions, and to evolve towards a post-scarcity society. I plan to move on site soon to help build a RepRap machine.
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| '''Jussi Haverinen''', haverinen.jussi at gmail dot com
I'm a strong believer in power of free software approach to technology and very interested in transformative technology and it's effect on society. Politically I'm an social ecologist and I do think that the main task that has to be done is to abolish capitalism and the state through direct democracy in the cities and neighbourhoods (confederated together of course). My skills: mostly computer knowledge, relatively good unix admin skills, and some language skills but that's about it. I only have limited knowledge of farming, construction, electronics, handcraft, but I'm willing to learn.
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| '''Mark Thomas''', factore at thomastechcon dot com
My wife and I are serial homesteaders--we built up a goat dairy from scratch in South Africa, a [http://thomasphotos.wordpress.com small livestock farm in Appalachia], and are just starting on a lambing operation in Southside Virginia.

Politically, I base my ethics on the [[Nonaggression Axiom]] and I do think that the main task that has to be done is to abolish democracy and the state through direct capitalism. Apologies to Jussi above! I do my political writing at [http://distributedrepublic.net/blog/mark Distributed Republic] and much of my reading at [http://mises.org/ the Ludwig von Mises Institute].
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| '''David Voeller''', carefulwiththat at gmail dot com
Open Source Ecology is applying knowledge and skill in the most effective way possible, to create a livable future. The convergence of Permaculture principles and Open Source methodology has been a long time coming. Open Source has shown us that technological advancement need not be encumbered by destructive and wasteful hierarchical control. Permaculture has taught us that a fulfilling and ethical life is not only possible, but realistic in a variety of climates and conditions. Open Source Ecology's work has the possibility to allow many more people to live within their resources; and to drastically increase the quality of life for those already doing so.
|[[Image:davidvoeller.jpg|thumb|David Voeller]]
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| '''Eric Hunting''', TheMillennialProject at gmail.com
We are on the cusp of a transformation in the nature of our civilization. A fundamental shift in the way just about everything works in our society predicated on the evolution of the processes and technologies by which just about everything in our habitat is made. Emerging digital fabrication technology combined with emerging awareness of the factors of industrial sustainability are not only changing how we make things but who is making them and where. Industrial Age paradigms that have been concentrating industrial, economic, and political power for a century are failing in the face of a progressive shrinking, smartening, and demassifying of the tools of production and communication. Open Source Ecology is on the cutting edge of this transformation, pursuing and cultivating a spectrum of tools, new and old, that can realize a radical new level of sustainable community self-sufficiency with the intent of disseminating these tools globally. The Factor E Farm project is an incubator for a nascent movement with world-sweeping potential.
|[[Image:EricHuntingAv.jpg|thumb|Eric Hunting]]
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| '''[http://blog.erikdebruijn.nl/ Erik de Bruijn]''', ose at erikdebruijn.nl
We've heard about, or even experienced, the collaborative power of passionate individuals around the world. When they join hands, contributing their energy, freely sharing their ideas and building on them, this mode of production can be highly productive. It may well outperform the traditionally closed 'institutional' mode of production, like Wikipedia is giving us an abundance of knowledge at no cost. OSE attempts, and is actually very successful at extending this notion of knowledge sharing into a way of living.
They codify and freely reveal their knowledge into design files and rich instructional material such as video tutorials. Those serve to inspire, but also to practically make this concept replicable and effective.
|[[Image:erikdebruijn.jpg|thumb|Erik de Bruijn]]
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| '''A. N. Alias''', anon23bf at nyx dot net
I support OSE because we need viable alternatives to the military-industrial complex as a foundation for survival in the near future, particularly if predictions about the coming hyperinflationary depression turn out to be well founded.
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| '''[http://ollehost.dk/blog/ Olle Jonsson]''', olle.jonsson at gmail dot com
I had seen the impressive LifeTrac project on the web, but when I heard about the [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=1254 RepLab] initiative, I was hooked. I'm just a random web developer, but I want to help push toward a generalized, open digital fabrication toolkit. When each hackerspace, lab, and interested individual has access to equipment like that, things get really interesting.
|[[Image:olleolleolle.jpg|thumb|Olle Jonsson]]
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| '''Maureen''', baubo at dishmail.net
I support factor E open source farm because when the cheap industrial food machine breaks down for lack of diesel fuel and capital, people are going to be shocked, angry and then desperate to learn a new way of living. OSE is not just a theory, a book or a blue print. It’s an open source physical model of a DIY food, energy and shelter producing system. Large-scale industrialization was largely a wrong turn for humanity. By shrinking the scale, localizing throughputs, working smarter and sharing information globally we can create a bright new future – a true renaissance. Factor E farm is breaking trail for us all. I can’t think of a better investment.
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| '''[http://bit.ly/elifarley-buzz Elifarley]''', ''my first name'' @opensourceecology.org

I found out about Open Source Ecology after watching the Zeitgeist Addendum movie. That movie sparkled my curiosity and I started a quest to understand the problems and possible solutions to our society's needs.

In this quest, I found out some very exciting ideas, groups and people, like the Transition Towns movement (concerned with peak oil), The Venus Project and RBE Foundation (moneyless, cybernated society), Common Good Bank (alternative currency system), RepRap (self-replicating, open source 3D printer), the P2P Foundation, and the OSE site, to name a few.

You may have noticed that all these projects and movements seem to have a common goal, they all seem to propose that we forget all artificial limitations (and scarcity) and we all seek union to improve our lives and sustainability. Without artificial limitations, we all can have much much better lives. That's the message I can hear all these people and movements resounding.

I'd say that The Venus Project champions ideas, whereas OSE materializes them, performing concrete actions that will move our world forward.

I'm confident that our small contributions to this cause will add up and have a tremendous positive result for everybody.

''(In Portuguese)''

Descobri o site da Open Source Ecology depois de assistir ao filme Zeitgeist Addendum. Esse filme despertou minha curiosidade e então comecei uma busca para entender os problemas e as possíveis soluções para a nossa sociedade.

Nessa busca, descobri algumas ideias, grupos e pessoas muito interessantes, como o movimento Transition Towns (preocupado com a dependência ao petróleo), o Venus Project e a RBE Foundation (sociedade sem uso do dinheiro, automatizada), Banco do Bem Comum (sistema de moeda alternativa), RepRap (impressora 3D de desenho aberto, auto-replicante), a Fundação P2P, e o site OSE, dentro vários outros.

Vocês podem ter notado que todos esses projetos e movimentos parecem ter um objetivo comum, eles parecem propor que esqueçamos todas as limitações artificiais (e escassez) e que todos busquemos união para melhorar nossas vidas e sustentabilidade. Sem limitações artificiais, todos nós podemos viver muito melhor. Essa é a mensagem que eu posso escutar todas essas pessoas e movimentos ressoando.

Eu diria que o Venus Project dissemina ideias, enquanto que a OSE as materializa, realizando ações concretas que irão avançar o nosso mundo.

Estou confiante que nossas pequenas contribuições a essa causa irão se juntar e terão um resultado tremendamente positivo para todo o mundo.
|[[Image:Ecruz.jpg|thumb|Elifarley Cruz]]
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| '''Shaun Warkentin'''
What money buys is technology, luxury. What technology and luxury buy are pleasure, physical health, and free time for the intellectual, spiritual, relational, creative pursuits that are the constitutive properties of real wealth (a widening of awareness and knowledge) unavailable within a purely subsistence economy. The equation linking money to wealth must be broken (along with the power structures that encroach upon the agency and freedom of most of humanity and the biosphere). OSE appears to be demonstrating how this might be achieved.
|[[Image:Shaun_jump.jpg|thumb|Shaun Warkentin]]
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| '''Aigars Brūvelis''', abruvelis at gmail dot com
This is it. Linux will fully replace windows and in 50 years Open Source Harware will replace most of the commerce. Get on with it.
|[[Image:aigarsbruvelis.jpg|thumb|Aigars Bruvelis from Latvia/UK]]
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| '''Lucas''',
I contribute to OSE because I got tired of all the organizations that claim to be "promoting" sustainability through advocacy and lobbying, which usually merely contributes to the inertia and complexity of our current patently unsustainable society without producing any truly meaningful effect on regular peoples' relation to the economy and planet. We need tangible means and methods to take our lives into our own hands and reduce our reliance on global industrial market structures, not rhetoric and posturing. OSE is one of the few operations that has taken up the task of rebuilding and redesigning material existence to cope with the inevitability of a resource-scarce future. The advancements made at this important project are setting precedents that simply are not being set anywhere else, and I hope to personally be using some of the methods and technologies being developed; from that standpoint, I view my financial contribution as an investment, not a gift. At some point in time those of us who philosophically stand opposed to the dominant paradigms of mass consumerism and ecological exceptionalism must stop talking and starting acting, and OSE is doing just that.
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| '''Peter Koeleman'''
I would love to see the Factor e Farm evolve into a self-sufficient, renewable and socially superior society.

The technological steps towards freedom that the Factor e Farm project take are very interesting to me because I am an IT specialist. I had a taste of gcode a long while back and work with Linux every day as my primairy OS. The modular hardware design makes this technology easy to comprehend and use, even for non-engineers like myself.

The freedom part of this project is what I think will be the most important part of the near future in escaping a corporate ruled society of ever more money spending (=debt building) consumers. The need for economic growth simply isn't sustainable. Those who manufacture and manage their own resources are the only ones who know the real cost of things.
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| '''Daniel Slate''', danieldavidslate + gmail and the rest
This is the real thing, and what you're doing is absolutely necessary. The numerous possibilities that can grow from this...general resilience, a reboot/revision of kibbutzim/moshavim in America or elsewhere, so many other possibilities...building the platform is worth doing. Ideas become real through action. What I see coming out of this work is a way to test out applied philosophies of responsible liberty.
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| '''Adam Mitchell''', mitch dot ad at gmail dot com
If organizations were measured in terms of ''relevancy'' of work, ''loftiness'' of their goals and their ability to ''inspire'' others, Open Source Ecology --''no doubt''-- would be at the top of anyone's list. I am proud to support their endeavor, however small, in hopes that together we can build a better world and encourage others to become more [[Integrated Humans]].
|[[Image:Fiji.jpg|thumb|Adam Mitchell]]
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| '''Anna Przychodzki'''
I was very excited to discover the work of Open Source Ecology; I had no idea people were doing this. I stopped taking science class in my second year of high school so the technical stuff goes way over my head... what I do understand is the intent of the work and the implications of success. The life I want is out of reach for now... but if I support OSE, maybe I can have it in the future. OSE seems to bring us closer to what I believe are our birth-rights: sustainability, economic freedom and quality of life by way of human ingenuity and cooperation, not competition.
|[[Image:annaprzychodzki.jpg|thumb|Anna Przychodzki]]
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| '''Nathan Luedtke'''

I think I found out about Factor E Farm through John Robb's blog Global Guerillas, or at least through that general section of the net, which I am interested in and have been following for some time. I have been tracking your project for a little over a year, and was inspired to contribute when i saw that recently you seem to have hit a tipping point and have been making quick progress which probably will require a little more cashflow.

In terms of what I would like to see come out of it- exactly what you are doing. All of the positive movements that I see out there- Permaculture, Open Source, Transition, etc etc- all of them are integrated in your program. With OSE/FEF, you have a very scientific/rational approach that I appreciate. Long term, I would love to see OSE ideas spread and populate worldwide, and see the technology package implemented and developed further at other sites, both in the USA and as a more successful "technology transfer" to the third world.
|[[Image:nathanluedtke.jpg|thumb|Nathan Luedtke.]]
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'''Devin Balkind'''
An abundant future is dependent on open technologies that fulfill people's most basic needs: food, water and shelter. The fact that this type of work isn't widely recognized as the foundation of a more efficient, equitable and enlightened civilization is a testament to the confusion of our times. Consider me at your service.
|[[Image:DevinProfile.jpg|thumb|Devin Balkind, Since August 2010]]
|[[Image:DevinProfile2.jpg|thumb|Devin Balkind for real.]]
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| '''Ivan Garcia''', ivan at movimientozeitgeist dot org
I've been a OSS programmer for like 8 years now and I love the idea of OS Hardware and the great suistaniblity revolution that the OSE guys are doing. I'm also a supporter of the Zeitgeist Movement in Spain and they both share very similar goals. What you are doing is absolutelly necessary and meaningful for our future!
|[[Image:ivangarcia.jpg|thumb|Ivan Garcia]]
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| [http://permakent.com/ '''J. Kent Hastings'''], USA
The OSE (Open Source Ecology) "True Fan" program is a grass roots way to crowdsource funding for the goal to develop the essential 40 pieces required to make up the complete "Resilient Community Construction Set," an advanced industrial economy in a box that can be deployed inexpensively anywhere in the world.

The cost is reduced to one tenth normal thanks to the savings from using open source software and hardware designs. The components are essential to life and work in the system rather than just decorative knick knacks or toys that Makers like to dabble with and are "designed for disassembly" so each component, like the Life Trac tractor for example, is easy to repair with bolts and simple tools such as wrenches, and easy to modify and improve.
|[[Image:permakent.jpg|thumb|J. Kent Hastings,since August 2010]]
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| '''Søren Poulsen''', Denmark
Words like ''empowerment'' or ''freedom'' get a whole new meaning when you talk about
having the skill set, to create everything you need from nothing.
|[[Image:Soeren_Poulsen.jpg|thumb|Søren Poulsen|130px]]
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| [[Nikolay Georgiev]], Karlsruhe, Germany
Open Source Ecology is based on Natural Principles which consequences have been shown to be positive for a lot of natural and technological systems.

* Decentralization (instead of Centralization) of Power – proven pattern in a lot of networks, like technology (internet, web site development, …) and human relationships (politics, religion/spirituality, family, …).
* Self-Sufficiency – basic needs for living are covered and produced by the local people. No need for dependence. In the future if there is dependency it will be in the form of collaboration.
* Openness – sharing documentation, product design and development process. Being able to change and adapt the products.
* Product Quality – life-time, modular and systems Design.
* Collaboration (instead of using other people for self-interest) – getting people together by purpose and values, and not by force, is much better for the producers and the consumers as well.
* Replicability – giving birth of open sourced, modern-living villages is just amazing! Having the choice of replicability saves a lot of time and work.

It is crucially important that we go beyond life of survival. Survival mode is pushing everyone to take resources from other people, not considering their allowance, health and their community. When we are in survival mode we often neglect our own values and push other people in order to survive.

When we reach the state of living where all basic needs are covered, every person on this planet will have much bigger possibility to develop his own potential. Right now only a very small percentage of the human population have the time and possibilities to develop themselves – to guide their own life in the direction they want, to contribute to the society by using their abilities in their fullness. Most people in the world are fighting, struggling, working only for their own survival or that of their own families, and higher goals and desires like developing themselves and contributing to society are not possible and of low priority.

We need new models of economy and living based on openness, giving and sharing. Open Source Ecology is headed clearly in this direction, giving back freedom to where it belongs.

|[[Image:Nikolaygeorgiev-tall.jpg‎|thumb|Nikolay Georgiev, since Sep. 2010]]
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| '''Dario Figueira''', Portugal, wurmdario at gmail dot com
I became a true fan simply because I was already monetarily supporting a NGO. And for me, you seem to be doing better work, or more important work than they were. So please continue XD.
[[User:WurmD|WurmD]] 23 August 2010 (UTC)
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| '''Matthias''', neodynos-at-googlemail-dot-com
Thinking about what's wrong with the world, I found that huge aggregations of power and of money are the main tools we as humans use to oppress and exploit. That led me to support Open Source Ecology as a decentralized alternative.

And while I am convinced that the ultimate solution (one that transcends even death) is not to be found through technology but rather through sound theology -- I am also convinced that the work of OSE can provide all of us with a better world ''until'' death.
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| '''Chris Berry''', France
What immediately impressed me about what you are doing is that...... well, this is something that could actually work. Much of the ecology movement seems to really depend on shifting human nature (ie modern capitalism will work just fine so long as people breed a bit less, consume a bit less, etc- its never going to work, at best we'll destroy the planet in the next 200 years instead of the next 50).

People need to be offered something genuinely
better. And really, when you look at it, it shouldn't be difficult to beat this modern lifestyle based on greed and envy and selfishness, with rampant crime and suicide and mental illness, people drowning in debt, and every system we depend on falling to pieces in front of us.
|[[Image:chrisberry.jpg|thumb|Chris Berry, joined October, 2010.]]
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| '''Stewart Easton''', Vancouver, Canada
I was exposed your work through listening to VTV’s show in the archives. I have a background in biology, but I work in finance, so I have taken the route of “those who can not do, help”. The help in my case is money and I will spread the word of your work as I spend much time on other forums debating the merits of an RBE, and I always use your organization as an example of people building the technology to advance the concept.

I am part of the Vancouver Chapter of the Zeitgeist movement and I think the work you are doing is great and we as a movement need to do more to help you with your goals. You are building the technology that is going to make an RBE possible.
|[[Image:stewarteaston.jpg|thumb|Stewart Easton, joined September, 2010.]]
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| '''Daniel Morlan''', Indiana, USA

I will be watching you folks closely. I heard you on the V-Radio show a couple of times, and your methodology is far more inspiring to me than the mere lip-service that most put out, including myself. (I am the “editor in chief” of the Indiana Zeitgeist Newsletter.) and an acquaintance of Neil Kiernan, and I am enthralled with what you folks are doing.
|[[Image:danielmorlan.jpg|thumb|Daniel Morlan, joined August, 2010.]]
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| '''Shakti Saraswati''', Brisbane, Australia (mail at shakti dot id dot au)

I have come to the Open Source Ecology, from the Zeitgeist movement and see this as a natural transition from something quite absurd to a more practical way to live our lives. By doing nothing we have allowed this silly profit system overrule common sense and go so viral as to be totally dysfunctional. Society spends all of its time solving problems that are symptomatic and never go any deeper to find causal remedy.

The fact that people can earn money without actually contributing anything of substance is an unbelievable waste of potential usefulness. 80% of the population do this while fiddling the figures, they are totally consumed. Imagine if that problem solving potential was put to good use.

As a musician I find it an incredible distraction living in a society that has not, after 5000 years of civilisation, actually become civilised yet. A lot of the mental energy that I need to improve myself as a musician is wasted basically trying to survive. I have learned to live off the smell of an oily rag, and my priority is improving myself to the detriment of living comfort, and that is because society does not work efficiently.

I see Open source Ecology as the first rung in the ladder to improving all that ails the world. The important thing to mention here is the fact that everything that each individual knows is the collection of their experience of everyone else around them, so they have no right to exclusivity and have a duty to share. There is no reason why all land and resources should not benefit all people. The understanding of this will eliminate all the unnecessary conflict that we have today. The challenge is to put it into practice for the greater good without sacrificing the individual. This will happen when we share the workload and become responsible.

Fulfilment in life comes from hands on achievement and when everybody is contributing instead of building locks and walls while fiddling figures, I bet we have a much more harmonious and luxurious lifestyle without the fear. The real challenges will be then what will affect us all as a human species, rather than just individual survival.

So thank you Open Source Ecology for putting the wheels in motion of the ground-up transition to self-sustaining systems open for the improvement of all who contribute, not just those who wish to profit and exploit.

|[[Image:Shakti.jpg|thumb|Shakti Saraswati. Medlem siden Nov., 2009.]]
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'''Carolyn Phillips''', Adelaide, Australia [[File:Cari.jpg |thumb|Carolyn]]

I’ve always liked smart, lean design and this project seems both smart and lean. I hope you make some headway without the bureaucratic bloat that seems to ultimately spoil good ideas.
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Fra {{LinkLang|OSE Founder|OSE Grunnleggeren}},sist oppdatert Feb. 2011:

'''Open Source Ecology''' (OSE) er en bevegelse dedikert til den samarbeidsdrevne utviklingen av verktøy som gjør åpen tilgang til de beste praksisene av økonomisk produksjon mulig - for å promotere harmoni mellom mennesker og deres naturlige livsoppholdssystemer, og for å fjerne materiell knapphet fra å avgjøre kursen til menneskelige relasjoner, globalt og lokalt. OSE tar sikte på å skape harmonifylt sameksistens mellom naturlige og menneskelige økosystem (hvis vi antar at disse er adskilte), mot landforvaltning, robusthet, og forbedring av den menneskelige tilstanden. OSE forfølger skapelsen av et åpent samfunn, der alles behov blir møtt, og der alle har tilgang til informasjon, materiell produktivitet, og rettferdige styringssystemer - slik at menneskelig kreativitet blir løssluppet, for alle mennesker.

En applikasjon av OSE er skapelsen av kopierbare, åpen kilde, moderne, desentraliserte, robuste fellesskap.

OSE Mission

2011-05-14T13:20:58Z

Knut Brekken:

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From the [[OSE Founder]],last updated Feb. 2011:

'''Open Source Ecology''' (OSE) is a movement dedicated to the collaborative development of tools that enable open access to the best practices of economic production - to promote harmony between humans and their natural life support systems, and to remove material scarcity from determining the course of human relations, globally and locally. OSE aims to create harmonious coexistence between natural and human ecosystems (if we assume these are separate), towards land stewardship, resilience, and improvement of the human condition. OSE is pursuing the creation of an open society, where everybody's needs are met, and where everybody has access to information, material productivity, and just governance systems - such that human creativity is unleashed, for all peoples.

One application of OSE is the creation of replicable, open source, modern, decentralized, resilient communities.

OSE Specifications/no

2011-05-14T13:20:28Z

Knut Brekken:

{{Lang|OSE Spesifikasjoner}}

=Introduksjon=

(sist oppdatert Jan 2011)

Før du leser videre, vennligst se {{LinkLang|OSE Mission|OSE Oppdrag}}. OSE Spesifikasjoner er en beregning for å vurdere kvalitetene som bidrar til skapelsen av relokalisert økonomisk produksjon, som et grunnlag for fellesskapsfremskritt i en sammenvevd verden.

OSE Spesifikasjonene er en standard som tar sikte på å definere og evaluere kriteriene til produkter, tjenester, og produksjonen av dem - som tjener til å promotere skapelsen av overflødige økonomier, og dermed, skapelsen av robuste fellesskap. ''Overflod'' eksisterer der et fellesskap bruker sin ressursbase på en slik måte at menneskelige behov og ønsker leveres i overflod - med betydelig overskudd for å drive kulturelt og vitenskapelig fremskritt.

=Point by Point=
=GVCS Specifications/Core Values=

These are the values of OSE that inform the development of the GVCS which are to be embodied in the development process, in the recruitment of volunteers, in its corporate structure, and in all operations, public and private:

#'''Open Source''' - we freely publish our 3d designs, schematics, instructional videos, budgets, and product manuals on our open source wiki. We strive to harness open collaboration with a globally-distributed team of technical contributors. We value transparency of our operations, business model, strategic development, “code” (blueprints and designs), management information, and any other aspects that can lead to distributive economics. Commentary: Our main goal is to contribute to the creation of open culture, where sharing and collaborative development are valued over greed and exclusiveness. This type of culture promotes life and growth, as opposed to fear-based aggressiveness. Open source culture icludes publishing 'early and often' to expose errors and dead ends – where rapid growth occurs by adjusting to failure. Failing early allows solutions to be found early. Failure and dead ends are abundant in life – and the mark of a successful individual is their ability to respond to failure in a manner that leads to growth and transcendence.
#'''Distributive Economics''' – We publish our business models openly so that others can replicate any enterprise. “Everything we know, you know.” This is intented to generate truly free enterprise and life-giving competition, as opposed to monopoly capitalism or militarism. In one word - distibutive economics are called sharing. In the political sense, this phenomenon may be described as decentralization engineering. It should be noted that information should be free, because the cost of distributing information is negligible. However, atoms or physical objects are not 'free' in the same sense, as significant human energy is required to produce and distribute physical goods.
#'''Low-Cost''' - The cost of buying or making our machines are, on average, 5-10x cheaper than buying from an industrial manufacturer- including an average labor cost of $25 hour for a GVCS fabricator. Commentary:
#'''Modular''' – Components of the GVCS function as interchangeable modules. Motors, parts, assemblies, and power units can interchange, where units can grouped together to diversify the functionality that is achievable from a small set of units. To see how the different parts fit together - see [[Product Ecologies]].
#'''User Friendliness''' – Design-for-disassembly, simplicity, transparency, and open source documentation allows the user to comprehend, take apart, modifyservice, maintain, and fix tools readily without the need to rely on expensive repairmen.
#'''DIY''' - The user gains control of designing, producing, and modifying the GVCS tool set. DIY is intented to promote the maker, doer, creator, non-consumer culture – in people who are interested in creating their own custom environment as opposed to accepting massively-standardized options.
#'''Closed-Loop Manufacturing and Material Cycle'''s – Any product should never be a waste, but a feedstock for another process. Our project relies on recycling metal into virgin feedstock for producing further GVCS technologies - thereby allowing for cradle-to-cradle manufacturing cycles.
#'''High Performance''' - Performance standards must match or exceed those of industrial counterparts for the GVCS to provide a comparable or better standard of living.
#'''Industrial Efficiency''' - In order to provide a viable choice for a resilient lifestyle, the GVCS platform matches or exceeds productivity standards of industrial counterparts.
#'''Ecological Design''' - Our products promote a harmonious co-existence between nature and humans. The entire process and technology must fit the criteria for being environmentally friendly and regenerative.
#'''Resilience'''– The systems that we are designing are designed to be adaptable. This arises from the ability to modify, scale and replicate the components and systems to meet requirement of constantly changing conditions.
#'''Systems Design''' – Our designs consider the whole system of life support, in terms of hoew the different machines and services interface with one another. Different machines can functions as modules in a wide array of integrated systems. We do not choose technologies with peak point performance, but with peak systems performance as they fit into a resilient community integrated with its natural life support systems. Part of the systems design is synergy – in that the GVCS is intended to attain its maximum potential when all of its components are working with one another.
#'''Lifeteime Design''' – Our products are designed for a lifetime of use – via solid design, user serviceability, open source, DIY design.
#'''Substitutability''' – Our products tend to the substitutability of common resources for less common or strategic resources. Substitutability also applies to the fact that any damaging
#'''Robustness''' – Applications of our work range from the 1st to the 4th worlds, from the city to the country, from high technology to low technology applications, at different scales of operation.
#'''Multipurpose Flexibility''' – Our tools are typically not dedicated devices, but ones that can be used flexibly in a wide range of applications.
#'''Best Practice''' – we focus on optimization of our products to achieve the best possible design and functionality
#'''Simplicity''' - We design for absolute simplicity without sacrificing performance standards
#'''Complete Economy''' – The work of OSE is intended to be a workable blueprint for a complete economy. Our designs are geared for a maker lifestyle on the part of community members. This is also known as a neo-subsistence lifestyle – where communities can provide all the requirements of a complete economy, such that trade is only an option, not a necessity.
#'''Freedom from Material Constraints''' – The GVCS is intended to provide all the material needs of a community in an efficient way. This allows people to have free time, which allows people to choose their pursuits freely, beyond constraints of material scarcity. This is also known as High-Tech Self-Providing.
#'''Division of Labor''' – Our designs focus on the needs of a modern villlage enjoying a high quality of life, as opposed to individual utilization. All of the technologies may be adapted to an individual's use, but division of labor is more desirable for achieving a complete economy in a community.
#'''Scalability and Fractality''' – The GVCS tools are designed to be scalable to different sizes of operations, from individual households to agglomerations of villages (cities). The design should be fractal, in that each unit of operation should be self-contained (cimplete) and resilient.
#'''Village Scale''' – The GVCS is intended to be optimized for a village scale of about 200 people, or Dunbar's number – as the number of people who can maintain face-to-face interaction.
#'''Nonviolence''' – The GVCS is designed to provide for all the needs of a community without killing or stealing from others.
#'''Amicable Social Contract''' – The GVCS toolset is designed to promote a just, equitable, and life-giving social contract for a village community living with the GVCS. The qualities of the GVCS are intended to promote good relationships between a village-scale group of people. The social contract is based on collaborative division of labor, where productivity of individual members contributes to the well-being of the whole community. The basic requirement is lifelong learning and regenerative stewardship of land and resources, along with nonviolence .
#'''Community and Family''' – OSE promotes the reconnection of people to one another as a result of increased freedom from material constraints. This reconnection also includes reconnection to one's true needs, to one's family, and to the global family of all living creatures.
#'''Proven Techniques''' – We focus on time-proven concepts, techniques, and technologies. All are principles are generally regarded as common, historical knowledge or wisdom learned through eons of civilization.
#'''Cross-Disciplinary Integration''' – We provide cutting edge practice in so far as they are integrations of knowledge from many fields and disciplines. We value unabashed boundary-crossing and cross-fertilization, drawing from as many cultures, regions, and time periods as possible.
#'''Sufficiency''' – Our design focuses on sufficiency – ie, we understand that we need to reach a certain level of performance, and that is sufficient. This is distinct from continuous addition of frivolous bells and whistles.
#'''New Economics''' – One aspect of OSE is that it allows for the creation of a resource based economy, where true wealth is based on the value of natural, primarily local resources, where wealth is created from adding value to natural resources by transforming them to human-usable form.
#'''Flexible Fabrication''' – This is a mode of production distinct from specialization. In flexible fabrication, general purpose machinery is used by highly skilled workers to produce a wide array of products – as opposed to specialized machines, operated by highly deskilled workers, producing only a single item. Our means to flexible fabrication is the open source fab lab.
#'''Technological Recursion''' – The flexible fabrication technology also allows producers to produce more complex machines and parts. This allows a local community to, eventually, attain the capacity to produce any technology known to humankind.
#'''Industry 2.0''' – This is a concept that flexible fabrication, combined with a collaboratively-developed, global repository of down-loadable product design has the potential to become the new engine of production. This is particularly useful towards relocalization of productive economies and towards distributive economics. Industry 2.0 is a direct goal of OSE.
#'''Permafacture''' - ecological fabrication with lifetime design.
#'''Local Resources''' – The GVCS is fueled by local resources, such as water, sunlight, rock and soil. Via technological recursion,
#'''Replicability''' – OSE work is intended to be replicable, self-replicating, and viral. The open source nature, low-cost, and simplicity of our designs are key to this.
#'''Meaning''' – Technology, when used appropriately, is intended to reconnect one to meaning, and to natural ecosystems. Reconnection to nature can occur from constant interplay between humans and nature, as natural resources are stewarded responsibly to meet human needs by benign processes.
#'''Appropriate Automation''' – We favor automation of production or other tasks whenever repetitive, difficult, dangerous, or otherwise unrewarding tasks can be carried out with computer assistance instead of human labor. We favor this if this truly increases quality of life and reduces toil, without loss of meaning, violence, or other negative systems consequences.
#'''Long Term Approach''' – OSE is seeking long-term solutions on the 100 year scale into the future, not band-aids on superficial issues. We are looking at issues for the long haul, with lasting peace and stability for humanity as the goal.
#'''Network''' – OSE is interested in creating a network of like-minded communities that follow OSE values, such that cultural exchange can happen between different communities. This refers to the 1000 Global Villages concept - which serve as model communities that influence the rest of the world in a positive way. This brings in an element of mobility into the community social fabric.
#'''Model Community'''- The OSE Village with the GVCS are intended to provide a positive, best-practice example of integrated, meaningful lifestyles along the principles of abundance and prosperity - as a shining point of light to inspire people in many walks of life.
#'''Land and Resource Stewardship''' – Each OSE facility functions as a land steward. Land is not for sale, but is preserved for ever as a permanent site of human heritage and cultural growth. Resources are stewarded so that they improve in quality with time, as opposed to becoming depleted.
#'''Iconoclastic Innovation and Transformation''' – OSE favors iconoclastic approaches which address issues at the root, not symptoms – towards addressing pressing world issues (war, poverty, corruption, distribution of wealth, disease, etc.). We are not looking for mass-culture compromises swayed by political or special interests, but for authentic solutions based on virtues common to all humankind.
#'''Absolute Creative Approaches''' - We do not promote destroying anything, just creating a better solution that makes the old paradigm obsolete. We do not hate any group or politic, because we are all in this together. We believe in positive psychology, inspiration, and bringing out the virtues in people – by appealing to their absolute creative, transcendent potential for solutions. We do not endorse fear- or punishment-based motivation tactics.
#'''Realistic Immediacy''' - We favor a realistic approach that can be implemented today, as opposed to futuristic dreaming. We believe that we have sufficient knowledge and technology today to create an abundant lifestyle for everybody. We focus on a tool set designed for a nominal 200 person village - according to Dunbar's number. This allows for sufficient division of labor to cover just about any technology to be produced locally, while remaining small enough such that organization of such a community is manageable.
#'''Proper Scale'''- We look at the village scale of about 200 people as the optimal scale of human organization for several reasons. First, it's a historically proven number. Second, it follows [[Dunbar's Number]] to allow for persistent and meaningful social interaction. Third, it is easily manageable from an organizational point of view without requiring bureaucratic overhead. Fourth, it is sufficiently large to allow specialization via division of labor. Fifth, it allows for a walking- or biking-distance community. Sixth, it is a basic building block - where larger communities may be designed as units of this small scale for the highest possible resilience - as opposed to organization on a larger scale. Seventh, it has been pointed out by the industrial economist, E. F. Schumacher, in his seminal book, [[Small is Beautiful]], that human organization simply breaks down after it reaches a certain scale.
#'''One World Approach'''- We believe that people in general should live within the means of global resources without depleting their quality or polluting them. This is opposite of what happens in general today.
#'''Miniaturization'''- We believe that the scale of successful human organization at which modern-day technology can be maintained can be scaled down to the village scale - under the assumption of open information flows.
#'''Radical Abundance'''- We believe that there are abundant resources for everybody, and that human social organization should favor institutions that promote abundance, as opposed to scarcity. We favor a technological infrastructure that moves beyond resource scarcity as a dominant underlying force in all of civilization.

=Methods and Strategic Approaches=

#'''Open''' – Open Source Ecology endorses open source culture of sharing and collaborative development throughout, towards the end of distributive economics. This applies at the level of our process, organizational structure, business and products. On the process level, we encourage others to collaborate openly, yet respectfully of other developers' needs. To this end, we are aiming to create collaboration structures and platforms that allow others to collaborate freely, and to publish meaningful results openly. We seek to design all of our operations to be consistent with this principle. We encourage everybody on the development team to be transparent about their work, and to ask openly for collaborative assistance. We encourage everybody to give information away for free – as the cost of sharing information is zero
#'''Distributive Economics''' - We recognize the challenges of sharing information openly – in that someone else can 'steal' an idea and capitalize on it. We address this issue by encouraging people to publish openly, so that prior art makes information accessible to all, and therefore, making information un-patentable and therefore incapable of being appropriated. In order to capture value, we encourage humans to organize around information resource commons, while building in a physical, productive infrastructure to convert information into the substance of modern-day living via benign, industrial processes
#'''Notes on Patents'''. These make sense only in a world based on scarcity. We encourage each community that adopts OSE principles to build complete, open source, economic productivity – where true wealth can be generated easily. In this case, what is the need for patents? If a community can provide all of its needs - then we enter into the concept of sufficiency. State-of-art point technologies that optimize one feature of performance are not necessarily useful for an ecological tool set. We are interested more in overall, or ecological, performance - as opposed to point performance.
#'''Creative Approach''' - There is a number of movements that cater to fears regarding the end of the world or other comprehensive collapse scenarios. Our approach is intended to empower people from a perspective of what is a-priori favorable and benign - whether or not any cataclysm is on the horizon. IT is important to underscore that we focus on positive psychology and transcendence, which we favor over an approach based on fear, because fear-based response is not as likely to create long-lasting solutions.
#'''Modular, lifetime design''' – The core of lifetime design is design-for-disassembly and modularity. Design-for-disassembly is synonymous with user ability to 'look under the hood' of a certain device. Modules are interchangeable units of functionality.
#'''Closed Loop Manufacturing''' – OSE endorses closed loop eco-industry, where waste does not exist as the waste is turned into feedstock for other processes.

=Components of OSE Specifications=

OSE Specifications cover a number of aspects of economically-significant production, covering the development and production aspects:

*Economic significance
*Open documentation
*Distributive economic nature
*Transformative nature of enterprise
*Systems design
*Transparency and participatory nature of production model and development process
*Creation of post-scarcity levels of production
*Simplicity and low cost
*Lifetime, modular design; design-for-disassembly; design-for-scalability
*Localization of material sourcing and of production
*Ecological qualities
*Economic Feasibility and Replicability
**Minimization of waste, overhead, and bureaucracy
**Product Evolution
**Fabrication Facilities
**Open Franchising or Open Business Model
**Startup Assistance

==Economic Significance==

Economic significance refers to the overall economic importance of a given product or service. The assumption here that economic significance is defined on the basis of relevance for meeting the material needs of humans. For example, fuels and tractors constitute multibillion dollar global markets, and are thus economically significant. On the other hand, plain discussion may have little economic significance, if is not more than hot air.

==Open Documentation==

===Open content===

We begin with open content as a foundation – content that is free of restrictions on use or dissemination. The optimal license for content that we promote is the public domain. This keeps it simple from the practical and legal perspective. We have a philosophy that the users should decide for themselves as to how to use the information. We support open licensing. We are not interested in policing.

We believe that to claim something as ‘one’s own’ is arrogant, as it does not address the fact that any single ‘invention’ is simply a small additional to a large pool of existing knowledge that made the ‘invention’ possible. We believe that there is no point in trying to police the patenting of forks, as are simply so many different forks or development paths that could be taken nonetheless: creativity is unlimited. We believe that the more we contribute to the commons, the more new content will be generated.

===Readily accessible or downloadble documentation and design===

Distributed information in the computer age is made most readily accessible if it is available for immediate download from the internet. If material is available in electronic format, it may be manipulated or utilized readily with software tools. For example, digital designs may be edited or used immediately in CAD or CAM. If CAM formats are available, then data at one point in space can be readily transformed into a physical object at another point in space, in the presence of digital fabrication capacities.

===Design Drawings===

This is a start towards replicability.

===Bill of Materials (BOM)===

Next to design drawing, the BOM is the second most important towards replicability. This is a detailed listing of all parts used, sourcing, and prices. Availability of the BOM saves the potential builder countless hours of searching for part availability and for reasonable pricing. Relevant comments should be made alongside the BOM, such as, quality or reliability of certain vendors, their quality of service, and any other useful comments. The only difficulty with a BOM may be that if the audience is global, sourcing may not be readily available or shipping may be prohibitive, so local substitution of parts must be made. If a BOM is available, then the building of a specific product can commence immediately: there is no guessing which parts would work, or which supplier is reliable. At best, the process for one-off individual production can be as follows:
#an individual decides that they need a certain product
#they look that product up on an online repository of open source products, download fabrication procedures and parts lists
#purchase parts locally all on the same day if they are located in an urban area where many suppliers are available
#and start building a certain project.
All these steps can potentially be completed in one day when the BOM is available. Open design drawings and plans are only one aspect, but the critical point to enabling immediate production is the availability of BOMs, as the last step prior to actual fabrication.

Under this scenario, a realistic possibility emerges that a large number of individuals discontinue purchasing slave goods from who-knows-where, and begin to fabricate them locally. This is feasibile on the individual level for anyone equipped with a robust Fab Lab, or when small groups (a few to a dozen people) get together to purchase low-cost, open source, digital fabrication equipment. These people could operate out of backyard garages, rented workshop spaces, co-working facilities, or other community supported manufacturing operations. The types of products that yield themselves particularly to this type of production are those items that fall beyond the class of disposable goods, and are more or less long-use items. These items include electronics, mechanized tools, semi-heavy machinery, green vehicles, renewable energy systems, among others.

====Tools====
[[CAD by Mariano Alvira]] and [[SKDB]] are two different tools that can improve and automate different aspects of handling a BOM.

===Free information===

If information is free, it is most easily accessible.

==Distributive Economics==

Distributive economics refer to economic models that tend to distribute economic power as opposed to monopolizing this power.

==Transformative Nature of Enterprise==

We are interested in transformative economics, or those economics which tend towards community and global resilience, while having qualities that, proactively, move the world away from: concentration of societal power; perennial warfare; loss of meaning; bureaucracy; globalization of economic activity; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak newspeak]; loss of freedom; and so forth.

==Systems Design==

Systems design refers to design of economic paradigms which consider the whole human and natural ecosystem, and the relationships involved, not just an isolated part of that system. For example, non-systems thinking may lead one to conclude that a modern steam engine for transportation is a bad idea compared to biodiesel or fuel alcohol because the thermodynamic efficiency of a steam engine is two times lower than that of diesel engines or gasoline engines. The systems design perspective will claim that the steam engine is a great idea, because biomass pellets can be used as fuel, and the yield of cellulosic biomass per acre is about 10 times higher than the yield of oil or alcohol. The systems thinker will continue, by stating that if the whole system is considered, biomass pellet production is much simpler to accomplish, and that biomass-growing areas can be integrated with other uses such as orcharding or livestock raising, and the systems thinker will continue to make other claims that such an energy source allows for absolute decentralization of production and resilience of communities using the simplest means possible. The point to be made is that the systems thinker can continue to make a large number of claims on how a particular activity is desirable based on a number of systems connections, which the non-systems thinker dismisses as simply not being part of the question.

We believe that destructive non-systems thinking is so pervasive in our society, that in general, individual and societal decision-making is completely partisan, thin on logic, and downright retarded. We are including a metric for systems design in the OSE Specifications to raise awareness of this issue, with a hope, which even if futile, attempts to bring a glimmer of light to the situation.

==Transparency of Production Model and Development Process==

The development process for products, and their production model, should be transparent to any interested observer. This allows for study of, input into, and improvement of the topic of interest. Transparency allows feedback loops to become active, and empowers those who are interested in learning more about a topic. Transparency is one of several qualities of a distributive, economic process.

Transparency of some program implies that the program is open to suggestions, correction, or replication of itself, stemming from an ethical foundation of the given program. Therefore, tools such as non-disclosure agreements, patents, trade secrets, and other means of protectionism are inconsistent with the creation of transparency.

===Development Process===

1. Participation in the development process is entirely voluntary. No compensation for alienation is necessary. As a result, the best designs are produced from the commitment of passionate stakeholders.

2. Anyone may join or leave the development group at any time

3. Collaborative development process utilizes the input of diverse stakeholders

4. Steps and results of the development process are documented

==Creation of Post-Scarcity Levels of Production==

Post-scarcity levels of production imply the availability of effective tools of production, including both hardware and techniques - which allow for the ample meeting of human needs. Post-scarcity levels of production also imply that local, nonstrategic resources can be utilized effectively, reliably, and with the capacity to produce significant surplus. The goal of attaining post-scarcity levels of production of something are thus synonymous with a particular community being able to transcend physical survival as a basis for evolving to pursuits beyond mere survival.

==Simplicity and Low Cost==

The design and implementation of any product or service should be the simplest from both the fabrication and cost perspective, such that it is the most readily replicable. Attaining simplicity is indeed the most difficult design challenge. Most people confuse high performance with extra features, because they externalize the hidden liabilities that accompany the extra features. Simplicity is synonymous with efficient resource use. Simplicity should also apply to the fabrication procedure of an object. As such, simplicity is also synonymous with low cost. The basic design philosophy of OSE is to include simplicity in design and fabrication - ie, design-for-fabrication should be applied.

==Lifetime, Modular Design; Design-for-Disassembly; Design-for-Scalability (DfS)==

(Note: For mainstream reference on lifetime design, see the work of [[Saul Griffith]])

Simplicity of design promotes the features of lifetime, modular, and scalable design-for-disassembly (DfD).

Lifetime design implies that the value of a product does not depreciate over time. This implies freedom from labor required to replace a certain product, which has direct implication for one's access to free time.

Modular design is a design which allows different modules to be used and interchanged, giving the user control over and flexibility with the object of use.

DfD means that parts of modules may be replaced readily, by taking the module apart. This has profound implications to lifetime design.

DfS is more than a design that can be scaled. It is the principle of designing things with ease of scalability as one of the features - ie, design that can be scaled easily. This is a slight improvement over design that can be scaled, in that DfS includes explicit features that make scalability easy.

Scalability means that a basic building block can be used to make larger or smaller versions. This contributes to low cost and efficiency.

===Multipurpose Modular Design===

Objects should be designed so that they are made as building blocks, or modules, of other or larger objects. This way, objects can be modified. Instead of a whole object having to be replaced to add new functionality, a module may be added. This gives products a flexibility that is built into their very nature, such that the user has additional control with minimum expense. Modularity may sometimes be synonymous with inter-operability, and may sometimes be synonymous with scalability. It may contribute to lifetime design if an object is 100% modular and each module may be replaced. Modularity also means that an object may function as a building block of other objects. In all cases, modularity implies that an object may be modified. The combination of flexibility, adaptability, scalability, interoperability are desirable. These features expand the range of applications, increase lifetime, reduce cost, as well as provide and retain high value. In a material world, these are features that contribute to wealth and prosperity. In a nutshell, modularity provides large value and has low associated costs. These are good implications for individual and community well-being.

If modular design is followed, then the type of interoperability of using building blocks leads us to a [[Pattern Language]] of technology. In this pattern language, the modules or building blocks serve as the sentences of a larger language, or technology infrastructure.

===Scalability===

Products should be designed so that they can be scaled up or down - such as by addition of new modules, or using multiples of a part in parallel. For example, a solar concentrator system designed according to the principle of scalability should be a linear design (see [[Solar Power Generator]]), so that it could be enlarged either by lengthening or widening the array.

==Localization of Material Sourcing and of Production==

For community resilience, ability to use local resources is key. While it is important that a community have this ability for essential needs, it is optional, though desirable, for other nonessential items.

Using local resources may necessitate that a given community have additional technology to produce a certain item. For example, if a given community does not have the conditions to grow a certain crop easily, it may want to invest in the additional technology required to grow that crop successfully. Or, if a certain community does not have adequate water, it should invest in well-drilling or roof-catchment technology, instead of importing water from unsecured sources.

A community should thus, in general, strive to increase its technology base to accommodate the provision of all essentials, and not settle on its ability to trade to procure these essentials, as trade may be vulnerable to disruption. Trade is quite acceptable for non-essential items, such as musical instruments, since disruption of such supply does not threaten the survival of a community. The level of technology in which a community is autonomous should be determined on practical grounds.

Moreover, in today's world, we already hear about 'produced locally.' We should add 'sourced locally' to our vocabulary - as resilience implies not only local production, but also local sourcing. Local sourcing typically requires that a community have additional technological infrastructure and knowhow for providing the necessary feedstocks.

===Localization Levels===

*Level 1 - production is local
*Level 2 - sourcing of materials used in production is local
*Level 3 - raw material production is local
*Level 4 - production machinery used in the production process above is open source and locally fabricated

Localization applies to the creation of natural economies, or those economies based on the substance of their own, natural resources, free of supply chain disruptions.

An example of Level 3 is that local aluminum is made by [[Smelting]] aluminum from local clays.

If localization is taken to all the 4 levels, for all necessities of sustaining its population - that means that a region is autonomous, and as such, has no built-in tendency to wage war for others' resources. This is the
critical point of localization - its benign effect on global geopolitical struggle. In simple words, people don't kill and steal.

==Ecological Qualities==

The product of interest must be good for the environment.

==Economic Feasibility and Replicability==

===Minimization of Waste, Overhead, and Bureaucracy===

The key point to the competitiveness of agile, open source enterprise is its lean structure with minimal overhead. Minimization of waste occurs by collaborative development, such that R&D costs are shared by a number of stakeholders. Competitive waste is eliminated by open enterprise giving services away rather than competing for market share, which is the ethical marketing strategy for open enterprise.

Other strategies for keeping overhead low are [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=391 crowd-funding the production facility], such as in Factor e Farm's case. We also propose paperwork reduction by operating as an un-incorporated entity, with contractually-based fiscal fiduciaries and liability management, operation in the Republic via private contract, and by in-house legal literacy.

===Product Evolution===

A process should be in place for continued maintenance and development of a product. This could be a support community, foundation, or users.

===Fabrication Facilities===

Concrete Flexible Fabrication mechanism exists for others to purchase the product at reasonable cost. This is a means to assuring that a diversity of suppliers exists, such that monopoly is avoided.

===Open Franchising or [[Open Business Model]]===

This point defines how easily one can obtain access to replicable enterprise design. See our motivation with respect to Open Business Models, as described under the [[OSE License]].

There is a number of details that goes into enterprise replications. These are all the standard details found in a [[Business Plan]], plus the actual technical details that go into that plan, such as designs and CAD, fabrication procedures, BOM and sourcing information, economic analysis, ergonomic analysis, and so forth.

If you are interested in replicating an enterprise, then please inquire with us regarding practical considerations. For those interested in replication, we are looking for long-term commitment to provide the necessary due diligence of business model documentation.

===Startup Assistance===

Producer training is the key to assisting others to start up enterprise. Dedicated workshops should be available for others to learn the trade. We plan on offering a 2 year immersion program, which includes not only workshop skills, but agriculture, as well as theoretical and organizational aspects.

=Calculation of a Metric Score=

The questionnaire below can be used to determine whether a product meets the OSE specifications. There are 42 questions, so the maximum score is 42.

===Economic Significance===
*Is it relevant for meeting the material needs of humans?

===Distributive Economics===
*Does the economic model distribute economic power?
'''Transformative Nature of Enterprise'''
*Does it promote community and global resilience?

===Systems Design===
*Does it consider the complete human and natural ecosystem?

===Ecology===
*Is it good for the environment?

===Development Process===
*Is participation in the process entirely voluntary?
*Can anyone join or leave the development group at any time?
*Does the collaborative development process utilize the input of diverse stakeholders?
*Are the steps and results of the development process documented?

===Simplicity of design===
*Is it low Cost?
*Does it have Long Life?
*Is it modular?
*Is it designed for disassembly?

===Design for scalability===
*Can it be scaled up?
*Can it be scaled down?
*Is it easily scalable?

===Localization===
====Materials====
*Are materials used in production local?
*Is raw material production local?

====Production====
*Is product production local?
*Is the machinery used in production process open source?
*Is the machinery used in production process locally fabricated?

===Economic Feasibility and Replicability===
*Is there minimal overhead?
*Is there minimal waste?
*Are R&D costs shared by a number of stakeholders?
*Are services given away?
*Are production facilities Crowd-funded?

===Product Evolution===

*Is there continual produce maintenance?
*Is there continual product development?

===Fabrication Facilities===

*Is there a flexible fabrication mechanism?

===Open Business Model===

*Is there a Business Plan?
*Are there technical details in the business plan?

===Open Documentation===

*Is content Open Source?
*Is content readily accessible (downloadable)?
*Are there design drawings?

====Designs====
*Are design drawings CAD?
*Are fabrication procedures detailed?
*Is economic analysis available?
*Is ergonomic analysis available?

====Bill of Materials (BOM)====
*Is there a parts list?
*Is Sourcing of parts listed?
*Are prices of parts listed?

===Startup Assistance===

*Is producer training available?

=Summary=
In summary, we aim to raise the standards embodied in open source product development efforts by articulating the possibilities. OSE Specification describes all the desirable features that can be embodied in open economic development, under the assumption that maximum advancement of distributive production is the best route to human prosperity.

OSE Specifications, as applied to technology - imply ''liberatory technology'' - defined as technology which serves the true needs of people and liberates time for other pursuits beyond survival. This is distinct from technology which controls people - where in today's world - with ever-advancing technology, people enjoy less free time.

=Application of OSE Specifications to Assessing the Liberatory Potential of Technologies=
OSE Specifications, when applied to production of physical products, allow for transparent assessment of the overall openness or accessibility of ''so-called'' open source products. This specification is intended to help people assess distributive production aspects of projects, by distinguishing between the various degrees of ‘opensource-ness’ embodied in projects. This is because some projects call themselves ‘open source’ when only a small portion of the hardware, or even no physical portion, is open source.

For example, in the case of the [http://green.autoblog.com/2007/10/16/autobloggreen-qanda-open-source-green-vehicle-project/ OS Green Vehicle], the only open source component is an apparent design process, but the output of the design process is proprietary. As quoted from the website, ‘Your rights to use, modify and re-distribute any data from this web site are limited.’ Moreover, the components used in the car are proprietary. Therefore, the OS Green Vehicle has a low OSE Specifications metric score.

Access refers to use for both private or market purposes. The specification is not neutral in its goals, just as no technologies are ever neutral. The intent goes so far as to point out the nuances that contribute to a particular direction of: (1), promoting ecological integrity, (2), contributing to the highest possible quality of life, and (3), creating the widest possible distribution of wealth. Because the open source method of product development has immense potential in transforming the economic system, the OSE Specification aims to address the evaluation of positive change endorsed by various open source projects.

The scope of OSE Specifications is far-reaching: it considers all the steps necessary for a product to be user-accessible. This includes open access to relevant information and affordable access to physical products. The goal is distributive economics.

OSE Specification stipulates access to physical production facilities that can build wealth in re-localized communities. But OSE Specifications go even further: replication and viral spread of wealth - or distributive production. OSE Specifications address the means for replicating the production process itself. This includes not only self-replicating machines and systems, but the development of open business models, training materials, and apprenticeships for entrepreneurs. As the final step, we consider the availability of capitalization assistance within the metric. The capitalization assistance may be part of a new entrepreneur's apprenticeship - where, for example - real products can be made and sold within the apprenticeship. We redefine the 'capital' in 'capitalization assistance' from 'money' to 'the ability to produce just about anything required for business startup at low cost.'

Such level of commitment to the success of replication may imply a hidden agenda behind this program. Indeed there is: the greatest possible empowerment of people and communities to be the masters of their destinies, by unleashed human productivity fueled by open access to information and enabling hardware.

OSE Spec addresses access to both producers and users - both on the individual and community scale. Production could occur by do-it-yourself means on the individual scale in flexible fabrication facilities. The community scale promotes division of labor, and therefore a high standard of living. The OSE Spec addresses the availability of blueprints or digital designs, which can be used readily in manual or automated, computer-controlled fabrication facilities.

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Knut Brekken: Created page with "{{Lang|OSE Spesifikasjoner}} =Introduksjon= (sist oppdatert Jan 2011) Før du leser videre, vennligst se {{LinkLang|OSE Mission|OSE Oppdrag}}. OSE Spesifikasjoner er en måare..."

{{Lang|OSE Spesifikasjoner}}

=Introduksjon=

(sist oppdatert Jan 2011)

Før du leser videre, vennligst se {{LinkLang|OSE Mission|OSE Oppdrag}}. OSE Spesifikasjoner er en måare a metric for assessing qualities that contribute to the creation of re-localized economic production, as a basis for community prosperity in an interconnected world.

The OSE Specifications are a standard aimed at defining and evaluating the criteria of products, services, and their production - which serve to promote the creation of abundance economies, and therefore, the creation of resilient communities. ''Abundance'' exists where a community uses its resource base in such a way that human needs and desires are provided abundantly - with significant surplus to fuel cultural and scientific progress.

=Point by Point=
=GVCS Specifications/Core Values=

These are the values of OSE that inform the development of the GVCS which are to be embodied in the development process, in the recruitment of volunteers, in its corporate structure, and in all operations, public and private:

#'''Open Source''' - we freely publish our 3d designs, schematics, instructional videos, budgets, and product manuals on our open source wiki. We strive to harness open collaboration with a globally-distributed team of technical contributors. We value transparency of our operations, business model, strategic development, “code” (blueprints and designs), management information, and any other aspects that can lead to distributive economics. Commentary: Our main goal is to contribute to the creation of open culture, where sharing and collaborative development are valued over greed and exclusiveness. This type of culture promotes life and growth, as opposed to fear-based aggressiveness. Open source culture icludes publishing 'early and often' to expose errors and dead ends – where rapid growth occurs by adjusting to failure. Failing early allows solutions to be found early. Failure and dead ends are abundant in life – and the mark of a successful individual is their ability to respond to failure in a manner that leads to growth and transcendence.
#'''Distributive Economics''' – We publish our business models openly so that others can replicate any enterprise. “Everything we know, you know.” This is intented to generate truly free enterprise and life-giving competition, as opposed to monopoly capitalism or militarism. In one word - distibutive economics are called sharing. In the political sense, this phenomenon may be described as decentralization engineering. It should be noted that information should be free, because the cost of distributing information is negligible. However, atoms or physical objects are not 'free' in the same sense, as significant human energy is required to produce and distribute physical goods.
#'''Low-Cost''' - The cost of buying or making our machines are, on average, 5-10x cheaper than buying from an industrial manufacturer- including an average labor cost of $25 hour for a GVCS fabricator. Commentary:
#'''Modular''' – Components of the GVCS function as interchangeable modules. Motors, parts, assemblies, and power units can interchange, where units can grouped together to diversify the functionality that is achievable from a small set of units. To see how the different parts fit together - see [[Product Ecologies]].
#'''User Friendliness''' – Design-for-disassembly, simplicity, transparency, and open source documentation allows the user to comprehend, take apart, modifyservice, maintain, and fix tools readily without the need to rely on expensive repairmen.
#'''DIY''' - The user gains control of designing, producing, and modifying the GVCS tool set. DIY is intented to promote the maker, doer, creator, non-consumer culture – in people who are interested in creating their own custom environment as opposed to accepting massively-standardized options.
#'''Closed-Loop Manufacturing and Material Cycle'''s – Any product should never be a waste, but a feedstock for another process. Our project relies on recycling metal into virgin feedstock for producing further GVCS technologies - thereby allowing for cradle-to-cradle manufacturing cycles.
#'''High Performance''' - Performance standards must match or exceed those of industrial counterparts for the GVCS to provide a comparable or better standard of living.
#'''Industrial Efficiency''' - In order to provide a viable choice for a resilient lifestyle, the GVCS platform matches or exceeds productivity standards of industrial counterparts.
#'''Ecological Design''' - Our products promote a harmonious co-existence between nature and humans. The entire process and technology must fit the criteria for being environmentally friendly and regenerative.
#'''Resilience'''– The systems that we are designing are designed to be adaptable. This arises from the ability to modify, scale and replicate the components and systems to meet requirement of constantly changing conditions.
#'''Systems Design''' – Our designs consider the whole system of life support, in terms of hoew the different machines and services interface with one another. Different machines can functions as modules in a wide array of integrated systems. We do not choose technologies with peak point performance, but with peak systems performance as they fit into a resilient community integrated with its natural life support systems. Part of the systems design is synergy – in that the GVCS is intended to attain its maximum potential when all of its components are working with one another.
#'''Lifeteime Design''' – Our products are designed for a lifetime of use – via solid design, user serviceability, open source, DIY design.
#'''Substitutability''' – Our products tend to the substitutability of common resources for less common or strategic resources. Substitutability also applies to the fact that any damaging
#'''Robustness''' – Applications of our work range from the 1st to the 4th worlds, from the city to the country, from high technology to low technology applications, at different scales of operation.
#'''Multipurpose Flexibility''' – Our tools are typically not dedicated devices, but ones that can be used flexibly in a wide range of applications.
#'''Best Practice''' – we focus on optimization of our products to achieve the best possible design and functionality
#'''Simplicity''' - We design for absolute simplicity without sacrificing performance standards
#'''Complete Economy''' – The work of OSE is intended to be a workable blueprint for a complete economy. Our designs are geared for a maker lifestyle on the part of community members. This is also known as a neo-subsistence lifestyle – where communities can provide all the requirements of a complete economy, such that trade is only an option, not a necessity.
#'''Freedom from Material Constraints''' – The GVCS is intended to provide all the material needs of a community in an efficient way. This allows people to have free time, which allows people to choose their pursuits freely, beyond constraints of material scarcity. This is also known as High-Tech Self-Providing.
#'''Division of Labor''' – Our designs focus on the needs of a modern villlage enjoying a high quality of life, as opposed to individual utilization. All of the technologies may be adapted to an individual's use, but division of labor is more desirable for achieving a complete economy in a community.
#'''Scalability and Fractality''' – The GVCS tools are designed to be scalable to different sizes of operations, from individual households to agglomerations of villages (cities). The design should be fractal, in that each unit of operation should be self-contained (cimplete) and resilient.
#'''Village Scale''' – The GVCS is intended to be optimized for a village scale of about 200 people, or Dunbar's number – as the number of people who can maintain face-to-face interaction.
#'''Nonviolence''' – The GVCS is designed to provide for all the needs of a community without killing or stealing from others.
#'''Amicable Social Contract''' – The GVCS toolset is designed to promote a just, equitable, and life-giving social contract for a village community living with the GVCS. The qualities of the GVCS are intended to promote good relationships between a village-scale group of people. The social contract is based on collaborative division of labor, where productivity of individual members contributes to the well-being of the whole community. The basic requirement is lifelong learning and regenerative stewardship of land and resources, along with nonviolence .
#'''Community and Family''' – OSE promotes the reconnection of people to one another as a result of increased freedom from material constraints. This reconnection also includes reconnection to one's true needs, to one's family, and to the global family of all living creatures.
#'''Proven Techniques''' – We focus on time-proven concepts, techniques, and technologies. All are principles are generally regarded as common, historical knowledge or wisdom learned through eons of civilization.
#'''Cross-Disciplinary Integration''' – We provide cutting edge practice in so far as they are integrations of knowledge from many fields and disciplines. We value unabashed boundary-crossing and cross-fertilization, drawing from as many cultures, regions, and time periods as possible.
#'''Sufficiency''' – Our design focuses on sufficiency – ie, we understand that we need to reach a certain level of performance, and that is sufficient. This is distinct from continuous addition of frivolous bells and whistles.
#'''New Economics''' – One aspect of OSE is that it allows for the creation of a resource based economy, where true wealth is based on the value of natural, primarily local resources, where wealth is created from adding value to natural resources by transforming them to human-usable form.
#'''Flexible Fabrication''' – This is a mode of production distinct from specialization. In flexible fabrication, general purpose machinery is used by highly skilled workers to produce a wide array of products – as opposed to specialized machines, operated by highly deskilled workers, producing only a single item. Our means to flexible fabrication is the open source fab lab.
#'''Technological Recursion''' – The flexible fabrication technology also allows producers to produce more complex machines and parts. This allows a local community to, eventually, attain the capacity to produce any technology known to humankind.
#'''Industry 2.0''' – This is a concept that flexible fabrication, combined with a collaboratively-developed, global repository of down-loadable product design has the potential to become the new engine of production. This is particularly useful towards relocalization of productive economies and towards distributive economics. Industry 2.0 is a direct goal of OSE.
#'''Permafacture''' - ecological fabrication with lifetime design.
#'''Local Resources''' – The GVCS is fueled by local resources, such as water, sunlight, rock and soil. Via technological recursion,
#'''Replicability''' – OSE work is intended to be replicable, self-replicating, and viral. The open source nature, low-cost, and simplicity of our designs are key to this.
#'''Meaning''' – Technology, when used appropriately, is intended to reconnect one to meaning, and to natural ecosystems. Reconnection to nature can occur from constant interplay between humans and nature, as natural resources are stewarded responsibly to meet human needs by benign processes.
#'''Appropriate Automation''' – We favor automation of production or other tasks whenever repetitive, difficult, dangerous, or otherwise unrewarding tasks can be carried out with computer assistance instead of human labor. We favor this if this truly increases quality of life and reduces toil, without loss of meaning, violence, or other negative systems consequences.
#'''Long Term Approach''' – OSE is seeking long-term solutions on the 100 year scale into the future, not band-aids on superficial issues. We are looking at issues for the long haul, with lasting peace and stability for humanity as the goal.
#'''Network''' – OSE is interested in creating a network of like-minded communities that follow OSE values, such that cultural exchange can happen between different communities. This refers to the 1000 Global Villages concept - which serve as model communities that influence the rest of the world in a positive way. This brings in an element of mobility into the community social fabric.
#'''Model Community'''- The OSE Village with the GVCS are intended to provide a positive, best-practice example of integrated, meaningful lifestyles along the principles of abundance and prosperity - as a shining point of light to inspire people in many walks of life.
#'''Land and Resource Stewardship''' – Each OSE facility functions as a land steward. Land is not for sale, but is preserved for ever as a permanent site of human heritage and cultural growth. Resources are stewarded so that they improve in quality with time, as opposed to becoming depleted.
#'''Iconoclastic Innovation and Transformation''' – OSE favors iconoclastic approaches which address issues at the root, not symptoms – towards addressing pressing world issues (war, poverty, corruption, distribution of wealth, disease, etc.). We are not looking for mass-culture compromises swayed by political or special interests, but for authentic solutions based on virtues common to all humankind.
#'''Absolute Creative Approaches''' - We do not promote destroying anything, just creating a better solution that makes the old paradigm obsolete. We do not hate any group or politic, because we are all in this together. We believe in positive psychology, inspiration, and bringing out the virtues in people – by appealing to their absolute creative, transcendent potential for solutions. We do not endorse fear- or punishment-based motivation tactics.
#'''Realistic Immediacy''' - We favor a realistic approach that can be implemented today, as opposed to futuristic dreaming. We believe that we have sufficient knowledge and technology today to create an abundant lifestyle for everybody. We focus on a tool set designed for a nominal 200 person village - according to Dunbar's number. This allows for sufficient division of labor to cover just about any technology to be produced locally, while remaining small enough such that organization of such a community is manageable.
#'''Proper Scale'''- We look at the village scale of about 200 people as the optimal scale of human organization for several reasons. First, it's a historically proven number. Second, it follows [[Dunbar's Number]] to allow for persistent and meaningful social interaction. Third, it is easily manageable from an organizational point of view without requiring bureaucratic overhead. Fourth, it is sufficiently large to allow specialization via division of labor. Fifth, it allows for a walking- or biking-distance community. Sixth, it is a basic building block - where larger communities may be designed as units of this small scale for the highest possible resilience - as opposed to organization on a larger scale. Seventh, it has been pointed out by the industrial economist, E. F. Schumacher, in his seminal book, [[Small is Beautiful]], that human organization simply breaks down after it reaches a certain scale.
#'''One World Approach'''- We believe that people in general should live within the means of global resources without depleting their quality or polluting them. This is opposite of what happens in general today.
#'''Miniaturization'''- We believe that the scale of successful human organization at which modern-day technology can be maintained can be scaled down to the village scale - under the assumption of open information flows.
#'''Radical Abundance'''- We believe that there are abundant resources for everybody, and that human social organization should favor institutions that promote abundance, as opposed to scarcity. We favor a technological infrastructure that moves beyond resource scarcity as a dominant underlying force in all of civilization.

=Methods and Strategic Approaches=

#'''Open''' – Open Source Ecology endorses open source culture of sharing and collaborative development throughout, towards the end of distributive economics. This applies at the level of our process, organizational structure, business and products. On the process level, we encourage others to collaborate openly, yet respectfully of other developers' needs. To this end, we are aiming to create collaboration structures and platforms that allow others to collaborate freely, and to publish meaningful results openly. We seek to design all of our operations to be consistent with this principle. We encourage everybody on the development team to be transparent about their work, and to ask openly for collaborative assistance. We encourage everybody to give information away for free – as the cost of sharing information is zero
#'''Distributive Economics''' - We recognize the challenges of sharing information openly – in that someone else can 'steal' an idea and capitalize on it. We address this issue by encouraging people to publish openly, so that prior art makes information accessible to all, and therefore, making information un-patentable and therefore incapable of being appropriated. In order to capture value, we encourage humans to organize around information resource commons, while building in a physical, productive infrastructure to convert information into the substance of modern-day living via benign, industrial processes
#'''Notes on Patents'''. These make sense only in a world based on scarcity. We encourage each community that adopts OSE principles to build complete, open source, economic productivity – where true wealth can be generated easily. In this case, what is the need for patents? If a community can provide all of its needs - then we enter into the concept of sufficiency. State-of-art point technologies that optimize one feature of performance are not necessarily useful for an ecological tool set. We are interested more in overall, or ecological, performance - as opposed to point performance.
#'''Creative Approach''' - There is a number of movements that cater to fears regarding the end of the world or other comprehensive collapse scenarios. Our approach is intended to empower people from a perspective of what is a-priori favorable and benign - whether or not any cataclysm is on the horizon. IT is important to underscore that we focus on positive psychology and transcendence, which we favor over an approach based on fear, because fear-based response is not as likely to create long-lasting solutions.
#'''Modular, lifetime design''' – The core of lifetime design is design-for-disassembly and modularity. Design-for-disassembly is synonymous with user ability to 'look under the hood' of a certain device. Modules are interchangeable units of functionality.
#'''Closed Loop Manufacturing''' – OSE endorses closed loop eco-industry, where waste does not exist as the waste is turned into feedstock for other processes.

=Components of OSE Specifications=

OSE Specifications cover a number of aspects of economically-significant production, covering the development and production aspects:

*Economic significance
*Open documentation
*Distributive economic nature
*Transformative nature of enterprise
*Systems design
*Transparency and participatory nature of production model and development process
*Creation of post-scarcity levels of production
*Simplicity and low cost
*Lifetime, modular design; design-for-disassembly; design-for-scalability
*Localization of material sourcing and of production
*Ecological qualities
*Economic Feasibility and Replicability
**Minimization of waste, overhead, and bureaucracy
**Product Evolution
**Fabrication Facilities
**Open Franchising or Open Business Model
**Startup Assistance

==Economic Significance==

Economic significance refers to the overall economic importance of a given product or service. The assumption here that economic significance is defined on the basis of relevance for meeting the material needs of humans. For example, fuels and tractors constitute multibillion dollar global markets, and are thus economically significant. On the other hand, plain discussion may have little economic significance, if is not more than hot air.

==Open Documentation==

===Open content===

We begin with open content as a foundation – content that is free of restrictions on use or dissemination. The optimal license for content that we promote is the public domain. This keeps it simple from the practical and legal perspective. We have a philosophy that the users should decide for themselves as to how to use the information. We support open licensing. We are not interested in policing.

We believe that to claim something as ‘one’s own’ is arrogant, as it does not address the fact that any single ‘invention’ is simply a small additional to a large pool of existing knowledge that made the ‘invention’ possible. We believe that there is no point in trying to police the patenting of forks, as are simply so many different forks or development paths that could be taken nonetheless: creativity is unlimited. We believe that the more we contribute to the commons, the more new content will be generated.

===Readily accessible or downloadble documentation and design===

Distributed information in the computer age is made most readily accessible if it is available for immediate download from the internet. If material is available in electronic format, it may be manipulated or utilized readily with software tools. For example, digital designs may be edited or used immediately in CAD or CAM. If CAM formats are available, then data at one point in space can be readily transformed into a physical object at another point in space, in the presence of digital fabrication capacities.

===Design Drawings===

This is a start towards replicability.

===Bill of Materials (BOM)===

Next to design drawing, the BOM is the second most important towards replicability. This is a detailed listing of all parts used, sourcing, and prices. Availability of the BOM saves the potential builder countless hours of searching for part availability and for reasonable pricing. Relevant comments should be made alongside the BOM, such as, quality or reliability of certain vendors, their quality of service, and any other useful comments. The only difficulty with a BOM may be that if the audience is global, sourcing may not be readily available or shipping may be prohibitive, so local substitution of parts must be made. If a BOM is available, then the building of a specific product can commence immediately: there is no guessing which parts would work, or which supplier is reliable. At best, the process for one-off individual production can be as follows:
#an individual decides that they need a certain product
#they look that product up on an online repository of open source products, download fabrication procedures and parts lists
#purchase parts locally all on the same day if they are located in an urban area where many suppliers are available
#and start building a certain project.
All these steps can potentially be completed in one day when the BOM is available. Open design drawings and plans are only one aspect, but the critical point to enabling immediate production is the availability of BOMs, as the last step prior to actual fabrication.

Under this scenario, a realistic possibility emerges that a large number of individuals discontinue purchasing slave goods from who-knows-where, and begin to fabricate them locally. This is feasibile on the individual level for anyone equipped with a robust Fab Lab, or when small groups (a few to a dozen people) get together to purchase low-cost, open source, digital fabrication equipment. These people could operate out of backyard garages, rented workshop spaces, co-working facilities, or other community supported manufacturing operations. The types of products that yield themselves particularly to this type of production are those items that fall beyond the class of disposable goods, and are more or less long-use items. These items include electronics, mechanized tools, semi-heavy machinery, green vehicles, renewable energy systems, among others.

====Tools====
[[CAD by Mariano Alvira]] and [[SKDB]] are two different tools that can improve and automate different aspects of handling a BOM.

===Free information===

If information is free, it is most easily accessible.

==Distributive Economics==

Distributive economics refer to economic models that tend to distribute economic power as opposed to monopolizing this power.

==Transformative Nature of Enterprise==

We are interested in transformative economics, or those economics which tend towards community and global resilience, while having qualities that, proactively, move the world away from: concentration of societal power; perennial warfare; loss of meaning; bureaucracy; globalization of economic activity; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak newspeak]; loss of freedom; and so forth.

==Systems Design==

Systems design refers to design of economic paradigms which consider the whole human and natural ecosystem, and the relationships involved, not just an isolated part of that system. For example, non-systems thinking may lead one to conclude that a modern steam engine for transportation is a bad idea compared to biodiesel or fuel alcohol because the thermodynamic efficiency of a steam engine is two times lower than that of diesel engines or gasoline engines. The systems design perspective will claim that the steam engine is a great idea, because biomass pellets can be used as fuel, and the yield of cellulosic biomass per acre is about 10 times higher than the yield of oil or alcohol. The systems thinker will continue, by stating that if the whole system is considered, biomass pellet production is much simpler to accomplish, and that biomass-growing areas can be integrated with other uses such as orcharding or livestock raising, and the systems thinker will continue to make other claims that such an energy source allows for absolute decentralization of production and resilience of communities using the simplest means possible. The point to be made is that the systems thinker can continue to make a large number of claims on how a particular activity is desirable based on a number of systems connections, which the non-systems thinker dismisses as simply not being part of the question.

We believe that destructive non-systems thinking is so pervasive in our society, that in general, individual and societal decision-making is completely partisan, thin on logic, and downright retarded. We are including a metric for systems design in the OSE Specifications to raise awareness of this issue, with a hope, which even if futile, attempts to bring a glimmer of light to the situation.

==Transparency of Production Model and Development Process==

The development process for products, and their production model, should be transparent to any interested observer. This allows for study of, input into, and improvement of the topic of interest. Transparency allows feedback loops to become active, and empowers those who are interested in learning more about a topic. Transparency is one of several qualities of a distributive, economic process.

Transparency of some program implies that the program is open to suggestions, correction, or replication of itself, stemming from an ethical foundation of the given program. Therefore, tools such as non-disclosure agreements, patents, trade secrets, and other means of protectionism are inconsistent with the creation of transparency.

===Development Process===

1. Participation in the development process is entirely voluntary. No compensation for alienation is necessary. As a result, the best designs are produced from the commitment of passionate stakeholders.

2. Anyone may join or leave the development group at any time

3. Collaborative development process utilizes the input of diverse stakeholders

4. Steps and results of the development process are documented

==Creation of Post-Scarcity Levels of Production==

Post-scarcity levels of production imply the availability of effective tools of production, including both hardware and techniques - which allow for the ample meeting of human needs. Post-scarcity levels of production also imply that local, nonstrategic resources can be utilized effectively, reliably, and with the capacity to produce significant surplus. The goal of attaining post-scarcity levels of production of something are thus synonymous with a particular community being able to transcend physical survival as a basis for evolving to pursuits beyond mere survival.

==Simplicity and Low Cost==

The design and implementation of any product or service should be the simplest from both the fabrication and cost perspective, such that it is the most readily replicable. Attaining simplicity is indeed the most difficult design challenge. Most people confuse high performance with extra features, because they externalize the hidden liabilities that accompany the extra features. Simplicity is synonymous with efficient resource use. Simplicity should also apply to the fabrication procedure of an object. As such, simplicity is also synonymous with low cost. The basic design philosophy of OSE is to include simplicity in design and fabrication - ie, design-for-fabrication should be applied.

==Lifetime, Modular Design; Design-for-Disassembly; Design-for-Scalability (DfS)==

(Note: For mainstream reference on lifetime design, see the work of [[Saul Griffith]])

Simplicity of design promotes the features of lifetime, modular, and scalable design-for-disassembly (DfD).

Lifetime design implies that the value of a product does not depreciate over time. This implies freedom from labor required to replace a certain product, which has direct implication for one's access to free time.

Modular design is a design which allows different modules to be used and interchanged, giving the user control over and flexibility with the object of use.

DfD means that parts of modules may be replaced readily, by taking the module apart. This has profound implications to lifetime design.

DfS is more than a design that can be scaled. It is the principle of designing things with ease of scalability as one of the features - ie, design that can be scaled easily. This is a slight improvement over design that can be scaled, in that DfS includes explicit features that make scalability easy.

Scalability means that a basic building block can be used to make larger or smaller versions. This contributes to low cost and efficiency.

===Multipurpose Modular Design===

Objects should be designed so that they are made as building blocks, or modules, of other or larger objects. This way, objects can be modified. Instead of a whole object having to be replaced to add new functionality, a module may be added. This gives products a flexibility that is built into their very nature, such that the user has additional control with minimum expense. Modularity may sometimes be synonymous with inter-operability, and may sometimes be synonymous with scalability. It may contribute to lifetime design if an object is 100% modular and each module may be replaced. Modularity also means that an object may function as a building block of other objects. In all cases, modularity implies that an object may be modified. The combination of flexibility, adaptability, scalability, interoperability are desirable. These features expand the range of applications, increase lifetime, reduce cost, as well as provide and retain high value. In a material world, these are features that contribute to wealth and prosperity. In a nutshell, modularity provides large value and has low associated costs. These are good implications for individual and community well-being.

If modular design is followed, then the type of interoperability of using building blocks leads us to a [[Pattern Language]] of technology. In this pattern language, the modules or building blocks serve as the sentences of a larger language, or technology infrastructure.

===Scalability===

Products should be designed so that they can be scaled up or down - such as by addition of new modules, or using multiples of a part in parallel. For example, a solar concentrator system designed according to the principle of scalability should be a linear design (see [[Solar Power Generator]]), so that it could be enlarged either by lengthening or widening the array.

==Localization of Material Sourcing and of Production==

For community resilience, ability to use local resources is key. While it is important that a community have this ability for essential needs, it is optional, though desirable, for other nonessential items.

Using local resources may necessitate that a given community have additional technology to produce a certain item. For example, if a given community does not have the conditions to grow a certain crop easily, it may want to invest in the additional technology required to grow that crop successfully. Or, if a certain community does not have adequate water, it should invest in well-drilling or roof-catchment technology, instead of importing water from unsecured sources.

A community should thus, in general, strive to increase its technology base to accommodate the provision of all essentials, and not settle on its ability to trade to procure these essentials, as trade may be vulnerable to disruption. Trade is quite acceptable for non-essential items, such as musical instruments, since disruption of such supply does not threaten the survival of a community. The level of technology in which a community is autonomous should be determined on practical grounds.

Moreover, in today's world, we already hear about 'produced locally.' We should add 'sourced locally' to our vocabulary - as resilience implies not only local production, but also local sourcing. Local sourcing typically requires that a community have additional technological infrastructure and knowhow for providing the necessary feedstocks.

===Localization Levels===

*Level 1 - production is local
*Level 2 - sourcing of materials used in production is local
*Level 3 - raw material production is local
*Level 4 - production machinery used in the production process above is open source and locally fabricated

Localization applies to the creation of natural economies, or those economies based on the substance of their own, natural resources, free of supply chain disruptions.

An example of Level 3 is that local aluminum is made by [[Smelting]] aluminum from local clays.

If localization is taken to all the 4 levels, for all necessities of sustaining its population - that means that a region is autonomous, and as such, has no built-in tendency to wage war for others' resources. This is the
critical point of localization - its benign effect on global geopolitical struggle. In simple words, people don't kill and steal.

==Ecological Qualities==

The product of interest must be good for the environment.

==Economic Feasibility and Replicability==

===Minimization of Waste, Overhead, and Bureaucracy===

The key point to the competitiveness of agile, open source enterprise is its lean structure with minimal overhead. Minimization of waste occurs by collaborative development, such that R&D costs are shared by a number of stakeholders. Competitive waste is eliminated by open enterprise giving services away rather than competing for market share, which is the ethical marketing strategy for open enterprise.

Other strategies for keeping overhead low are [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=391 crowd-funding the production facility], such as in Factor e Farm's case. We also propose paperwork reduction by operating as an un-incorporated entity, with contractually-based fiscal fiduciaries and liability management, operation in the Republic via private contract, and by in-house legal literacy.

===Product Evolution===

A process should be in place for continued maintenance and development of a product. This could be a support community, foundation, or users.

===Fabrication Facilities===

Concrete Flexible Fabrication mechanism exists for others to purchase the product at reasonable cost. This is a means to assuring that a diversity of suppliers exists, such that monopoly is avoided.

===Open Franchising or [[Open Business Model]]===

This point defines how easily one can obtain access to replicable enterprise design. See our motivation with respect to Open Business Models, as described under the [[OSE License]].

There is a number of details that goes into enterprise replications. These are all the standard details found in a [[Business Plan]], plus the actual technical details that go into that plan, such as designs and CAD, fabrication procedures, BOM and sourcing information, economic analysis, ergonomic analysis, and so forth.

If you are interested in replicating an enterprise, then please inquire with us regarding practical considerations. For those interested in replication, we are looking for long-term commitment to provide the necessary due diligence of business model documentation.

===Startup Assistance===

Producer training is the key to assisting others to start up enterprise. Dedicated workshops should be available for others to learn the trade. We plan on offering a 2 year immersion program, which includes not only workshop skills, but agriculture, as well as theoretical and organizational aspects.

=Calculation of a Metric Score=

The questionnaire below can be used to determine whether a product meets the OSE specifications. There are 42 questions, so the maximum score is 42.

===Economic Significance===
*Is it relevant for meeting the material needs of humans?

===Distributive Economics===
*Does the economic model distribute economic power?
'''Transformative Nature of Enterprise'''
*Does it promote community and global resilience?

===Systems Design===
*Does it consider the complete human and natural ecosystem?

===Ecology===
*Is it good for the environment?

===Development Process===
*Is participation in the process entirely voluntary?
*Can anyone join or leave the development group at any time?
*Does the collaborative development process utilize the input of diverse stakeholders?
*Are the steps and results of the development process documented?

===Simplicity of design===
*Is it low Cost?
*Does it have Long Life?
*Is it modular?
*Is it designed for disassembly?

===Design for scalability===
*Can it be scaled up?
*Can it be scaled down?
*Is it easily scalable?

===Localization===
====Materials====
*Are materials used in production local?
*Is raw material production local?

====Production====
*Is product production local?
*Is the machinery used in production process open source?
*Is the machinery used in production process locally fabricated?

===Economic Feasibility and Replicability===
*Is there minimal overhead?
*Is there minimal waste?
*Are R&D costs shared by a number of stakeholders?
*Are services given away?
*Are production facilities Crowd-funded?

===Product Evolution===

*Is there continual produce maintenance?
*Is there continual product development?

===Fabrication Facilities===

*Is there a flexible fabrication mechanism?

===Open Business Model===

*Is there a Business Plan?
*Are there technical details in the business plan?

===Open Documentation===

*Is content Open Source?
*Is content readily accessible (downloadable)?
*Are there design drawings?

====Designs====
*Are design drawings CAD?
*Are fabrication procedures detailed?
*Is economic analysis available?
*Is ergonomic analysis available?

====Bill of Materials (BOM)====
*Is there a parts list?
*Is Sourcing of parts listed?
*Are prices of parts listed?

===Startup Assistance===

*Is producer training available?

=Summary=
In summary, we aim to raise the standards embodied in open source product development efforts by articulating the possibilities. OSE Specification describes all the desirable features that can be embodied in open economic development, under the assumption that maximum advancement of distributive production is the best route to human prosperity.

OSE Specifications, as applied to technology - imply ''liberatory technology'' - defined as technology which serves the true needs of people and liberates time for other pursuits beyond survival. This is distinct from technology which controls people - where in today's world - with ever-advancing technology, people enjoy less free time.

=Application of OSE Specifications to Assessing the Liberatory Potential of Technologies=
OSE Specifications, when applied to production of physical products, allow for transparent assessment of the overall openness or accessibility of ''so-called'' open source products. This specification is intended to help people assess distributive production aspects of projects, by distinguishing between the various degrees of ‘opensource-ness’ embodied in projects. This is because some projects call themselves ‘open source’ when only a small portion of the hardware, or even no physical portion, is open source.

For example, in the case of the [http://green.autoblog.com/2007/10/16/autobloggreen-qanda-open-source-green-vehicle-project/ OS Green Vehicle], the only open source component is an apparent design process, but the output of the design process is proprietary. As quoted from the website, ‘Your rights to use, modify and re-distribute any data from this web site are limited.’ Moreover, the components used in the car are proprietary. Therefore, the OS Green Vehicle has a low OSE Specifications metric score.

Access refers to use for both private or market purposes. The specification is not neutral in its goals, just as no technologies are ever neutral. The intent goes so far as to point out the nuances that contribute to a particular direction of: (1), promoting ecological integrity, (2), contributing to the highest possible quality of life, and (3), creating the widest possible distribution of wealth. Because the open source method of product development has immense potential in transforming the economic system, the OSE Specification aims to address the evaluation of positive change endorsed by various open source projects.

The scope of OSE Specifications is far-reaching: it considers all the steps necessary for a product to be user-accessible. This includes open access to relevant information and affordable access to physical products. The goal is distributive economics.

OSE Specification stipulates access to physical production facilities that can build wealth in re-localized communities. But OSE Specifications go even further: replication and viral spread of wealth - or distributive production. OSE Specifications address the means for replicating the production process itself. This includes not only self-replicating machines and systems, but the development of open business models, training materials, and apprenticeships for entrepreneurs. As the final step, we consider the availability of capitalization assistance within the metric. The capitalization assistance may be part of a new entrepreneur's apprenticeship - where, for example - real products can be made and sold within the apprenticeship. We redefine the 'capital' in 'capitalization assistance' from 'money' to 'the ability to produce just about anything required for business startup at low cost.'

Such level of commitment to the success of replication may imply a hidden agenda behind this program. Indeed there is: the greatest possible empowerment of people and communities to be the masters of their destinies, by unleashed human productivity fueled by open access to information and enabling hardware.

OSE Spec addresses access to both producers and users - both on the individual and community scale. Production could occur by do-it-yourself means on the individual scale in flexible fabrication facilities. The community scale promotes division of labor, and therefore a high standard of living. The OSE Spec addresses the availability of blueprints or digital designs, which can be used readily in manual or automated, computer-controlled fabrication facilities.

[[Category:Standards]]

Crash course on OSE/no

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{{Lang|Lynkurs i OSE}}
{{Info|Lynkurs|Dette er et ''Lynkurs'' i '''Open Source Ecology''' (OSE). I løpet av de neste 15 minuttene, vil du bli oppdatert på alt arbeidet til OSE fra de siste 4 årene. Send epost til crashcoursemoderator at gmail dot com for støtte. Se også {{LinkLang|Technical Abstract of the GVCS|Teknisk Sammendrag av GVCS}}.}}

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== Oversikt for Nye Mennesker ==

For å se hva vi gjør, se {{LinkLang|GVCS in 2 Minutes|GVCS på 2 minutter}} videoen. Open Source Ecology ble grunnlagt i 2004 av {{LinkLang|Marcin Jakubowski}}. Vi er et nettverk av bønder, ingeniører, og støttespillere som de siste to årene har sksapt Global Village Construction Set, en teknologisk plattform med åpne kilder, lave kostnader, og høy ytelse, som gjør det mulig for den enkle, "gjør det selv" fabrikasjonen av de 50 ulike Industrielle Maskinene som kreves for å bygge en bærekraftig sivilisasjon med moderne bekvemmeligheter. GVCS senker etableringshindringer i jordbruk, bygg, og produksjon og kan sees som et lego-lignende sett med modulære verktøy i full størrelse som kan lage hele økonomier, enten det er i landlige Missouri, der prosjektet ble grunnlagt, i byfornyelser, eller i hjertet av Afrika.

'''Vi har et ambisiøst program for produktutgivelse av de 49 resterende teknologiene innen 2 år og et $ 2,4 m budsjett - som vi forkorter som vårt {{LinkLang|50/2/2}} program. Fristen for dette er 2011-2012.'''

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=== Viktige funksjoner av GVCS ===

Dette er {{LinkLang|Key Features of the GVCS|hovedfunksjonene til GVCS}}, og hvis du ønsker å se det fulle settet av verdier, se {{LinkLang|Core Values of OSE|Kjerneverdier til OSE}}.

{{Info|Hovedfunksjoner|
*'''Åpen Kilde''' - vi publiserer våre 3D-tegninger, skjemaer, instruksjonsvideoer, budsjetter, og produktbruksanvisninger fritt på vår åpen kildekodewiki, og vi nytter åpent samarbeid med tekniske bidragsytere.
*'''Lavkostnad''' - Kostnadene ved å lage eller kjøpe maskinene våre er i gjennomsnitt 8 ganger billigere enn å kjøpe fra en industriell produsent, herunder lønnskostnader på $ 15/time for en GVCS fabrikator.
*'''Modulær''' - Motorer, deler, forsamlinger, og kraftenheter kan utveksles, der enhetene kan grupperes sammen for å diversifisere funksjonaliteten som er oppnåelig fra et lite sett av enheter.
*'''Bruker-servicevennlig''' - Design-for-demontering tillater brukeren å ta fra hverandre, vedlikeholde og reparere verktøyene lett uten å måtte stole på dyre reparatører.
*'''Gjør-det-selv''' - Brukeren får kontroll over designe, produsere, og endre GVCS verktøysett.
*'''Lukket Sløyfeproduksjon''' - Metall er en avgjørende del av avansert sivilisasjon, og vår plattform gjør det mulig for gjenvinning av metall til jomfruelig råstoff for produksjon av ytterligere GVCS teknologier - og åpner dermed for vugge-til-vugge produksjonssykluser.
*'''Høyytelse''' - Ytelsesstandarder må matche eller overgå de av industrielle motparter til GVCS å være levedyktig.
*'''Fleksibel Fabrikering''' - Det er vist at den fleksible bruken av generaliserte maskiner i passende skala er et levedyktig alternativ til sentralisert produksjon.
*'''Fordelingsøkonomi''' - Vi oppfordrer replikering av foretakene som stammer fra GVCS plattformen som en vei til virkelig fri konkurranse - på linje med idealer av Jeffersonske demokrati.
*'''Industriell Effektivitet''' - For å gi et levedyktig valg for en spenstig livsstil, samsvarer eller overstiger GVCS plattformen produktivitetsstandarder for industrielle motparter.
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=== Omfang av GVCS ===
{{Info|Omfang|
*'''{{LinkLang|:Category:Metalworks|Mekanisk Infrastruktur}}''' - Legolignende konstruksjonssett i naturlig størrelse for landbruk og nytteutstyr der modularitet er vektlagt. Den mekaniske infrastrukturen er basert på et chassis (traktor, mikrotraktor, bil, bulldoser) med modulære tilleggsutstyr. Redskaper, motorer, og kraftenheter kan utveksles, og dermed maksimere formålsspekteret som kan settes sammen fra et lite sett av komponenter. For eksempel kan kraftenheten byttes lett mellom traktor, bulldoser, eller bil.
*'''{{LinkLang|:Category:Food_and_Agriculture|Landbruk}}''' - Matinfrastrukturen for et spenstig samfunn (Åpen Kildeagroøkologi) har som mål å demonstrere et beste-praksissystem for fôring av 100-200 personer med et kjerneteam på fire jordbruksgeneralister, eller Åpen Kildeagroøkologer.
*'''{{LinkLang|:Category:Energy|Energiinfrastruktur}}''' - inkluderer drivstoff, drivkraft, og elektrisitet. Energiinfrastrukturen består av solenergiopptak enten fra Solturbin eller planter. Solturbinen bruker solvarme direkte når solen skinner, eller lagres slik planter fanger solenergi via fotosyntesen, der energien er høstet i form av biomasse fra planter.
*'''{{LinkLang|:Category:Housing_and_construction|Bolig}}''' - Boligenes infrastruktur består av en rekke multinytteverktøy: CEB presse, sagbruk, sementblander, modulære boliger, levende maskiner og andre. Vi vil produsere profesjonelle arkitekturtegninger for CEB og andre naturlige bygningskonstruksjoner.
*'''{{LinkLang|:Category:Transport|Transport}}''' - inkluderer et åpen kildemikrobil og lastebil med mulighet for tilkobling av redskaper, alle drevet av Power Cubes.
*'''{{LinkLang|:Category:Digital_Fabrication|Digital Fabrikering}}''' - RepLab frem til varm metallbehandling og fullfunksjons industrielle roboter.
*'''{{LinkLang|:Category:Materials|Materialer}}''' - {{LinkLang|Aluminum_Extraction_From_Clays|Aluminiumutvinning fra leire}}, {{LinkLang|Bioplastic Extruder|Bioplast Ekstruderer}} inkludert bioplastsyntese fra planter
}}

=== Gjeldende status ===

''Sist oppdatert'': 25. April 2011.

Følgende prototyper og produkter er utviklet til nå:
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![[Image:Powercube-ii-front.jpg|left|thumb|Power Cube <br/>(Prototype II)]]
|{{LinkLang|Power Cube II}} er en universell, selvforsynt motor som består av en motor koblet til en hydraulisk pumpe for å gi strøm til ulike enheter i form av hydraulisk væske under høyt trykk. Power Cube er en modul som kan kobles til LifeTrac-, Microtrac-, bulldoser-, og Åpen Kildebil- (Oscar) plattformer. Den kobles til andre enheter via redskapskoblinger og hydrauliske hurtigkoblingsslanger.

''Lenker'': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjnROs7dfFM kort] og [http://vimeo.com/15892882 lang (50min)] video.

''Dokumentasjon'': [http://openpario.mime.oregonstate.edu/projects/lifetrac3d/files Blenderfiler].

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![[Image:Drill-press-i-front.jpg|left|thumb|Borpresse <br/>(Prototype I)]]
|{{LinkLang|Drill Press|Borpressen}} er for boring av hull fra 1" eller større, direkte i metall uten forboring. Den inneholder en hydraulisk motor for boring og en hydraulisk sylinder for nedpresset - så dette er bokstavelig talt en presse, og det mangler ikke på moment eller kraft ettersom motoren kan opprettholde opptil 20 hk. Vi bruker Universalrotoren vår for motoren.

''Lenker'':[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HoygNxyCnc video]

''Dokumentasjon'':{{LinkLang|Drill Press|dokumentasjon}}

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![[Image:Machine.jpg|left|thumb|The Liberator, CEB Presse <br/>(Prototype II)]]
|{{LinkLang|CEB_Press_2|Komprimert Jordklosser (CEB) Pressen}} gir mulighet for rask (16 murstein per minutt), lavkostnads-, høykvalitetskonstruksjon fra stedlig jord. CEB Pressen brukes til å komprimere leiret jord (20-30% leire i volum) fra lokale eller jord på stedet i strukturelle murbyggeklosser (700-1000 PSI). Stabilisering med sement kan brukes for ytterligere værbestandighet. CEB egner seg også til bygging av gulv, asfalterte områder, støttemurer, lagerkonstruksjoner, eller andre konstruksjoner der en uniform, strukturell byggesten er ønsket.

''Lenker'':[http://blip.tv/file/3825806/ The Liberator], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV_-ZzYmo3A Historien CEB], [http://opensourceecology.blip.tv/file/3573531/ innledende felttesting], [http://opensourceecology.blip.tv/file/3641993/ trykke klosser], [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2010/06/design-for-disassembly/ demontering], [http://opensourceecology.blip.tv/file/3736161/ boksing(emballering)], [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2010/04/the-liberator-beta-2-0-machine-overview/ maskinoversikt], [http://opensourceecology.blip.tv/file/3750806/ rammen], [http://opensourceecology.blip.tv/file/3750871/ kontrolleren].

''Dokumentasjon'':{{LinkLang|CEB Press|Introduksjon}}, {{LinkLang|CEB Press Build Instructions| Byggeinstruksjoner}}, [http://openpario.mime.oregonstate.edu/documents/94 CAD-filer]

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![[Image:Lifetrac-II-shoot-3.jpg |left|thumb|LifeTrac <br/>(Prototype II)]]
|{{LinkLang|LifeTrac}} er en allsidig, firehjulsdreven, full-størrelse, hydraulisk drevet, skrensstyrende traktor på 18-200 hk med valgfrie stålspor. LifeTrac er ment å være en minimalistisk, men med høy ytelse, livstidsdesign, design-for-demontering arbeidshest og kraftenhet til en hvilken som helst landforvaltningsdrift. Den er enkel å vedlikeholde for brukeren. Den modulære oppbygningen gir mulighet for rask tilkobling av redskaper; utvekslingsevne / stablingsevne for flere kraftenheter (Power Cubes) for å tilpasse driftsnivå til den aktuelle oppgaven, rask montering av alle hydrauliske komponenter via hurtigkoblingsslanger, inkludert rask utvekslingsevne av hydrauliske motorer for bruk i andre applikasjoner.

''Lenker'':[http://opensourceecology.blip.tv/file/3876543/ Nivå I av Utvikling], [http://vimeo.com/15130712 Prototype II Fullført], [http://vimeo.com/15531206 bevegelse].

''Dokumentasjon'':{{LinkLang|LifeTrac II Build|Bygg (wikiside med videoer)}}, [http://openpario.mime.oregonstate.edu/projects/lifetrac3d/files Blenderfiler], [http://openpario.mime.oregonstate.eduprojects/oselifetrac/documents Hurtigkoblingsplate og spor CAD]

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![[Image:microtrac-i.png|left|thumb|MicroTrac <br/> (Prototype I)]]
|{{LinkLang|MicroTrac}} er en nedskalert, gå-bakversjon av LifeTrac for å løse behovet for en mkcrotraktor. Vi bruker de fleste av de samme komponentene som LifeTrac, bortsett fra at vi krymper de strukturelle leddene - for å holde tilbake delutvekslingsevne mellom MicroTrac og LifeTrac.

''Lenker'':[http://opensourceecology.blip.tv/file/2330106/ ferdig], [http://opensourceecology.blip.tv/file/2396704/ nullsving],{{LinkLang|Microtrac Prototype II}},[http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2010/08/microtrac-challenge/ Prototype II utfordring].

''Dokumentasjon'': {{LinkLang|MicroTrac | wiki dokumentasjon}}

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![[Image: Soil-pulverizer-ii.png | left | thumb | Jordpulveriserer <br/> (Prototype II)]]
|{{LinkLang|LifeTrac_Implement: _Soil_pulverizer | Jordpulverisereren}} kan være knyttet til {{LinkLang|LifeTrac}} og pulveriserer jorda til en fin konsistens som kan brukes i forberedelse for pressing av komprimerte jordklosser (CEBS).

''Lenker'':[http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2010/10/open-source-soil-pulverizer-prototype-ii/ blog], [http://vimeo.com/15681970 konstruksjon og test(kort video)], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46Dg1ziqAu0 test(video)].

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! [[Image:Cnc-torch-table-2010-ose.jpg|left|thumb|CNC Kuttebord]]
|{{LinkLang|Torch Table|CNC Kuttebord}}. En datamaskin kan styre brennerhodet og lage rene skarpe kutt på XYZ aksene. Prototype I har blitt bygget, men har ikke blitt vellykket operert fordi strålingen fra plasmakutteren som ble brukt til bordet forårsaket elektronikkfeil. Vi vil fullføre Prototype I ved å ettermontere det med stepmotorkontrollere i åpen kilde.

Lenker:{{LinkLang|Torch Table|wiki-side}},[http://vimeo.com/7151604 Plasmakutter i aksjon], kuttebord i åpen kilde [http://vimeo.com/6767592 Del 4], [http://vimeo.com/6768144 Del 5],[http://vimeo.com/6816527 Del 6].

''Dokumentasjon'': {{LinkLang|Torch Table Build| Bygg (wiki)}}, [http://openpario.mime.oregonstate.edu/projects/osetorchtable/files Blenderfil

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Open Source Ecology vant [http://makezine.com/tagyourgreen/?o=popular MAKE Green Project Contest].

Vår nye nettside er online - http://opensourceecology.org

I Mars 2011, gav Marcin sin [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2011/04/ted-fellows-talk/ TED Talk]. Siden da, har prosjektet fått mye oppmerksomhet.

===Fremtidige Planer===
{{LinkLang|Proposal 2012|Forslag 2012}} inneholder all den oppdaterte informasjonen om visjonen til GVCS. Målet er å samle $2.4 millioner i støtte for å fullfure GVCS på 2 år (slutten av 2012).

GVCS komponenter forventet i 2011 er:
* Power Cube III – 55 HK (Hestekrefter)
* CNC Kuttebord I
* LifeTrac III
* Jordpulveriserer III
* Moderne Dampmotor I – Vårt mål er på bestillingen av $500 i materialkostnader for en 1kW generator, med gunstig kostnadsutvikling for mer kraft. Introduksjon og flere videoer er tilgjengelig her: 1 kW Dampmotor Elektrisk Generator Prototype
* Jernarbeidsmaskin II
* Aluminiumutvinning fra leire

Hvis {{LinkLang|Support_Open_Source_Ecology|støtte}} og [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2011/04/explosion-after-the-online-ted-talk/ samarbeidspartnere] blir funnet, er andre parallelle utviklinger mulig.

For tiden er det 4 traktorer, 4 CEB presser, 8 Power Cubes, og 2 Jordpulveriserere som skal bygges til slutten av Mai. CNC Kuttebordet er i fullføringsprosessen for å hjelpe med det.

[http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2011/04/workshop-addition/ Konstruksjonsbedrifter] som bruker Traktor-Jordpulveriserer-Komprimerte Jordklosser (CEB) Pressepakken vil begynne i Los Angeles av en tidlig adoptør, [http://www.joskuadesigns.com/index.html Joskua Designs]. Dette vil bli den første felttestingen utenfor Factor E Farm. Byggeprosjektet i California må kunne håndtere jordskjelvkoder.

Vi ser etter [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2011/04/explosion-after-the-online-ted-talk/ aktivt samarbeid] på alle prosjekter.

Fullføring av [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2010/11/conclusion-of-building-for-2010/ modulær CEB verksted] er planlagt i Juni.

Vi vil også [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2011/04/cohabitat-gathering-2011-report/ prototype CEB/stråhusenheter] med hjelp fra vår nye polske venner for å bygge ut etter behov for å innkvartere andre utviklere på Factor E Farm.

Vi vil holder vår første store {{LinkLang|Factor e Farm Convergence|Factor E Farm sammensmelting}} (Kansas City Området) fra 1-30 September hos Factor e Farm, for å gjøre store fremskritt på jorden med tanke på utviklingen av Global Village Construction Set (GVCS).

[http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2010/10/distributed-generation/ Distributert kraftgenerering] er et tydelig mål – det neste store bestrebelsesfeltet for Factor e Farm, som vil tillate oss å drive våre operasjoner gratis - fra landbruk, fabrikeringsverksted utenfor strømnettet, til å leve og transport.

Etter GVCS er fullført, vil det første OSE Fellesskapet bygges og utdanning og trening i 2-årig fordypningsprogram blir planlagt.

Etter å ha vunnet [http://makezine.com/tagyourgreen/?o=popular MAKE Green Project Contest] vil vi delta i [http://makerfaire.com/ 2011 Maker Faire] der LifeTrac vil bli fremvist.

Vi deltar i [http://challenge.bfi.org/application_summary/2263 Buckminster Fuller Challenge 2011], en årlig designutfordring med gevinst på $100,000 for å støtte utviklingen og implementeringen av en strategi som har betydelig potensiale for å løse menneskehetens mest pressende problemer.

Adam Shilling, en Sann Tilhenger, planlegger et {{LinkLang|GVCS game|multiplayer onlinespill}} basert på GVCS som inspirasjon for dens kobling til den virkelige verden. Adam reiser til Sør-Amerika for å møte ekte mennesker - for å vurdere behovene til ekte fellesskap. Prosjektet vil koble spill til den ekte verdenen – der pengene som utveksles blir brukt til å kjøpe ting som traktorer eller fornybare energiprodukter for landsbyer i Sør-Amerika.

En [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2010/07/3-minute-video-on-factor-e-farm-and-the-liberator/ Dokumentaryfilm] om Factory E Farm kan komme i fremtiden.

{{LinkLang|Support OSE|Støtt OSE}} [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2011/04/explosion-after-the-online-ted-talk/ samarbeid med oss] for å hjelpe oss med å få dette til å skje.

Våre nåværende behov er opplistet på {{LinkLang|Project needs|Prosjektbehov}}.

==Å Involvere Seg==
{{Tip|Involver deg!|Hvis du liker det du har sett, vennligst se '''{{LinkLang|Get involved|Innvolver deg}}''' siden for å se de forskjellige måtene du kan bidra din tid og dine evner til vårt prosjekt}}

==Media og Intervjuer==
For intervjuer, vennligst se vår {{LinkLang|Press Procedure|Presseprosedyre}}. Her kan du finne {{LinkLang|High Resolution GVCS Media|GVCS media i høy oppløsning}}.

==Nøkkelord==
===Lesekrav for Utviklere===
*{{LinkLang|OSE Specifications|OSE Spesifikasjoner}}
*{{LinkLang|Proposal 2012|Forslag 2012}}
*{{LinkLang|GVCS Development Template|GVCS Utviklingsmal}}
*{{LinkLang|Product Template|Produktmal}}
*{{LinkLang|Development Team|Utviklingsteam}}
*{{LinkLang|Wiki Policy|Wikipolise}}
*{{LinkLang|Forum Policy|Forumpolise}}

===Annet===
*{{LinkLang|Conferences|Konferanser}}
*Mediautvikling
**[http://encyclopediapictura.com/gvcs_icons.psd.zip 50 Ikoner] fra {{LinkLang|Isaiah Saxon}}
**{{LinkLang|GVCS in 2 Minutes|GVCS på 2 minutter}}

==FAQs==
*http://openfarmtech.org/community/faq
*{{LinkLang|FAQ|Ofte Stilte Spørsmål}}
*{{LinkLang|OSE FAQ|OSE Ofte Stilte Spørsmål}}
*{{LinkLang|FAQs}}

==Ting Som Skal Gjøres==
Se {{LinkLang|GVCS Tasks|GVCS Oppgaver}} og {{LinkLang|Project needs|Prosjektbehov}}.

[[Category: Crash Course]]

Crash course on OSE/no

2011-05-14T09:44:01Z

Knut Brekken:

{{Lang|Lynkurs i OSE}}
{{Info|Lynkurs|Dette er et ''Lynkurs'' i '''Open Source Ecology''' (OSE). I løpet av de neste 15 minuttene, vil du bli oppdatert på alt arbeidet til OSE fra de siste 4 årene. Send epost til crashcoursemoderator at gmail dot com for støtte. Se også {{LinkLang|Technical Abstract of the GVCS|Teknisk Sammendrag av GVCS}}.}}

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== Oversikt for Nye Mennesker ==

For å se hva vi gjør, se {{LinkLang|GVCS in 2 Minutes|GVCS på 2 minutter}} videoen. Open Source Ecology ble grunnlagt i 2004 av {{LinkLang|Marcin Jakubowski}}. Vi er et nettverk av bønder, ingeniører, og støttespillere som de siste to årene har sksapt Global Village Construction Set, en teknologisk plattform med åpne kilder, lave kostnader, og høy ytelse, som gjør det mulig for den enkle, "gjør det selv" fabrikasjonen av de 50 ulike Industrielle Maskinene som kreves for å bygge en bærekraftig sivilisasjon med moderne bekvemmeligheter. GVCS senker etableringshindringer i jordbruk, bygg, og produksjon og kan sees som et lego-lignende sett med modulære verktøy i full størrelse som kan lage hele økonomier, enten det er i landlige Missouri, der prosjektet ble grunnlagt, i byfornyelser, eller i hjertet av Afrika.

'''Vi har et ambisiøst program for produktutgivelse av de 49 resterende teknologiene innen 2 år og et $ 2,4 m budsjett - som vi forkorter som vårt {{LinkLang|50/2/2}} program. Fristen for dette er 2011-2012.'''

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=== Viktige funksjoner av GVCS ===

Dette er {{LinkLang|Key Features of the GVCS|hovedfunksjonene til GVCS}}, og hvis du ønsker å se det fulle settet av verdier, se {{LinkLang|Core Values of OSE|Kjerneverdier til OSE}}.

{{Info|Hovedfunksjoner|
*'''Åpen Kilde''' - vi publiserer våre 3D-tegninger, skjemaer, instruksjonsvideoer, budsjetter, og produktbruksanvisninger fritt på vår åpen kildekodewiki, og vi nytter åpent samarbeid med tekniske bidragsytere.
*'''Lavkostnad''' - Kostnadene ved å lage eller kjøpe maskinene våre er i gjennomsnitt 8 ganger billigere enn å kjøpe fra en industriell produsent, herunder lønnskostnader på $ 15/time for en GVCS fabrikator.
*'''Modulær''' - Motorer, deler, forsamlinger, og kraftenheter kan utveksles, der enhetene kan grupperes sammen for å diversifisere funksjonaliteten som er oppnåelig fra et lite sett av enheter.
*'''Bruker-servicevennlig''' - Design-for-demontering tillater brukeren å ta fra hverandre, vedlikeholde og reparere verktøyene lett uten å måtte stole på dyre reparatører.
*'''Gjør-det-selv''' - Brukeren får kontroll over designe, produsere, og endre GVCS verktøysett.
*'''Lukket Sløyfeproduksjon''' - Metall er en avgjørende del av avansert sivilisasjon, og vår plattform gjør det mulig for gjenvinning av metall til jomfruelig råstoff for produksjon av ytterligere GVCS teknologier - og åpner dermed for vugge-til-vugge produksjonssykluser.
*'''Høyytelse''' - Ytelsesstandarder må matche eller overgå de av industrielle motparter til GVCS å være levedyktig.
*'''Fleksibel Fabrikering''' - Det er vist at den fleksible bruken av generaliserte maskiner i passende skala er et levedyktig alternativ til sentralisert produksjon.
*'''Fordelingsøkonomi''' - Vi oppfordrer replikering av foretakene som stammer fra GVCS plattformen som en vei til virkelig fri konkurranse - på linje med idealer av Jeffersonske demokrati.
*'''Industriell Effektivitet''' - For å gi et levedyktig valg for en spenstig livsstil, samsvarer eller overstiger GVCS plattformen produktivitetsstandarder for industrielle motparter.
}}

=== Omfang av GVCS ===
{{Info|Omfang|
*'''{{LinkLang|:Category:Metalworks|Mekanisk Infrastruktur}}''' - Legolignende konstruksjonssett i naturlig størrelse for landbruk og nytteutstyr der modularitet er vektlagt. Den mekaniske infrastrukturen er basert på et chassis (traktor, mikrotraktor, bil, bulldoser) med modulære tilleggsutstyr. Redskaper, motorer, og kraftenheter kan utveksles, og dermed maksimere formålsspekteret som kan settes sammen fra et lite sett av komponenter. For eksempel kan kraftenheten byttes lett mellom traktor, bulldoser, eller bil.
*'''{{LinkLang|:Category:Food_and_Agriculture|Landbruk}}''' - Matinfrastrukturen for et spenstig samfunn (Åpen Kildeagroøkologi) har som mål å demonstrere et beste-praksissystem for fôring av 100-200 personer med et kjerneteam på fire jordbruksgeneralister, eller Åpen Kildeagroøkologer.
*'''{{LinkLang|:Category:Energy|Energiinfrastruktur}}''' - inkluderer drivstoff, drivkraft, og elektrisitet. Energiinfrastrukturen består av solenergiopptak enten fra Solturbin eller planter. Solturbinen bruker solvarme direkte når solen skinner, eller lagres slik planter fanger solenergi via fotosyntesen, der energien er høstet i form av biomasse fra planter.
*'''{{LinkLang|:Category:Housing_and_construction|Bolig}}''' - Boligenes infrastruktur består av en rekke multinytteverktøy: CEB presse, sagbruk, sementblander, modulære boliger, levende maskiner og andre. Vi vil produsere profesjonelle arkitekturtegninger for CEB og andre naturlige bygningskonstruksjoner.
*'''{{LinkLang|:Category:Transport|Transport}}''' - inkluderer et åpen kildemikrobil og lastebil med mulighet for tilkobling av redskaper, alle drevet av Power Cubes.
*'''{{LinkLang|:Category:Digital_Fabrication|Digital Fabrikering}}''' - RepLab frem til varm metallbehandling og fullfunksjons industrielle roboter.
*'''{{LinkLang|:Category:Materials|Materialer}}''' - {{LinkLang|Aluminum_Extraction_From_Clays|Aluminiumutvinning fra leire}}, {{LinkLang|Bioplastic Extruder|Bioplast Ekstruderer}} inkludert bioplastsyntese fra planter
}}

=== Gjeldende status ===

''Sist oppdatert'': 25. April 2011.

Følgende prototyper og produkter er utviklet til nå:
{| Border="0"valign="top"
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![[Image:Powercube-ii-front.jpg|left|thumb|Power Cube <br/>(Prototype II)]]
|{{LinkLang|Power Cube II}} er en universell, selvforsynt motor som består av en motor koblet til en hydraulisk pumpe for å gi strøm til ulike enheter i form av hydraulisk væske under høyt trykk. Power Cube er en modul som kan kobles til LifeTrac-, Microtrac-, bulldoser-, og Åpen Kildebil- (Oscar) plattformer. Den kobles til andre enheter via redskapskoblinger og hydrauliske hurtigkoblingsslanger.

''Lenker'': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjnROs7dfFM kort] og [http://vimeo.com/15892882 lang (50min)] video.

''Dokumentasjon'': [http://openpario.mime.oregonstate.edu/projects/lifetrac3d/files Blenderfiler].

|- Valign="top"
![[Image:Drill-press-i-front.jpg|left|thumb|Borpresse <br/>(Prototype I)]]
|{{LinkLang|Drill Press|Borpressen}} er for boring av hull fra 1" eller større, direkte i metall uten forboring. Den inneholder en hydraulisk motor for boring og en hydraulisk sylinder for nedpresset - så dette er bokstavelig talt en presse, og det mangler ikke på moment eller kraft ettersom motoren kan opprettholde opptil 20 hk. Vi bruker Universalrotoren vår for motoren.

''Lenker'':[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HoygNxyCnc video]

''Dokumentasjon'':{{LinkLang|Drill Press|dokumentasjon}}

|- Valign="top"
![[Image:Machine.jpg|left|thumb|The Liberator, CEB Presse <br/>(Prototype II)]]
|{{LinkLang|CEB_Press_2|Komprimert Jordklosser (CEB) Pressen}} gir mulighet for rask (16 murstein per minutt), lavekostnads-, høykvalitetskonstruksjon fra stedlig jord. CEB Pressen brukes til å komprimere leiret jord (20-30% leire i volum) fra lokale eller jord på stedet i strukturelle murbyggeklosser (700-1000 PSI). Stabilisering med sement kan brukes for ytterligere værbestandighet. CEB egner seg også til bygging av gulv, asfalterte områder, støttemurer, lagerkonstruksjoner, eller andre konstruksjoner der en uniform, strukturell byggesten er ønsket.

''Lenker'':[http://blip.tv/file/3825806/ The Liberator], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV_-ZzYmo3A Historien CEB], [http://opensourceecology.blip.tv/file/3573531/ innledende felttesting], [http://opensourceecology.blip.tv/file/3641993/ trykke klosser], [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2010/06/design-for-disassembly/ demontering], [http://opensourceecology.blip.tv/file/3736161/ boksing(emballering)], [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2010/04/the-liberator-beta-2-0-machine-overview/ maskinoversikt], [http://opensourceecology.blip.tv/file/3750806/ rammen], [http://opensourceecology.blip.tv/file/3750871/ kontrolleren].

''Dokumentasjon'':{{LinkLang|CEB Press|Introduksjon}}, {{LinkLang|CEB Press Build Instructions| Byggeinstruksjoner}}, [http://openpario.mime.oregonstate.edu/documents/94 CAD-filer]

|- Valign="top"
![[Image:Lifetrac-II-shoot-3.jpg |left|thumb|LifeTrac <br/>(Prototype II)]]
|{{LinkLang|LifeTrac}} er en allsidig, firehjulsdreven, full-størrelse, hydraulisk drevet, skrensstyrende traktor på 18-200 hk med valgfrie stålspor. LifeTrac er ment å være en minimalistisk, men med høy ytelse, livstidsdesign, design-for-demontering arbeidshest og kraftenhet til en hvilken som helst landforvaltningsdrift. Den er enkel å vedlikeholde for brukeren. Den modulære oppbygningen gir mulighet for rask tilkobling av redskaper; utvekslingsevne / stablingsevne for flere kraftenheter (Power Cubes) for å tilpasse driftsnivå til den aktuelle oppgaven, rask montering av alle hydrauliske komponenter via hurtigkoblingsslanger, inkludert rask utvekslingsevne av hydrauliske motorer for bruk i andre applikasjoner.

''Lenker'':[http://opensourceecology.blip.tv/file/3876543/ Nivå I av Utvikling], [http://vimeo.com/15130712 Prototype II Fullført], [http://vimeo.com/15531206 bevegelse].

''Dokumentasjon'':{{LinkLang|LifeTrac II Build|Bygg (wikiside med videoer)}}, [http://openpario.mime.oregonstate.edu/projects/lifetrac3d/files Blenderfiler], [http://openpario.mime.oregonstate.eduprojects/oselifetrac/documents Hurtigkoblingsplate og spor CAD]

|- Valign="top"
![[Image:microtrac-i.png|left|thumb|MicroTrac <br/> (Prototype I)]]
|{{LinkLang|MicroTrac}} er en nedskalert, gå-bakversjon av LifeTrac for å løse behovet for en mkcrotraktor. Vi bruker de fleste av de samme komponentene som LifeTrac, bortsett fra at vi krymper de strukturelle leddene - for å holde tilbake delutvekslingsevne mellom MicroTrac og LifeTrac.

''Lenker'':[http://opensourceecology.blip.tv/file/2330106/ ferdig], [http://opensourceecology.blip.tv/file/2396704/ nullsving],{{LinkLang|Microtrac Prototype II}},[http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2010/08/microtrac-challenge/ Prototype II utfordring].

''Dokumentasjon'': {{LinkLang|MicroTrac | wiki dokumentasjon}}

|- Valign="top"
![[Image: Soil-pulverizer-ii.png | left | thumb | Jordpulveriserer <br/> (Prototype II)]]
|{{LinkLang|LifeTrac_Implement: _Soil_pulverizer | Jordpulverisereren}} kan være knyttet til {{LinkLang|LifeTrac}} og pulveriserer jorda til en fin konsistens som kan brukes i forberedelse for pressing av komprimerte jordklosser (CEBS).

''Lenker'':[http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2010/10/open-source-soil-pulverizer-prototype-ii/ blog], [http://vimeo.com/15681970 konstruksjon og test(kort video)], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46Dg1ziqAu0 test(video)].

|- Valign="top"
! [[Image:Cnc-torch-table-2010-ose.jpg|left|thumb|CNC Kuttebord]]
|{{LinkLang|Torch Table|CNC Kuttebord}}. En datamaskin kan styre brennerhodet og lage rene skarpe kutt på XYZ aksene. Prototype I har blitt bygget, men har ikke blitt vellykket operert fordi strålingen fra plasmakutteren som ble brukt til bordet forårsaket elektronikkfeil. Vi vil fullføre Prototype I ved å ettermontere det med stepmotorkontrollere i åpen kilde.

Lenker:{{LinkLang|Torch Table|wiki-side}},[http://vimeo.com/7151604 Plasmakutter i aksjon], kuttebord i åpen kilde [http://vimeo.com/6767592 Del 4], [http://vimeo.com/6768144 Del 5],[http://vimeo.com/6816527 Del 6].

''Dokumentasjon'': {{LinkLang|Torch Table Build| Bygg (wiki)}}, [http://openpario.mime.oregonstate.edu/projects/osetorchtable/files Blenderfil

|}

Open Source Ecology vant [http://makezine.com/tagyourgreen/?o=popular MAKE Green Project Contest].

Vår nye nettside er online - http://opensourceecology.org

I Mars 2011, gav Marcin sin [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2011/04/ted-fellows-talk/ TED Talk]. Siden da, har prosjektet fått mye oppmerksomhet.

===Fremtidige Planer===
{{LinkLang|Proposal 2012|Forslag 2012}} inneholder all den oppdaterte informasjonen om visjonen til GVCS. Målet er å samle $2.4 millioner i støtte for å fullfure GVCS på 2 år (slutten av 2012).

GVCS komponenter forventet i 2011 er:
* Power Cube III – 55 HK (Hestekrefter)
* CNC Kuttebord I
* LifeTrac III
* Jordpulveriserer III
* Moderne Dampmotor I – Vårt mål er på bestillingen av $500 i materialkostnader for en 1kW generator, med gunstig kostnadsutvikling for mer kraft. Introduksjon og flere videoer er tilgjengelig her: 1 kW Dampmotor Elektrisk Generator Prototype
* Jernarbeidsmaskin II
* Aluminiumutvinning fra leire

Hvis {{LinkLang|Support_Open_Source_Ecology|støtte}} og [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2011/04/explosion-after-the-online-ted-talk/ samarbeidspartnere] blir funnet, er andre parallelle utviklinger mulig.

For tiden er det 4 traktorer, 4 CEB presser, 8 Power Cubes, og 2 Jordpulveriserere som skal bygges til slutten av Mai. CNC Kuttebordet er i fullføringsprosessen for å hjelpe med det.

[http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2011/04/workshop-addition/ Konstruksjonsbedrifter] som bruker Traktor-Jordpulveriserer-Komprimerte Jordklosser (CEB) Pressepakken vil begynne i Los Angeles av en tidlig adoptør, [http://www.joskuadesigns.com/index.html Joskua Designs]. Dette vil bli den første felttestingen utenfor Factor E Farm. Byggeprosjektet i California må kunne håndtere jordskjelvkoder.

Vi ser etter [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2011/04/explosion-after-the-online-ted-talk/ aktivt samarbeid] på alle prosjekter.

Fullføring av [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2010/11/conclusion-of-building-for-2010/ modulær CEB verksted] er planlagt i Juni.

Vi vil også [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2011/04/cohabitat-gathering-2011-report/ prototype CEB/stråhusenheter] med hjelp fra vår nye polske venner for å bygge ut etter behov for å innkvartere andre utviklere på Factor E Farm.

Vi vil holder vår første store {{LinkLang|Factor e Farm Convergence|Factor E Farm sammensmelting}} (Kansas City Området) fra 1-30 September hos Factor e Farm, for å gjøre store fremskritt på jorden med tanke på utviklingen av Global Village Construction Set (GVCS).

[http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2010/10/distributed-generation/ Distributert kraftgenerering] er et tydelig mål – det neste store bestrebelsesfeltet for Factor e Farm, som vil tillate oss å drive våre operasjoner gratis - fra landbruk, fabrikeringsverksted utenfor strømnettet, til å leve og transport.

Etter GVCS er fullført, vil det første OSE Fellesskapet bygges og utdanning og trening i 2-årig fordypningsprogram blir planlagt.

Etter å ha vunnet [http://makezine.com/tagyourgreen/?o=popular MAKE Green Project Contest] vil vi delta i [http://makerfaire.com/ 2011 Maker Faire] der LifeTrac vil bli fremvist.

Vi deltar i [http://challenge.bfi.org/application_summary/2263 Buckminster Fuller Challenge 2011], en årlig designutfordring med gevinst på $100,000 for å støtte utviklingen og implementeringen av en strategi som har betydelig potensiale for å løse menneskehetens mest pressende problemer.

Adam Shilling, en Sann Tilhenger, planlegger et {{LinkLang|GVCS game|multiplayer onlinespill}} basert på GVCS som inspirasjon for dens kobling til den virkelige verden. Adam reiser til Sør-Amerika for å møte ekte mennesker - for å vurdere behovene til ekte fellesskap. Prosjektet vil koble spill til den ekte verdenen – der pengene som utveksles blir brukt til å kjøpe ting som traktorer eller fornybare energiprodukter for landsbyer i Sør-Amerika.

En [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2010/07/3-minute-video-on-factor-e-farm-and-the-liberator/ Dokumentaryfilm] om Factory E Farm kan komme i fremtiden.

{{LinkLang|Support OSE|Støtt OSE}} [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2011/04/explosion-after-the-online-ted-talk/ samarbeid med oss] for å hjelpe oss med å få dette til å skje.

Våre nåværende behov er opplistet på {{LinkLang|Project needs|Prosjektbehov}}.

==Å Involvere Seg==
{{Tip|Involver deg!|Hvis du liker det du har sett, vennligst se '''{{LinkLang|Get involved|Innvolver deg}}''' siden for å se de forskjellige måtene du kan bidra din tid og dine evner til vårt prosjekt}}

==Media og Intervjuer==
For intervjuer, vennligst se vår {{LinkLang|Press Procedure|Presseprosedyre}}. Her kan du finne {{LinkLang|High Resolution GVCS Media|GVCS media i høy oppløsning}}.

==Nøkkelord==
===Lesekrav for Utviklere===
*{{LinkLang|OSE Specifications|OSE Spesifikasjoner}}
*{{LinkLang|Proposal 2012|Forslag 2012}}
*{{LinkLang|GVCS Development Template|GVCS Utviklingsmal}}
*{{LinkLang|Product Template|Produktmal}}
*{{LinkLang|Development Team|Utviklingsteam}}
*{{LinkLang|Wiki Policy|Wikipolise}}
*{{LinkLang|Forum Policy|Forumpolise}}

===Annet===
*{{LinkLang|Conferences|Konferanser}}
*Mediautvikling
**[http://encyclopediapictura.com/gvcs_icons.psd.zip 50 Ikoner] fra {{LinkLang|Isaiah Saxon}}
**{{LinkLang|GVCS in 2 Minutes|GVCS på 2 minutter}}

==FAQs==
*http://openfarmtech.org/community/faq
*{{LinkLang|FAQ|Ofte Stilte Spørsmål}}
*{{LinkLang|OSE FAQ|OSE Ofte Stilte Spørsmål}}
*{{LinkLang|FAQs}}

==Ting Som Skal Gjøres==
Se {{LinkLang|GVCS Tasks|GVCS Oppgaver}} og {{LinkLang|Project needs|Prosjektbehov}}.

[[Category: Crash Course]]

Power Cube Intro/no

2011-05-14T09:42:23Z

Knut Brekken:

{{Lang|Power Cube Introduksjon}}{{Category=Power Cube}}
{{ToolTemplate|ToolName=Power Cube}}

'''Power Cube II''' er en universal, selvstendig kraftenhet som består av en motor koblet med en hydraulisk pumpe for å gi kraft til forskjellige redskaper i form av hydraulisk væske ved høyt trykk. Power Cube er en modul som kan kobles til LifeTrac, Microtrac, Bulldoser, og Åpen Kildebil (OSCar) plattformer. Den kobler til andre redskaper gjennom hurtigkoblinger og hurtigkoblede hydraulikkslanger.

Se [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=814 bloggposten] for detaljer.

Utvikling: William Cleaver - [[My resume|CV]] - [[WilliamCleaver|Søknad]]

===Video===
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FceP-LCSpQ&feature=player_embedded#at=68 Introduksjon til Power Cube Designet] (1 min 59 sek)
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjnROs7dfFM Power Cube Ferdig] (5 min 6 sek)
*[http://blip.tv/file/2295563?utm_source=player_embedded Power Cube] (3 min 30 sek)
*[http://vimeo.com/15892882 Byggeinstruksjoner] (50 min 27 sek)

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Power Cube Intro/no

2011-05-14T09:32:56Z

Knut Brekken: Created page with "{{Lang|Power Cube Introduksjon}}{{Category=Power Cube}} {{ToolTemplate|ToolName=Power Cube}} The '''Power Cube II''' is an universal, self-contained power unit that consists of ..."

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The '''Power Cube II''' is an universal, self-contained power unit that consists of an engine coupled to a hydraulic pump for providing power to different devices in the form of hydraulic fluid at high pressure. The Power Cube is a module that can be attached to the LifeTrac, Microtrac, Bulldozer, and Open Source Car (OSCar) platforms. It connects to other devices via quick couplers and quick-connect hydraulic hoses.

See the [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=814 blog post] for details.

Development: William Cleaver - [[My resume|Resume]] - [[WilliamCleaver|Application]]

===Video===
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FceP-LCSpQ&feature=player_embedded#at=68 Introduction to the Power Cube Design] (1 min 59 sec)
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjnROs7dfFM Power Cube Complete] (5 min 6 sec)
*[http://blip.tv/file/2295563?utm_source=player_embedded Power Cube] (3 min 30 sec)
*[http://vimeo.com/15892882 Build Instructions] (50 min 27 sec)

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Power Cube Intro

2011-05-14T09:32:15Z

Knut Brekken:

{{OrigLang}}{{Category=Power Cube}}
{{ToolTemplate|ToolName=Power Cube}}

The '''Power Cube II''' is an universal, self-contained power unit that consists of an engine coupled to a hydraulic pump for providing power to different devices in the form of hydraulic fluid at high pressure. The Power Cube is a module that can be attached to the LifeTrac, Microtrac, Bulldozer, and Open Source Car (OSCar) platforms. It connects to other devices via quick couplers and quick-connect hydraulic hoses.

See the [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=814 blog post] for details.

Development: William Cleaver - [[My resume|Resume]] - [[WilliamCleaver|Application]]

===Video===
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FceP-LCSpQ&feature=player_embedded#at=68 Introduction to the Power Cube Design] (1 min 59 sec)
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjnROs7dfFM Power Cube Complete] (5 min 6 sec)
*[http://blip.tv/file/2295563?utm_source=player_embedded Power Cube] (3 min 30 sec)
*[http://vimeo.com/15892882 Build Instructions] (50 min 27 sec)

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[[Category:MicroTrac]]

Key Features of the GVCS/no

2011-05-14T09:28:56Z

Knut Brekken: Created page with "{{Lang|Hovedfunskjene til GVCS}}{{Category=Guiding philosophies}} '''Åpen Kilde''' - vi publiserer fritt våre 3D design, skjemaer, instruksjonsvideoer, budsjetter, og produktve..."

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'''Åpen Kilde''' - vi publiserer fritt våre 3D design, skjemaer, instruksjonsvideoer, budsjetter, og produktveiledninger på vår åpen kilde wiki og nytter åpent samarbeid med tekniske bidragsytere.

'''Lavkostnad''' - Kostnaden for å lage eller kjøpe våre maskiner er, i gjennomsnitt, 8x billigere enn å kjøpe det fra en industriell produsent, inkludert en gjennomsnitlig arbeidskostnad på $15 i timen for en GVCS fabrikator.

'''Modulær''' - Motorer, deler, sammensetninger, og kraftenheter kan byttes, der enheter kan gruppes sammen for å diversifisere funksjonaliteten som er oppnåelig fra et lite sett av enheter.

'''Brukervennlig Service''' - Design-for-demontering tillater brukeren å ta fra hverandre, vedlikeholde, og reparere verktøy enkelt uten å være avhengig av kostbare reparatører.

'''Gjør-det-selv''' - Brukeren får kontroll over å designe, produsere, og modifisere GVCS verktøysettet.

'''Lukket Sløyfefremstilling''' - Metall er en essensiell komponent av avanserte sivilisasjoner, og våre plattformer gjør det mulig å resirkulere metall til å bli nytt råstoff for å produsere ytterligere GVCS teknologier - og gjør det dermed mulig for krybbe-til-krybbe fremstillingssykluser.

'''Høy Ytelse''' - Ytelsesstandarder må matche eller overgå de industrielle motpartene for at GVCS skal være levedyktig.

'''Fleksibel Fabrikering''' - Det har blitt demonstrert at den fleksible bruken av generalisert maskineri i passende skalaproduksjon er et levedyktig alternativ til sentralisert produksjon.

'''Distributiv Økonomi''' - Vi oppfordrer til kopieringen av bedrifter som avleder fra GVCS plattformen som en rute til virkelig fri virksomhet - på linje med Jeffersoniansk demokrati.

'''Industriell Effektivitet''' - For å kunne tilby et levedyktig valg for en robust livsstil, matcher eller overgår GVCS plattformen produktivitetsstandarden til industrielle motparter.

Key Features of the GVCS

2011-05-14T08:56:31Z

Knut Brekken:

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'''Open Source''' - we freely publish our 3d designs, schematics, instructional videos, budgets, and product manuals on our open source wiki and we harness open collaboration with technical contributors.

'''Low-Cost''' - The cost of making or buying our machines are, on average, 8x cheaper than buying from an Industrial Manufacturer, including an average labor cost of $15 hour for a GVCS fabricator.

'''Modular''' - Motors, parts, assemblies, and power units can interchange, where units can grouped together to diversify the functionality that is achievable from a small set of units.

'''User-Serviceable''' - Design-for-disassembly allows the user to take apart, maintain, and fix tools readily without the need to rely on expensive repairmen.

'''DIY''' - (do-it-yourself) The user gains control of designing, producing, and modifying the GVCS tool set.

'''Closed Loop Manufacturing''' - Metal is an essential component of advanced civilization, and our platform allows for recycling metal into virgin feedstock for producing further GVCS technologies - thereby allowing for cradle-to-cradle manufacturing cycles

'''High Performance''' - Performance standards must match or exceed those of industrial counterparts for the GVCS to be viable.

'''Flexible Fabrication''' - It has been demonstrated that the flexible use of generalized machinery in appropriate-scale production is a viable alternative to centralized production.

'''Distributive Economics''' - We encourage the replication of enterprises that derive from the GVCS platform as a route to truly free enterprise - along the ideals of Jeffersonian democracy.

'''Industrial Efficiency''' - In order to provide a viable choice for a resilient lifestyle, the GVCS platform matches or exceeds productivity standards of industrial counterparts.

True Fans/no

2011-05-13T23:00:42Z

Knut Brekken:

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=Introduksjon=

Vi kan jobbe på {{LinkLang|GVCS}} på fulltid takket være generøsiteten av våre donasjoner. Kevin Kellys innflytelsesrike essay [http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fans.php 1000 foreslo Sanne Tilhengere en finansieringsstruktur der 1000 støttespillerer hver måned donerer en liten sum for å opprettholde et prosjekt de virkelig har tro på. Vi ser etter 1000 Sanne Tilhengere som hver lover $10 hver måned som del av {{LinkLang|1000 Squared|1000 Kvadrert}} Kampanjen.

På denne siden kan du også lese hvordan folk som deg har blitt med i kampanjen. I fra Mai 2011 har vi passert 300 Sanne Tilhengere.

Vi har også fått ønsker om større donasjonsalternativer. Som svar har vi laget Gull, Gull Ekstra, Platinum, og Engel abbonnement for $20, $30, $50, og $100 per måned, respektivt,,i tillegg til Standardabbonnementet på $10/måned.

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=Video Introductions=
*Marcin Jakubowski - August, 2010 - <html><object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14161032&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14161032&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/14161032">Marcin's Personlige Introduksjon til Sanne Tilhengere</a> fra <a href="http://vimeo.com/user2016419">Marcin Jakubowski</a> på <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p></html>

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=Sanne Tilhengere=

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| '''[http://monda.hu László Monda]''', Szeged, Ungarn
Mitt navn er László Monda og jeg er en Fri- og Åpen Kilde programvare/
maskinvareentusiast og en proffesjonell programvareutvikler.
I de siste årene har jeg blitt kjent med forskjellige teknologier som
3D printing, elektronikk, printede kretskortdesign, mikrokontrollerprogrammering
og sånt som har fått meg til å innse det enorme potensialet all denne
teknologien kan tilby folk.

Av alle de forskjellige tror jeg ikke bare at OSE er den
mest ambisiøse, men jeg tror det virkelig har potensialet til å
forandre verden til det bedre. Vi burde ikke gjøre oss avhengige
av bedrifter som hovedsakelig tenker på seg selv når vi kan ha
tillit til oss selv og være opptatt av hverandre og med miljøet.

Jeg er stolt av å ta del i dette engasjementet og ser frem til hva
fremtiden kan bringe.
|[[Image:Laszlo_Monda.png|thumb|László Monda. Medlem siden Mai 2011.]]
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| '''[[User:Mjn|Mark Norton]]''', Willseyville, NY, USA
En venn av meg henviste meg til Marcin's TED talk. Etter å ha sett den, var det ingen vei tilbake. Jeg har vært fasinert av Skaperbevegelsen i mange år nå, men har aldri helt hatt motivasjonen til å bli med, til tross for at jeg er nevenyttig. Jeg bor på en liten gård som kona og jeg har gjort om til et selvforsynt hjem som vi håper ev gang vil forsyne alle våre behov. Gårder trenger verktøy, og det slo meg at GVCS var en storartet måte å få det jeg trengte på - ved å bokstavelig talt bygge dem selv. Jeg er programvareutvikler av yrke og jeg har jobbet med flere tiltak med åpen kilde i løpet av årene, så jeg forstår ganske godt hvorfor arbeidet til OSE er så viktig og også noen av utfordringene det har i vente, spesielt rundt opprettholdbarhet. Derfor er jeg villig til å støtte det jeg sier jeg støtter og bli en Sann Tilhenger.
|[[Image:flannel_sm.JPG|thumb|Mark Norton. Medlem siden April 2011.]]
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| '''[[Dan Miner]]''', New York City, USA
Jeg er glad for at i fra våren 2011, etter utgivelsen av Marcins TED talk, får OSE i det minste en liten fraksjon av oppmerksomheten det fortjener. Hvis flere folk forsto at det drivstofftømming, internasjonale ressurskriger, og klimaforandringer vil gjøre med globalisert produksjon og distribusjon, ville de vært, ah, veldig urolige - og ville løpt for å bestille deres egne Global Village Construction Set. Ikke sikker på om OSE vil bli mer populært enn Lady Gaga - men la oss gjøre oss klare til å oppskalere produksjonen nå! - Dan Miner, New York City - www.beyondoilnyc.org
|[[Image:Dan_Miner-waterfront-5-10.JPG‎|thumb|Dan Miner. Medlem siden Februar 2011.]]
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| '''Javier Rivera''', Spania

Vil se en verdensomspennende Ressursbasert Økonomi, støtter Venusprosjektet ({{LinkLang|Zeitgeist}}) og ble en Sann Tilhenger av OSE i Februar 2011. Ble medlem av wikien dagene etterpå, og prøver å hjelpe med dette fantastiske arbeidet. Jeg ser på OSE som et virkelig skritt i en RBE retning - Dette er bare et nødvendig prosjekt for å skape en åpen verden. Stå på!

|[[Image:javier.jpg|thumb|200px|Javier Riviera. Medlem siden Februar 2011.]]
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| '''Etienne Duport''', Frankrike

Jeg skulle ønske jeg oppdaget OSE prosjektet for lenge siden. Det er veldig spennende! Forhåpentligvis vil alle en dag kunne kopiere disse verktøyene for å leve sine egne autonome liv. Siden jeg er så langt fra moderskipet i Missouri, er donasjoner en smart løsning for å støtte opp om OSE. Må Kraften være med deg ;-)"

|[[Image:etienne.jpg|thumb|200px|Etienne. Medlem siden Februar 2011.]]
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| '''Rasmus Kiehl''', Toronto, Kanada

La oss ta tilbake økonomien! (flere detaljer {{LinkLang|Tim-Rasmus_Kiehl|på min side}} i lagdyrkningsseksjonen).

|[[Image:Rasmus_Kiehl2010.jpg|thumb|200px|Rasmus. Medlem siden Februar 2009.]]
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| '''Steffen Lemmerzahl''', Zurich, Sveits

Global Village Construction Set passer veldig godt med settet av arbeid
som jeg setter veldig stor pris på, slik som prosjektene til D55.dk og
Atelier Van Lieshout innen kunst eller Paolo Soleri innen arkitektur.
Ettersom jeg selv er arkitekt (http://www.slik.ch) med bakgrunn i
CNC-bygde strukturer og parametrisk arkitektur
(http://www.caad.arch.ethz.ch) tenker jeg i en lignende retning
slik dere gjør, så jeg er glad for å kunne støtte deres storartede prosjekt
med min lille donasjon!

|[[Image:steffenlemmerzahl.jpg|thumb|200px|Steffen Lemmerzahl. Medlem siden Februar, 2011.]]
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| '''Angela''', Colorado, USA

So many could truly benefit from what your group has accomplished and the things yet to come. Bravo! Keep it going, PLEASE! We look at your success and know that your work is very important and it couldn't be happening at a more critical time. There are so many people in so many areas that will thrive with the tools your work will provide. Besides maybe someday we might need them too! We have property that has a lot of trees down and need to be cut. Areas that need to be leveled , and trails re-established, etc. Good Luck and our best wishes for all of you.

|[[Image:angelah.jpg|thumb|200px|Angela. Joined February, 2011.]]
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| '''Charles Kraus''', United Kingdom

The work you are doing (and I shall quote my Facebook status) is “Literally the most amazing project I have ever seen”.

For a long time I have been interested in the idea of being self-sufficient, and in fact have had a dream of one day buying my own island and starting up a completely self-sufficient, live off the land society. It’s obviously never going to happen but without our dreams what else is there to live for?

So when I see an entire group of individuals dedicating their time and effort to quite literally the foundations of my dreams I felt like I had to contribute something, in fact you’re the first cause I have ever given to on a monthly basis!

What I would love to see is a number of completely self-sufficient towns being set up, I have over the years visited some communal farming projects in Israel however most of these have had to close so I’m hoping with your construction set you will be able to improve on projects that have come before. I also think that with some work your tools could be very useful in the third world Africa etc, so seeing your tools being put into practise would be great.

|[[Image:charleskraus.jpg|thumb|200px|Charles Kraus. Joined February, 2011.]]
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| '''Joe Ventura''', California, USA

I was extremely excited to learn about Open Source Ecology's work, especially [http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/Global_Village_Construction_Set The Global Village Construction Set]. I'm a communications professional for NGOs and nonprofit organizations. Through my work, I've traveled around the world, including large parts of Asia and Africa. These experiences overseas convinced me of the need for thoughtful planning around the coming transition from a fossil fuel-based economy. I'm hoping that my small monthly contribution will enable this project to continue and expand its impact.
|[[Image:joeventura.jpg|thumb|200px|Joe Ventura. Joined February, 2011.]]
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| '''Hans Sendelbach''', Washington State, USA

The core issues underneath all this are really quite serious in nature. In my heart I have known for years what is happening, but the momentum in society is so powerful that it makes it easy to ignore the truth. A few months ago I watched the documentary Collapse, which is a long interview with Michael Ruppert. It shook me out of my state of denial.

In my mind this all comes down to a simple science experiment. If you put bacteria on a growth medium like agar in a petri dish, the population will explode exponentially until the food runs out. The population will plateau and drop off. The plateau and drop off are from two factors, the lack of food and poisoning from waste build up. With humans we need to broaden the definition of food and waste to include the food and waste of our infrastructure such as oil and the waste products from its consumption that leak into the air, soil and water. We are in the same position as the bacteria.

Thankfully organisms are smart and can sense there environment and adjust their growth according to the availability of nutrients or other factors. They are also adaptable and can even evolve new methods of metabolism in order to survive and thrive. Bacteria for example exchange rings of RNA with each other that allow them to generate novel enzymes, so they may adjust their function to match their environment.

RNA is coded information that controls chemical behavior. This sentence is also coded information. Your organism and mine are exchanging data, so that we may tailor our personal and infrastructural metabolism to better fit the ecological limitations we are sensing. This is the heart of what natural systems do.

Open Source Ecology has the potential to facilitate the rapid adaptation of our infrastructural metabolism. My hope is that we will learn how to weave our communities back into the complex fabric of life.

Thank you Marcin et al. for stepping forward with the concept for this movement.

|[[Image:hanssendelbach.jpg|thumb|200px|Hans Sendelbach. Joined January, 2011.]]
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| '''Judith Katz''', California, USA

I joined because I think it's high time we develop more sustainable ways to live on this planet and OSE is a viable step in that direction.

|[[Image:judithkatz.jpg|thumb|200px|Judith Katz. Joined January, 2011.]]
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| '''Giulia Vianello''', Italy

I think that the [present] economy isn't the right way to run the world. I'm talking about people who can lose everything for more money, even their life. So, maybe that's the most important reason why i have decided to subscribe to your project. I'm sad because the life of many people i know, depends on money. And i want to change this. I think that all environmental problems we actually have on the earth are initially caused by ignorance, and the ignorance is a convenient way to earn. So from your work i would like to see come out free knowledge for all people, so they would be able to better this world through the knowledge and consequent skills acquired from the open source mind!
In this way everyone would understand that we can be free in every aspect of our life, and a free man is a good man. The kit you're building is fantastic and I'm happy to be able to benefit from your work in the future. Thank you very much.

|[[Image:giulia.jpg|thumb|200px|Giulia Vianello. Joined January, 2011.]]
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| '''Marcu Knoesen''', Cape Town, South Africa

I can clearly see the need to attain all the goals as set out in OSE. The future has to be more localised. The path we are on at the moment will not end well. It is time to make a course correction in a big way.

|[[Image:marcu.jpg|thumb|200px|Marcu Knoesen. Joined January, 2011.]]
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| '''Robert Morris'''

I saw the [http://www.grist.org/article/food-2010-12-29-farmer-scientists-want-to-hack-society article in Grist] today, and have spent the past couple hours looking through your materials. Fascinating stuff.

I have often said that all you need for paradise on earth for 100 people is 5 engineers and a couple doctors. It is gratifying to see that someone is attempting to put it into practice.

My work is not similar at all. My last semester of law school starts on Monday, and I will be embarking on a soul-crushing cubicle-dwelling existence this fall. Happy to be contributing to a new approach, if only in a small way.

|[[Image:robertmorris.jpg|thumb|200px|Robert Morris. Joined December, 2010.]]
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| '''Floyd Earl Smith''', San Francisco Bay Area, California

I’m proud to join my fellow True Fans of Open Source Ecology. The Global Village Construction Set embodies human creativity and potential, and at the same time unleashes it. Together we True Fans are supporting less use of fossil fuels for farming, better use of precious fresh water, and slowing and surviving climate change, while improving, not damaging, the land.

|[[Image:floydsmith.jpg|thumb|200px|Floyd Earl Smith. Joined December, 2010.]]
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| '''Jonathan Rivera''', Houston, Texas

The work you guys are doing is great! And you guys all deserve support from everyone with a conviction for this cause. I know my contribution is not much but I hope to continue to support any way I can. The resource based economy is an idea that has given me motivation to change my life for the best.

|[[Image:jonathanrivera.jpg|thumb|200px|Jonathan Rivera. Joined December, 2010.]]
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| '''Georgy Korablev''', Vancouver, Canada

I am a mathematics student; I support OSE project because it is an audacious step towards the true freedom and liberation of people. I am tired to see countries like Canada spending $35 billion on interest payments annually, and only $3 billion on infrastructure and technology development. I'm tired to see debt growing. I'm tired to see roads broken, schools closed, human rights violated, wars started, technology restrained, people starved, taxes grown, education made into a business, income gap grown, secrets kept from the people, fake government, mindless jobs in corporations competing for a market share, overproduction, manufactured demand and overconsumption, low quality products, inflation, fake research and fake research based on fake research, dollar signs in people's eyes, greed, lies.

People, look around and realize that all the improvement that we had in our lives is due to industrial revolution and rapid development of technology that made things 1000-fold cheaper or more; it is not due lawyers in the government; not due to stock growth, bank loans or corporations.
It is due to people MAKING THINGS, NOT PROFITS. And these people shall have our full support.
|[[Image:georgy.jpg|thumb|200px|Georgy Korablev. Joined December, 2010.]]
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| '''Julia Valentine''', California, USA

I recently became a True Fan as a financial supporter. I am a mother, teacher, Permaculturist, and inhabitant of Planet Earth. All of these endeavors require a sense of hope and a belief in the resilience of our species and of Nature as a whole. Where we stand as a society today, in the midst of the industrial growth machine, leaves us lacking in both hope and resilience. I have a base need to foster these qualities, and to create a more livable future for the children I care for and guide into adulthood. I have a true belief in the ingenuity and flexibility of our species to create a new paradigm. OSE is the actual physical manifestation of our amazing capacity to change. To truly change, we must imagine and then create. The humans behind Factor e Farm and Open Source Ecology have imagined and created. They are on their way - leading by example - to this fruitful future I also work to manifest. I am pleased to have the hard work and creative genius of OSE be open to me as a tool to use for building my abundant future and the future of my community. Thank you for daring to both imagine and create.

|[[Image:Juliavalentine.jpg|thumb|200px|Julia Valentine. Joined November, 2010.]]
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| '''Amanda Packard''', Missouri, USA

I am intrigued and inspired by people offering viable solutions to the challenges facing humanity. And above that, people manifesting those solutions ''now'' – Open Source Ecology is doing just that.

I have had the honor of visiting Factor e Farm and seeing some of the tools of GVCS in action – I am deeply moved by this vision and the people behind it, who value not only tangible exhibitions of development, but also a holistic spiritual/meditation practice. I am excited to proudly join others in supporting Open Source Ecology in this paradigm-shifting revolution.
|[[Image:amanda.jpg|thumb|Amanda Packard. Joined November, 2010.]]
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| '''Christian Shearer''', Pacific Northwest, USA
Originally from the Pacific Northwest of the United States, Christian Shearer is the founder and Managing Director of the Panya Project (www.panyaproject.org). He has over six years of permaculture experience, working and living at Lost Valley Education Center outside of Eugene, Oregon, and now residing at the Panya Project in northern Thailand for over five years. He is a permaculture consultant with Terra Genesis International (www.terra-genesis.com), an advisory board member of We Forest (www.weforest.com), a natural builder, a food forest enthusiast, a musician, a certified educator and has extensive knowledge of tropical permaculture systems. He teaches permaculture around the world (Thailand, Malaysia, India, Taiwan, and even Missouri!) and is excited to continue sharing his passion for a better world and learning from all involved!

He is excited to be a True Fan of Open Ecology, because the ultimate goal of what the people at Open Ecology are doing is perfectly in line with the intentions of Permaculture. The synergy between the two could be very powerful in helping to usher in a new way of being for people on this planet based on local production, resiliency and an engaged populace, with more of a focus on the well-being and health of people rather than the economic progress of the wealthy. Christian is proud to lend his support to a movement like Open Ecology that fills such an important niche in helping to bring about the vision of a Permanent Culture.
|[[Image:christiansprofile.jpg|thumb|Christian Shearer, joined November, 2010.]]
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| '''Nathanael Dinwiddie''', Lawrence, KS, USA
I attended a presentation given by Marcin at the Lawrence Public Library on November 22, 2010. I appreciate Marcin's effort and enthusiasm for this compelling project. I have long been inspired by the vision of Jacque Fresco, and Marcin is generally preparing the beginning stages for the achievement of that grand vision. We must evolve in the way of this project.
|[[File:P1010717.JPG|thumb|Nathanael Dinwiddie. Joined November 2011.]]
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| '''Isaiah Saxon''', Aptos, USA
I'm a filmmaker, technologist, and one of the instigators of an egalitarian community of 17 people, called Trout Gulch, where we are building a studio, village, farm, and maker space inspired by the actions of Christopher Alexander, Will Allen, Sepp Holzer, and Marcin. My film team, [http://www.esquire.com/features/best-and-brightest-2009/encyclopedia-pictura-1209 Encyclopedia Pictura], is working with hollywood to create a new populist heroic myth for the maker movement.

I'm anticipating that the entire GVCS will be created and documented, then replicated by mechanics, geeks, hippies, weekend warriors, and tough guys that are into their trucks. I think OSE is contributing tangibly and symbolically to the greater cultural shift toward localism, authenticity, and DIY green tech.
|[[Image:Isaiah.jpg|thumb|Isaiah Saxon. Joined August 4, 2010.]]
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| '''David Crary''', Seattle, USA
I have been really searching to find people out there who are actually experimenting with new forms of social organization where it is possible to create advanced culture - that is thriving in abundance and largely autonomous, creating a model for everyone...so kudos to you guys. Keep up the great work!
|[[Image:davidcrary.jpg|thumb|David Crary, Seattle, USA. Joined July, 2010.]]
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| '''Benjamin Kaplin'''
I'm a mechanical engineering student, and I support the OSE because a completed Open Source Village kit would represent several orders of magnitude of improvement over existing projects to improve living conditions around the globe with technology. I grew up reading Stephenson, and one of the most powerful images in his book <em>Diamond Age</em> is The Seed, a nanotechnology McGuffin that one of the main characters devotes his life to that would take the control of production and self-determination out of the hands of the McCorporations and put it into the hands of revolutionaries and the impoverished.
Needless to say, nanotech is still several decades away from that dream, and contributing to the True Fans campaign helps a realistic Seed program without pulling me away from my studies.
|[[Image:0213090948.jpg|thumb|Benjamin Kaplin]]
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| '''Paul D. Mamigonian'''
The Open Source Ecology group are making self sufficient living real. Through the Zeitgeist movement and groups like the Open Source Ecology the example is being set that we can come away from the corrupt monetary system. How many times do you hear people say " BUT WHAT CAN WE DO?". There IS SO MUCH THAT can be done and IS BEING DONE. THE TIME IS RIGHT, THE METHODS ARE HERE AND SO IS THE TECHNOLOGY. Please see my site www.livegreenliveclean.org. The Open Source Ecology group are leading the way, and it's up to us all to follow their lead.
|[[Image:paulm.jpg|thumb|Paul D. Mamigonian]]
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| '''Marcin Jakubowski''', opensourceecology at gmail dot com, marcin_ose on Skype
I started the campaign because I have observed how little of humanity's true potential has been tapped. Everyone slaves their life away to a system that is crumbling at the seams. I believe that we can all reach absolute prosperity and evolve to freedom - by becoming skilled and productive [[Integrated Humans]], and by helping anyone else to do the same. History has shown that this is a general formula for lasting prosperity. As long as we're wise, it should be trivial to get beyond the economics of scarcity. We need to show the world how to build the world's first, replicable, open source Global Village.
|[[Image:marcin.jpg|thumb|Marcin Jakubowski]]
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| '''Scott Akridge'''
As I get older I'm more and more interested in helping people. A couple weeks back I enlisted the help of a friend to help in developing a CEB press when I began doing research and found www.openfarmtech.org with the open source CEB press. I continued looking for more information but kept coming back to this site for more info and learned more about the project and found I wanted to get involved. I started by becoming a member and donating $10 a month with plans to build the CEB press and build a couple structures then make the effort a cooperative. After reading more I've decided to also build a sawmill, assuming I can recruit some help. I think this is a great project and am excited to be a part of it in a small way.
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| '''Toby Martin'''
I support OSE because...
* It's an intelligent and direct effort to address some of the most serious problems we face as individuals and as a society.
* It's one of the most interesting and creative projects I've ever heard of.
* I see no reason in principle that it can't improve people's lives.
* It's actually happening.
|[[Image:TF2.jpg|thumb|Toby Martin]]
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| '''Lucas González''', imagina (dot) canarias at gmail dot com [[Image:lucas.JPG|thumb|Lucas Gonzalez]]
I support OSE because both the model and the elements add some important missing pieces to what I perceive is going on.
* I think it's important to have local possibilities for water, food and energy everywhere. Not just at the household level but more importantly at the village or more aggregated levels. Even if you end up buying stuff from elsewhere, it's best if that happens by choice, not by necessity. It was not by choice when things were local by default and it's not by choice now that things are global by default.
* The whole process of open sharing of ideas, processes, know-how is intriguing and, at the very least, extremely fun to watch. (I really wish I had more time to join in myself, but I'm doing things that need doing. So I [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Video_translation translate], [http://imagina-canarias.blogspot.com/search/label/open%20farm%20tech tell others], and chip in with a little cash, less than what others spend in smoking. My choice.)
* I'm particularly interested in some items for specific locations. Energy for water in sunny places is a must. Shelter and water collection systems. You name it.
* Do we really know how far and how fast this can go? I think there's bound to be a catalitic process so that more and more technologies will come out openly, in an exciting incarnation of the Stone Soup story. So I want to help keep the fire going.
* It really looks like this can be done, should be done, will be done in 2 years. Less than 2 years now. The whole world now has a sense of urgency, I feel. I'd like to see what we can do after this. But the time is ripe for this, now.
* It's interesting to note how open content gives us a sense of ownership. Many have felt that with software. I want to see that with hardware.
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'''Joseph Zarr''', joseph.zarr@gmail.com [[Image:DSC_0169.JPG|thumb|Joseph Zarr]]

I am an anthropologist, a farmer, and a permaculturist by training. I support OSE because, well, let's be frank: This is arguably the coolest project on the planet. I am most attracted to Factor E Farm and OSE because of the overall themes of personal improvement (via daily spiritual and physical discipline - in whatever forms a person deems appropriate), human production, and an intertwined personal and community growth. We must collaboratively market the ownership of our futures.

"For less than the price of one coffee per week, for less than the price of one first class stamp per day, you can help change the world. Subscribe!"

As our resource pool dwindles globally, largely due to corporate theft and errant industrial practices, we will have to produce locally and 'in-source'. With a dwindling petroleum base, our dream of cheap energy will disappear. These are simple facts. We must invest human energies in locally-based solutions. We must ignore our propagandized 'reality' and create a meaningful existence together.
With drastically increasing populations (estimated 70 million per year), we must teach ourselves the merits of collaboration, co-housing, and SHARING. My opinion is the era of individualized ownership is archaic and ill-advised. Only by sharing and producing what we actually need, and sharing what we already have (be it skills, books, resources etc.), will we experience the next stage of cultural progress. Hopefully, in the not so distant future our children's hands will not deform due to excessive playing of video games but, rather, they will callous, strengthen and scar due to meaningful labor and a 'hands-on' reality; i.e. literacy, numeracy, production = freedom. The only debts we owe are to ourselves and our community. Let's pay up.

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| '''Josef Davies-Coates'''
I'm founder United Diversity and co-founder of The Open Co-op and support this project because of all the many many VERY cool projects I follow, this is perhaps the most inspiring and important. I can't think of a better way I could possibly spend my money.
|[[Image:jdaviescoates.jpg|thumb|Josef Davies-Coates]]
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| '''Reto Stauss''', reto.stauss(at)gmail.com, rstauss on Skype

I am mainly attracted by the momentum this projects develops. And of course because it is not talking but doing. My hope is that inspires my own little project (actually it already did): [http://manufakturingruendung.ch/en open source goods produced by small, agile manufactories]. Lucas, Joseph, sign your points.
|[[Image:Reto.jpg|thumb|Reto Stauss]]
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| '''Geoff Capper''', geoff (at) floodstreetfarmlet.net
I am supporting OSE because it is showing us that it is possible to regain control over the complex systems that to an extent have come to rule our lives. We can build our own machinery, we can build our own future, we can be free. The activity at Factor e Farm is truly inspiring, and I hope to use many of the products building up our own small farm, which may hopefully inspire others locally.
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| '''Tom Lindsey''', thomas.lindsey at gmail dot com
I support OSE because I want Factor e Farm to succeed so I can use the tools they are developing, replicate Factor e Farm, and create a future of freedom for myself and loved ones.
|[[Image:tomlindsey.jpg|thumb|Tom Lindsey and Boomer]]
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| '''Edward Miller''', embraceunity -at- gmail dot com
I became a true fan because I would like to see our civilization become more resilient by using decentralized technological solutions, and to evolve towards a post-scarcity society. I plan to move on site soon to help build a RepRap machine.
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| '''Jussi Haverinen''', haverinen.jussi at gmail dot com
I'm a strong believer in power of free software approach to technology and very interested in transformative technology and it's effect on society. Politically I'm an social ecologist and I do think that the main task that has to be done is to abolish capitalism and the state through direct democracy in the cities and neighbourhoods (confederated together of course). My skills: mostly computer knowledge, relatively good unix admin skills, and some language skills but that's about it. I only have limited knowledge of farming, construction, electronics, handcraft, but I'm willing to learn.
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| '''Mark Thomas''', factore at thomastechcon dot com
My wife and I are serial homesteaders--we built up a goat dairy from scratch in South Africa, a [http://thomasphotos.wordpress.com small livestock farm in Appalachia], and are just starting on a lambing operation in Southside Virginia.

Politically, I base my ethics on the [[Nonaggression Axiom]] and I do think that the main task that has to be done is to abolish democracy and the state through direct capitalism. Apologies to Jussi above! I do my political writing at [http://distributedrepublic.net/blog/mark Distributed Republic] and much of my reading at [http://mises.org/ the Ludwig von Mises Institute].
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| '''David Voeller''', carefulwiththat at gmail dot com
Open Source Ecology is applying knowledge and skill in the most effective way possible, to create a livable future. The convergence of Permaculture principles and Open Source methodology has been a long time coming. Open Source has shown us that technological advancement need not be encumbered by destructive and wasteful hierarchical control. Permaculture has taught us that a fulfilling and ethical life is not only possible, but realistic in a variety of climates and conditions. Open Source Ecology's work has the possibility to allow many more people to live within their resources; and to drastically increase the quality of life for those already doing so.
|[[Image:davidvoeller.jpg|thumb|David Voeller]]
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| '''Eric Hunting''', TheMillennialProject at gmail.com
We are on the cusp of a transformation in the nature of our civilization. A fundamental shift in the way just about everything works in our society predicated on the evolution of the processes and technologies by which just about everything in our habitat is made. Emerging digital fabrication technology combined with emerging awareness of the factors of industrial sustainability are not only changing how we make things but who is making them and where. Industrial Age paradigms that have been concentrating industrial, economic, and political power for a century are failing in the face of a progressive shrinking, smartening, and demassifying of the tools of production and communication. Open Source Ecology is on the cutting edge of this transformation, pursuing and cultivating a spectrum of tools, new and old, that can realize a radical new level of sustainable community self-sufficiency with the intent of disseminating these tools globally. The Factor E Farm project is an incubator for a nascent movement with world-sweeping potential.
|[[Image:EricHuntingAv.jpg|thumb|Eric Hunting]]
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| '''[http://blog.erikdebruijn.nl/ Erik de Bruijn]''', ose at erikdebruijn.nl
We've heard about, or even experienced, the collaborative power of passionate individuals around the world. When they join hands, contributing their energy, freely sharing their ideas and building on them, this mode of production can be highly productive. It may well outperform the traditionally closed 'institutional' mode of production, like Wikipedia is giving us an abundance of knowledge at no cost. OSE attempts, and is actually very successful at extending this notion of knowledge sharing into a way of living.
They codify and freely reveal their knowledge into design files and rich instructional material such as video tutorials. Those serve to inspire, but also to practically make this concept replicable and effective.
|[[Image:erikdebruijn.jpg|thumb|Erik de Bruijn]]
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| '''A. N. Alias''', anon23bf at nyx dot net
I support OSE because we need viable alternatives to the military-industrial complex as a foundation for survival in the near future, particularly if predictions about the coming hyperinflationary depression turn out to be well founded.
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| '''[http://ollehost.dk/blog/ Olle Jonsson]''', olle.jonsson at gmail dot com
I had seen the impressive LifeTrac project on the web, but when I heard about the [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=1254 RepLab] initiative, I was hooked. I'm just a random web developer, but I want to help push toward a generalized, open digital fabrication toolkit. When each hackerspace, lab, and interested individual has access to equipment like that, things get really interesting.
|[[Image:olleolleolle.jpg|thumb|Olle Jonsson]]
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| '''Maureen''', baubo at dishmail.net
I support factor E open source farm because when the cheap industrial food machine breaks down for lack of diesel fuel and capital, people are going to be shocked, angry and then desperate to learn a new way of living. OSE is not just a theory, a book or a blue print. It’s an open source physical model of a DIY food, energy and shelter producing system. Large-scale industrialization was largely a wrong turn for humanity. By shrinking the scale, localizing throughputs, working smarter and sharing information globally we can create a bright new future – a true renaissance. Factor E farm is breaking trail for us all. I can’t think of a better investment.
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| '''[http://bit.ly/elifarley-buzz Elifarley]''', ''my first name'' @opensourceecology.org

I found out about Open Source Ecology after watching the Zeitgeist Addendum movie. That movie sparkled my curiosity and I started a quest to understand the problems and possible solutions to our society's needs.

In this quest, I found out some very exciting ideas, groups and people, like the Transition Towns movement (concerned with peak oil), The Venus Project and RBE Foundation (moneyless, cybernated society), Common Good Bank (alternative currency system), RepRap (self-replicating, open source 3D printer), the P2P Foundation, and the OSE site, to name a few.

You may have noticed that all these projects and movements seem to have a common goal, they all seem to propose that we forget all artificial limitations (and scarcity) and we all seek union to improve our lives and sustainability. Without artificial limitations, we all can have much much better lives. That's the message I can hear all these people and movements resounding.

I'd say that The Venus Project champions ideas, whereas OSE materializes them, performing concrete actions that will move our world forward.

I'm confident that our small contributions to this cause will add up and have a tremendous positive result for everybody.

''(In Portuguese)''

Descobri o site da Open Source Ecology depois de assistir ao filme Zeitgeist Addendum. Esse filme despertou minha curiosidade e então comecei uma busca para entender os problemas e as possíveis soluções para a nossa sociedade.

Nessa busca, descobri algumas ideias, grupos e pessoas muito interessantes, como o movimento Transition Towns (preocupado com a dependência ao petróleo), o Venus Project e a RBE Foundation (sociedade sem uso do dinheiro, automatizada), Banco do Bem Comum (sistema de moeda alternativa), RepRap (impressora 3D de desenho aberto, auto-replicante), a Fundação P2P, e o site OSE, dentro vários outros.

Vocês podem ter notado que todos esses projetos e movimentos parecem ter um objetivo comum, eles parecem propor que esqueçamos todas as limitações artificiais (e escassez) e que todos busquemos união para melhorar nossas vidas e sustentabilidade. Sem limitações artificiais, todos nós podemos viver muito melhor. Essa é a mensagem que eu posso escutar todas essas pessoas e movimentos ressoando.

Eu diria que o Venus Project dissemina ideias, enquanto que a OSE as materializa, realizando ações concretas que irão avançar o nosso mundo.

Estou confiante que nossas pequenas contribuições a essa causa irão se juntar e terão um resultado tremendamente positivo para todo o mundo.
|[[Image:Ecruz.jpg|thumb|Elifarley Cruz]]
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| '''Shaun Warkentin'''
What money buys is technology, luxury. What technology and luxury buy are pleasure, physical health, and free time for the intellectual, spiritual, relational, creative pursuits that are the constitutive properties of real wealth (a widening of awareness and knowledge) unavailable within a purely subsistence economy. The equation linking money to wealth must be broken (along with the power structures that encroach upon the agency and freedom of most of humanity and the biosphere). OSE appears to be demonstrating how this might be achieved.
|[[Image:Shaun_jump.jpg|thumb|Shaun Warkentin]]
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| '''Aigars Brūvelis''', abruvelis at gmail dot com
This is it. Linux will fully replace windows and in 50 years Open Source Harware will replace most of the commerce. Get on with it.
|[[Image:aigarsbruvelis.jpg|thumb|Aigars Bruvelis from Latvia/UK]]
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| '''Lucas''',
I contribute to OSE because I got tired of all the organizations that claim to be "promoting" sustainability through advocacy and lobbying, which usually merely contributes to the inertia and complexity of our current patently unsustainable society without producing any truly meaningful effect on regular peoples' relation to the economy and planet. We need tangible means and methods to take our lives into our own hands and reduce our reliance on global industrial market structures, not rhetoric and posturing. OSE is one of the few operations that has taken up the task of rebuilding and redesigning material existence to cope with the inevitability of a resource-scarce future. The advancements made at this important project are setting precedents that simply are not being set anywhere else, and I hope to personally be using some of the methods and technologies being developed; from that standpoint, I view my financial contribution as an investment, not a gift. At some point in time those of us who philosophically stand opposed to the dominant paradigms of mass consumerism and ecological exceptionalism must stop talking and starting acting, and OSE is doing just that.
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| '''Peter Koeleman'''
I would love to see the Factor e Farm evolve into a self-sufficient, renewable and socially superior society.

The technological steps towards freedom that the Factor e Farm project take are very interesting to me because I am an IT specialist. I had a taste of gcode a long while back and work with Linux every day as my primairy OS. The modular hardware design makes this technology easy to comprehend and use, even for non-engineers like myself.

The freedom part of this project is what I think will be the most important part of the near future in escaping a corporate ruled society of ever more money spending (=debt building) consumers. The need for economic growth simply isn't sustainable. Those who manufacture and manage their own resources are the only ones who know the real cost of things.
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| '''Daniel Slate''', danieldavidslate + gmail and the rest
This is the real thing, and what you're doing is absolutely necessary. The numerous possibilities that can grow from this...general resilience, a reboot/revision of kibbutzim/moshavim in America or elsewhere, so many other possibilities...building the platform is worth doing. Ideas become real through action. What I see coming out of this work is a way to test out applied philosophies of responsible liberty.
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| '''Adam Mitchell''', mitch dot ad at gmail dot com
If organizations were measured in terms of ''relevancy'' of work, ''loftiness'' of their goals and their ability to ''inspire'' others, Open Source Ecology --''no doubt''-- would be at the top of anyone's list. I am proud to support their endeavor, however small, in hopes that together we can build a better world and encourage others to become more [[Integrated Humans]].
|[[Image:Fiji.jpg|thumb|Adam Mitchell]]
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| '''Anna Przychodzki'''
I was very excited to discover the work of Open Source Ecology; I had no idea people were doing this. I stopped taking science class in my second year of high school so the technical stuff goes way over my head... what I do understand is the intent of the work and the implications of success. The life I want is out of reach for now... but if I support OSE, maybe I can have it in the future. OSE seems to bring us closer to what I believe are our birth-rights: sustainability, economic freedom and quality of life by way of human ingenuity and cooperation, not competition.
|[[Image:annaprzychodzki.jpg|thumb|Anna Przychodzki]]
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| '''Nathan Luedtke'''

I think I found out about Factor E Farm through John Robb's blog Global Guerillas, or at least through that general section of the net, which I am interested in and have been following for some time. I have been tracking your project for a little over a year, and was inspired to contribute when i saw that recently you seem to have hit a tipping point and have been making quick progress which probably will require a little more cashflow.

In terms of what I would like to see come out of it- exactly what you are doing. All of the positive movements that I see out there- Permaculture, Open Source, Transition, etc etc- all of them are integrated in your program. With OSE/FEF, you have a very scientific/rational approach that I appreciate. Long term, I would love to see OSE ideas spread and populate worldwide, and see the technology package implemented and developed further at other sites, both in the USA and as a more successful "technology transfer" to the third world.
|[[Image:nathanluedtke.jpg|thumb|Nathan Luedtke.]]
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'''Devin Balkind'''
An abundant future is dependent on open technologies that fulfill people's most basic needs: food, water and shelter. The fact that this type of work isn't widely recognized as the foundation of a more efficient, equitable and enlightened civilization is a testament to the confusion of our times. Consider me at your service.
|[[Image:DevinProfile.jpg|thumb|Devin Balkind, Since August 2010]]
|[[Image:DevinProfile2.jpg|thumb|Devin Balkind for real.]]
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| '''Ivan Garcia''', ivan at movimientozeitgeist dot org
I've been a OSS programmer for like 8 years now and I love the idea of OS Hardware and the great suistaniblity revolution that the OSE guys are doing. I'm also a supporter of the Zeitgeist Movement in Spain and they both share very similar goals. What you are doing is absolutelly necessary and meaningful for our future!
|[[Image:ivangarcia.jpg|thumb|Ivan Garcia]]
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| [http://permakent.com/ '''J. Kent Hastings'''], USA
The OSE (Open Source Ecology) "True Fan" program is a grass roots way to crowdsource funding for the goal to develop the essential 40 pieces required to make up the complete "Resilient Community Construction Set," an advanced industrial economy in a box that can be deployed inexpensively anywhere in the world.

The cost is reduced to one tenth normal thanks to the savings from using open source software and hardware designs. The components are essential to life and work in the system rather than just decorative knick knacks or toys that Makers like to dabble with and are "designed for disassembly" so each component, like the Life Trac tractor for example, is easy to repair with bolts and simple tools such as wrenches, and easy to modify and improve.
|[[Image:permakent.jpg|thumb|J. Kent Hastings,since August 2010]]
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| '''Søren Poulsen''', Denmark
Words like ''empowerment'' or ''freedom'' get a whole new meaning when you talk about
having the skill set, to create everything you need from nothing.
|[[Image:Soeren_Poulsen.jpg|thumb|Søren Poulsen|130px]]
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| [[Nikolay Georgiev]], Karlsruhe, Germany
Open Source Ecology is based on Natural Principles which consequences have been shown to be positive for a lot of natural and technological systems.

* Decentralization (instead of Centralization) of Power – proven pattern in a lot of networks, like technology (internet, web site development, …) and human relationships (politics, religion/spirituality, family, …).
* Self-Sufficiency – basic needs for living are covered and produced by the local people. No need for dependence. In the future if there is dependency it will be in the form of collaboration.
* Openness – sharing documentation, product design and development process. Being able to change and adapt the products.
* Product Quality – life-time, modular and systems Design.
* Collaboration (instead of using other people for self-interest) – getting people together by purpose and values, and not by force, is much better for the producers and the consumers as well.
* Replicability – giving birth of open sourced, modern-living villages is just amazing! Having the choice of replicability saves a lot of time and work.

It is crucially important that we go beyond life of survival. Survival mode is pushing everyone to take resources from other people, not considering their allowance, health and their community. When we are in survival mode we often neglect our own values and push other people in order to survive.

When we reach the state of living where all basic needs are covered, every person on this planet will have much bigger possibility to develop his own potential. Right now only a very small percentage of the human population have the time and possibilities to develop themselves – to guide their own life in the direction they want, to contribute to the society by using their abilities in their fullness. Most people in the world are fighting, struggling, working only for their own survival or that of their own families, and higher goals and desires like developing themselves and contributing to society are not possible and of low priority.

We need new models of economy and living based on openness, giving and sharing. Open Source Ecology is headed clearly in this direction, giving back freedom to where it belongs.

|[[Image:Nikolaygeorgiev-tall.jpg‎|thumb|Nikolay Georgiev, since Sep. 2010]]
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| '''Dario Figueira''', Portugal, wurmdario at gmail dot com
I became a true fan simply because I was already monetarily supporting a NGO. And for me, you seem to be doing better work, or more important work than they were. So please continue XD.
[[User:WurmD|WurmD]] 23 August 2010 (UTC)
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| '''Matthias''', neodynos-at-googlemail-dot-com
Thinking about what's wrong with the world, I found that huge aggregations of power and of money are the main tools we as humans use to oppress and exploit. That led me to support Open Source Ecology as a decentralized alternative.

And while I am convinced that the ultimate solution (one that transcends even death) is not to be found through technology but rather through sound theology -- I am also convinced that the work of OSE can provide all of us with a better world ''until'' death.
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| '''Chris Berry''', France
What immediately impressed me about what you are doing is that...... well, this is something that could actually work. Much of the ecology movement seems to really depend on shifting human nature (ie modern capitalism will work just fine so long as people breed a bit less, consume a bit less, etc- its never going to work, at best we'll destroy the planet in the next 200 years instead of the next 50).

People need to be offered something genuinely
better. And really, when you look at it, it shouldn't be difficult to beat this modern lifestyle based on greed and envy and selfishness, with rampant crime and suicide and mental illness, people drowning in debt, and every system we depend on falling to pieces in front of us.
|[[Image:chrisberry.jpg|thumb|Chris Berry, joined October, 2010.]]
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| '''Stewart Easton''', Vancouver, Canada
I was exposed your work through listening to VTV’s show in the archives. I have a background in biology, but I work in finance, so I have taken the route of “those who can not do, help”. The help in my case is money and I will spread the word of your work as I spend much time on other forums debating the merits of an RBE, and I always use your organization as an example of people building the technology to advance the concept.

I am part of the Vancouver Chapter of the Zeitgeist movement and I think the work you are doing is great and we as a movement need to do more to help you with your goals. You are building the technology that is going to make an RBE possible.
|[[Image:stewarteaston.jpg|thumb|Stewart Easton, joined September, 2010.]]
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| '''Daniel Morlan''', Indiana, USA

I will be watching you folks closely. I heard you on the V-Radio show a couple of times, and your methodology is far more inspiring to me than the mere lip-service that most put out, including myself. (I am the “editor in chief” of the Indiana Zeitgeist Newsletter.) and an acquaintance of Neil Kiernan, and I am enthralled with what you folks are doing.
|[[Image:danielmorlan.jpg|thumb|Daniel Morlan, joined August, 2010.]]
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| '''Shakti Saraswati''', Brisbane, Australia (mail at shakti dot id dot au)

I have come to the Open Source Ecology, from the Zeitgeist movement and see this as a natural transition from something quite absurd to a more practical way to live our lives. By doing nothing we have allowed this silly profit system overrule common sense and go so viral as to be totally dysfunctional. Society spends all of its time solving problems that are symptomatic and never go any deeper to find causal remedy.

The fact that people can earn money without actually contributing anything of substance is an unbelievable waste of potential usefulness. 80% of the population do this while fiddling the figures, they are totally consumed. Imagine if that problem solving potential was put to good use.

As a musician I find it an incredible distraction living in a society that has not, after 5000 years of civilisation, actually become civilised yet. A lot of the mental energy that I need to improve myself as a musician is wasted basically trying to survive. I have learned to live off the smell of an oily rag, and my priority is improving myself to the detriment of living comfort, and that is because society does not work efficiently.

I see Open source Ecology as the first rung in the ladder to improving all that ails the world. The important thing to mention here is the fact that everything that each individual knows is the collection of their experience of everyone else around them, so they have no right to exclusivity and have a duty to share. There is no reason why all land and resources should not benefit all people. The understanding of this will eliminate all the unnecessary conflict that we have today. The challenge is to put it into practice for the greater good without sacrificing the individual. This will happen when we share the workload and become responsible.

Fulfilment in life comes from hands on achievement and when everybody is contributing instead of building locks and walls while fiddling figures, I bet we have a much more harmonious and luxurious lifestyle without the fear. The real challenges will be then what will affect us all as a human species, rather than just individual survival.

So thank you Open Source Ecology for putting the wheels in motion of the ground-up transition to self-sustaining systems open for the improvement of all who contribute, not just those who wish to profit and exploit.

|[[Image:Shakti.jpg|thumb|Shakti Saraswati. Medlem siden Nov., 2009.]]
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'''Carolyn Phillips''', Adelaide, Australia [[File:Cari.jpg |thumb|Carolyn]]

I’ve always liked smart, lean design and this project seems both smart and lean. I hope you make some headway without the bureaucratic bloat that seems to ultimately spoil good ideas.
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2011-05-13T12:24:17Z

Knut Brekken:

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=Introduksjon=

Vi kan jobbe på {{LinkLang|GVCS}} på fulltid takket være generøsiteten av våre donasjoner. Kevin Kellys innflytelsesrike essay [http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fans.php 1000 foreslo Sanne Tilhengere en finansieringsstruktur der 1000 støttespillerer hver måned donerer en liten sum for å opprettholde et prosjekt de virkelig har tro på. Vi ser etter 1000 Sanne Tilhengere som hver lover $10 hver måned som del av {{LinkLang|1000 Squared|1000 Kvadrert}} Kampanjen.

På denne siden kan du også lese hvordan folk som deg har blitt med i kampanjen. I fra Mai 2011 har vi passert 300 Sanne Tilhengere.

Vi har også fått ønsker om større donasjonsalternativer. Som svar har vi laget Gull, Gull Ekstra, Platinum, og Engel abbonnement for $20, $30, $50, og $100 per måned, respektivt,,i tillegg til Standardabbonnementet på $10/måned.

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=Video Introductions=
*Marcin Jakubowski - August, 2010 - <html><object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14161032&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14161032&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/14161032">Marcin's Personlige Introduksjon til Sanne Tilhengere</a> fra <a href="http://vimeo.com/user2016419">Marcin Jakubowski</a> på <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p></html>

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=Sanne Tilhengere=

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| '''[http://monda.hu László Monda]''', Szeged, Ungarn
Mitt navn er László Monda og jeg er en Fri- og Åpen Kilde programvare/
maskinvareentusiast og en proffesjonell programvareutvikler.
I de siste årene har jeg blitt kjent med forskjellige teknologier som
3D printing, elektronikk, printede kretskortdesign, mikrokontrollerprogrammering
og sånt som har fått meg til å innse det enorme potensialet all denne
teknologien kan tilby folk.

Av alle de forskjellige tror jeg ikke bare at OSE er den
mest ambisiøse, men jeg tror det virkelig har potensialet til å
forandre verden til det bedre. Vi burde ikke gjøre oss avhengige
av bedrifter som hovedsakelig tenker på seg selv når vi kan ha
tillit til oss selv og være opptatt av hverandre og med miljøet.

Jeg er stolt av å ta del i dette engasjementet og ser frem til hva
fremtiden kan bringe.
|[[Image:Laszlo_Monda.png|thumb|László Monda. Medlem siden Mai 2011.]]
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| '''[[User:Mjn|Mark Norton]]''', Willseyville, NY, USA
En venn av meg henviste meg til Marcin's TED talk. Etter å ha sett den, var det ingen vei tilbake. Jeg har vært fasinert av Skaperbevegelsen i mange år nå, men har aldri helt hatt motivasjonen til å bli med, til tross for at jeg er nevenyttig. Jeg bor på en liten gård som kona og jeg har gjort om til et selvforsynt hjem som vi håper ev gang vil forsyne alle våre behov. Gårder trenger verktøy, og det slo meg at GVCS var en storartet måte å få det jeg trengte på - ved å bokstavelig talt bygge dem selv. Jeg er programvareutvikler av yrke og jeg har jobbet med flere tiltak med åpen kilde i løpet av årene, så jeg forstår ganske godt hvorfor arbeidet til OSE er så viktig og også noen av utfordringene det har i vente, spesielt rundt opprettholdbarhet. Derfor er jeg villig til å støtte det jeg sier jeg støtter og bli en Sann Tilhenger.
|[[Image:flannel_sm.JPG|thumb|Mark Norton. Medlem siden April 2011.]]
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| '''[[Dan Miner]]''', New York City, USA
Jeg er glad for at i fra våren 2011, etter utgivelsen av Marcins TED talk, får OSE i det minste en liten fraksjon av oppmerksomheten det fortjener. Hvis flere folk forsto at det drivstofftømming, internasjonale ressurskriger, og klimaforandringer vil gjøre med globalisert produksjon og distribusjon, ville de vært, ah, veldig urolige - og ville løpt for å bestille deres egne Global Village Construction Set. Ikke sikker på om OSE vil bli mer populært enn Lady Gaga - men la oss gjøre oss klare til å oppskalere produksjonen nå! - Dan Miner, New York City - www.beyondoilnyc.org
|[[Image:Dan_Miner-waterfront-5-10.JPG‎|thumb|Dan Miner. Medlem siden Februar 2011.]]
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| '''Javier Rivera''', Spania

Vil se en verdensomspennende Ressursbasert Økonomi, støtter Venusprosjektet ({{LinkLang|Zeitgeist}}) og ble en Sann Tilhenger av OSE i Februar 2011. Ble medlem av wikien dagene etterpå, og prøver å hjelpe med dette fantastiske arbeidet. Jeg ser på OSE som et virkelig skritt i en RBE retning - Dette er bare et nødvendig prosjekt for å skape en åpen verden. Stå på!

|[[Image:javier.jpg|thumb|200px|Javier Riviera. Medlem siden Februar 2011.]]
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| '''Etienne Duport''', France

I wish I discovered the OSE project long ago. It's very exciting ! Hopefully one day everyone will be able to replicate these tools to live their own autonomous lives. Being that far from the mother ship in Missouri, donation is a smart solution to prop up OSE. May the Force be with you ;-)"

|[[Image:etienne.jpg|thumb|200px|Etienne. Joined February 2011.]]
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| '''Rasmus Kiehl''', Toronto, Canada

Let's take back the economy ! (more details [[Tim-Rasmus_Kiehl|on my page ]] in the team culturing section).

|[[Image:Rasmus_Kiehl2010.jpg|thumb|200px|Rasmus. Joined February 2009.]]
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| '''Steffen Lemmerzahl''', Zurich, Switzerland

The Global Village Construction Set fits very well in a set of works
that I appreciate very much, such as the projects of D55.dk and Atelier
Van Lieshout in art or Paolo Soleri in architecture.
Beeing an architect myself (http://www.slik.ch) with a background in
CNC-built structures and parametric architecture
(http://www.caad.arch.ethz.ch) I'm thinking in a similar direction as
you do, so I'm happy to be able to support your great project with my
small donation!

|[[Image:steffenlemmerzahl.jpg|thumb|200px|Steffen Lemmerzahl. Joined February, 2011.]]
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| '''Angela''', Colorado, USA

So many could truly benefit from what your group has accomplished and the things yet to come. Bravo! Keep it going, PLEASE! We look at your success and know that your work is very important and it couldn't be happening at a more critical time. There are so many people in so many areas that will thrive with the tools your work will provide. Besides maybe someday we might need them too! We have property that has a lot of trees down and need to be cut. Areas that need to be leveled , and trails re-established, etc. Good Luck and our best wishes for all of you.

|[[Image:angelah.jpg|thumb|200px|Angela. Joined February, 2011.]]
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| '''Charles Kraus''', United Kingdom

The work you are doing (and I shall quote my Facebook status) is “Literally the most amazing project I have ever seen”.

For a long time I have been interested in the idea of being self-sufficient, and in fact have had a dream of one day buying my own island and starting up a completely self-sufficient, live off the land society. It’s obviously never going to happen but without our dreams what else is there to live for?

So when I see an entire group of individuals dedicating their time and effort to quite literally the foundations of my dreams I felt like I had to contribute something, in fact you’re the first cause I have ever given to on a monthly basis!

What I would love to see is a number of completely self-sufficient towns being set up, I have over the years visited some communal farming projects in Israel however most of these have had to close so I’m hoping with your construction set you will be able to improve on projects that have come before. I also think that with some work your tools could be very useful in the third world Africa etc, so seeing your tools being put into practise would be great.

|[[Image:charleskraus.jpg|thumb|200px|Charles Kraus. Joined February, 2011.]]
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| '''Joe Ventura''', California, USA

I was extremely excited to learn about Open Source Ecology's work, especially [http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/Global_Village_Construction_Set The Global Village Construction Set]. I'm a communications professional for NGOs and nonprofit organizations. Through my work, I've traveled around the world, including large parts of Asia and Africa. These experiences overseas convinced me of the need for thoughtful planning around the coming transition from a fossil fuel-based economy. I'm hoping that my small monthly contribution will enable this project to continue and expand its impact.
|[[Image:joeventura.jpg|thumb|200px|Joe Ventura. Joined February, 2011.]]
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| '''Hans Sendelbach''', Washington State, USA

The core issues underneath all this are really quite serious in nature. In my heart I have known for years what is happening, but the momentum in society is so powerful that it makes it easy to ignore the truth. A few months ago I watched the documentary Collapse, which is a long interview with Michael Ruppert. It shook me out of my state of denial.

In my mind this all comes down to a simple science experiment. If you put bacteria on a growth medium like agar in a petri dish, the population will explode exponentially until the food runs out. The population will plateau and drop off. The plateau and drop off are from two factors, the lack of food and poisoning from waste build up. With humans we need to broaden the definition of food and waste to include the food and waste of our infrastructure such as oil and the waste products from its consumption that leak into the air, soil and water. We are in the same position as the bacteria.

Thankfully organisms are smart and can sense there environment and adjust their growth according to the availability of nutrients or other factors. They are also adaptable and can even evolve new methods of metabolism in order to survive and thrive. Bacteria for example exchange rings of RNA with each other that allow them to generate novel enzymes, so they may adjust their function to match their environment.

RNA is coded information that controls chemical behavior. This sentence is also coded information. Your organism and mine are exchanging data, so that we may tailor our personal and infrastructural metabolism to better fit the ecological limitations we are sensing. This is the heart of what natural systems do.

Open Source Ecology has the potential to facilitate the rapid adaptation of our infrastructural metabolism. My hope is that we will learn how to weave our communities back into the complex fabric of life.

Thank you Marcin et al. for stepping forward with the concept for this movement.

|[[Image:hanssendelbach.jpg|thumb|200px|Hans Sendelbach. Joined January, 2011.]]
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| '''Judith Katz''', California, USA

I joined because I think it's high time we develop more sustainable ways to live on this planet and OSE is a viable step in that direction.

|[[Image:judithkatz.jpg|thumb|200px|Judith Katz. Joined January, 2011.]]
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| '''Giulia Vianello''', Italy

I think that the [present] economy isn't the right way to run the world. I'm talking about people who can lose everything for more money, even their life. So, maybe that's the most important reason why i have decided to subscribe to your project. I'm sad because the life of many people i know, depends on money. And i want to change this. I think that all environmental problems we actually have on the earth are initially caused by ignorance, and the ignorance is a convenient way to earn. So from your work i would like to see come out free knowledge for all people, so they would be able to better this world through the knowledge and consequent skills acquired from the open source mind!
In this way everyone would understand that we can be free in every aspect of our life, and a free man is a good man. The kit you're building is fantastic and I'm happy to be able to benefit from your work in the future. Thank you very much.

|[[Image:giulia.jpg|thumb|200px|Giulia Vianello. Joined January, 2011.]]
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| '''Marcu Knoesen''', Cape Town, South Africa

I can clearly see the need to attain all the goals as set out in OSE. The future has to be more localised. The path we are on at the moment will not end well. It is time to make a course correction in a big way.

|[[Image:marcu.jpg|thumb|200px|Marcu Knoesen. Joined January, 2011.]]
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| '''Robert Morris'''

I saw the [http://www.grist.org/article/food-2010-12-29-farmer-scientists-want-to-hack-society article in Grist] today, and have spent the past couple hours looking through your materials. Fascinating stuff.

I have often said that all you need for paradise on earth for 100 people is 5 engineers and a couple doctors. It is gratifying to see that someone is attempting to put it into practice.

My work is not similar at all. My last semester of law school starts on Monday, and I will be embarking on a soul-crushing cubicle-dwelling existence this fall. Happy to be contributing to a new approach, if only in a small way.

|[[Image:robertmorris.jpg|thumb|200px|Robert Morris. Joined December, 2010.]]
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| '''Floyd Earl Smith''', San Francisco Bay Area, California

I’m proud to join my fellow True Fans of Open Source Ecology. The Global Village Construction Set embodies human creativity and potential, and at the same time unleashes it. Together we True Fans are supporting less use of fossil fuels for farming, better use of precious fresh water, and slowing and surviving climate change, while improving, not damaging, the land.

|[[Image:floydsmith.jpg|thumb|200px|Floyd Earl Smith. Joined December, 2010.]]
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| '''Jonathan Rivera''', Houston, Texas

The work you guys are doing is great! And you guys all deserve support from everyone with a conviction for this cause. I know my contribution is not much but I hope to continue to support any way I can. The resource based economy is an idea that has given me motivation to change my life for the best.

|[[Image:jonathanrivera.jpg|thumb|200px|Jonathan Rivera. Joined December, 2010.]]
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| '''Georgy Korablev''', Vancouver, Canada

I am a mathematics student; I support OSE project because it is an audacious step towards the true freedom and liberation of people. I am tired to see countries like Canada spending $35 billion on interest payments annually, and only $3 billion on infrastructure and technology development. I'm tired to see debt growing. I'm tired to see roads broken, schools closed, human rights violated, wars started, technology restrained, people starved, taxes grown, education made into a business, income gap grown, secrets kept from the people, fake government, mindless jobs in corporations competing for a market share, overproduction, manufactured demand and overconsumption, low quality products, inflation, fake research and fake research based on fake research, dollar signs in people's eyes, greed, lies.

People, look around and realize that all the improvement that we had in our lives is due to industrial revolution and rapid development of technology that made things 1000-fold cheaper or more; it is not due lawyers in the government; not due to stock growth, bank loans or corporations.
It is due to people MAKING THINGS, NOT PROFITS. And these people shall have our full support.
|[[Image:georgy.jpg|thumb|200px|Georgy Korablev. Joined December, 2010.]]
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| '''Julia Valentine''', California, USA

I recently became a True Fan as a financial supporter. I am a mother, teacher, Permaculturist, and inhabitant of Planet Earth. All of these endeavors require a sense of hope and a belief in the resilience of our species and of Nature as a whole. Where we stand as a society today, in the midst of the industrial growth machine, leaves us lacking in both hope and resilience. I have a base need to foster these qualities, and to create a more livable future for the children I care for and guide into adulthood. I have a true belief in the ingenuity and flexibility of our species to create a new paradigm. OSE is the actual physical manifestation of our amazing capacity to change. To truly change, we must imagine and then create. The humans behind Factor e Farm and Open Source Ecology have imagined and created. They are on their way - leading by example - to this fruitful future I also work to manifest. I am pleased to have the hard work and creative genius of OSE be open to me as a tool to use for building my abundant future and the future of my community. Thank you for daring to both imagine and create.

|[[Image:Juliavalentine.jpg|thumb|200px|Julia Valentine. Joined November, 2010.]]
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| '''Amanda Packard''', Missouri, USA

I am intrigued and inspired by people offering viable solutions to the challenges facing humanity. And above that, people manifesting those solutions ''now'' – Open Source Ecology is doing just that.

I have had the honor of visiting Factor e Farm and seeing some of the tools of GVCS in action – I am deeply moved by this vision and the people behind it, who value not only tangible exhibitions of development, but also a holistic spiritual/meditation practice. I am excited to proudly join others in supporting Open Source Ecology in this paradigm-shifting revolution.
|[[Image:amanda.jpg|thumb|Amanda Packard. Joined November, 2010.]]
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| '''Christian Shearer''', Pacific Northwest, USA
Originally from the Pacific Northwest of the United States, Christian Shearer is the founder and Managing Director of the Panya Project (www.panyaproject.org). He has over six years of permaculture experience, working and living at Lost Valley Education Center outside of Eugene, Oregon, and now residing at the Panya Project in northern Thailand for over five years. He is a permaculture consultant with Terra Genesis International (www.terra-genesis.com), an advisory board member of We Forest (www.weforest.com), a natural builder, a food forest enthusiast, a musician, a certified educator and has extensive knowledge of tropical permaculture systems. He teaches permaculture around the world (Thailand, Malaysia, India, Taiwan, and even Missouri!) and is excited to continue sharing his passion for a better world and learning from all involved!

He is excited to be a True Fan of Open Ecology, because the ultimate goal of what the people at Open Ecology are doing is perfectly in line with the intentions of Permaculture. The synergy between the two could be very powerful in helping to usher in a new way of being for people on this planet based on local production, resiliency and an engaged populace, with more of a focus on the well-being and health of people rather than the economic progress of the wealthy. Christian is proud to lend his support to a movement like Open Ecology that fills such an important niche in helping to bring about the vision of a Permanent Culture.
|[[Image:christiansprofile.jpg|thumb|Christian Shearer, joined November, 2010.]]
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| '''Nathanael Dinwiddie''', Lawrence, KS, USA
I attended a presentation given by Marcin at the Lawrence Public Library on November 22, 2010. I appreciate Marcin's effort and enthusiasm for this compelling project. I have long been inspired by the vision of Jacque Fresco, and Marcin is generally preparing the beginning stages for the achievement of that grand vision. We must evolve in the way of this project.
|[[File:P1010717.JPG|thumb|Nathanael Dinwiddie. Joined November 2011.]]
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| '''Isaiah Saxon''', Aptos, USA
I'm a filmmaker, technologist, and one of the instigators of an egalitarian community of 17 people, called Trout Gulch, where we are building a studio, village, farm, and maker space inspired by the actions of Christopher Alexander, Will Allen, Sepp Holzer, and Marcin. My film team, [http://www.esquire.com/features/best-and-brightest-2009/encyclopedia-pictura-1209 Encyclopedia Pictura], is working with hollywood to create a new populist heroic myth for the maker movement.

I'm anticipating that the entire GVCS will be created and documented, then replicated by mechanics, geeks, hippies, weekend warriors, and tough guys that are into their trucks. I think OSE is contributing tangibly and symbolically to the greater cultural shift toward localism, authenticity, and DIY green tech.
|[[Image:Isaiah.jpg|thumb|Isaiah Saxon. Joined August 4, 2010.]]
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| '''David Crary''', Seattle, USA
I have been really searching to find people out there who are actually experimenting with new forms of social organization where it is possible to create advanced culture - that is thriving in abundance and largely autonomous, creating a model for everyone...so kudos to you guys. Keep up the great work!
|[[Image:davidcrary.jpg|thumb|David Crary, Seattle, USA. Joined July, 2010.]]
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| '''Benjamin Kaplin'''
I'm a mechanical engineering student, and I support the OSE because a completed Open Source Village kit would represent several orders of magnitude of improvement over existing projects to improve living conditions around the globe with technology. I grew up reading Stephenson, and one of the most powerful images in his book <em>Diamond Age</em> is The Seed, a nanotechnology McGuffin that one of the main characters devotes his life to that would take the control of production and self-determination out of the hands of the McCorporations and put it into the hands of revolutionaries and the impoverished.
Needless to say, nanotech is still several decades away from that dream, and contributing to the True Fans campaign helps a realistic Seed program without pulling me away from my studies.
|[[Image:0213090948.jpg|thumb|Benjamin Kaplin]]
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| '''Paul D. Mamigonian'''
The Open Source Ecology group are making self sufficient living real. Through the Zeitgeist movement and groups like the Open Source Ecology the example is being set that we can come away from the corrupt monetary system. How many times do you hear people say " BUT WHAT CAN WE DO?". There IS SO MUCH THAT can be done and IS BEING DONE. THE TIME IS RIGHT, THE METHODS ARE HERE AND SO IS THE TECHNOLOGY. Please see my site www.livegreenliveclean.org. The Open Source Ecology group are leading the way, and it's up to us all to follow their lead.
|[[Image:paulm.jpg|thumb|Paul D. Mamigonian]]
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| '''Marcin Jakubowski''', opensourceecology at gmail dot com, marcin_ose on Skype
I started the campaign because I have observed how little of humanity's true potential has been tapped. Everyone slaves their life away to a system that is crumbling at the seams. I believe that we can all reach absolute prosperity and evolve to freedom - by becoming skilled and productive [[Integrated Humans]], and by helping anyone else to do the same. History has shown that this is a general formula for lasting prosperity. As long as we're wise, it should be trivial to get beyond the economics of scarcity. We need to show the world how to build the world's first, replicable, open source Global Village.
|[[Image:marcin.jpg|thumb|Marcin Jakubowski]]
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| '''Scott Akridge'''
As I get older I'm more and more interested in helping people. A couple weeks back I enlisted the help of a friend to help in developing a CEB press when I began doing research and found www.openfarmtech.org with the open source CEB press. I continued looking for more information but kept coming back to this site for more info and learned more about the project and found I wanted to get involved. I started by becoming a member and donating $10 a month with plans to build the CEB press and build a couple structures then make the effort a cooperative. After reading more I've decided to also build a sawmill, assuming I can recruit some help. I think this is a great project and am excited to be a part of it in a small way.
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| '''Toby Martin'''
I support OSE because...
* It's an intelligent and direct effort to address some of the most serious problems we face as individuals and as a society.
* It's one of the most interesting and creative projects I've ever heard of.
* I see no reason in principle that it can't improve people's lives.
* It's actually happening.
|[[Image:TF2.jpg|thumb|Toby Martin]]
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| '''Lucas González''', imagina (dot) canarias at gmail dot com [[Image:lucas.JPG|thumb|Lucas Gonzalez]]
I support OSE because both the model and the elements add some important missing pieces to what I perceive is going on.
* I think it's important to have local possibilities for water, food and energy everywhere. Not just at the household level but more importantly at the village or more aggregated levels. Even if you end up buying stuff from elsewhere, it's best if that happens by choice, not by necessity. It was not by choice when things were local by default and it's not by choice now that things are global by default.
* The whole process of open sharing of ideas, processes, know-how is intriguing and, at the very least, extremely fun to watch. (I really wish I had more time to join in myself, but I'm doing things that need doing. So I [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Video_translation translate], [http://imagina-canarias.blogspot.com/search/label/open%20farm%20tech tell others], and chip in with a little cash, less than what others spend in smoking. My choice.)
* I'm particularly interested in some items for specific locations. Energy for water in sunny places is a must. Shelter and water collection systems. You name it.
* Do we really know how far and how fast this can go? I think there's bound to be a catalitic process so that more and more technologies will come out openly, in an exciting incarnation of the Stone Soup story. So I want to help keep the fire going.
* It really looks like this can be done, should be done, will be done in 2 years. Less than 2 years now. The whole world now has a sense of urgency, I feel. I'd like to see what we can do after this. But the time is ripe for this, now.
* It's interesting to note how open content gives us a sense of ownership. Many have felt that with software. I want to see that with hardware.
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'''Joseph Zarr''', joseph.zarr@gmail.com [[Image:DSC_0169.JPG|thumb|Joseph Zarr]]

I am an anthropologist, a farmer, and a permaculturist by training. I support OSE because, well, let's be frank: This is arguably the coolest project on the planet. I am most attracted to Factor E Farm and OSE because of the overall themes of personal improvement (via daily spiritual and physical discipline - in whatever forms a person deems appropriate), human production, and an intertwined personal and community growth. We must collaboratively market the ownership of our futures.

"For less than the price of one coffee per week, for less than the price of one first class stamp per day, you can help change the world. Subscribe!"

As our resource pool dwindles globally, largely due to corporate theft and errant industrial practices, we will have to produce locally and 'in-source'. With a dwindling petroleum base, our dream of cheap energy will disappear. These are simple facts. We must invest human energies in locally-based solutions. We must ignore our propagandized 'reality' and create a meaningful existence together.
With drastically increasing populations (estimated 70 million per year), we must teach ourselves the merits of collaboration, co-housing, and SHARING. My opinion is the era of individualized ownership is archaic and ill-advised. Only by sharing and producing what we actually need, and sharing what we already have (be it skills, books, resources etc.), will we experience the next stage of cultural progress. Hopefully, in the not so distant future our children's hands will not deform due to excessive playing of video games but, rather, they will callous, strengthen and scar due to meaningful labor and a 'hands-on' reality; i.e. literacy, numeracy, production = freedom. The only debts we owe are to ourselves and our community. Let's pay up.

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| '''Josef Davies-Coates'''
I'm founder United Diversity and co-founder of The Open Co-op and support this project because of all the many many VERY cool projects I follow, this is perhaps the most inspiring and important. I can't think of a better way I could possibly spend my money.
|[[Image:jdaviescoates.jpg|thumb|Josef Davies-Coates]]
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| '''Reto Stauss''', reto.stauss(at)gmail.com, rstauss on Skype

I am mainly attracted by the momentum this projects develops. And of course because it is not talking but doing. My hope is that inspires my own little project (actually it already did): [http://manufakturingruendung.ch/en open source goods produced by small, agile manufactories]. Lucas, Joseph, sign your points.
|[[Image:Reto.jpg|thumb|Reto Stauss]]
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| '''Geoff Capper''', geoff (at) floodstreetfarmlet.net
I am supporting OSE because it is showing us that it is possible to regain control over the complex systems that to an extent have come to rule our lives. We can build our own machinery, we can build our own future, we can be free. The activity at Factor e Farm is truly inspiring, and I hope to use many of the products building up our own small farm, which may hopefully inspire others locally.
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| '''Tom Lindsey''', thomas.lindsey at gmail dot com
I support OSE because I want Factor e Farm to succeed so I can use the tools they are developing, replicate Factor e Farm, and create a future of freedom for myself and loved ones.
|[[Image:tomlindsey.jpg|thumb|Tom Lindsey and Boomer]]
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| '''Edward Miller''', embraceunity -at- gmail dot com
I became a true fan because I would like to see our civilization become more resilient by using decentralized technological solutions, and to evolve towards a post-scarcity society. I plan to move on site soon to help build a RepRap machine.
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| '''Jussi Haverinen''', haverinen.jussi at gmail dot com
I'm a strong believer in power of free software approach to technology and very interested in transformative technology and it's effect on society. Politically I'm an social ecologist and I do think that the main task that has to be done is to abolish capitalism and the state through direct democracy in the cities and neighbourhoods (confederated together of course). My skills: mostly computer knowledge, relatively good unix admin skills, and some language skills but that's about it. I only have limited knowledge of farming, construction, electronics, handcraft, but I'm willing to learn.
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| '''Mark Thomas''', factore at thomastechcon dot com
My wife and I are serial homesteaders--we built up a goat dairy from scratch in South Africa, a [http://thomasphotos.wordpress.com small livestock farm in Appalachia], and are just starting on a lambing operation in Southside Virginia.

Politically, I base my ethics on the [[Nonaggression Axiom]] and I do think that the main task that has to be done is to abolish democracy and the state through direct capitalism. Apologies to Jussi above! I do my political writing at [http://distributedrepublic.net/blog/mark Distributed Republic] and much of my reading at [http://mises.org/ the Ludwig von Mises Institute].
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| '''David Voeller''', carefulwiththat at gmail dot com
Open Source Ecology is applying knowledge and skill in the most effective way possible, to create a livable future. The convergence of Permaculture principles and Open Source methodology has been a long time coming. Open Source has shown us that technological advancement need not be encumbered by destructive and wasteful hierarchical control. Permaculture has taught us that a fulfilling and ethical life is not only possible, but realistic in a variety of climates and conditions. Open Source Ecology's work has the possibility to allow many more people to live within their resources; and to drastically increase the quality of life for those already doing so.
|[[Image:davidvoeller.jpg|thumb|David Voeller]]
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| '''Eric Hunting''', TheMillennialProject at gmail.com
We are on the cusp of a transformation in the nature of our civilization. A fundamental shift in the way just about everything works in our society predicated on the evolution of the processes and technologies by which just about everything in our habitat is made. Emerging digital fabrication technology combined with emerging awareness of the factors of industrial sustainability are not only changing how we make things but who is making them and where. Industrial Age paradigms that have been concentrating industrial, economic, and political power for a century are failing in the face of a progressive shrinking, smartening, and demassifying of the tools of production and communication. Open Source Ecology is on the cutting edge of this transformation, pursuing and cultivating a spectrum of tools, new and old, that can realize a radical new level of sustainable community self-sufficiency with the intent of disseminating these tools globally. The Factor E Farm project is an incubator for a nascent movement with world-sweeping potential.
|[[Image:EricHuntingAv.jpg|thumb|Eric Hunting]]
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| '''[http://blog.erikdebruijn.nl/ Erik de Bruijn]''', ose at erikdebruijn.nl
We've heard about, or even experienced, the collaborative power of passionate individuals around the world. When they join hands, contributing their energy, freely sharing their ideas and building on them, this mode of production can be highly productive. It may well outperform the traditionally closed 'institutional' mode of production, like Wikipedia is giving us an abundance of knowledge at no cost. OSE attempts, and is actually very successful at extending this notion of knowledge sharing into a way of living.
They codify and freely reveal their knowledge into design files and rich instructional material such as video tutorials. Those serve to inspire, but also to practically make this concept replicable and effective.
|[[Image:erikdebruijn.jpg|thumb|Erik de Bruijn]]
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| '''A. N. Alias''', anon23bf at nyx dot net
I support OSE because we need viable alternatives to the military-industrial complex as a foundation for survival in the near future, particularly if predictions about the coming hyperinflationary depression turn out to be well founded.
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| '''[http://ollehost.dk/blog/ Olle Jonsson]''', olle.jonsson at gmail dot com
I had seen the impressive LifeTrac project on the web, but when I heard about the [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=1254 RepLab] initiative, I was hooked. I'm just a random web developer, but I want to help push toward a generalized, open digital fabrication toolkit. When each hackerspace, lab, and interested individual has access to equipment like that, things get really interesting.
|[[Image:olleolleolle.jpg|thumb|Olle Jonsson]]
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| '''Maureen''', baubo at dishmail.net
I support factor E open source farm because when the cheap industrial food machine breaks down for lack of diesel fuel and capital, people are going to be shocked, angry and then desperate to learn a new way of living. OSE is not just a theory, a book or a blue print. It’s an open source physical model of a DIY food, energy and shelter producing system. Large-scale industrialization was largely a wrong turn for humanity. By shrinking the scale, localizing throughputs, working smarter and sharing information globally we can create a bright new future – a true renaissance. Factor E farm is breaking trail for us all. I can’t think of a better investment.
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| '''[http://bit.ly/elifarley-buzz Elifarley]''', ''my first name'' @opensourceecology.org

I found out about Open Source Ecology after watching the Zeitgeist Addendum movie. That movie sparkled my curiosity and I started a quest to understand the problems and possible solutions to our society's needs.

In this quest, I found out some very exciting ideas, groups and people, like the Transition Towns movement (concerned with peak oil), The Venus Project and RBE Foundation (moneyless, cybernated society), Common Good Bank (alternative currency system), RepRap (self-replicating, open source 3D printer), the P2P Foundation, and the OSE site, to name a few.

You may have noticed that all these projects and movements seem to have a common goal, they all seem to propose that we forget all artificial limitations (and scarcity) and we all seek union to improve our lives and sustainability. Without artificial limitations, we all can have much much better lives. That's the message I can hear all these people and movements resounding.

I'd say that The Venus Project champions ideas, whereas OSE materializes them, performing concrete actions that will move our world forward.

I'm confident that our small contributions to this cause will add up and have a tremendous positive result for everybody.

''(In Portuguese)''

Descobri o site da Open Source Ecology depois de assistir ao filme Zeitgeist Addendum. Esse filme despertou minha curiosidade e então comecei uma busca para entender os problemas e as possíveis soluções para a nossa sociedade.

Nessa busca, descobri algumas ideias, grupos e pessoas muito interessantes, como o movimento Transition Towns (preocupado com a dependência ao petróleo), o Venus Project e a RBE Foundation (sociedade sem uso do dinheiro, automatizada), Banco do Bem Comum (sistema de moeda alternativa), RepRap (impressora 3D de desenho aberto, auto-replicante), a Fundação P2P, e o site OSE, dentro vários outros.

Vocês podem ter notado que todos esses projetos e movimentos parecem ter um objetivo comum, eles parecem propor que esqueçamos todas as limitações artificiais (e escassez) e que todos busquemos união para melhorar nossas vidas e sustentabilidade. Sem limitações artificiais, todos nós podemos viver muito melhor. Essa é a mensagem que eu posso escutar todas essas pessoas e movimentos ressoando.

Eu diria que o Venus Project dissemina ideias, enquanto que a OSE as materializa, realizando ações concretas que irão avançar o nosso mundo.

Estou confiante que nossas pequenas contribuições a essa causa irão se juntar e terão um resultado tremendamente positivo para todo o mundo.
|[[Image:Ecruz.jpg|thumb|Elifarley Cruz]]
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| '''Shaun Warkentin'''
What money buys is technology, luxury. What technology and luxury buy are pleasure, physical health, and free time for the intellectual, spiritual, relational, creative pursuits that are the constitutive properties of real wealth (a widening of awareness and knowledge) unavailable within a purely subsistence economy. The equation linking money to wealth must be broken (along with the power structures that encroach upon the agency and freedom of most of humanity and the biosphere). OSE appears to be demonstrating how this might be achieved.
|[[Image:Shaun_jump.jpg|thumb|Shaun Warkentin]]
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| '''Aigars Brūvelis''', abruvelis at gmail dot com
This is it. Linux will fully replace windows and in 50 years Open Source Harware will replace most of the commerce. Get on with it.
|[[Image:aigarsbruvelis.jpg|thumb|Aigars Bruvelis from Latvia/UK]]
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| '''Lucas''',
I contribute to OSE because I got tired of all the organizations that claim to be "promoting" sustainability through advocacy and lobbying, which usually merely contributes to the inertia and complexity of our current patently unsustainable society without producing any truly meaningful effect on regular peoples' relation to the economy and planet. We need tangible means and methods to take our lives into our own hands and reduce our reliance on global industrial market structures, not rhetoric and posturing. OSE is one of the few operations that has taken up the task of rebuilding and redesigning material existence to cope with the inevitability of a resource-scarce future. The advancements made at this important project are setting precedents that simply are not being set anywhere else, and I hope to personally be using some of the methods and technologies being developed; from that standpoint, I view my financial contribution as an investment, not a gift. At some point in time those of us who philosophically stand opposed to the dominant paradigms of mass consumerism and ecological exceptionalism must stop talking and starting acting, and OSE is doing just that.
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| '''Peter Koeleman'''
I would love to see the Factor e Farm evolve into a self-sufficient, renewable and socially superior society.

The technological steps towards freedom that the Factor e Farm project take are very interesting to me because I am an IT specialist. I had a taste of gcode a long while back and work with Linux every day as my primairy OS. The modular hardware design makes this technology easy to comprehend and use, even for non-engineers like myself.

The freedom part of this project is what I think will be the most important part of the near future in escaping a corporate ruled society of ever more money spending (=debt building) consumers. The need for economic growth simply isn't sustainable. Those who manufacture and manage their own resources are the only ones who know the real cost of things.
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| '''Daniel Slate''', danieldavidslate + gmail and the rest
This is the real thing, and what you're doing is absolutely necessary. The numerous possibilities that can grow from this...general resilience, a reboot/revision of kibbutzim/moshavim in America or elsewhere, so many other possibilities...building the platform is worth doing. Ideas become real through action. What I see coming out of this work is a way to test out applied philosophies of responsible liberty.
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| '''Adam Mitchell''', mitch dot ad at gmail dot com
If organizations were measured in terms of ''relevancy'' of work, ''loftiness'' of their goals and their ability to ''inspire'' others, Open Source Ecology --''no doubt''-- would be at the top of anyone's list. I am proud to support their endeavor, however small, in hopes that together we can build a better world and encourage others to become more [[Integrated Humans]].
|[[Image:Fiji.jpg|thumb|Adam Mitchell]]
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| '''Anna Przychodzki'''
I was very excited to discover the work of Open Source Ecology; I had no idea people were doing this. I stopped taking science class in my second year of high school so the technical stuff goes way over my head... what I do understand is the intent of the work and the implications of success. The life I want is out of reach for now... but if I support OSE, maybe I can have it in the future. OSE seems to bring us closer to what I believe are our birth-rights: sustainability, economic freedom and quality of life by way of human ingenuity and cooperation, not competition.
|[[Image:annaprzychodzki.jpg|thumb|Anna Przychodzki]]
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| '''Nathan Luedtke'''

I think I found out about Factor E Farm through John Robb's blog Global Guerillas, or at least through that general section of the net, which I am interested in and have been following for some time. I have been tracking your project for a little over a year, and was inspired to contribute when i saw that recently you seem to have hit a tipping point and have been making quick progress which probably will require a little more cashflow.

In terms of what I would like to see come out of it- exactly what you are doing. All of the positive movements that I see out there- Permaculture, Open Source, Transition, etc etc- all of them are integrated in your program. With OSE/FEF, you have a very scientific/rational approach that I appreciate. Long term, I would love to see OSE ideas spread and populate worldwide, and see the technology package implemented and developed further at other sites, both in the USA and as a more successful "technology transfer" to the third world.
|[[Image:nathanluedtke.jpg|thumb|Nathan Luedtke.]]
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'''Devin Balkind'''
An abundant future is dependent on open technologies that fulfill people's most basic needs: food, water and shelter. The fact that this type of work isn't widely recognized as the foundation of a more efficient, equitable and enlightened civilization is a testament to the confusion of our times. Consider me at your service.
|[[Image:DevinProfile.jpg|thumb|Devin Balkind, Since August 2010]]
|[[Image:DevinProfile2.jpg|thumb|Devin Balkind for real.]]
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| '''Ivan Garcia''', ivan at movimientozeitgeist dot org
I've been a OSS programmer for like 8 years now and I love the idea of OS Hardware and the great suistaniblity revolution that the OSE guys are doing. I'm also a supporter of the Zeitgeist Movement in Spain and they both share very similar goals. What you are doing is absolutelly necessary and meaningful for our future!
|[[Image:ivangarcia.jpg|thumb|Ivan Garcia]]
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| [http://permakent.com/ '''J. Kent Hastings'''], USA
The OSE (Open Source Ecology) "True Fan" program is a grass roots way to crowdsource funding for the goal to develop the essential 40 pieces required to make up the complete "Resilient Community Construction Set," an advanced industrial economy in a box that can be deployed inexpensively anywhere in the world.

The cost is reduced to one tenth normal thanks to the savings from using open source software and hardware designs. The components are essential to life and work in the system rather than just decorative knick knacks or toys that Makers like to dabble with and are "designed for disassembly" so each component, like the Life Trac tractor for example, is easy to repair with bolts and simple tools such as wrenches, and easy to modify and improve.
|[[Image:permakent.jpg|thumb|J. Kent Hastings,since August 2010]]
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| '''Søren Poulsen''', Denmark
Words like ''empowerment'' or ''freedom'' get a whole new meaning when you talk about
having the skill set, to create everything you need from nothing.
|[[Image:Soeren_Poulsen.jpg|thumb|Søren Poulsen|130px]]
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| [[Nikolay Georgiev]], Karlsruhe, Germany
Open Source Ecology is based on Natural Principles which consequences have been shown to be positive for a lot of natural and technological systems.

* Decentralization (instead of Centralization) of Power – proven pattern in a lot of networks, like technology (internet, web site development, …) and human relationships (politics, religion/spirituality, family, …).
* Self-Sufficiency – basic needs for living are covered and produced by the local people. No need for dependence. In the future if there is dependency it will be in the form of collaboration.
* Openness – sharing documentation, product design and development process. Being able to change and adapt the products.
* Product Quality – life-time, modular and systems Design.
* Collaboration (instead of using other people for self-interest) – getting people together by purpose and values, and not by force, is much better for the producers and the consumers as well.
* Replicability – giving birth of open sourced, modern-living villages is just amazing! Having the choice of replicability saves a lot of time and work.

It is crucially important that we go beyond life of survival. Survival mode is pushing everyone to take resources from other people, not considering their allowance, health and their community. When we are in survival mode we often neglect our own values and push other people in order to survive.

When we reach the state of living where all basic needs are covered, every person on this planet will have much bigger possibility to develop his own potential. Right now only a very small percentage of the human population have the time and possibilities to develop themselves – to guide their own life in the direction they want, to contribute to the society by using their abilities in their fullness. Most people in the world are fighting, struggling, working only for their own survival or that of their own families, and higher goals and desires like developing themselves and contributing to society are not possible and of low priority.

We need new models of economy and living based on openness, giving and sharing. Open Source Ecology is headed clearly in this direction, giving back freedom to where it belongs.

|[[Image:Nikolaygeorgiev-tall.jpg‎|thumb|Nikolay Georgiev, since Sep. 2010]]
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| '''Dario Figueira''', Portugal, wurmdario at gmail dot com
I became a true fan simply because I was already monetarily supporting a NGO. And for me, you seem to be doing better work, or more important work than they were. So please continue XD.
[[User:WurmD|WurmD]] 23 August 2010 (UTC)
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| '''Matthias''', neodynos-at-googlemail-dot-com
Thinking about what's wrong with the world, I found that huge aggregations of power and of money are the main tools we as humans use to oppress and exploit. That led me to support Open Source Ecology as a decentralized alternative.

And while I am convinced that the ultimate solution (one that transcends even death) is not to be found through technology but rather through sound theology -- I am also convinced that the work of OSE can provide all of us with a better world ''until'' death.
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| '''Chris Berry''', France
What immediately impressed me about what you are doing is that...... well, this is something that could actually work. Much of the ecology movement seems to really depend on shifting human nature (ie modern capitalism will work just fine so long as people breed a bit less, consume a bit less, etc- its never going to work, at best we'll destroy the planet in the next 200 years instead of the next 50).

People need to be offered something genuinely
better. And really, when you look at it, it shouldn't be difficult to beat this modern lifestyle based on greed and envy and selfishness, with rampant crime and suicide and mental illness, people drowning in debt, and every system we depend on falling to pieces in front of us.
|[[Image:chrisberry.jpg|thumb|Chris Berry, joined October, 2010.]]
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| '''Stewart Easton''', Vancouver, Canada
I was exposed your work through listening to VTV’s show in the archives. I have a background in biology, but I work in finance, so I have taken the route of “those who can not do, help”. The help in my case is money and I will spread the word of your work as I spend much time on other forums debating the merits of an RBE, and I always use your organization as an example of people building the technology to advance the concept.

I am part of the Vancouver Chapter of the Zeitgeist movement and I think the work you are doing is great and we as a movement need to do more to help you with your goals. You are building the technology that is going to make an RBE possible.
|[[Image:stewarteaston.jpg|thumb|Stewart Easton, joined September, 2010.]]
|}

{| style="width:100%"
|-valign="top"
| '''Daniel Morlan''', Indiana, USA

I will be watching you folks closely. I heard you on the V-Radio show a couple of times, and your methodology is far more inspiring to me than the mere lip-service that most put out, including myself. (I am the “editor in chief” of the Indiana Zeitgeist Newsletter.) and an acquaintance of Neil Kiernan, and I am enthralled with what you folks are doing.
|[[Image:danielmorlan.jpg|thumb|Daniel Morlan, joined August, 2010.]]
|}

{| style="width:100%"
|-valign="top"
| '''Shakti Saraswati''', Brisbane, Australia (mail at shakti dot id dot au)

I have come to the Open Source Ecology, from the Zeitgeist movement and see this as a natural transition from something quite absurd to a more practical way to live our lives. By doing nothing we have allowed this silly profit system overrule common sense and go so viral as to be totally dysfunctional. Society spends all of its time solving problems that are symptomatic and never go any deeper to find causal remedy.

The fact that people can earn money without actually contributing anything of substance is an unbelievable waste of potential usefulness. 80% of the population do this while fiddling the figures, they are totally consumed. Imagine if that problem solving potential was put to good use.

As a musician I find it an incredible distraction living in a society that has not, after 5000 years of civilisation, actually become civilised yet. A lot of the mental energy that I need to improve myself as a musician is wasted basically trying to survive. I have learned to live off the smell of an oily rag, and my priority is improving myself to the detriment of living comfort, and that is because society does not work efficiently.

I see Open source Ecology as the first rung in the ladder to improving all that ails the world. The important thing to mention here is the fact that everything that each individual knows is the collection of their experience of everyone else around them, so they have no right to exclusivity and have a duty to share. There is no reason why all land and resources should not benefit all people. The understanding of this will eliminate all the unnecessary conflict that we have today. The challenge is to put it into practice for the greater good without sacrificing the individual. This will happen when we share the workload and become responsible.

Fulfilment in life comes from hands on achievement and when everybody is contributing instead of building locks and walls while fiddling figures, I bet we have a much more harmonious and luxurious lifestyle without the fear. The real challenges will be then what will affect us all as a human species, rather than just individual survival.

So thank you Open Source Ecology for putting the wheels in motion of the ground-up transition to self-sustaining systems open for the improvement of all who contribute, not just those who wish to profit and exploit.

|[[Image:Shakti.jpg|thumb|Shakti Saraswati. Medlem siden Nov., 2009.]]
|}

{| style="width:100%"
|-valign="top"
|

'''Carolyn Phillips''', Adelaide, Australia [[File:Cari.jpg |thumb|Carolyn]]

I’ve always liked smart, lean design and this project seems both smart and lean. I hope you make some headway without the bureaucratic bloat that seems to ultimately spoil good ideas.
|}
i

True Fans/no

2011-05-13T12:13:31Z

Knut Brekken:

True Fans/no

2011-05-13T12:11:15Z

Knut Brekken:

True Fans/no

2011-05-13T12:09:49Z

Knut Brekken: /* Sanne Tilhengere */

True Fans/no

2011-05-13T12:05:34Z

Knut Brekken:

CEB Press Intro/no

2011-05-12T20:27:31Z

Knut Brekken:

{{Lang|CEB Presse Introduksjon}}
{{Category=CEB press}}

{{ToolTemplate|ToolName=CEB Press}}

'''"Liberator" Komprimerte Jordklosser Pressen''' er en maskin som lager komprimerte jordklosser ('''CEB'''er). Den tar jord og presser den veldig hardt for å lage faste klosser som kan brukes til bygging. Komprimerte jordklosser har mange fordeler som byggemateriale: ved å lage byggemateriale fra grunnen av på stedet, eliminerer de behovet for å transportere det fra andre steder. Dette reduserer kostnadene og miljømessig innvirkning fra transport. Komprimerte jordklosser er veldig sterke og isolerer godt mot både varme og lyd. Dette gjør bygninger veldig energieffektive. Best av alt, det koster ikke noe å bruke jord. Se wikisiden på {{LinkLang|Compressed Earth Blocks|Komprimerte jordklosser}} og {{LinkLang|:Category:CEB|CEB kategorien}} for flere detaljer om bygging med CEBer.

[[File:Machine.jpg|right|400px]]Liberator har blitt fullstendig designet og testet av Open Ecology laget. Du kan nå følge instruksjonene for å bygge din egen, eller kontakte oss hvis du vil kjøpe et sett eller en ferdig maskin.

Å bygge en maskin selv kan virke skummelt, men hvert eneste steg av prosessen er fullstendig dokumentert og OSE fellesskapet er tilgjengelig på våre [http://openfarmtech.org/forum/ diskusjonsforum] hvis du trenger hjelp, råd, eller en hånd å holde i.

Med Liberator kan to personer bygge en 1.83 meter høy, rund vegg 6.1 meter i diameter 30 cm tykk, på en 8-timers dag - konstruksjonstiden er vil variere avhengig av andre faktorer: forberedelsestid, hvilket utstyr som er tilgjengelig (traktor osv.) og kvaliteten av jorden. Dess større klossestørrelsen er, dess fortere blir en vegg reist. Og, selvfølgelig, dess større klossestørrelse, dess tyngre blir klossen. Klosser fra ''The Liberator'' vil være gjennomsnitlig 11.3kg.

{{LinkLang|Torch Table|kuttebordet}} vil bli brukt for å automatisere fabrikeringen av CEB maskinen, hvilket vil redusere fabrikeringstid med et anslag på 20 timer og redusere kostnaden av det endelige produktet.

==How does it work?==
Loose dirt is loaded into the hopper at the top. This falls through to a chamber where a pair of hydraulic arms compress it and then eject it. This video shows how the machine works:

<div align="center"><html>
<object width="300" height="270"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zoPq639C4CA&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zoPq639C4CA&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="300" height="260"></embed></object>
</html></div>

===List of components===
The purpose is to explain the design very simply so that when it is explained in detail later, it will be easier to understand'''

The Liberator consists of -<br> {{Wanted|Refine this list (perhaps based on [[The Liberator Master Bill of Materials]] ). This list should be the model for the [[CEB Press Build Instructions|build instructions]].}}
*A hopper at the top which you fill with loose dirt. This is made from welded steel. We made the hopper six feet wide, so it can hold a lot of dirt.
*Grate and grate shaker - the grate is at the bottom of the hopper. The grate shaker shakes it so that soil falls through into the compression chamber, while large stones and things like that are caught in the grate.
*A compression chamber where the bricks are actually pressed. This is a metal box with a nylon liner bolted on the inside. The liner gives the bricks a smoother finish. It will have to be replaced every hundred thousand bricks or so.
*A frame that bolts together for easy assembly and disassembly.
*Hydraulic cylinders - These are the muscles of the machine; they apply the pressure to the dirt. They are readily removable with pins. There are two hydraulic cylinders:
**The soil drawer - this moves from left to right and performs the dual function of loading soil into the compression chamber and ejecting blocks from the machine
**The main cylinder, which moves up and down and compresses the blocks
*Tractor mount - this is where an external hydraulic power source can be attached to the hydraulic cylinders.
*Pressure gauge

<gallery widths="390px" heights="350px" perrow="2">
File:Machine-front.jpg
File:Machine-back.jpg
</gallery>

===Product Ecology===
*[[Rototiller]] to prepare the soil.
*Power source such as [[LifeTrac]].
*Tractor to load the hopper (optional)

{{Wanted|Cost assessment of this. How much would an external hydraulic power source cost?}}

===The Liberator in action===
{{Wanted|Demo Photos.}}

{{Wanted|Video of building with it}}. Check youtube channel - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_9rQ61wi_o][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN5o-mdO1CY][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4cTyHedH58][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OU5ulNgiqo][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju_tAn7Mw5c]

==Specifications==
{| cellpadding="6" cellspacing="2" border="1" align="center"
|-align="center"
! Bricks per minute output
! 16

|-align="center"
! Brick size
! 12x6x6 inches (30.5x15.3x10.2 cm)

|-align="center"
! People operating machine
! 1-2

|-align="center"
! Power source
! Tractor hydraulics or any hydraulic power source with 6 gallon per minute capacity (22.71 liters per minute)

|-align="center"
! Machine mounting
! tractor 3 point hitch or stand-alone foot

|-align="center"
! Hydraulic pressure
! 2000psi / 137.90 bar

|-align="center"
! Hydraulic cylinder
! 5 inch diameter, 19.6 inch area; 2.5 inch rod

|-align="center"
! Pressing cylinder pressure
! 39,250 lb pushing force (~18 tons)

|-align="center"
! Controls
! 2 spool, manual, hydraulic valve; automatic version forthcoming.

|-align="center"
! Compressive strength of bricks
! 795psi (54.81 bar) using plain earth. <br>1200psi (82.74 bar) with 10% Portland cement.<br>Strong enough to build a 60 storey building [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2010/06/ceb-compressive-strength-test-results/]

|-align="center"
!
! Structural cold rolled steel construction throughout

|}

*Height: 6 foot 11 inches/ 210.82 cm
*Machine lifetime goals: 1 million bricks before repairs; liner may be replaced every 100,000 bricks
*Fabrication time requirement for optimized production: 3-5 days, about 20 hours of direct fabrication
*Manual fabrication tooling requirements: drill press, welder, acetylene torch
*Optimal fabrication tooling: XYZ table with torch, MIG welder, hoist
*Material costs: $1000-1350
*Cost for machine: you can build your own for $3-5k in parts, or [[Buy CEB Press|buy a readymade one here]] for $8k

==Advantages of The Liberator==
[[File:Liberator_V_commercial.JPG|center|700px]]
*'''Easy repair'''. The Liberator was designed to make maintenance as easy and infrequent as possible. The part that is most likely to need replacement is a rubber sheet from McMaster-Carr. The press is designed for disassembly, so if repairs are needed, the cost should be minimal. And unlike commercial machines, you have all the blueprints and sources for parts here, so there should be no difficulty repairing it.
*Requires as little as 1 person to operate. The only control required is turning the machine on, and from that point one simply loads soil and unloads bricks. There is an alternative manual version for $500 less '''(Is that correct?)'''
*'''Modular power source'''. The Liberator does not have its own power source; it is designed to be attached to an external power source. This is in line with the [[Key Features of the GVCS|OSE principle]] of modularity; different tools can be run from the same power source, allowing the same tool to fulfill many functions flexibly. The power source could be the hydraulics from [[LifeTrac]] (our tractor any flexible source of machanical power), [[Power Cube]], or any hydraulic power source with a capacity of 6 gallon per minute (22.71 liters per minute).
*'''Large hopper'''. Compared to other CEB presses on the market, The Liberator has a very large hopper. We found with earlier editions that a small hopper requires constant loading and this slows down the construction process.

Template:Featured Page/no

2011-05-12T20:26:44Z

Knut Brekken:

<noinclude>{{Lang}}</noinclude><div style="float:right;margin:0 10px 5px 0;">
[[File:Machine.jpg|180px|link=CEB_Press_Intro|]]
</div>

'''"Liberator" Komprimerte Jordklosser Pressen''' er en maskin som lager komprimerte jordklosser ('''CEB'''er). Den tar jord og presser det veldig hardt for å lage faste klosser som kan brukes til bygging. Komprimerte jordklosser har mange fordeler som byggemateriale: ved å lage byggemateriale fra grunnen av på stedet, eliminerer de behovet for å transportere det fra andre steder. Dette reduserer kostnadene og miljømessig innvirkning fra transport.

Komprimerte jordklosser er veldig sterke og isolerer godt mot både varme og lyd. Dette gjør bygninger veldig energieffektive. Best av alt, det koster ikke noe å bruke jord.'''({{LinkLang|CEB_Press_Intro|mer...}})'''

CEB Press Intro/no

2011-05-12T20:26:02Z

Knut Brekken:

{{Lang|CEB Presse Introduksjon}}
{{Category=CEB press}}

{{ToolTemplate|ToolName=CEB Press}}

'''"Liberator" Komprimerte Jordklosser Pressen''' er en maskin som lager komprimerte jordklosser ('''CEB'''er). Den tar jord og presser det veldig hardt for å lage faste klosser som kan brukes til bygging. Komprimerte jordklosser har mange fordeler som byggemateriale: ved å lage byggemateriale fra grunnen av på stedet, eliminerer de behovet for å transportere det fra andre steder. Dette reduserer kostnadene og miljømessig innvirkning fra transport. Komprimerte jordklosser er veldig sterke og isolerer godt mot både varme og lyd. Dette gjør bygninger veldig energieffektive. Best av alt, det koster ikke noe å bruke jord. Se wikisiden på {{LinkLang|Compressed Earth Blocks|Komprimerte jordklosser}} og {{LinkLang|:Category:CEB|CEB kategorien}} for flere detaljer om bygging med CEBer.

[[File:Machine.jpg|right|400px]]Liberator har blitt fullstendig designet og testet av Open Ecology laget. Du kan nå følge instruksjonene for å bygge din egen, eller kontakte oss hvis du vil kjøpe et sett eller en ferdig maskin.

Å bygge en maskin selv kan virke skummelt, men hvert eneste steg av prosessen er fullstendig dokumentert og OSE fellesskapet er tilgjengelig på våre [http://openfarmtech.org/forum/ diskusjonsforum] hvis du trenger hjelp, råd, eller en hånd å holde i.

Med Liberator kan to personer bygge en 1.83 meter høy, rund vegg 6.1 meter i diameter 30 cm tykk, på en 8-timers dag - konstruksjonstiden er vil variere avhengig av andre faktorer: forberedelsestid, hvilket utstyr som er tilgjengelig (traktor osv.) og kvaliteten av jorden. Dess større klossestørrelsen er, dess fortere blir en vegg reist. Og, selvfølgelig, dess større klossestørrelse, dess tyngre blir klossen. Klosser fra ''The Liberator'' vil være gjennomsnitlig 11.3kg.

{{LinkLang|Torch Table|kuttebordet}} vil bli brukt for å automatisere fabrikeringen av CEB maskinen, hvilket vil redusere fabrikeringstid med et anslag på 20 timer og redusere kostnaden av det endelige produktet.

==How does it work?==
Loose dirt is loaded into the hopper at the top. This falls through to a chamber where a pair of hydraulic arms compress it and then eject it. This video shows how the machine works:

<div align="center"><html>
<object width="300" height="270"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zoPq639C4CA&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zoPq639C4CA&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="300" height="260"></embed></object>
</html></div>

===List of components===
The purpose is to explain the design very simply so that when it is explained in detail later, it will be easier to understand'''

The Liberator consists of -<br> {{Wanted|Refine this list (perhaps based on [[The Liberator Master Bill of Materials]] ). This list should be the model for the [[CEB Press Build Instructions|build instructions]].}}
*A hopper at the top which you fill with loose dirt. This is made from welded steel. We made the hopper six feet wide, so it can hold a lot of dirt.
*Grate and grate shaker - the grate is at the bottom of the hopper. The grate shaker shakes it so that soil falls through into the compression chamber, while large stones and things like that are caught in the grate.
*A compression chamber where the bricks are actually pressed. This is a metal box with a nylon liner bolted on the inside. The liner gives the bricks a smoother finish. It will have to be replaced every hundred thousand bricks or so.
*A frame that bolts together for easy assembly and disassembly.
*Hydraulic cylinders - These are the muscles of the machine; they apply the pressure to the dirt. They are readily removable with pins. There are two hydraulic cylinders:
**The soil drawer - this moves from left to right and performs the dual function of loading soil into the compression chamber and ejecting blocks from the machine
**The main cylinder, which moves up and down and compresses the blocks
*Tractor mount - this is where an external hydraulic power source can be attached to the hydraulic cylinders.
*Pressure gauge

<gallery widths="390px" heights="350px" perrow="2">
File:Machine-front.jpg
File:Machine-back.jpg
</gallery>

===Product Ecology===
*[[Rototiller]] to prepare the soil.
*Power source such as [[LifeTrac]].
*Tractor to load the hopper (optional)

{{Wanted|Cost assessment of this. How much would an external hydraulic power source cost?}}

===The Liberator in action===
{{Wanted|Demo Photos.}}

{{Wanted|Video of building with it}}. Check youtube channel - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_9rQ61wi_o][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN5o-mdO1CY][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4cTyHedH58][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OU5ulNgiqo][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju_tAn7Mw5c]

==Specifications==
{| cellpadding="6" cellspacing="2" border="1" align="center"
|-align="center"
! Bricks per minute output
! 16

|-align="center"
! Brick size
! 12x6x6 inches (30.5x15.3x10.2 cm)

|-align="center"
! People operating machine
! 1-2

|-align="center"
! Power source
! Tractor hydraulics or any hydraulic power source with 6 gallon per minute capacity (22.71 liters per minute)

|-align="center"
! Machine mounting
! tractor 3 point hitch or stand-alone foot

|-align="center"
! Hydraulic pressure
! 2000psi / 137.90 bar

|-align="center"
! Hydraulic cylinder
! 5 inch diameter, 19.6 inch area; 2.5 inch rod

|-align="center"
! Pressing cylinder pressure
! 39,250 lb pushing force (~18 tons)

|-align="center"
! Controls
! 2 spool, manual, hydraulic valve; automatic version forthcoming.

|-align="center"
! Compressive strength of bricks
! 795psi (54.81 bar) using plain earth. <br>1200psi (82.74 bar) with 10% Portland cement.<br>Strong enough to build a 60 storey building [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2010/06/ceb-compressive-strength-test-results/]

|-align="center"
!
! Structural cold rolled steel construction throughout

|}

*Height: 6 foot 11 inches/ 210.82 cm
*Machine lifetime goals: 1 million bricks before repairs; liner may be replaced every 100,000 bricks
*Fabrication time requirement for optimized production: 3-5 days, about 20 hours of direct fabrication
*Manual fabrication tooling requirements: drill press, welder, acetylene torch
*Optimal fabrication tooling: XYZ table with torch, MIG welder, hoist
*Material costs: $1000-1350
*Cost for machine: you can build your own for $3-5k in parts, or [[Buy CEB Press|buy a readymade one here]] for $8k

==Advantages of The Liberator==
[[File:Liberator_V_commercial.JPG|center|700px]]
*'''Easy repair'''. The Liberator was designed to make maintenance as easy and infrequent as possible. The part that is most likely to need replacement is a rubber sheet from McMaster-Carr. The press is designed for disassembly, so if repairs are needed, the cost should be minimal. And unlike commercial machines, you have all the blueprints and sources for parts here, so there should be no difficulty repairing it.
*Requires as little as 1 person to operate. The only control required is turning the machine on, and from that point one simply loads soil and unloads bricks. There is an alternative manual version for $500 less '''(Is that correct?)'''
*'''Modular power source'''. The Liberator does not have its own power source; it is designed to be attached to an external power source. This is in line with the [[Key Features of the GVCS|OSE principle]] of modularity; different tools can be run from the same power source, allowing the same tool to fulfill many functions flexibly. The power source could be the hydraulics from [[LifeTrac]] (our tractor any flexible source of machanical power), [[Power Cube]], or any hydraulic power source with a capacity of 6 gallon per minute (22.71 liters per minute).
*'''Large hopper'''. Compared to other CEB presses on the market, The Liberator has a very large hopper. We found with earlier editions that a small hopper requires constant loading and this slows down the construction process.

CEB Press Intro/no

2011-05-12T20:23:29Z

Knut Brekken: Created page with "{{Lang|CEB Presse Introduksjon}} {{Category=CEB press}} {{ToolTemplate|ToolName=CEB Press}} '''"Liberator" Komprimerte Jordklosser Pressen''' er en maskin som lager komprimerte..."

{{Lang|CEB Presse Introduksjon}}
{{Category=CEB press}}

{{ToolTemplate|ToolName=CEB Press}}

'''"Liberator" Komprimerte Jordklosser Pressen''' er en maskin som lager komprimerte jordklosser ('''CEB'''er). Den tar jord og presser det veldig hart for å lage faste klosser som kan brukes til bygging. Komprimerte jordklosser har mange fordeler som byggemateriale: ved å lage byggemateriale fra grunnen av på stedet, eliminerer de behovet for å transportere det fra andre steder. Dette reduserer kostnadene og miljømessig innvirkning fra transport. Komprimerte jordklosser er veldig sterke og isolerer godt mot både varme og lyd. Dette gjør bygninger veldig energieffektive. Best av alt, det koster ikke noe å bruke jord. Se wikisiden på {{LinkLang|Compressed Earth Blocks|Komprimerte jordklosser}} og {{LinkLang|:Category:CEB|CEB kategorien}} for flere detaljer om bygging med CEBer.

[[File:Machine.jpg|right|400px]]Liberator har blitt fullstendig designet og testet av Open Ecology laget. Du kan nå følge instruksjonene for å bygge din egen, eller kontakte oss hvis du vil kjøpe et sett eller en ferdig maskin.

Å bygge en maskin selv kan virke skummelt, men hvert eneste steg av prosessen er fullstendig dokumentert og OSE fellesskapet er tilgjengelig på våre [http://openfarmtech.org/forum/ diskusjonsforum] hvis du trenger hjelp, råd, eller en hånd å holde i.

Med Liberator kan to personer bygge en 1.83 meter høy, rund vegg 6.1 meter i diameter 30 cm tykk, på en 8-timers dag - konstruksjonstiden er vil variere avhengig av andre faktorer: forberedelsestid, hvilket utstyr som er tilgjengelig (traktor osv.) og kvaliteten av jorden. Dess større klossestørrelsen er, dess fortere blir en vegg reist. Og, selvfølgelig, dess større klossestørrelse, dess tyngre blir klossen. Klosser fra ''The Liberator'' vil være gjennomsnitlig 11.3kg.

{{LinkLang|Torch Table|kuttebordet}} vil bli brukt for å automatisere fabrikeringen av CEB maskinen, hvilket vil redusere fabrikeringstid med et anslag på 20 timer og redusere kostnaden av det endelige produktet.

==How does it work?==
Loose dirt is loaded into the hopper at the top. This falls through to a chamber where a pair of hydraulic arms compress it and then eject it. This video shows how the machine works:

<div align="center"><html>
<object width="300" height="270"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zoPq639C4CA&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zoPq639C4CA&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="300" height="260"></embed></object>
</html></div>

===List of components===
The purpose is to explain the design very simply so that when it is explained in detail later, it will be easier to understand'''

The Liberator consists of -<br> {{Wanted|Refine this list (perhaps based on [[The Liberator Master Bill of Materials]] ). This list should be the model for the [[CEB Press Build Instructions|build instructions]].}}
*A hopper at the top which you fill with loose dirt. This is made from welded steel. We made the hopper six feet wide, so it can hold a lot of dirt.
*Grate and grate shaker - the grate is at the bottom of the hopper. The grate shaker shakes it so that soil falls through into the compression chamber, while large stones and things like that are caught in the grate.
*A compression chamber where the bricks are actually pressed. This is a metal box with a nylon liner bolted on the inside. The liner gives the bricks a smoother finish. It will have to be replaced every hundred thousand bricks or so.
*A frame that bolts together for easy assembly and disassembly.
*Hydraulic cylinders - These are the muscles of the machine; they apply the pressure to the dirt. They are readily removable with pins. There are two hydraulic cylinders:
**The soil drawer - this moves from left to right and performs the dual function of loading soil into the compression chamber and ejecting blocks from the machine
**The main cylinder, which moves up and down and compresses the blocks
*Tractor mount - this is where an external hydraulic power source can be attached to the hydraulic cylinders.
*Pressure gauge

<gallery widths="390px" heights="350px" perrow="2">
File:Machine-front.jpg
File:Machine-back.jpg
</gallery>

===Product Ecology===
*[[Rototiller]] to prepare the soil.
*Power source such as [[LifeTrac]].
*Tractor to load the hopper (optional)

{{Wanted|Cost assessment of this. How much would an external hydraulic power source cost?}}

===The Liberator in action===
{{Wanted|Demo Photos.}}

{{Wanted|Video of building with it}}. Check youtube channel - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_9rQ61wi_o][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN5o-mdO1CY][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4cTyHedH58][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OU5ulNgiqo][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju_tAn7Mw5c]

==Specifications==
{| cellpadding="6" cellspacing="2" border="1" align="center"
|-align="center"
! Bricks per minute output
! 16

|-align="center"
! Brick size
! 12x6x6 inches (30.5x15.3x10.2 cm)

|-align="center"
! People operating machine
! 1-2

|-align="center"
! Power source
! Tractor hydraulics or any hydraulic power source with 6 gallon per minute capacity (22.71 liters per minute)

|-align="center"
! Machine mounting
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! 795psi (54.81 bar) using plain earth. <br>1200psi (82.74 bar) with 10% Portland cement.<br>Strong enough to build a 60 storey building [http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2010/06/ceb-compressive-strength-test-results/]

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*Height: 6 foot 11 inches/ 210.82 cm
*Machine lifetime goals: 1 million bricks before repairs; liner may be replaced every 100,000 bricks
*Fabrication time requirement for optimized production: 3-5 days, about 20 hours of direct fabrication
*Manual fabrication tooling requirements: drill press, welder, acetylene torch
*Optimal fabrication tooling: XYZ table with torch, MIG welder, hoist
*Material costs: $1000-1350
*Cost for machine: you can build your own for $3-5k in parts, or [[Buy CEB Press|buy a readymade one here]] for $8k

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*Requires as little as 1 person to operate. The only control required is turning the machine on, and from that point one simply loads soil and unloads bricks. There is an alternative manual version for $500 less '''(Is that correct?)'''
*'''Modular power source'''. The Liberator does not have its own power source; it is designed to be attached to an external power source. This is in line with the [[Key Features of the GVCS|OSE principle]] of modularity; different tools can be run from the same power source, allowing the same tool to fulfill many functions flexibly. The power source could be the hydraulics from [[LifeTrac]] (our tractor any flexible source of machanical power), [[Power Cube]], or any hydraulic power source with a capacity of 6 gallon per minute (22.71 liters per minute).
*'''Large hopper'''. Compared to other CEB presses on the market, The Liberator has a very large hopper. We found with earlier editions that a small hopper requires constant loading and this slows down the construction process.

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[[File:Earthship2.jpg|400px|right|Designet brukt på de fleste jordskip. En rekke vinduer, og bruken av bildekk karakteriserer den jordskjermede bygningen]]

Et '''{{LinkLang|Earthship|Jordskip}}''' er en type hjem som tar vare på sine egne behov når det gjelder energi, vann, avfallshåndtering og noen ganger til og med matproduksjon. Det oppnår et høyt nivå av energieffektivitet ved å bruke varmen fra solen så mye som mulig, og har kraftig isolasjon. Ideen er å ha et hjem uten rør eller kabler inn og ut av det: ingen elektriske ledninger, kloakkrør, eller vannledninger.

Jordskip er ment å bygges av folk som ikke er opplærte byggearbeidere.

== Introduksjon ==
De originale Jordskipene er bygd av jord pakket tett inn i gamle blikkbokser eller bildekk. Dette betyr at mesteparten av byggematerialet er jord funnet på stedet og resten av det er resirkulert. Disse materialene er billige eller gratis, og kan bli brukt med veldig lite energiforbruk eller miljømessig påvirkning.

Jordskip er et påfunn av Mike Reynolds og er designet og markedsført av [http://earthship.com/ Earthship Biotecture] fra Taos, New Mexico.

Mange andre selvforsynte, hjem utenfor strømnettet som er Jordskip per definisjon er gjennomførbare. Et tradisjonelt eksempel er Mandan-jordhuset bygd av nordamerikanske indianere. Et moderne eksempel kan være et containerhjem. Dette er et glimrende eksempel fordi det å bruke gamle fraktcontainere skriver av fra ideen om resirkulering på en enorm måte. Et Jordskip fra en container resirkulerer mange tonn stål med veldig lite energiinput.
[http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=104266276286421&v=wall]

==Struktur==
===Dekk tettpakket med jord===
Jordskip er vanligvis lagd av resirkulerte gummidekk med jord pakket inn i dem. Enhver kompakt masse, som betong, leire eller stein kan imidlertid brukes. Dekk tettpakket med jord har følgende fordeler -
# Til forskjell fra materialer som betong, kan det brukes av hvem som helst. Ikke noe spesialutstyr kreves for å lage dem eller bruke dem. Skrapdekk er overalt rundt i verden og er enkelt å komme over; det er et anslag på 2 milliarder dekk i hele USA. I 1996, ble 253 millioner skrapdekk generert hvert år i USA, der 70% ble tilbakekalt av skrapdekkmarkedet (hvilket etterlater kanskje 75 millioner skrapdekk tilgjengelig til gjenbruk som hele dekk).<ref>Tom Verde, [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CE0DA133CF931A35751C1A960958260&n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FSubjects%2FT%2FTires At Heart of Dispute, Tires by the Acre] (December 2, 1996), The New York Times.</ref> Metoden skrapdekk blir konvertert til brukbare "murstein" er enkel og billig: jord pakkes inn i ved å bruke slegge.
#De har stor bærekapasitet. Gummidekkvegger har imidlertid en tendens til å mangle strukturell stivhet og kan kreve vertikale avstivningsribber.
#Fordi dekkene er fulle av jord, brenner det ikke når de blir utsatt for brann. I 1996, etter at en brann feiet gjennom mange konvensjonelle hjem i New Mexico, ble det i ettertid oppdaget et Jordskip som var relativt uskadet. Kun den sydvendte veggen og taket hadde brent bort, sammenlignet med den totale ødeleggelsen av de konvensjonelle hjemmene.

Et helt tettpakket dekk er omtrent 80 cm bredt. Dette er stort nok for å overgå konvensjonelle krav for strukturell vektdistribusjon til jorden. Veggene til et Jordskip er mye tykkere enn et konvensjonelt hjem, noe som gir en sterkere bygning med bedre isolering av lyd og varme.

====Arbeid====
De tettpakkede dekkene til et Jordskip er vanligvis satt sammen av lag på to personer som jobber som del av ett større konstruksjonslag. En person spar jorden fra byggeplassen inn i dekkene. Den andre står på dkket og bruker slegge for å pakke jorden inni. Den andre personen beveger seg i sirkel rundt dekket for å holde jorden jevn og for å unngå å deformere dekket. Dette er en veldig intensiv arbeidsprosess.'' 'The Earthship Manual: Vol. 1' ''sier at to personer som jobber sammen i en time kan lage fire jordpakkede dekk. Det tar rundt tusen dekk for å bygge et hus ([http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/apr2/eship.htm]), så dermed 500 arbeidstimer per hus. Rundt 40% av kostnaden til et ferdig Jordskip er assosiert med arbeid [http://www.reedconstructiondata.com/construction-forecast/news/2011/01/earthships-down-to-earth-homes/]

De tettpakkede dekkene blir laget på plassen fordi, når de er laget skikkelig, veier de opptil 140 kilo og kan være veldig vanskelig å flytte.

===Interne vegger===
Interne, ikke-bærende vegger er ofte lagd som en bikakestruktur av resirkulerte hermetikkbokser festet sammen av betong og blir kalt blikkboksvegger. Disse veggene er ofte tykt pusset med stukkatur.

===Strukturell form===
Jordskip er basert rundt en eller flere U-formede moduler. Hver av disse har en vegg av tettpakkede dekk flere fot tykt og et gulv som er under bakkenivå. Ved å være delvis nedsenket tillater det huset å utnytte fordelen med termiske lagringsegenskapene til jorden. Dette kan imidlertid forårsake problemer med at vann eller radongass lekker opp fra jorden.

===Tak===
Taket til et Jordskip er tungt isolert – ofte med jord eller leire – for økt energieffektivitet.

==Vann==
=== Høsting av regnvann ===
Vann brukt i et Jordskip er {{LinkLang|Harvested Rainwater|høstet fra regn]], snø eller kondens. Etter hvert som vannet samler seg på taket, blir det ledet gjennom en slamfangende enhet og inn i en brønn. Brønnene er plassert slik at de gravitasjons forer en VOM (VannOrganiseringsModul), som filtrerer ut bakterier og forurensninger, og gjør at vannet kan drikkes. VOM består av filtere og en DC-pumpe som er skrudd inn i et panel. Vannet blir deretter presset inn i en konvensjonell trykktant for å skape vanlig vanntrykk for husholdninger. Vann samlet på denne måten blir brukt til alle husholdningsaktiviterer bortsett fra nedspyling i toaletter på den konvensjonelle måten. Heller enn det, har vannet som brukes for å spyle ned i toalettet blitt brukt minst en gang allerede: ofte er det filtrert spillvann fra vasker og dusjer, og beskrevet som "Gråvann".

=== Gråvann ===
{{LinkLang|Gray Water|Gråvann}} er vann som har blitt brukt og som ikke er egnet for drikking, men som fortsatt kan brukes til ting som vasking. Før gråvannet blir gjenbrukt i et Jordskip, blir det ledet gjennom et fett- og partikkelfilter og inn i et 75-150cm dyp gummikledd {{LinkLang|Living Machines|levende maskin]], som er et biologisk vannfilter. Dette filteret kan inkludere planter som produserer mat mens det filtrerer vannet med røttene sine. Vannoksygenering, filtrering, transpirasjon, og bakterieoppstandelse skjer i cellen og hjelper å rense vannet (Reynolds 2000). Inni den botaniske cellen, blir filtrering oppnåd ved at vannet passerer gjennom en blanding av grus og planterøtter. Plantene tilfører oksygen til vannet og fjerner nitrogen. Vannet som tas opp gjennom plantene og siver gjennom toppen hjelper med å holde luften fuktig. I cellen vil bakterier vokse naturlig og hjelpe med å rense vannet.

Vann fra den lave enden av den botaniske cellen blir dermed ledet gjennom et torvmosefilter og samlet i et reservat eller en brønn. Dette gjenvunnede vannet passerer dermed enda en gang gjennom et gråvannsbord og brukt til å spyle ned i toaletter.

Ofte er gråvannet som dannes i jordskip ikke forurenset nok til å rettferdiggjøre behandling ("forurensningen er som regel bare såpe, som ofte ikke er miljømessig skadelig). I jordskip blir plantene plassert ved utløpene praktisert for å gjenvinne vannet og de tapte næringsstoffene (fra såpene, osv.)... Vanligvis blir en enkel plante plassert rett foran røret, men av og til brukes det også miniavløpsfelt. Røret er stort nok (5,08 cm) solik at dannelsen av undergrunnsgass (fra gråvannet) blir unngått. Dette blir gjort med kjøkken- og badvasker, og til og med dusjer, vaskemaskiner, og oppvaskemaskiner. Plantene plasseres som regel innendørs med vasken og utendørs med oppvask/vaskemaskiner og dusjer (for å unngå "flom" innendørs) Med det sistnevne blir det også plassert større avløpsfelt istedenfor en enkel plante.<ref>[http://melinathinks.wordpress.com/category/earthship-greywater-plantergreenhouse/ Planter plassert ved rør]</ref><ref>[http://www.greenhomebuilding.com/earthship.htm Planter plassert ved rør i jordskip]</ref>

===Svartvann===
Svartvann, vann som har blitt brukt i et toalett, ble vanligvis ikke dannet i mange av de tidligste jordskipene ettersom bruken av spylbare toaletter ble frarådet.<ref>Earthship Volume 2:Systems and components</ref> Istedenfor ble {{LangLink|Composting Toilet|komposterende toaletter]] anbefalt, som ikke brukte vann i det hele tatt. Men med det nye behandlingssystemet for gråvann (brukt i Nautilus, Helios, ...) skapt av Michael Reynolds, har nå spylbare toaletter fått en plass i jordskipet og det generelle vannsystemet har blitt redesignet i henhold til det nye "6-trinnsprosessen".<ref>[http://heliohouse.com/tech.htm Ny prosess for vannrensingssystem i Helios hus: overblikk med bilder]</ref><ref>[http://www.earthship.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=25 Spillvannsti]</ref>

Når spyletoaletter blir brukt, blir ikke svartvann gjenbrukt inne i Jordskipet. Istedet blir det sent til en solutvidet septikktank med lekkefelt og planterceller (helheten blir ofte referert til som “inkubatoren”). Den solutvidede septikktanken er en vanlig septikktank som blir varmet av solen og glassert med et vindu mot ekvator. Inkubatoren lagrer solens varme i betongmassen, og er isolert, for å hjelpe den anaerobe prosessen. Vann fra inkubatoren er ledet ut til et utenforliggende lekkefelt og dermed til landskapspleiende "planterceller" (områder omringet av betong der planter er plassert). Cellene ligner botaniske celler brukt i gråvannbehandling og er vanligvis plassert rett under vinduene til et jordskip.

I tilfeller der det ikke er mulig å bruke spyletoaletter operert på vann, anbefales nå tørre soltoaletter, istedenfor ''vanlige'' komposttoaletter. Hvis dette er tilfelle, vil det selvfølgelig ikke dannes noe svartvann, og dermed er ikke bruken av inkubatorer (vanligvis) nødvendig. Isteden brukes vanlige "plantere" (planter brukt for å suge opp vann/næringsstoff). Når man bruker vanlige plantere i tillegg, kan ikke kjemiske såper eller vaskemidler brukes.

Området der VOM (vannorganiseringsmodulen), pumpepanel for gråvann, trykktank, (første sett med) batterier, og KOM (kraftorganiserende modul) er lagret i er et lite rom referert til som "systempakke".

==Elektrisitet==
Jordskip er designet til å samle og lagre energien sin fra flere kilder. Majoriteten av elektrisk energi er høstet fra solen og vinden. {{LinkLang|Solar Cells|Solcellepanel}} og {{LinkLang|Small Wind Turbine|vindturbiner}} plassert på eller nær Jordskipet genererer likestrøm som deretter blir lagret i flere typer {{LinkLang|deep-cycle batteries|dypsyklusbatterier}}. Rommet der batteriene holdes er vanligvis et spesialbygd rin plassert på taket. Ytterligere energi, hvis det trengs, kan fås fra bensindrevne generatorer eller ved å integreres i strømnettet.

I et Jordskip blir en Kraftorganiseringsmodul brukt for å ta lagret energi fra batterier gjøre det om til vekselstrøm. Kraftorganiseringsmodulen er et prefabrikert system levert av Earthship Biotecture som henges på en innvendig vegg av Jordskipet og koblet på vanlig måte. Det inkluderer det nødvendige utstyret som overbelastningsbrytere og voltkonverter. Energien som går gjennom Kraftorganiseringsmodulen kan bli brukt til å drive et hvilket som helst husholdningsapparat inkludert vaskemaskin, datamaskin, kjøkkenredskaper, printere, støvsugere, osv. Generelt blir ikke noe av den elektriske energien i et Jordskip brukt til oppvarming eller nedkjøling.<ref>[http://earthship.com/systems/energy.php] http://earthship.com/systems/energy.php}}</ref>

==Klima==
Jordskipet tar sikte på å vedlikeholde en komfortabel temperatur, dvs. uten å være avhengig av systemer som krever energi. Det gjør dette ved å maksimere effekten av termiskmasse og soloppvarming og ved å bruke byggematerialer som er tungt isolerte.

Vinduer på solvendte vegger gir tilgang til lys og varme. Bygningene er ofte hestesko-formede for å maksimere naturlig lys og solinntak i løpet av vintermånedene. Den tykke, tette indre veggen gir termisk masse som naturlig regulerer den interiøre temperaturen i løpet av både kalde og varme utsidetemperaturer.

Hovedsaklig prøver Jordskipet å benytte seg av egenskapene til termisk masse og passiv soloppvarming og kjøling. Eksempler er store frontvinduer med integrerte persienner, trombevegger og andre teknologier som takvinduer og solsporere (som også genererer elektrisitet).

Bæreveggen til et Jordskip gir en tett termisk masse som vil ta til seg varme i løpet av dagen og stråle varme i løpet av natten, noe som holder det interiøre klimaet relativt komfortabelt hele dagen.

I tillegg til høy termisk masse, kan noen Jordskip være jordskjermet. Fordelene med jordskjerming er todelt, fordi det tilfører til den termiske massen og, hvis Jordskipet er begravd dypt nok, tillater det strukturen å benytte seg av Jordens stabile temperatur.

Jordskipet er formet på en sånn måte at solen bidrar med varme, ventilasjon, og belysning. For å benytte seg av solen er et Jordskip plassert slik at dets viktigste vegg, som ikke er strukturell og lagd for det meste av glassplater, er rettet direkte mot ekvator. Denne posisjoneringen tillater optimal soleksponering.

For å tillate solen å varme Jordskipets masse, er den solorienterte veggen vinklet slik at den er vinkelrett til lyset fra vintersolen. Dette gir maksimal eksponering i vinteren, når varme er ønsket, og mindre eksponering om sommeren, når varmen gjerne vil unngås. Noen Jordskip, spesielt de som er bygd i kaldere klimaer, bruker isolerte persienner på den solorienterte veggen for å reduserer varmetap i løpet av natten (Reynolds 2000).

===Naturlig ventilasjon===
Jordskipet bruker vanligvis sitt egne naturlige ventilasjonssystem. Det består av at kald(ere) luft kommer inn fra et frontvindu, spesielt lagd for dette og flyter ut gjennom (et av) takvinduene som er plassert på jordskipet. Etter hvert som varm luft stiger, vedlikeholder systemet seg selv og fortsetter å suge inn (og ut), luft.

===Oppvarmingsproblemer===
Flaskevegger brukes i jordskip. Jordskip er avhengig av en balanse mellom solvarmeinntak og evnen til dekkveggene og bakkejorden for å lagre varme. Designen har som hensikt å kreve lite hvis noe ytterligere varme. Noen jordskip har lidd av overoppvarming og noen av overavkjøling.

Noen jordskip ser ut til å ha alvorlige problemer med varmetap. I disse tilfellene virker det som om varme lekker ned i bakken hele tiden i løpet av oppvarmingssesongen og mistes. Denne situasjonen kan ha oppstått fra den feilaktige troen at bakkekoblede strukturer (å bygge med termisk kontakt til bakken) ikke krever isolering. Situasjonen kan også være på grunn av store klimaforskjeller mellom solfylte, tørre, og varme Sørvest (i USA) der jordskip først ble bygd og det mer overskyede, kalde, og våte klimaet der noen nå blir bygd. {{LinkLang|Malcolm Wells}}, en arkitekt og autoritet på jordskjermet design, foreslår R-verdi 10 isolering mellom dyp jord og oppvarmede rom. Wells isoleringsanbefaliner øker ettersom dybden av jorden minker.

I veldig begrensede og spesifikke situasjoner, uvanlige i oppvarmingssesongen, kan termisk masse marginalt øke den tilsynelatende R-verdien til en bygningssammensetning av en slik vegg. Generelt sett er termisk masse og R-verdi distinkte termodynamiske egenskaper og burde ikke sammenlignes. Termisk ytelsesproblemer tilsynelatende sett i noen jordskipdesign kan ha oppstått på grunn av at termisk masse har feilaktig blitt sammenlignet med R-verdi. R-verdien av jord er omtrent 1 per fot.<ref>[http://www.engext.ksu.edu/ees/henergy/envelope/basement.html Kansas State University Extension Service]</ref>

Den liggende glasseringen kan være hard å holde vanntett og i varme klimaer tillater overflødig solinntak på sommeren. I kaldere klimaer vil selve glasseringen, som har langt dårligere isoleringsegenskaper enn noen annen komponent, selvfølgelig være den største kanalen for varmetap om vinteren. Nye design etterspør vertikale vinduer med et overheng.

Uisolert bakkekoblet termisk masse presenterer et større potensiale for varmetap, spesielt i klimaer med en varmesesong. Dette varierer til en viss grad med jordtype og fuktighetsinnhold.

==History==
Jordskipets historie ble omtalt i dokumentaren [http://www.garbagewarrior.com/ "Garbage Warrior"] fra 2007:
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Jordskipet begynte å ta form på 1970-tallet. Design var i første omgang veldig eksperimentell, men har blitt forbedret over tiden.

I dag er Jordskip brukt i nesten hver eneste stat i USA, og i mange land i Europa. I 2000 grunnla Mike Reynolds og Daren Howarth Earthship Biotecture Europe for å utforske og utvikle konseptet med Jordskip i Europa. I juli 2006 ble det utpekt to nye direktører til Earthship Biotecture Europe - Kevan Trott og Kirsten Jacobsen.

Earthship Biotecture har nå gjort ferdig planene for å bygge 16 Jordskiphjem i Brighton.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20071213144133/http://www.earthship.co.uk/earthship-homes.htm Earthship Homes development] (arkivert fra [http://www.earthship.co.uk/earthship-homes.htm originalen] on 2007-12-13).</ref>

Earthship Biotecture tar sikte på å bygge Jordskip for å huse 32 mennesker som ble hjemløse etter jordskjelvet i Haiti [http://earthship.com/haiti-disaster-relief.html].

==Ytterligere lesestoff==
* Schirber, Michael. [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21755230/ "Making Earthships Mainstream"] på ''Going Green at [[msnbc.com]]'', November 12, 2007.
* [http://www.earthshipfloridaproject.com Earthship Florida Prosjekt]

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En byggeguide er tilgjengelig på The Pirate Bay:
*[http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5561875/Michael_Reynolds__Earthship_Vol._1__How_to_build_your_own Volum 1]. Denne forteller deg hvordan du lager dekkene tettpakket med jord og hvordan du bygger vegger av dem.
*[http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5599633/Michael_Reynolds__Earthship_Vol._2__Systems_and_components Volum 2]. Solenergi, vannsystemer, gråvann, vannoppvarmingssystem, belysning, peiser, trapper, dører, skap, bad, dusjer, kuppler & velv.
*[http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5569181/Michael_Reynolds__Earthship_Vol._3__Evolution_beyond_economics Volum 3]. Dette ble skrevet 3 år etter Volum 1 og viser forbedrede byggemetoder enn det beskrevet da. Forteller også om toaletter, kjøleskap og forbedrede vann- og ventilasjonssystemer.
* Hewitt, M. and Telfer, K. (2007). ''Earthships: building a zero carbon future for homes''. ISBN 9781860819728
* Klippel, James H. http://www.garrellassociates.com/EcoDesign.html, grønn side
* Reynolds, Mike. (2000). ''Comfort In Any Climate'', Taos: Solar Survival P. ISBN 0962676748

==Referanser==
<small><references/></small>

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Knut Brekken: /* Further reading */

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Et '''{{LinkLang|Earthship|Jordskip}}''' er en type hjem som tar vare på sine egne behov når det gjelder energi, vann, avfallshåndtering og noen ganger til og med matproduksjon. Det oppnår et høyt nivå av energieffektivitet ved å bruke varmen fra solen så mye som mulig, og har kraftig isolasjon. Ideen er å ha et hjem uten rør eller kabler inn og ut av det: ingen elektriske ledninger, kloakkrør, eller vannledninger.

Jordskip er ment å bygges av folk som ikke er opplærte byggearbeidere.

== Introduksjon ==
De originale Jordskipene er bygd av jord pakket tett inn i gamle blikkbokser eller bildekk. Dette betyr at mesteparten av byggematerialet er jord funnet på stedet og resten av det er resirkulert. Disse materialene er billige eller gratis, og kan bli brukt med veldig lite energiforbruk eller miljømessig påvirkning.

Jordskip er et påfunn av Mike Reynolds og er designet og markedsført av [http://earthship.com/ Earthship Biotecture] fra Taos, New Mexico.

Mange andre selvforsynte, hjem utenfor strømnettet som er Jordskip per definisjon er gjennomførbare. Et tradisjonelt eksempel er Mandan-jordhuset bygd av nordamerikanske indianere. Et moderne eksempel kan være et containerhjem. Dette er et glimrende eksempel fordi det å bruke gamle fraktcontainere skriver av fra ideen om resirkulering på en enorm måte. Et Jordskip fra en container resirkulerer mange tonn stål med veldig lite energiinput.
[http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=104266276286421&v=wall]

==Struktur==
===Dekk tettpakket med jord===
Jordskip er vanligvis lagd av resirkulerte gummidekk med jord pakket inn i dem. Enhver kompakt masse, som betong, leire eller stein kan imidlertid brukes. Dekk tettpakket med jord har følgende fordeler -
# Til forskjell fra materialer som betong, kan det brukes av hvem som helst. Ikke noe spesialutstyr kreves for å lage dem eller bruke dem. Skrapdekk er overalt rundt i verden og er enkelt å komme over; det er et anslag på 2 milliarder dekk i hele USA. I 1996, ble 253 millioner skrapdekk generert hvert år i USA, der 70% ble tilbakekalt av skrapdekkmarkedet (hvilket etterlater kanskje 75 millioner skrapdekk tilgjengelig til gjenbruk som hele dekk).<ref>Tom Verde, [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CE0DA133CF931A35751C1A960958260&n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FSubjects%2FT%2FTires At Heart of Dispute, Tires by the Acre] (December 2, 1996), The New York Times.</ref> Metoden skrapdekk blir konvertert til brukbare "murstein" er enkel og billig: jord pakkes inn i ved å bruke slegge.
#De har stor bærekapasitet. Gummidekkvegger har imidlertid en tendens til å mangle strukturell stivhet og kan kreve vertikale avstivningsribber.
#Fordi dekkene er fulle av jord, brenner det ikke når de blir utsatt for brann. I 1996, etter at en brann feiet gjennom mange konvensjonelle hjem i New Mexico, ble det i ettertid oppdaget et Jordskip som var relativt uskadet. Kun den sydvendte veggen og taket hadde brent bort, sammenlignet med den totale ødeleggelsen av de konvensjonelle hjemmene.

Et helt tettpakket dekk er omtrent 80 cm bredt. Dette er stort nok for å overgå konvensjonelle krav for strukturell vektdistribusjon til jorden. Veggene til et Jordskip er mye tykkere enn et konvensjonelt hjem, noe som gir en sterkere bygning med bedre isolering av lyd og varme.

====Arbeid====
De tettpakkede dekkene til et Jordskip er vanligvis satt sammen av lag på to personer som jobber som del av ett større konstruksjonslag. En person spar jorden fra byggeplassen inn i dekkene. Den andre står på dkket og bruker slegge for å pakke jorden inni. Den andre personen beveger seg i sirkel rundt dekket for å holde jorden jevn og for å unngå å deformere dekket. Dette er en veldig intensiv arbeidsprosess.'' 'The Earthship Manual: Vol. 1' ''sier at to personer som jobber sammen i en time kan lage fire jordpakkede dekk. Det tar rundt tusen dekk for å bygge et hus ([http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/apr2/eship.htm]), så dermed 500 arbeidstimer per hus. Rundt 40% av kostnaden til et ferdig Jordskip er assosiert med arbeid [http://www.reedconstructiondata.com/construction-forecast/news/2011/01/earthships-down-to-earth-homes/]

De tettpakkede dekkene blir laget på plassen fordi, når de er laget skikkelig, veier de opptil 140 kilo og kan være veldig vanskelig å flytte.

===Interne vegger===
Interne, ikke-bærende vegger er ofte lagd som en bikakestruktur av resirkulerte hermetikkbokser festet sammen av betong og blir kalt blikkboksvegger. Disse veggene er ofte tykt pusset med stukkatur.

===Strukturell form===
Jordskip er basert rundt en eller flere U-formede moduler. Hver av disse har en vegg av tettpakkede dekk flere fot tykt og et gulv som er under bakkenivå. Ved å være delvis nedsenket tillater det huset å utnytte fordelen med termiske lagringsegenskapene til jorden. Dette kan imidlertid forårsake problemer med at vann eller radongass lekker opp fra jorden.

===Tak===
Taket til et Jordskip er tungt isolert – ofte med jord eller leire – for økt energieffektivitet.

==Vann==
=== Høsting av regnvann ===
Vann brukt i et Jordskip er {{LinkLang|Harvested Rainwater|høstet fra regn]], snø eller kondens. Etter hvert som vannet samler seg på taket, blir det ledet gjennom en slamfangende enhet og inn i en brønn. Brønnene er plassert slik at de gravitasjons forer en VOM (VannOrganiseringsModul), som filtrerer ut bakterier og forurensninger, og gjør at vannet kan drikkes. VOM består av filtere og en DC-pumpe som er skrudd inn i et panel. Vannet blir deretter presset inn i en konvensjonell trykktant for å skape vanlig vanntrykk for husholdninger. Vann samlet på denne måten blir brukt til alle husholdningsaktiviterer bortsett fra nedspyling i toaletter på den konvensjonelle måten. Heller enn det, har vannet som brukes for å spyle ned i toalettet blitt brukt minst en gang allerede: ofte er det filtrert spillvann fra vasker og dusjer, og beskrevet som "Gråvann".

=== Gråvann ===
{{LinkLang|Gray Water|Gråvann}} er vann som har blitt brukt og som ikke er egnet for drikking, men som fortsatt kan brukes til ting som vasking. Før gråvannet blir gjenbrukt i et Jordskip, blir det ledet gjennom et fett- og partikkelfilter og inn i et 75-150cm dyp gummikledd {{LinkLang|Living Machines|levende maskin]], som er et biologisk vannfilter. Dette filteret kan inkludere planter som produserer mat mens det filtrerer vannet med røttene sine. Vannoksygenering, filtrering, transpirasjon, og bakterieoppstandelse skjer i cellen og hjelper å rense vannet (Reynolds 2000). Inni den botaniske cellen, blir filtrering oppnåd ved at vannet passerer gjennom en blanding av grus og planterøtter. Plantene tilfører oksygen til vannet og fjerner nitrogen. Vannet som tas opp gjennom plantene og siver gjennom toppen hjelper med å holde luften fuktig. I cellen vil bakterier vokse naturlig og hjelpe med å rense vannet.

Vann fra den lave enden av den botaniske cellen blir dermed ledet gjennom et torvmosefilter og samlet i et reservat eller en brønn. Dette gjenvunnede vannet passerer dermed enda en gang gjennom et gråvannsbord og brukt til å spyle ned i toaletter.

Ofte er gråvannet som dannes i jordskip ikke forurenset nok til å rettferdiggjøre behandling ("forurensningen er som regel bare såpe, som ofte ikke er miljømessig skadelig). I jordskip blir plantene plassert ved utløpene praktisert for å gjenvinne vannet og de tapte næringsstoffene (fra såpene, osv.)... Vanligvis blir en enkel plante plassert rett foran røret, men av og til brukes det også miniavløpsfelt. Røret er stort nok (5,08 cm) solik at dannelsen av undergrunnsgass (fra gråvannet) blir unngått. Dette blir gjort med kjøkken- og badvasker, og til og med dusjer, vaskemaskiner, og oppvaskemaskiner. Plantene plasseres som regel innendørs med vasken og utendørs med oppvask/vaskemaskiner og dusjer (for å unngå "flom" innendørs) Med det sistnevne blir det også plassert større avløpsfelt istedenfor en enkel plante.<ref>[http://melinathinks.wordpress.com/category/earthship-greywater-plantergreenhouse/ Planter plassert ved rør]</ref><ref>[http://www.greenhomebuilding.com/earthship.htm Planter plassert ved rør i jordskip]</ref>

===Svartvann===
Svartvann, vann som har blitt brukt i et toalett, ble vanligvis ikke dannet i mange av de tidligste jordskipene ettersom bruken av spylbare toaletter ble frarådet.<ref>Earthship Volume 2:Systems and components</ref> Istedenfor ble {{LangLink|Composting Toilet|komposterende toaletter]] anbefalt, som ikke brukte vann i det hele tatt. Men med det nye behandlingssystemet for gråvann (brukt i Nautilus, Helios, ...) skapt av Michael Reynolds, har nå spylbare toaletter fått en plass i jordskipet og det generelle vannsystemet har blitt redesignet i henhold til det nye "6-trinnsprosessen".<ref>[http://heliohouse.com/tech.htm Ny prosess for vannrensingssystem i Helios hus: overblikk med bilder]</ref><ref>[http://www.earthship.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=25 Spillvannsti]</ref>

Når spyletoaletter blir brukt, blir ikke svartvann gjenbrukt inne i Jordskipet. Istedet blir det sent til en solutvidet septikktank med lekkefelt og planterceller (helheten blir ofte referert til som “inkubatoren”). Den solutvidede septikktanken er en vanlig septikktank som blir varmet av solen og glassert med et vindu mot ekvator. Inkubatoren lagrer solens varme i betongmassen, og er isolert, for å hjelpe den anaerobe prosessen. Vann fra inkubatoren er ledet ut til et utenforliggende lekkefelt og dermed til landskapspleiende "planterceller" (områder omringet av betong der planter er plassert). Cellene ligner botaniske celler brukt i gråvannbehandling og er vanligvis plassert rett under vinduene til et jordskip.

I tilfeller der det ikke er mulig å bruke spyletoaletter operert på vann, anbefales nå tørre soltoaletter, istedenfor ''vanlige'' komposttoaletter. Hvis dette er tilfelle, vil det selvfølgelig ikke dannes noe svartvann, og dermed er ikke bruken av inkubatorer (vanligvis) nødvendig. Isteden brukes vanlige "plantere" (planter brukt for å suge opp vann/næringsstoff). Når man bruker vanlige plantere i tillegg, kan ikke kjemiske såper eller vaskemidler brukes.

Området der VOM (vannorganiseringsmodulen), pumpepanel for gråvann, trykktank, (første sett med) batterier, og KOM (kraftorganiserende modul) er lagret i er et lite rom referert til som "systempakke".

==Elektrisitet==
Jordskip er designet til å samle og lagre energien sin fra flere kilder. Majoriteten av elektrisk energi er høstet fra solen og vinden. {{LinkLang|Solar Cells|Solcellepanel}} og {{LinkLang|Small Wind Turbine|vindturbiner}} plassert på eller nær Jordskipet genererer likestrøm som deretter blir lagret i flere typer {{LinkLang|deep-cycle batteries|dypsyklusbatterier}}. Rommet der batteriene holdes er vanligvis et spesialbygd rin plassert på taket. Ytterligere energi, hvis det trengs, kan fås fra bensindrevne generatorer eller ved å integreres i strømnettet.

I et Jordskip blir en Kraftorganiseringsmodul brukt for å ta lagret energi fra batterier gjøre det om til vekselstrøm. Kraftorganiseringsmodulen er et prefabrikert system levert av Earthship Biotecture som henges på en innvendig vegg av Jordskipet og koblet på vanlig måte. Det inkluderer det nødvendige utstyret som overbelastningsbrytere og voltkonverter. Energien som går gjennom Kraftorganiseringsmodulen kan bli brukt til å drive et hvilket som helst husholdningsapparat inkludert vaskemaskin, datamaskin, kjøkkenredskaper, printere, støvsugere, osv. Generelt blir ikke noe av den elektriske energien i et Jordskip brukt til oppvarming eller nedkjøling.<ref>[http://earthship.com/systems/energy.php] http://earthship.com/systems/energy.php}}</ref>

==Klima==
Jordskipet tar sikte på å vedlikeholde en komfortabel temperatur, dvs. uten å være avhengig av systemer som krever energi. Det gjør dette ved å maksimere effekten av termiskmasse og soloppvarming og ved å bruke byggematerialer som er tungt isolerte.

Vinduer på solvendte vegger gir tilgang til lys og varme. Bygningene er ofte hestesko-formede for å maksimere naturlig lys og solinntak i løpet av vintermånedene. Den tykke, tette indre veggen gir termisk masse som naturlig regulerer den interiøre temperaturen i løpet av både kalde og varme utsidetemperaturer.

Hovedsaklig prøver Jordskipet å benytte seg av egenskapene til termisk masse og passiv soloppvarming og kjøling. Eksempler er store frontvinduer med integrerte persienner, trombevegger og andre teknologier som takvinduer og solsporere (som også genererer elektrisitet).

Bæreveggen til et Jordskip gir en tett termisk masse som vil ta til seg varme i løpet av dagen og stråle varme i løpet av natten, noe som holder det interiøre klimaet relativt komfortabelt hele dagen.

I tillegg til høy termisk masse, kan noen Jordskip være jordskjermet. Fordelene med jordskjerming er todelt, fordi det tilfører til den termiske massen og, hvis Jordskipet er begravd dypt nok, tillater det strukturen å benytte seg av Jordens stabile temperatur.

Jordskipet er formet på en sånn måte at solen bidrar med varme, ventilasjon, og belysning. For å benytte seg av solen er et Jordskip plassert slik at dets viktigste vegg, som ikke er strukturell og lagd for det meste av glassplater, er rettet direkte mot ekvator. Denne posisjoneringen tillater optimal soleksponering.

For å tillate solen å varme Jordskipets masse, er den solorienterte veggen vinklet slik at den er vinkelrett til lyset fra vintersolen. Dette gir maksimal eksponering i vinteren, når varme er ønsket, og mindre eksponering om sommeren, når varmen gjerne vil unngås. Noen Jordskip, spesielt de som er bygd i kaldere klimaer, bruker isolerte persienner på den solorienterte veggen for å reduserer varmetap i løpet av natten (Reynolds 2000).

===Naturlig ventilasjon===
Jordskipet bruker vanligvis sitt egne naturlige ventilasjonssystem. Det består av at kald(ere) luft kommer inn fra et frontvindu, spesielt lagd for dette og flyter ut gjennom (et av) takvinduene som er plassert på jordskipet. Etter hvert som varm luft stiger, vedlikeholder systemet seg selv og fortsetter å suge inn (og ut), luft.

===Oppvarmingsproblemer===
Flaskevegger brukes i jordskip. Jordskip er avhengig av en balanse mellom solvarmeinntak og evnen til dekkveggene og bakkejorden for å lagre varme. Designen har som hensikt å kreve lite hvis noe ytterligere varme. Noen jordskip har lidd av overoppvarming og noen av overavkjøling.

Noen jordskip ser ut til å ha alvorlige problemer med varmetap. I disse tilfellene virker det som om varme lekker ned i bakken hele tiden i løpet av oppvarmingssesongen og mistes. Denne situasjonen kan ha oppstått fra den feilaktige troen at bakkekoblede strukturer (å bygge med termisk kontakt til bakken) ikke krever isolering. Situasjonen kan også være på grunn av store klimaforskjeller mellom solfylte, tørre, og varme Sørvest (i USA) der jordskip først ble bygd og det mer overskyede, kalde, og våte klimaet der noen nå blir bygd. {{LinkLang|Malcolm Wells}}, en arkitekt og autoritet på jordskjermet design, foreslår R-verdi 10 isolering mellom dyp jord og oppvarmede rom. Wells isoleringsanbefaliner øker ettersom dybden av jorden minker.

I veldig begrensede og spesifikke situasjoner, uvanlige i oppvarmingssesongen, kan termisk masse marginalt øke den tilsynelatende R-verdien til en bygningssammensetning av en slik vegg. Generelt sett er termisk masse og R-verdi distinkte termodynamiske egenskaper og burde ikke sammenlignes. Termisk ytelsesproblemer tilsynelatende sett i noen jordskipdesign kan ha oppstått på grunn av at termisk masse har feilaktig blitt sammenlignet med R-verdi. R-verdien av jord er omtrent 1 per fot.<ref>[http://www.engext.ksu.edu/ees/henergy/envelope/basement.html Kansas State University Extension Service]</ref>

Den liggende glasseringen kan være hard å holde vanntett og i varme klimaer tillater overflødig solinntak på sommeren. I kaldere klimaer vil selve glasseringen, som har langt dårligere isoleringsegenskaper enn noen annen komponent, selvfølgelig være den største kanalen for varmetap om vinteren. Nye design etterspør vertikale vinduer med et overheng.

Uisolert bakkekoblet termisk masse presenterer et større potensiale for varmetap, spesielt i klimaer med en varmesesong. Dette varierer til en viss grad med jordtype og fuktighetsinnhold.

==History==
Jordskipets historie ble omtalt i dokumentaren [http://www.garbagewarrior.com/ "Garbage Warrior"] fra 2007:
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Jordskipet begynte å ta form på 1970-tallet. Design var i første omgang veldig eksperimentell, men har blitt forbedret over tiden.

I dag er Jordskip brukt i nesten hver eneste stat i USA, og i mange land i Europa. I 2000 grunnla Mike Reynolds og Daren Howarth Earthship Biotecture Europe for å utforske og utvikle konseptet med Jordskip i Europa. I juli 2006 ble det utpekt to nye direktører til Earthship Biotecture Europe - Kevan Trott og Kirsten Jacobsen.

Earthship Biotecture har nå gjort ferdig planene for å bygge 16 Jordskiphjem i Brighton.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20071213144133/http://www.earthship.co.uk/earthship-homes.htm Earthship Homes development] (arkivert fra [http://www.earthship.co.uk/earthship-homes.htm originalen] on 2007-12-13).</ref>

Earthship Biotecture tar sikte på å bygge Jordskip for å huse 32 mennesker som ble hjemløse etter jordskjelvet i Haiti [http://earthship.com/haiti-disaster-relief.html].

==Ytterliger lesestoff==
* Schirber, Michael. [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21755230/ "Making Earthships Mainstream"] på ''Going Green at [[msnbc.com]]'', November 12, 2007.
* [http://www.earthshipfloridaproject.com Earthship Florida Prosjekt]

----

En byggeguide er tilgjengelig på The Pirate Bay:
*[http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5561875/Michael_Reynolds__Earthship_Vol._1__How_to_build_your_own Volum 1]. Denne forteller deg hvordan du lager dekkene tettpakket med jord og hvordan du bygger vegger av dem.
*[http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5599633/Michael_Reynolds__Earthship_Vol._2__Systems_and_components Volum 2]. Solenergi, vannsystemer, gråvann, vannoppvarmingssystem, belysning, peiser, trapper, dører, skap, bad, dusjer, kuppler & velv.
*[http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5569181/Michael_Reynolds__Earthship_Vol._3__Evolution_beyond_economics Volum 3]. Dette ble skrevet 3 år etter Volum 1 og viser forbedrede byggemetoder enn det beskrevet da. Forteller også om toaletter, kjøleskap og forbedrede vann- og ventilasjonssystemer.
* Hewitt, M. and Telfer, K. (2007). ''Earthships: building a zero carbon future for homes''. ISBN 9781860819728
* Klippel, James H. http://www.garrellassociates.com/EcoDesign.html, grønn side
* Reynolds, Mike. (2000). ''Comfort In Any Climate'', Taos: Solar Survival P. ISBN 0962676748

==Referanser==
<small><references/></small>

Earthship/no

2011-05-11T18:37:49Z

Knut Brekken: /* History */

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[[File:Earthship1.jpg|400px|right]]
[[File:Earthship2.jpg|400px|right|Designet brukt på de fleste jordskip. En rekke vinduer, og bruken av bildekk karakteriserer den jordskjermede bygningen]]

Et '''{{LinkLang|Earthship|Jordskip}}''' er en type hjem som tar vare på sine egne behov når det gjelder energi, vann, avfallshåndtering og noen ganger til og med matproduksjon. Det oppnår et høyt nivå av energieffektivitet ved å bruke varmen fra solen så mye som mulig, og har kraftig isolasjon. Ideen er å ha et hjem uten rør eller kabler inn og ut av det: ingen elektriske ledninger, kloakkrør, eller vannledninger.

Jordskip er ment å bygges av folk som ikke er opplærte byggearbeidere.

== Introduksjon ==
De originale Jordskipene er bygd av jord pakket tett inn i gamle blikkbokser eller bildekk. Dette betyr at mesteparten av byggematerialet er jord funnet på stedet og resten av det er resirkulert. Disse materialene er billige eller gratis, og kan bli brukt med veldig lite energiforbruk eller miljømessig påvirkning.

Jordskip er et påfunn av Mike Reynolds og er designet og markedsført av [http://earthship.com/ Earthship Biotecture] fra Taos, New Mexico.

Mange andre selvforsynte, hjem utenfor strømnettet som er Jordskip per definisjon er gjennomførbare. Et tradisjonelt eksempel er Mandan-jordhuset bygd av nordamerikanske indianere. Et moderne eksempel kan være et containerhjem. Dette er et glimrende eksempel fordi det å bruke gamle fraktcontainere skriver av fra ideen om resirkulering på en enorm måte. Et Jordskip fra en container resirkulerer mange tonn stål med veldig lite energiinput.
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==Struktur==
===Dekk tettpakket med jord===
Jordskip er vanligvis lagd av resirkulerte gummidekk med jord pakket inn i dem. Enhver kompakt masse, som betong, leire eller stein kan imidlertid brukes. Dekk tettpakket med jord har følgende fordeler -
# Til forskjell fra materialer som betong, kan det brukes av hvem som helst. Ikke noe spesialutstyr kreves for å lage dem eller bruke dem. Skrapdekk er overalt rundt i verden og er enkelt å komme over; det er et anslag på 2 milliarder dekk i hele USA. I 1996, ble 253 millioner skrapdekk generert hvert år i USA, der 70% ble tilbakekalt av skrapdekkmarkedet (hvilket etterlater kanskje 75 millioner skrapdekk tilgjengelig til gjenbruk som hele dekk).<ref>Tom Verde, [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CE0DA133CF931A35751C1A960958260&n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FSubjects%2FT%2FTires At Heart of Dispute, Tires by the Acre] (December 2, 1996), The New York Times.</ref> Metoden skrapdekk blir konvertert til brukbare "murstein" er enkel og billig: jord pakkes inn i ved å bruke slegge.
#De har stor bærekapasitet. Gummidekkvegger har imidlertid en tendens til å mangle strukturell stivhet og kan kreve vertikale avstivningsribber.
#Fordi dekkene er fulle av jord, brenner det ikke når de blir utsatt for brann. I 1996, etter at en brann feiet gjennom mange konvensjonelle hjem i New Mexico, ble det i ettertid oppdaget et Jordskip som var relativt uskadet. Kun den sydvendte veggen og taket hadde brent bort, sammenlignet med den totale ødeleggelsen av de konvensjonelle hjemmene.

Et helt tettpakket dekk er omtrent 80 cm bredt. Dette er stort nok for å overgå konvensjonelle krav for strukturell vektdistribusjon til jorden. Veggene til et Jordskip er mye tykkere enn et konvensjonelt hjem, noe som gir en sterkere bygning med bedre isolering av lyd og varme.

====Arbeid====
De tettpakkede dekkene til et Jordskip er vanligvis satt sammen av lag på to personer som jobber som del av ett større konstruksjonslag. En person spar jorden fra byggeplassen inn i dekkene. Den andre står på dkket og bruker slegge for å pakke jorden inni. Den andre personen beveger seg i sirkel rundt dekket for å holde jorden jevn og for å unngå å deformere dekket. Dette er en veldig intensiv arbeidsprosess.'' 'The Earthship Manual: Vol. 1' ''sier at to personer som jobber sammen i en time kan lage fire jordpakkede dekk. Det tar rundt tusen dekk for å bygge et hus ([http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/apr2/eship.htm]), så dermed 500 arbeidstimer per hus. Rundt 40% av kostnaden til et ferdig Jordskip er assosiert med arbeid [http://www.reedconstructiondata.com/construction-forecast/news/2011/01/earthships-down-to-earth-homes/]

De tettpakkede dekkene blir laget på plassen fordi, når de er laget skikkelig, veier de opptil 140 kilo og kan være veldig vanskelig å flytte.

===Interne vegger===
Interne, ikke-bærende vegger er ofte lagd som en bikakestruktur av resirkulerte hermetikkbokser festet sammen av betong og blir kalt blikkboksvegger. Disse veggene er ofte tykt pusset med stukkatur.

===Strukturell form===
Jordskip er basert rundt en eller flere U-formede moduler. Hver av disse har en vegg av tettpakkede dekk flere fot tykt og et gulv som er under bakkenivå. Ved å være delvis nedsenket tillater det huset å utnytte fordelen med termiske lagringsegenskapene til jorden. Dette kan imidlertid forårsake problemer med at vann eller radongass lekker opp fra jorden.

===Tak===
Taket til et Jordskip er tungt isolert – ofte med jord eller leire – for økt energieffektivitet.

==Vann==
=== Høsting av regnvann ===
Vann brukt i et Jordskip er {{LinkLang|Harvested Rainwater|høstet fra regn]], snø eller kondens. Etter hvert som vannet samler seg på taket, blir det ledet gjennom en slamfangende enhet og inn i en brønn. Brønnene er plassert slik at de gravitasjons forer en VOM (VannOrganiseringsModul), som filtrerer ut bakterier og forurensninger, og gjør at vannet kan drikkes. VOM består av filtere og en DC-pumpe som er skrudd inn i et panel. Vannet blir deretter presset inn i en konvensjonell trykktant for å skape vanlig vanntrykk for husholdninger. Vann samlet på denne måten blir brukt til alle husholdningsaktiviterer bortsett fra nedspyling i toaletter på den konvensjonelle måten. Heller enn det, har vannet som brukes for å spyle ned i toalettet blitt brukt minst en gang allerede: ofte er det filtrert spillvann fra vasker og dusjer, og beskrevet som "Gråvann".

=== Gråvann ===
{{LinkLang|Gray Water|Gråvann}} er vann som har blitt brukt og som ikke er egnet for drikking, men som fortsatt kan brukes til ting som vasking. Før gråvannet blir gjenbrukt i et Jordskip, blir det ledet gjennom et fett- og partikkelfilter og inn i et 75-150cm dyp gummikledd {{LinkLang|Living Machines|levende maskin]], som er et biologisk vannfilter. Dette filteret kan inkludere planter som produserer mat mens det filtrerer vannet med røttene sine. Vannoksygenering, filtrering, transpirasjon, og bakterieoppstandelse skjer i cellen og hjelper å rense vannet (Reynolds 2000). Inni den botaniske cellen, blir filtrering oppnåd ved at vannet passerer gjennom en blanding av grus og planterøtter. Plantene tilfører oksygen til vannet og fjerner nitrogen. Vannet som tas opp gjennom plantene og siver gjennom toppen hjelper med å holde luften fuktig. I cellen vil bakterier vokse naturlig og hjelpe med å rense vannet.

Vann fra den lave enden av den botaniske cellen blir dermed ledet gjennom et torvmosefilter og samlet i et reservat eller en brønn. Dette gjenvunnede vannet passerer dermed enda en gang gjennom et gråvannsbord og brukt til å spyle ned i toaletter.

Ofte er gråvannet som dannes i jordskip ikke forurenset nok til å rettferdiggjøre behandling ("forurensningen er som regel bare såpe, som ofte ikke er miljømessig skadelig). I jordskip blir plantene plassert ved utløpene praktisert for å gjenvinne vannet og de tapte næringsstoffene (fra såpene, osv.)... Vanligvis blir en enkel plante plassert rett foran røret, men av og til brukes det også miniavløpsfelt. Røret er stort nok (5,08 cm) solik at dannelsen av undergrunnsgass (fra gråvannet) blir unngått. Dette blir gjort med kjøkken- og badvasker, og til og med dusjer, vaskemaskiner, og oppvaskemaskiner. Plantene plasseres som regel innendørs med vasken og utendørs med oppvask/vaskemaskiner og dusjer (for å unngå "flom" innendørs) Med det sistnevne blir det også plassert større avløpsfelt istedenfor en enkel plante.<ref>[http://melinathinks.wordpress.com/category/earthship-greywater-plantergreenhouse/ Planter plassert ved rør]</ref><ref>[http://www.greenhomebuilding.com/earthship.htm Planter plassert ved rør i jordskip]</ref>

===Svartvann===
Svartvann, vann som har blitt brukt i et toalett, ble vanligvis ikke dannet i mange av de tidligste jordskipene ettersom bruken av spylbare toaletter ble frarådet.<ref>Earthship Volume 2:Systems and components</ref> Istedenfor ble {{LangLink|Composting Toilet|komposterende toaletter]] anbefalt, som ikke brukte vann i det hele tatt. Men med det nye behandlingssystemet for gråvann (brukt i Nautilus, Helios, ...) skapt av Michael Reynolds, har nå spylbare toaletter fått en plass i jordskipet og det generelle vannsystemet har blitt redesignet i henhold til det nye "6-trinnsprosessen".<ref>[http://heliohouse.com/tech.htm Ny prosess for vannrensingssystem i Helios hus: overblikk med bilder]</ref><ref>[http://www.earthship.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=25 Spillvannsti]</ref>

Når spyletoaletter blir brukt, blir ikke svartvann gjenbrukt inne i Jordskipet. Istedet blir det sent til en solutvidet septikktank med lekkefelt og planterceller (helheten blir ofte referert til som “inkubatoren”). Den solutvidede septikktanken er en vanlig septikktank som blir varmet av solen og glassert med et vindu mot ekvator. Inkubatoren lagrer solens varme i betongmassen, og er isolert, for å hjelpe den anaerobe prosessen. Vann fra inkubatoren er ledet ut til et utenforliggende lekkefelt og dermed til landskapspleiende "planterceller" (områder omringet av betong der planter er plassert). Cellene ligner botaniske celler brukt i gråvannbehandling og er vanligvis plassert rett under vinduene til et jordskip.

I tilfeller der det ikke er mulig å bruke spyletoaletter operert på vann, anbefales nå tørre soltoaletter, istedenfor ''vanlige'' komposttoaletter. Hvis dette er tilfelle, vil det selvfølgelig ikke dannes noe svartvann, og dermed er ikke bruken av inkubatorer (vanligvis) nødvendig. Isteden brukes vanlige "plantere" (planter brukt for å suge opp vann/næringsstoff). Når man bruker vanlige plantere i tillegg, kan ikke kjemiske såper eller vaskemidler brukes.

Området der VOM (vannorganiseringsmodulen), pumpepanel for gråvann, trykktank, (første sett med) batterier, og KOM (kraftorganiserende modul) er lagret i er et lite rom referert til som "systempakke".

==Elektrisitet==
Jordskip er designet til å samle og lagre energien sin fra flere kilder. Majoriteten av elektrisk energi er høstet fra solen og vinden. {{LinkLang|Solar Cells|Solcellepanel}} og {{LinkLang|Small Wind Turbine|vindturbiner}} plassert på eller nær Jordskipet genererer likestrøm som deretter blir lagret i flere typer {{LinkLang|deep-cycle batteries|dypsyklusbatterier}}. Rommet der batteriene holdes er vanligvis et spesialbygd rin plassert på taket. Ytterligere energi, hvis det trengs, kan fås fra bensindrevne generatorer eller ved å integreres i strømnettet.

I et Jordskip blir en Kraftorganiseringsmodul brukt for å ta lagret energi fra batterier gjøre det om til vekselstrøm. Kraftorganiseringsmodulen er et prefabrikert system levert av Earthship Biotecture som henges på en innvendig vegg av Jordskipet og koblet på vanlig måte. Det inkluderer det nødvendige utstyret som overbelastningsbrytere og voltkonverter. Energien som går gjennom Kraftorganiseringsmodulen kan bli brukt til å drive et hvilket som helst husholdningsapparat inkludert vaskemaskin, datamaskin, kjøkkenredskaper, printere, støvsugere, osv. Generelt blir ikke noe av den elektriske energien i et Jordskip brukt til oppvarming eller nedkjøling.<ref>[http://earthship.com/systems/energy.php] http://earthship.com/systems/energy.php}}</ref>

==Klima==
Jordskipet tar sikte på å vedlikeholde en komfortabel temperatur, dvs. uten å være avhengig av systemer som krever energi. Det gjør dette ved å maksimere effekten av termiskmasse og soloppvarming og ved å bruke byggematerialer som er tungt isolerte.

Vinduer på solvendte vegger gir tilgang til lys og varme. Bygningene er ofte hestesko-formede for å maksimere naturlig lys og solinntak i løpet av vintermånedene. Den tykke, tette indre veggen gir termisk masse som naturlig regulerer den interiøre temperaturen i løpet av både kalde og varme utsidetemperaturer.

Hovedsaklig prøver Jordskipet å benytte seg av egenskapene til termisk masse og passiv soloppvarming og kjøling. Eksempler er store frontvinduer med integrerte persienner, trombevegger og andre teknologier som takvinduer og solsporere (som også genererer elektrisitet).

Bæreveggen til et Jordskip gir en tett termisk masse som vil ta til seg varme i løpet av dagen og stråle varme i løpet av natten, noe som holder det interiøre klimaet relativt komfortabelt hele dagen.

I tillegg til høy termisk masse, kan noen Jordskip være jordskjermet. Fordelene med jordskjerming er todelt, fordi det tilfører til den termiske massen og, hvis Jordskipet er begravd dypt nok, tillater det strukturen å benytte seg av Jordens stabile temperatur.

Jordskipet er formet på en sånn måte at solen bidrar med varme, ventilasjon, og belysning. For å benytte seg av solen er et Jordskip plassert slik at dets viktigste vegg, som ikke er strukturell og lagd for det meste av glassplater, er rettet direkte mot ekvator. Denne posisjoneringen tillater optimal soleksponering.

For å tillate solen å varme Jordskipets masse, er den solorienterte veggen vinklet slik at den er vinkelrett til lyset fra vintersolen. Dette gir maksimal eksponering i vinteren, når varme er ønsket, og mindre eksponering om sommeren, når varmen gjerne vil unngås. Noen Jordskip, spesielt de som er bygd i kaldere klimaer, bruker isolerte persienner på den solorienterte veggen for å reduserer varmetap i løpet av natten (Reynolds 2000).

===Naturlig ventilasjon===
Jordskipet bruker vanligvis sitt egne naturlige ventilasjonssystem. Det består av at kald(ere) luft kommer inn fra et frontvindu, spesielt lagd for dette og flyter ut gjennom (et av) takvinduene som er plassert på jordskipet. Etter hvert som varm luft stiger, vedlikeholder systemet seg selv og fortsetter å suge inn (og ut), luft.

===Oppvarmingsproblemer===
Flaskevegger brukes i jordskip. Jordskip er avhengig av en balanse mellom solvarmeinntak og evnen til dekkveggene og bakkejorden for å lagre varme. Designen har som hensikt å kreve lite hvis noe ytterligere varme. Noen jordskip har lidd av overoppvarming og noen av overavkjøling.

Noen jordskip ser ut til å ha alvorlige problemer med varmetap. I disse tilfellene virker det som om varme lekker ned i bakken hele tiden i løpet av oppvarmingssesongen og mistes. Denne situasjonen kan ha oppstått fra den feilaktige troen at bakkekoblede strukturer (å bygge med termisk kontakt til bakken) ikke krever isolering. Situasjonen kan også være på grunn av store klimaforskjeller mellom solfylte, tørre, og varme Sørvest (i USA) der jordskip først ble bygd og det mer overskyede, kalde, og våte klimaet der noen nå blir bygd. {{LinkLang|Malcolm Wells}}, en arkitekt og autoritet på jordskjermet design, foreslår R-verdi 10 isolering mellom dyp jord og oppvarmede rom. Wells isoleringsanbefaliner øker ettersom dybden av jorden minker.

I veldig begrensede og spesifikke situasjoner, uvanlige i oppvarmingssesongen, kan termisk masse marginalt øke den tilsynelatende R-verdien til en bygningssammensetning av en slik vegg. Generelt sett er termisk masse og R-verdi distinkte termodynamiske egenskaper og burde ikke sammenlignes. Termisk ytelsesproblemer tilsynelatende sett i noen jordskipdesign kan ha oppstått på grunn av at termisk masse har feilaktig blitt sammenlignet med R-verdi. R-verdien av jord er omtrent 1 per fot.<ref>[http://www.engext.ksu.edu/ees/henergy/envelope/basement.html Kansas State University Extension Service]</ref>

Den liggende glasseringen kan være hard å holde vanntett og i varme klimaer tillater overflødig solinntak på sommeren. I kaldere klimaer vil selve glasseringen, som har langt dårligere isoleringsegenskaper enn noen annen komponent, selvfølgelig være den største kanalen for varmetap om vinteren. Nye design etterspør vertikale vinduer med et overheng.

Uisolert bakkekoblet termisk masse presenterer et større potensiale for varmetap, spesielt i klimaer med en varmesesong. Dette varierer til en viss grad med jordtype og fuktighetsinnhold.

==History==
Jordskipets historie ble omtalt i dokumentaren [http://www.garbagewarrior.com/ "Garbage Warrior"] fra 2007:
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Jordskipet begynte å ta form på 1970-tallet. Design var i første omgang veldig eksperimentell, men har blitt forbedret over tiden.

I dag er Jordskip brukt i nesten hver eneste stat i USA, og i mange land i Europa. I 2000 grunnla Mike Reynolds og Daren Howarth Earthship Biotecture Europe for å utforske og utvikle konseptet med Jordskip i Europa. I juli 2006 ble det utpekt to nye direktører til Earthship Biotecture Europe - Kevan Trott og Kirsten Jacobsen.

Earthship Biotecture har nå gjort ferdig planene for å bygge 16 Jordskiphjem i Brighton.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20071213144133/http://www.earthship.co.uk/earthship-homes.htm Earthship Homes development] (arkivert fra [http://www.earthship.co.uk/earthship-homes.htm originalen] on 2007-12-13).</ref>

Earthship Biotecture tar sikte på å bygge Jordskip for å huse 32 mennesker som ble hjemløse etter jordskjelvet i Haiti [http://earthship.com/haiti-disaster-relief.html].

==Further reading==
* Schirber, Michael. [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21755230/ "Making Earthships Mainstream"] on ''Going Green at [[msnbc.com]]'', November 12, 2007.
* [http://www.earthshipfloridaproject.com Earthship Florida Project]

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A building guide is available on The Pirate Bay:
*[http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5561875/Michael_Reynolds__Earthship_Vol._1__How_to_build_your_own Volume 1]. This tells you how to make the rammed-earth tires and how to build walls out of them.
*[http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5599633/Michael_Reynolds__Earthship_Vol._2__Systems_and_components Volume 2]. Solar power, water systems, greywater, water heating systems, lighting, fireplaces, stairs, doors, cabinets, baths, showers, domes & vaults.
*[http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5569181/Michael_Reynolds__Earthship_Vol._3__Evolution_beyond_economics Volume 3]. This was written 3 years after Volume 1 and gives improvements over the methods of building described then. Also talks about toilets, refrigerators and improved water and ventilation systems.
* Hewitt, M. and Telfer, K. (2007). ''Earthships: building a zero carbon future for homes''. ISBN 9781860819728
* Klippel, James H. http://www.garrellassociates.com/EcoDesign.html, green page
* Reynolds, Mike. (2000). ''Comfort In Any Climate'', Taos: Solar Survival P. ISBN 0962676748

==Referanser==
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Et '''{{LinkLang|Earthship|Jordskip}}''' er en type hjem som tar vare på sine egne behov når det gjelder energi, vann, avfallshåndtering og noen ganger til og med matproduksjon. Det oppnår et høyt nivå av energieffektivitet ved å bruke varmen fra solen så mye som mulig, og har kraftig isolasjon. Ideen er å ha et hjem uten rør eller kabler inn og ut av det: ingen elektriske ledninger, kloakkrør, eller vannledninger.

Jordskip er ment å bygges av folk som ikke er opplærte byggearbeidere.

== Introduksjon ==
De originale Jordskipene er bygd av jord pakket tett inn i gamle blikkbokser eller bildekk. Dette betyr at mesteparten av byggematerialet er jord funnet på stedet og resten av det er resirkulert. Disse materialene er billige eller gratis, og kan bli brukt med veldig lite energiforbruk eller miljømessig påvirkning.

Jordskip er et påfunn av Mike Reynolds og er designet og markedsført av [http://earthship.com/ Earthship Biotecture] fra Taos, New Mexico.

Mange andre selvforsynte, hjem utenfor strømnettet som er Jordskip per definisjon er gjennomførbare. Et tradisjonelt eksempel er Mandan-jordhuset bygd av nordamerikanske indianere. Et moderne eksempel kan være et containerhjem. Dette er et glimrende eksempel fordi det å bruke gamle fraktcontainere skriver av fra ideen om resirkulering på en enorm måte. Et Jordskip fra en container resirkulerer mange tonn stål med veldig lite energiinput.
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==Struktur==
===Dekk tettpakket med jord===
Jordskip er vanligvis lagd av resirkulerte gummidekk med jord pakket inn i dem. Enhver kompakt masse, som betong, leire eller stein kan imidlertid brukes. Dekk tettpakket med jord har følgende fordeler -
# Til forskjell fra materialer som betong, kan det brukes av hvem som helst. Ikke noe spesialutstyr kreves for å lage dem eller bruke dem. Skrapdekk er overalt rundt i verden og er enkelt å komme over; det er et anslag på 2 milliarder dekk i hele USA. I 1996, ble 253 millioner skrapdekk generert hvert år i USA, der 70% ble tilbakekalt av skrapdekkmarkedet (hvilket etterlater kanskje 75 millioner skrapdekk tilgjengelig til gjenbruk som hele dekk).<ref>Tom Verde, [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CE0DA133CF931A35751C1A960958260&n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FSubjects%2FT%2FTires At Heart of Dispute, Tires by the Acre] (December 2, 1996), The New York Times.</ref> Metoden skrapdekk blir konvertert til brukbare "murstein" er enkel og billig: jord pakkes inn i ved å bruke slegge.
#De har stor bærekapasitet. Gummidekkvegger har imidlertid en tendens til å mangle strukturell stivhet og kan kreve vertikale avstivningsribber.
#Fordi dekkene er fulle av jord, brenner det ikke når de blir utsatt for brann. I 1996, etter at en brann feiet gjennom mange konvensjonelle hjem i New Mexico, ble det i ettertid oppdaget et Jordskip som var relativt uskadet. Kun den sydvendte veggen og taket hadde brent bort, sammenlignet med den totale ødeleggelsen av de konvensjonelle hjemmene.

Et helt tettpakket dekk er omtrent 80 cm bredt. Dette er stort nok for å overgå konvensjonelle krav for strukturell vektdistribusjon til jorden. Veggene til et Jordskip er mye tykkere enn et konvensjonelt hjem, noe som gir en sterkere bygning med bedre isolering av lyd og varme.

====Arbeid====
De tettpakkede dekkene til et Jordskip er vanligvis satt sammen av lag på to personer som jobber som del av ett større konstruksjonslag. En person spar jorden fra byggeplassen inn i dekkene. Den andre står på dkket og bruker slegge for å pakke jorden inni. Den andre personen beveger seg i sirkel rundt dekket for å holde jorden jevn og for å unngå å deformere dekket. Dette er en veldig intensiv arbeidsprosess.'' 'The Earthship Manual: Vol. 1' ''sier at to personer som jobber sammen i en time kan lage fire jordpakkede dekk. Det tar rundt tusen dekk for å bygge et hus ([http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/apr2/eship.htm]), så dermed 500 arbeidstimer per hus. Rundt 40% av kostnaden til et ferdig Jordskip er assosiert med arbeid [http://www.reedconstructiondata.com/construction-forecast/news/2011/01/earthships-down-to-earth-homes/]

De tettpakkede dekkene blir laget på plassen fordi, når de er laget skikkelig, veier de opptil 140 kilo og kan være veldig vanskelig å flytte.

===Interne vegger===
Interne, ikke-bærende vegger er ofte lagd som en bikakestruktur av resirkulerte hermetikkbokser festet sammen av betong og blir kalt blikkboksvegger. Disse veggene er ofte tykt pusset med stukkatur.

===Strukturell form===
Jordskip er basert rundt en eller flere U-formede moduler. Hver av disse har en vegg av tettpakkede dekk flere fot tykt og et gulv som er under bakkenivå. Ved å være delvis nedsenket tillater det huset å utnytte fordelen med termiske lagringsegenskapene til jorden. Dette kan imidlertid forårsake problemer med at vann eller radongass lekker opp fra jorden.

===Tak===
Taket til et Jordskip er tungt isolert – ofte med jord eller leire – for økt energieffektivitet.

==Vann==
=== Høsting av regnvann ===
Vann brukt i et Jordskip er {{LinkLang|Harvested Rainwater|høstet fra regn]], snø eller kondens. Etter hvert som vannet samler seg på taket, blir det ledet gjennom en slamfangende enhet og inn i en brønn. Brønnene er plassert slik at de gravitasjons forer en VOM (VannOrganiseringsModul), som filtrerer ut bakterier og forurensninger, og gjør at vannet kan drikkes. VOM består av filtere og en DC-pumpe som er skrudd inn i et panel. Vannet blir deretter presset inn i en konvensjonell trykktant for å skape vanlig vanntrykk for husholdninger. Vann samlet på denne måten blir brukt til alle husholdningsaktiviterer bortsett fra nedspyling i toaletter på den konvensjonelle måten. Heller enn det, har vannet som brukes for å spyle ned i toalettet blitt brukt minst en gang allerede: ofte er det filtrert spillvann fra vasker og dusjer, og beskrevet som "Gråvann".

=== Gråvann ===
{{LinkLang|Gray Water|Gråvann}} er vann som har blitt brukt og som ikke er egnet for drikking, men som fortsatt kan brukes til ting som vasking. Før gråvannet blir gjenbrukt i et Jordskip, blir det ledet gjennom et fett- og partikkelfilter og inn i et 75-150cm dyp gummikledd {{LinkLang|Living Machines|levende maskin]], som er et biologisk vannfilter. Dette filteret kan inkludere planter som produserer mat mens det filtrerer vannet med røttene sine. Vannoksygenering, filtrering, transpirasjon, og bakterieoppstandelse skjer i cellen og hjelper å rense vannet (Reynolds 2000). Inni den botaniske cellen, blir filtrering oppnåd ved at vannet passerer gjennom en blanding av grus og planterøtter. Plantene tilfører oksygen til vannet og fjerner nitrogen. Vannet som tas opp gjennom plantene og siver gjennom toppen hjelper med å holde luften fuktig. I cellen vil bakterier vokse naturlig og hjelpe med å rense vannet.

Vann fra den lave enden av den botaniske cellen blir dermed ledet gjennom et torvmosefilter og samlet i et reservat eller en brønn. Dette gjenvunnede vannet passerer dermed enda en gang gjennom et gråvannsbord og brukt til å spyle ned i toaletter.

Ofte er gråvannet som dannes i jordskip ikke forurenset nok til å rettferdiggjøre behandling ("forurensningen er som regel bare såpe, som ofte ikke er miljømessig skadelig). I jordskip blir plantene plassert ved utløpene praktisert for å gjenvinne vannet og de tapte næringsstoffene (fra såpene, osv.)... Vanligvis blir en enkel plante plassert rett foran røret, men av og til brukes det også miniavløpsfelt. Røret er stort nok (5,08 cm) solik at dannelsen av undergrunnsgass (fra gråvannet) blir unngått. Dette blir gjort med kjøkken- og badvasker, og til og med dusjer, vaskemaskiner, og oppvaskemaskiner. Plantene plasseres som regel innendørs med vasken og utendørs med oppvask/vaskemaskiner og dusjer (for å unngå "flom" innendørs) Med det sistnevne blir det også plassert større avløpsfelt istedenfor en enkel plante.<ref>[http://melinathinks.wordpress.com/category/earthship-greywater-plantergreenhouse/ Planter plassert ved rør]</ref><ref>[http://www.greenhomebuilding.com/earthship.htm Planter plassert ved rør i jordskip]</ref>

===Svartvann===
Svartvann, vann som har blitt brukt i et toalett, ble vanligvis ikke dannet i mange av de tidligste jordskipene ettersom bruken av spylbare toaletter ble frarådet.<ref>Earthship Volume 2:Systems and components</ref> Istedenfor ble {{LangLink|Composting Toilet|komposterende toaletter]] anbefalt, som ikke brukte vann i det hele tatt. Men med det nye behandlingssystemet for gråvann (brukt i Nautilus, Helios, ...) skapt av Michael Reynolds, har nå spylbare toaletter fått en plass i jordskipet og det generelle vannsystemet har blitt redesignet i henhold til det nye "6-trinnsprosessen".<ref>[http://heliohouse.com/tech.htm Ny prosess for vannrensingssystem i Helios hus: overblikk med bilder]</ref><ref>[http://www.earthship.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=25 Spillvannsti]</ref>

Når spyletoaletter blir brukt, blir ikke svartvann gjenbrukt inne i Jordskipet. Istedet blir det sent til en solutvidet septikktank med lekkefelt og planterceller (helheten blir ofte referert til som “inkubatoren”). Den solutvidede septikktanken er en vanlig septikktank som blir varmet av solen og glassert med et vindu mot ekvator. Inkubatoren lagrer solens varme i betongmassen, og er isolert, for å hjelpe den anaerobe prosessen. Vann fra inkubatoren er ledet ut til et utenforliggende lekkefelt og dermed til landskapspleiende "planterceller" (områder omringet av betong der planter er plassert). Cellene ligner botaniske celler brukt i gråvannbehandling og er vanligvis plassert rett under vinduene til et jordskip.

I tilfeller der det ikke er mulig å bruke spyletoaletter operert på vann, anbefales nå tørre soltoaletter, istedenfor ''vanlige'' komposttoaletter. Hvis dette er tilfelle, vil det selvfølgelig ikke dannes noe svartvann, og dermed er ikke bruken av inkubatorer (vanligvis) nødvendig. Isteden brukes vanlige "plantere" (planter brukt for å suge opp vann/næringsstoff). Når man bruker vanlige plantere i tillegg, kan ikke kjemiske såper eller vaskemidler brukes.

Området der VOM (vannorganiseringsmodulen), pumpepanel for gråvann, trykktank, (første sett med) batterier, og KOM (kraftorganiserende modul) er lagret i er et lite rom referert til som "systempakke".

==Elektrisitet==
Jordskip er designet til å samle og lagre energien sin fra flere kilder. Majoriteten av elektrisk energi er høstet fra solen og vinden. {{LinkLang|Solar Cells|Solcellepanel}} og {{LinkLang|Small Wind Turbine|vindturbiner}} plassert på eller nær Jordskipet genererer likestrøm som deretter blir lagret i flere typer {{LinkLang|deep-cycle batteries|dypsyklusbatterier}}. Rommet der batteriene holdes er vanligvis et spesialbygd rin plassert på taket. Ytterligere energi, hvis det trengs, kan fås fra bensindrevne generatorer eller ved å integreres i strømnettet.

I et Jordskip blir en Kraftorganiseringsmodul brukt for å ta lagret energi fra batterier gjøre det om til vekselstrøm. Kraftorganiseringsmodulen er et prefabrikert system levert av Earthship Biotecture som henges på en innvendig vegg av Jordskipet og koblet på vanlig måte. Det inkluderer det nødvendige utstyret som overbelastningsbrytere og voltkonverter. Energien som går gjennom Kraftorganiseringsmodulen kan bli brukt til å drive et hvilket som helst husholdningsapparat inkludert vaskemaskin, datamaskin, kjøkkenredskaper, printere, støvsugere, osv. Generelt blir ikke noe av den elektriske energien i et Jordskip brukt til oppvarming eller nedkjøling.<ref>[http://earthship.com/systems/energy.php] http://earthship.com/systems/energy.php}}</ref>

==Klima==
Jordskipet tar sikte på å vedlikeholde en komfortabel temperatur, dvs. uten å være avhengig av systemer som krever energi. Det gjør dette ved å maksimere effekten av termiskmasse og soloppvarming og ved å bruke byggematerialer som er tungt isolerte.

Vinduer på solvendte vegger gir tilgang til lys og varme. Bygningene er ofte hestesko-formede for å maksimere naturlig lys og solinntak i løpet av vintermånedene. Den tykke, tette indre veggen gir termisk masse som naturlig regulerer den interiøre temperaturen i løpet av både kalde og varme utsidetemperaturer.

Hovedsaklig prøver Jordskipet å benytte seg av egenskapene til termisk masse og passiv soloppvarming og kjøling. Eksempler er store frontvinduer med integrerte persienner, trombevegger og andre teknologier som takvinduer og solsporere (som også genererer elektrisitet).

Bæreveggen til et Jordskip gir en tett termisk masse som vil ta til seg varme i løpet av dagen og stråle varme i løpet av natten, noe som holder det interiøre klimaet relativt komfortabelt hele dagen.

I tillegg til høy termisk masse, kan noen Jordskip være jordskjermet. Fordelene med jordskjerming er todelt, fordi det tilfører til den termiske massen og, hvis Jordskipet er begravd dypt nok, tillater det strukturen å benytte seg av Jordens stabile temperatur.

Jordskipet er formet på en sånn måte at solen bidrar med varme, ventilasjon, og belysning. For å benytte seg av solen er et Jordskip plassert slik at dets viktigste vegg, som ikke er strukturell og lagd for det meste av glassplater, er rettet direkte mot ekvator. Denne posisjoneringen tillater optimal soleksponering.

For å tillate solen å varme Jordskipets masse, er den solorienterte veggen vinklet slik at den er vinkelrett til lyset fra vintersolen. Dette gir maksimal eksponering i vinteren, når varme er ønsket, og mindre eksponering om sommeren, når varmen gjerne vil unngås. Noen Jordskip, spesielt de som er bygd i kaldere klimaer, bruker isolerte persienner på den solorienterte veggen for å reduserer varmetap i løpet av natten (Reynolds 2000).

===Naturlig ventilasjon===
Jordskipet bruker vanligvis sitt egne naturlige ventilasjonssystem. Det består av at kald(ere) luft kommer inn fra et frontvindu, spesielt lagd for dette og flyter ut gjennom (et av) takvinduene som er plassert på jordskipet. Etter hvert som varm luft stiger, vedlikeholder systemet seg selv og fortsetter å suge inn (og ut), luft.

===Oppvarmingsproblemer===
Flaskevegger brukes i jordskip. Jordskip er avhengig av en balanse mellom solvarmeinntak og evnen til dekkveggene og bakkejorden for å lagre varme. Designen har som hensikt å kreve lite hvis noe ytterligere varme. Noen jordskip har lidd av overoppvarming og noen av overavkjøling.

Noen jordskip ser ut til å ha alvorlige problemer med varmetap. I disse tilfellene virker det som om varme lekker ned i bakken hele tiden i løpet av oppvarmingssesongen og mistes. Denne situasjonen kan ha oppstått fra den feilaktige troen at bakkekoblede strukturer (å bygge med termisk kontakt til bakken) ikke krever isolering. Situasjonen kan også være på grunn av store klimaforskjeller mellom solfylte, tørre, og varme Sørvest (i USA) der jordskip først ble bygd og det mer overskyede, kalde, og våte klimaet der noen nå blir bygd. {{LinkLang|Malcolm Wells}}, en arkitekt og autoritet på jordskjermet design, foreslår R-verdi 10 isolering mellom dyp jord og oppvarmede rom. Wells isoleringsanbefaliner øker ettersom dybden av jorden minker.

I veldig begrensede og spesifikke situasjoner, uvanlige i oppvarmingssesongen, kan termisk masse marginalt øke den tilsynelatende R-verdien til en bygningssammensetning av en slik vegg. Generelt sett er termisk masse og R-verdi distinkte termodynamiske egenskaper og burde ikke sammenlignes. Termisk ytelsesproblemer tilsynelatende sett i noen jordskipdesign kan ha oppstått på grunn av at termisk masse har feilaktig blitt sammenlignet med R-verdi. R-verdien av jord er omtrent 1 per fot.<ref>[http://www.engext.ksu.edu/ees/henergy/envelope/basement.html Kansas State University Extension Service]</ref>

Den liggende glasseringen kan være hard å holde vanntett og i varme klimaer tillater overflødig solinntak på sommeren. I kaldere klimaer vil selve glasseringen, som har langt dårligere isoleringsegenskaper enn noen annen komponent, selvfølgelig være den største kanalen for varmetap om vinteren. Nye design etterspør vertikale vinduer med et overheng.

Uisolert bakkekoblet termisk masse presenterer et større potensiale for varmetap, spesielt i klimaer med en varmesesong. Dette varierer til en viss grad med jordtype og fuktighetsinnhold.

==History==
Jordskipets historie ble omtalt i dokumentaren [http://www.garbagewarrior.com/ "Garbage Warrior"] fra 2007:
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Jordskipet begynte å ta form på 1970-tallet. Design var i første omgang veldig eksperimentell, men har blitt forbedret over tiden.

Currently, Earthships are in use in almost every state in the United States, as well as many countries in Europe. In 2000 Mike Reynolds and Daren Howarth launched Earthship Biotecture Europe to explore and evolve the concept of the Earthship in Europe. Two more directors were appointed to Earthship Biotecture Europe in July 2006 – Kevan Trott and Kirsten Jacobsen.

Earthship Biotecture has now finalized plans to build 16 Earthship homes in Brighton.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20071213144133/http://www.earthship.co.uk/earthship-homes.htm Earthship Homes development] (archived from [http://www.earthship.co.uk/earthship-homes.htm the original] on 2007-12-13).</ref>

Earthship Biotecture aims to build Earthships to house 32 people made homeless by the earthquake in Haiti [http://earthship.com/haiti-disaster-relief.html].

==Further reading==
* Schirber, Michael. [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21755230/ "Making Earthships Mainstream"] on ''Going Green at [[msnbc.com]]'', November 12, 2007.
* [http://www.earthshipfloridaproject.com Earthship Florida Project]

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A building guide is available on The Pirate Bay:
*[http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5561875/Michael_Reynolds__Earthship_Vol._1__How_to_build_your_own Volume 1]. This tells you how to make the rammed-earth tires and how to build walls out of them.
*[http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5599633/Michael_Reynolds__Earthship_Vol._2__Systems_and_components Volume 2]. Solar power, water systems, greywater, water heating systems, lighting, fireplaces, stairs, doors, cabinets, baths, showers, domes & vaults.
*[http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5569181/Michael_Reynolds__Earthship_Vol._3__Evolution_beyond_economics Volume 3]. This was written 3 years after Volume 1 and gives improvements over the methods of building described then. Also talks about toilets, refrigerators and improved water and ventilation systems.
* Hewitt, M. and Telfer, K. (2007). ''Earthships: building a zero carbon future for homes''. ISBN 9781860819728
* Klippel, James H. http://www.garrellassociates.com/EcoDesign.html, green page
* Reynolds, Mike. (2000). ''Comfort In Any Climate'', Taos: Solar Survival P. ISBN 0962676748

==Referanser==
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Et '''{{LinkLang|Earthship|Jordskip}}''' er en type hjem som tar vare på sine egne behov når det gjelder energi, vann, avfallshåndtering og noen ganger til og med matproduksjon. Det oppnår et høyt nivå av energieffektivitet ved å bruke varmen fra solen så mye som mulig, og har kraftig isolasjon. Ideen er å ha et hjem uten rør eller kabler inn og ut av det: ingen elektriske ledninger, kloakkrør, eller vannledninger.

Jordskip er ment å bygges av folk som ikke er opplærte byggearbeidere.

== Introduksjon ==
De originale Jordskipene er bygd av jord pakket tett inn i gamle blikkbokser eller bildekk. Dette betyr at mesteparten av byggematerialet er jord funnet på stedet og resten av det er resirkulert. Disse materialene er billige eller gratis, og kan bli brukt med veldig lite energiforbruk eller miljømessig påvirkning.

Jordskip er et påfunn av Mike Reynolds og er designet og markedsført av [http://earthship.com/ Earthship Biotecture] fra Taos, New Mexico.

Mange andre selvforsynte, hjem utenfor strømnettet som er Jordskip per definisjon er gjennomførbare. Et tradisjonelt eksempel er Mandan-jordhuset bygd av nordamerikanske indianere. Et moderne eksempel kan være et containerhjem. Dette er et glimrende eksempel fordi det å bruke gamle fraktcontainere skriver av fra ideen om resirkulering på en enorm måte. Et Jordskip fra en container resirkulerer mange tonn stål med veldig lite energiinput.
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==Struktur==
===Dekk tettpakket med jord===
Jordskip er vanligvis lagd av resirkulerte gummidekk med jord pakket inn i dem. Enhver kompakt masse, som betong, leire eller stein kan imidlertid brukes. Dekk tettpakket med jord har følgende fordeler -
# Til forskjell fra materialer som betong, kan det brukes av hvem som helst. Ikke noe spesialutstyr kreves for å lage dem eller bruke dem. Skrapdekk er overalt rundt i verden og er enkelt å komme over; det er et anslag på 2 milliarder dekk i hele USA. I 1996, ble 253 millioner skrapdekk generert hvert år i USA, der 70% ble tilbakekalt av skrapdekkmarkedet (hvilket etterlater kanskje 75 millioner skrapdekk tilgjengelig til gjenbruk som hele dekk).<ref>Tom Verde, [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CE0DA133CF931A35751C1A960958260&n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FSubjects%2FT%2FTires At Heart of Dispute, Tires by the Acre] (December 2, 1996), The New York Times.</ref> Metoden skrapdekk blir konvertert til brukbare "murstein" er enkel og billig: jord pakkes inn i ved å bruke slegge.
#De har stor bærekapasitet. Gummidekkvegger har imidlertid en tendens til å mangle strukturell stivhet og kan kreve vertikale avstivningsribber.
#Fordi dekkene er fulle av jord, brenner det ikke når de blir utsatt for brann. I 1996, etter at en brann feiet gjennom mange konvensjonelle hjem i New Mexico, ble det i ettertid oppdaget et Jordskip som var relativt uskadet. Kun den sydvendte veggen og taket hadde brent bort, sammenlignet med den totale ødeleggelsen av de konvensjonelle hjemmene.

Et helt tettpakket dekk er omtrent 80 cm bredt. Dette er stort nok for å overgå konvensjonelle krav for strukturell vektdistribusjon til jorden. Veggene til et Jordskip er mye tykkere enn et konvensjonelt hjem, noe som gir en sterkere bygning med bedre isolering av lyd og varme.

====Arbeid====
De tettpakkede dekkene til et Jordskip er vanligvis satt sammen av lag på to personer som jobber som del av ett større konstruksjonslag. En person spar jorden fra byggeplassen inn i dekkene. Den andre står på dkket og bruker slegge for å pakke jorden inni. Den andre personen beveger seg i sirkel rundt dekket for å holde jorden jevn og for å unngå å deformere dekket. Dette er en veldig intensiv arbeidsprosess.'' 'The Earthship Manual: Vol. 1' ''sier at to personer som jobber sammen i en time kan lage fire jordpakkede dekk. Det tar rundt tusen dekk for å bygge et hus ([http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/apr2/eship.htm]), så dermed 500 arbeidstimer per hus. Rundt 40% av kostnaden til et ferdig Jordskip er assosiert med arbeid [http://www.reedconstructiondata.com/construction-forecast/news/2011/01/earthships-down-to-earth-homes/]

De tettpakkede dekkene blir laget på plassen fordi, når de er laget skikkelig, veier de opptil 140 kilo og kan være veldig vanskelig å flytte.

===Interne vegger===
Interne, ikke-bærende vegger er ofte lagd som en bikakestruktur av resirkulerte hermetikkbokser festet sammen av betong og blir kalt blikkboksvegger. Disse veggene er ofte tykt pusset med stukkatur.

===Strukturell form===
Jordskip er basert rundt en eller flere U-formede moduler. Hver av disse har en vegg av tettpakkede dekk flere fot tykt og et gulv som er under bakkenivå. Ved å være delvis nedsenket tillater det huset å utnytte fordelen med termiske lagringsegenskapene til jorden. Dette kan imidlertid forårsake problemer med at vann eller radongass lekker opp fra jorden.

===Tak===
Taket til et Jordskip er tungt isolert – ofte med jord eller leire – for økt energieffektivitet.

==Vann==
=== Høsting av regnvann ===
Vann brukt i et Jordskip er {{LinkLang|Harvested Rainwater|høstet fra regn]], snø eller kondens. Etter hvert som vannet samler seg på taket, blir det ledet gjennom en slamfangende enhet og inn i en brønn. Brønnene er plassert slik at de gravitasjons forer en VOM (VannOrganiseringsModul), som filtrerer ut bakterier og forurensninger, og gjør at vannet kan drikkes. VOM består av filtere og en DC-pumpe som er skrudd inn i et panel. Vannet blir deretter presset inn i en konvensjonell trykktant for å skape vanlig vanntrykk for husholdninger. Vann samlet på denne måten blir brukt til alle husholdningsaktiviterer bortsett fra nedspyling i toaletter på den konvensjonelle måten. Heller enn det, har vannet som brukes for å spyle ned i toalettet blitt brukt minst en gang allerede: ofte er det filtrert spillvann fra vasker og dusjer, og beskrevet som "Gråvann".

=== Gråvann ===
{{LinkLang|Gray Water|Gråvann}} er vann som har blitt brukt og som ikke er egnet for drikking, men som fortsatt kan brukes til ting som vasking. Før gråvannet blir gjenbrukt i et Jordskip, blir det ledet gjennom et fett- og partikkelfilter og inn i et 75-150cm dyp gummikledd {{LinkLang|Living Machines|levende maskin]], som er et biologisk vannfilter. Dette filteret kan inkludere planter som produserer mat mens det filtrerer vannet med røttene sine. Vannoksygenering, filtrering, transpirasjon, og bakterieoppstandelse skjer i cellen og hjelper å rense vannet (Reynolds 2000). Inni den botaniske cellen, blir filtrering oppnåd ved at vannet passerer gjennom en blanding av grus og planterøtter. Plantene tilfører oksygen til vannet og fjerner nitrogen. Vannet som tas opp gjennom plantene og siver gjennom toppen hjelper med å holde luften fuktig. I cellen vil bakterier vokse naturlig og hjelpe med å rense vannet.

Vann fra den lave enden av den botaniske cellen blir dermed ledet gjennom et torvmosefilter og samlet i et reservat eller en brønn. Dette gjenvunnede vannet passerer dermed enda en gang gjennom et gråvannsbord og brukt til å spyle ned i toaletter.

Ofte er gråvannet som dannes i jordskip ikke forurenset nok til å rettferdiggjøre behandling ("forurensningen er som regel bare såpe, som ofte ikke er miljømessig skadelig). I jordskip blir plantene plassert ved utløpene praktisert for å gjenvinne vannet og de tapte næringsstoffene (fra såpene, osv.)... Vanligvis blir en enkel plante plassert rett foran røret, men av og til brukes det også miniavløpsfelt. Røret er stort nok (5,08 cm) solik at dannelsen av undergrunnsgass (fra gråvannet) blir unngått. Dette blir gjort med kjøkken- og badvasker, og til og med dusjer, vaskemaskiner, og oppvaskemaskiner. Plantene plasseres som regel innendørs med vasken og utendørs med oppvask/vaskemaskiner og dusjer (for å unngå "flom" innendørs) Med det sistnevne blir det også plassert større avløpsfelt istedenfor en enkel plante.<ref>[http://melinathinks.wordpress.com/category/earthship-greywater-plantergreenhouse/ Planter plassert ved rør]</ref><ref>[http://www.greenhomebuilding.com/earthship.htm Planter plassert ved rør i jordskip]</ref>

===Svartvann===
Svartvann, vann som har blitt brukt i et toalett, ble vanligvis ikke dannet i mange av de tidligste jordskipene ettersom bruken av spylbare toaletter ble frarådet.<ref>Earthship Volume 2:Systems and components</ref> Istedenfor ble {{LangLink|Composting Toilet|komposterende toaletter]] anbefalt, som ikke brukte vann i det hele tatt. Men med det nye behandlingssystemet for gråvann (brukt i Nautilus, Helios, ...) skapt av Michael Reynolds, har nå spylbare toaletter fått en plass i jordskipet og det generelle vannsystemet har blitt redesignet i henhold til det nye "6-trinnsprosessen".<ref>[http://heliohouse.com/tech.htm Ny prosess for vannrensingssystem i Helios hus: overblikk med bilder]</ref><ref>[http://www.earthship.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=25 Spillvannsti]</ref>

Når spyletoaletter blir brukt, blir ikke svartvann gjenbrukt inne i Jordskipet. Istedet blir det sent til en solutvidet septikktank med lekkefelt og planterceller (helheten blir ofte referert til som “inkubatoren”). Den solutvidede septikktanken er en vanlig septikktank som blir varmet av solen og glassert med et vindu mot ekvator. Inkubatoren lagrer solens varme i betongmassen, og er isolert, for å hjelpe den anaerobe prosessen. Vann fra inkubatoren er ledet ut til et utenforliggende lekkefelt og dermed til landskapspleiende "planterceller" (områder omringet av betong der planter er plassert). Cellene ligner botaniske celler brukt i gråvannbehandling og er vanligvis plassert rett under vinduene til et jordskip.

I tilfeller der det ikke er mulig å bruke spyletoaletter operert på vann, anbefales nå tørre soltoaletter, istedenfor ''vanlige'' komposttoaletter. Hvis dette er tilfelle, vil det selvfølgelig ikke dannes noe svartvann, og dermed er ikke bruken av inkubatorer (vanligvis) nødvendig. Isteden brukes vanlige "plantere" (planter brukt for å suge opp vann/næringsstoff). Når man bruker vanlige plantere i tillegg, kan ikke kjemiske såper eller vaskemidler brukes.

Området der VOM (vannorganiseringsmodulen), pumpepanel for gråvann, trykktank, (første sett med) batterier, og KOM (kraftorganiserende modul) er lagret i er et lite rom referert til som "systempakke".

==Elektrisitet==
Jordskip er designet til å samle og lagre energien sin fra flere kilder. Majoriteten av elektrisk energi er høstet fra solen og vinden. {{LinkLang|Solar Cells|Solcellepanel}} og {{LinkLang|Small Wind Turbine|vindturbiner}} plassert på eller nær Jordskipet genererer likestrøm som deretter blir lagret i flere typer {{LinkLang|deep-cycle batteries|dypsyklusbatterier}}. Rommet der batteriene holdes er vanligvis et spesialbygd rin plassert på taket. Ytterligere energi, hvis det trengs, kan fås fra bensindrevne generatorer eller ved å integreres i strømnettet.

I et Jordskip blir en Kraftorganiseringsmodul brukt for å ta lagret energi fra batterier gjøre det om til vekselstrøm. Kraftorganiseringsmodulen er et prefabrikert system levert av Earthship Biotecture som henges på en innvendig vegg av Jordskipet og koblet på vanlig måte. Det inkluderer det nødvendige utstyret som overbelastningsbrytere og voltkonverter. Energien som går gjennom Kraftorganiseringsmodulen kan bli brukt til å drive et hvilket som helst husholdningsapparat inkludert vaskemaskin, datamaskin, kjøkkenredskaper, printere, støvsugere, osv. Generelt blir ikke noe av den elektriske energien i et Jordskip brukt til oppvarming eller nedkjøling.<ref>[http://earthship.com/systems/energy.php] http://earthship.com/systems/energy.php}}</ref>

==Klima==
Jordskipet tar sikte på å vedlikeholde en komfortabel temperatur, dvs. uten å være avhengig av systemer som krever energi. Det gjør dette ved å maksimere effekten av termiskmasse og soloppvarming og ved å bruke byggematerialer som er tungt isolerte.

Vinduer på solvendte vegger gir tilgang til lys og varme. Bygningene er ofte hestesko-formede for å maksimere naturlig lys og solinntak i løpet av vintermånedene. Den tykke, tette indre veggen gir termisk masse som naturlig regulerer den interiøre temperaturen i løpet av både kalde og varme utsidetemperaturer.

Hovedsaklig prøver Jordskipet å benytte seg av egenskapene til termisk masse og passiv soloppvarming og kjøling. Eksempler er store frontvinduer med integrerte persienner, trombevegger og andre teknologier som takvinduer og solsporere (som også genererer elektrisitet).

Bæreveggen til et Jordskip gir en tett termisk masse som vil ta til seg varme i løpet av dagen og stråle varme i løpet av natten, noe som holder det interiøre klimaet relativt komfortabelt hele dagen.

I tillegg til høy termisk masse, kan noen Jordskip være jordskjermet. Fordelene med jordskjerming er todelt, fordi det tilfører til den termiske massen og, hvis Jordskipet er begravd dypt nok, tillater det strukturen å benytte seg av Jordens stabile temperatur.

Jordskipet er formet på en sånn måte at solen bidrar med varme, ventilasjon, og belysning. For å benytte seg av solen er et Jordskip plassert slik at dets viktigste vegg, som ikke er strukturell og lagd for det meste av glassplater, er rettet direkte mot ekvator. Denne posisjoneringen tillater optimal soleksponering.

For å tillate solen å varme Jordskipets masse, er den solorienterte veggen vinklet slik at den er vinkelrett til lyset fra vintersolen. Dette gir maksimal eksponering i vinteren, når varme er ønsket, og mindre eksponering om sommeren, når varmen gjerne vil unngås. Noen Jordskip, spesielt de som er bygd i kaldere klimaer, bruker isolerte persienner på den solorienterte veggen for å reduserer varmetap i løpet av natten (Reynolds 2000).

===Naturlig ventilasjon===
Jordskipet bruker vanligvis sitt egne naturlige ventilasjonssystem. Det består av at kald(ere) luft kommer inn fra et frontvindu, spesielt lagd for dette og flyter ut gjennom (et av) takvinduene som er plassert på jordskipet. Etter hvert som varm luft stiger, vedlikeholder systemet seg selv og fortsetter å suge inn (og ut), luft.

===Oppvarmingsproblemer===
Flaskevegger brukes i jordskip. Jordskip er avhengig av en balanse mellom solvarmeinntak og evnen til dekkveggene og bakkejorden for å lagre varme. Designen har som hensikt å kreve lite hvis noe ytterligere varme. Noen jordskip har lidd av overoppvarming og noen av overavkjøling.

Noen jordskip ser ut til å ha alvorlige problemer med varmetap. I disse tilfellene virker det som om varme lekker ned i bakken hele tiden i løpet av oppvarmingssesongen og mistes. Denne situasjonen kan ha oppstått fra den feilaktige troen at bakkekoblede strukturer (å bygge med termisk kontakt til bakken) ikke krever isolering. Situasjonen kan også være på grunn av store klimaforskjeller mellom solfylte, tørre, og varme Sørvest (i USA) der jordskip først ble bygd og det mer overskyede, kalde, og våte klimaet der noen nå blir bygd. {{LinkLang|Malcolm Wells}}, en arkitekt og autoritet på jordskjermet design, foreslår R-verdi 10 isolering mellom dyp jord og oppvarmede rom. Wells isoleringsanbefaliner øker ettersom dybden av jorden minker.

I veldig begrensede og spesifikke situasjoner, uvanlige i oppvarmingssesongen, kan termisk masse marginalt øke den tilsynelatende R-verdien til en bygningssammensetning av en slik vegg. Generelt sett er termisk masse og R-verdi distinkte termodynamiske egenskaper og burde ikke sammenlignes. Termisk ytelsesproblemer tilsynelatende sett i noen jordskipdesign kan ha oppstått på grunn av at termisk masse har feilaktig blitt sammenlignet med R-verdi. R-verdien av jord er omtrent 1 per fot.<ref>[http://www.engext.ksu.edu/ees/henergy/envelope/basement.html Kansas State University Extension Service]</ref>

Den liggende glasseringen kan være hard å holde vanntett og i varme klimaer tillater overflødig solinntak på sommeren. I kaldere klimaer vil selve glasseringen, som har langt dårligere isoleringsegenskaper enn noen annen komponent, selvfølgelig være den største kanalen for varmetap om vinteren. Nye design etterspør vertikale vinduer med et overheng.

Uisolert bakkekoblet termisk masse presenterer et større potensiale for varmetap, spesielt i klimaer med en varmesesong. Dette varierer til en viss grad med jordtype og fuktighetsinnhold.

==History==
The history of the earthship was featured in the 2007 documentary [http://www.garbagewarrior.com/ "Garbage Warrior"]:
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The Earthship began to take shape in the 1970s. Designs were at first very experimental, but have been improved over time.

Currently, Earthships are in use in almost every state in the United States, as well as many countries in Europe. In 2000 Mike Reynolds and Daren Howarth launched Earthship Biotecture Europe to explore and evolve the concept of the Earthship in Europe. Two more directors were appointed to Earthship Biotecture Europe in July 2006 – Kevan Trott and Kirsten Jacobsen.

Earthship Biotecture has now finalized plans to build 16 Earthship homes in Brighton.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20071213144133/http://www.earthship.co.uk/earthship-homes.htm Earthship Homes development] (archived from [http://www.earthship.co.uk/earthship-homes.htm the original] on 2007-12-13).</ref>

Earthship Biotecture aims to build Earthships to house 32 people made homeless by the earthquake in Haiti [http://earthship.com/haiti-disaster-relief.html].

==Further reading==
* Schirber, Michael. [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21755230/ "Making Earthships Mainstream"] on ''Going Green at [[msnbc.com]]'', November 12, 2007.
* [http://www.earthshipfloridaproject.com Earthship Florida Project]

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A building guide is available on The Pirate Bay:
*[http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5561875/Michael_Reynolds__Earthship_Vol._1__How_to_build_your_own Volume 1]. This tells you how to make the rammed-earth tires and how to build walls out of them.
*[http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5599633/Michael_Reynolds__Earthship_Vol._2__Systems_and_components Volume 2]. Solar power, water systems, greywater, water heating systems, lighting, fireplaces, stairs, doors, cabinets, baths, showers, domes & vaults.
*[http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5569181/Michael_Reynolds__Earthship_Vol._3__Evolution_beyond_economics Volume 3]. This was written 3 years after Volume 1 and gives improvements over the methods of building described then. Also talks about toilets, refrigerators and improved water and ventilation systems.
* Hewitt, M. and Telfer, K. (2007). ''Earthships: building a zero carbon future for homes''. ISBN 9781860819728
* Klippel, James H. http://www.garrellassociates.com/EcoDesign.html, green page
* Reynolds, Mike. (2000). ''Comfort In Any Climate'', Taos: Solar Survival P. ISBN 0962676748

==Referanser==
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Et '''{{LinkLang|Earthship|Jordskip}}''' er en type hjem som tar vare på sine egne behov når det gjelder energi, vann, avfallshåndtering og noen ganger til og med matproduksjon. Det oppnår et høyt nivå av energieffektivitet ved å bruke varmen fra solen så mye som mulig, og har kraftig isolasjon. Ideen er å ha et hjem uten rør eller kabler inn og ut av det: ingen elektriske ledninger, kloakkrør, eller vannledninger.

Jordskip er ment å bygges av folk som ikke er opplærte byggearbeidere.

== Introduksjon ==
De originale Jordskipene er bygd av jord pakket tett inn i gamle blikkbokser eller bildekk. Dette betyr at mesteparten av byggematerialet er jord funnet på stedet og resten av det er resirkulert. Disse materialene er billige eller gratis, og kan bli brukt med veldig lite energiforbruk eller miljømessig påvirkning.

Jordskip er et påfunn av Mike Reynolds og er designet og markedsført av [http://earthship.com/ Earthship Biotecture] fra Taos, New Mexico.

Mange andre selvforsynte, hjem utenfor strømnettet som er Jordskip per definisjon er gjennomførbare. Et tradisjonelt eksempel er Mandan-jordhuset bygd av nordamerikanske indianere. Et moderne eksempel kan være et containerhjem. Dette er et glimrende eksempel fordi det å bruke gamle fraktcontainere skriver av fra ideen om resirkulering på en enorm måte. Et Jordskip fra en container resirkulerer mange tonn stål med veldig lite energiinput.
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==Struktur==
===Dekk tettpakket med jord===
Jordskip er vanligvis lagd av resirkulerte gummidekk med jord pakket inn i dem. Enhver kompakt masse, som betong, leire eller stein kan imidlertid brukes. Dekk tettpakket med jord har følgende fordeler -
# Til forskjell fra materialer som betong, kan det brukes av hvem som helst. Ikke noe spesialutstyr kreves for å lage dem eller bruke dem. Skrapdekk er overalt rundt i verden og er enkelt å komme over; det er et anslag på 2 milliarder dekk i hele USA. I 1996, ble 253 millioner skrapdekk generert hvert år i USA, der 70% ble tilbakekalt av skrapdekkmarkedet (hvilket etterlater kanskje 75 millioner skrapdekk tilgjengelig til gjenbruk som hele dekk).<ref>Tom Verde, [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CE0DA133CF931A35751C1A960958260&n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FSubjects%2FT%2FTires At Heart of Dispute, Tires by the Acre] (December 2, 1996), The New York Times.</ref> Metoden skrapdekk blir konvertert til brukbare "murstein" er enkel og billig: jord pakkes inn i ved å bruke slegge.
#De har stor bærekapasitet. Gummidekkvegger har imidlertid en tendens til å mangle strukturell stivhet og kan kreve vertikale avstivningsribber.
#Fordi dekkene er fulle av jord, brenner det ikke når de blir utsatt for brann. I 1996, etter at en brann feiet gjennom mange konvensjonelle hjem i New Mexico, ble det i ettertid oppdaget et Jordskip som var relativt uskadet. Kun den sydvendte veggen og taket hadde brent bort, sammenlignet med den totale ødeleggelsen av de konvensjonelle hjemmene.

Et helt tettpakket dekk er omtrent 80 cm bredt. Dette er stort nok for å overgå konvensjonelle krav for strukturell vektdistribusjon til jorden. Veggene til et Jordskip er mye tykkere enn et konvensjonelt hjem, noe som gir en sterkere bygning med bedre isolering av lyd og varme.

====Arbeid====
De tettpakkede dekkene til et Jordskip er vanligvis satt sammen av lag på to personer som jobber som del av ett større konstruksjonslag. En person spar jorden fra byggeplassen inn i dekkene. Den andre står på dkket og bruker slegge for å pakke jorden inni. Den andre personen beveger seg i sirkel rundt dekket for å holde jorden jevn og for å unngå å deformere dekket. Dette er en veldig intensiv arbeidsprosess.'' 'The Earthship Manual: Vol. 1' ''sier at to personer som jobber sammen i en time kan lage fire jordpakkede dekk. Det tar rundt tusen dekk for å bygge et hus ([http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/apr2/eship.htm]), så dermed 500 arbeidstimer per hus. Rundt 40% av kostnaden til et ferdig Jordskip er assosiert med arbeid [http://www.reedconstructiondata.com/construction-forecast/news/2011/01/earthships-down-to-earth-homes/]

De tettpakkede dekkene blir laget på plassen fordi, når de er laget skikkelig, veier de opptil 140 kilo og kan være veldig vanskelig å flytte.

===Interne vegger===
Interne, ikke-bærende vegger er ofte lagd som en bikakestruktur av resirkulerte hermetikkbokser festet sammen av betong og blir kalt blikkboksvegger. Disse veggene er ofte tykt pusset med stukkatur.

===Strukturell form===
Jordskip er basert rundt en eller flere U-formede moduler. Hver av disse har en vegg av tettpakkede dekk flere fot tykt og et gulv som er under bakkenivå. Ved å være delvis nedsenket tillater det huset å utnytte fordelen med termiske lagringsegenskapene til jorden. Dette kan imidlertid forårsake problemer med at vann eller radongass lekker opp fra jorden.

===Tak===
Taket til et Jordskip er tungt isolert – ofte med jord eller leire – for økt energieffektivitet.

==Vann==
=== Høsting av regnvann ===
Vann brukt i et Jordskip er {{LinkLang|Harvested Rainwater|høstet fra regn]], snø eller kondens. Etter hvert som vannet samler seg på taket, blir det ledet gjennom en slamfangende enhet og inn i en brønn. Brønnene er plassert slik at de gravitasjons forer en VOM (VannOrganiseringsModul), som filtrerer ut bakterier og forurensninger, og gjør at vannet kan drikkes. VOM består av filtere og en DC-pumpe som er skrudd inn i et panel. Vannet blir deretter presset inn i en konvensjonell trykktant for å skape vanlig vanntrykk for husholdninger. Vann samlet på denne måten blir brukt til alle husholdningsaktiviterer bortsett fra nedspyling i toaletter på den konvensjonelle måten. Heller enn det, har vannet som brukes for å spyle ned i toalettet blitt brukt minst en gang allerede: ofte er det filtrert spillvann fra vasker og dusjer, og beskrevet som "Gråvann".

=== Gråvann ===
{{LinkLang|Gray Water|Gråvann}} er vann som har blitt brukt og som ikke er egnet for drikking, men som fortsatt kan brukes til ting som vasking. Før gråvannet blir gjenbrukt i et Jordskip, blir det ledet gjennom et fett- og partikkelfilter og inn i et 75-150cm dyp gummikledd {{LinkLang|Living Machines|levende maskin]], som er et biologisk vannfilter. Dette filteret kan inkludere planter som produserer mat mens det filtrerer vannet med røttene sine. Vannoksygenering, filtrering, transpirasjon, og bakterieoppstandelse skjer i cellen og hjelper å rense vannet (Reynolds 2000). Inni den botaniske cellen, blir filtrering oppnåd ved at vannet passerer gjennom en blanding av grus og planterøtter. Plantene tilfører oksygen til vannet og fjerner nitrogen. Vannet som tas opp gjennom plantene og siver gjennom toppen hjelper med å holde luften fuktig. I cellen vil bakterier vokse naturlig og hjelpe med å rense vannet.

Vann fra den lave enden av den botaniske cellen blir dermed ledet gjennom et torvmosefilter og samlet i et reservat eller en brønn. Dette gjenvunnede vannet passerer dermed enda en gang gjennom et gråvannsbord og brukt til å spyle ned i toaletter.

Ofte er gråvannet som dannes i jordskip ikke forurenset nok til å rettferdiggjøre behandling ("forurensningen er som regel bare såpe, som ofte ikke er miljømessig skadelig). I jordskip blir plantene plassert ved utløpene praktisert for å gjenvinne vannet og de tapte næringsstoffene (fra såpene, osv.)... Vanligvis blir en enkel plante plassert rett foran røret, men av og til brukes det også miniavløpsfelt. Røret er stort nok (5,08 cm) solik at dannelsen av undergrunnsgass (fra gråvannet) blir unngått. Dette blir gjort med kjøkken- og badvasker, og til og med dusjer, vaskemaskiner, og oppvaskemaskiner. Plantene plasseres som regel innendørs med vasken og utendørs med oppvask/vaskemaskiner og dusjer (for å unngå "flom" innendørs) Med det sistnevne blir det også plassert større avløpsfelt istedenfor en enkel plante.<ref>[http://melinathinks.wordpress.com/category/earthship-greywater-plantergreenhouse/ Planter plassert ved rør]</ref><ref>[http://www.greenhomebuilding.com/earthship.htm Planter plassert ved rør i jordskip]</ref>

===Svartvann===
Svartvann, vann som har blitt brukt i et toalett, ble vanligvis ikke dannet i mange av de tidligste jordskipene ettersom bruken av spylbare toaletter ble frarådet.<ref>Earthship Volume 2:Systems and components</ref> Istedenfor ble {{LangLink|Composting Toilet|komposterende toaletter]] anbefalt, som ikke brukte vann i det hele tatt. Men med det nye behandlingssystemet for gråvann (brukt i Nautilus, Helios, ...) skapt av Michael Reynolds, har nå spylbare toaletter fått en plass i jordskipet og det generelle vannsystemet har blitt redesignet i henhold til det nye "6-trinnsprosessen".<ref>[http://heliohouse.com/tech.htm Ny prosess for vannrensingssystem i Helios hus: overblikk med bilder]</ref><ref>[http://www.earthship.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=25 Spillvannsti]</ref>

Når spyletoaletter blir brukt, blir ikke svartvann gjenbrukt inne i Jordskipet. Istedet blir det sent til en solutvidet septikktank med lekkefelt og planterceller (helheten blir ofte referert til som “inkubatoren”). Den solutvidede septikktanken er en vanlig septikktank som blir varmet av solen og glassert med et vindu mot ekvator. Inkubatoren lagrer solens varme i betongmassen, og er isolert, for å hjelpe den anaerobe prosessen. Vann fra inkubatoren er ledet ut til et utenforliggende lekkefelt og dermed til landskapspleiende "planterceller" (områder omringet av betong der planter er plassert). Cellene ligner botaniske celler brukt i gråvannbehandling og er vanligvis plassert rett under vinduene til et jordskip.

I tilfeller der det ikke er mulig å bruke spyletoaletter operert på vann, anbefales nå tørre soltoaletter, istedenfor ''vanlige'' komposttoaletter. Hvis dette er tilfelle, vil det selvfølgelig ikke dannes noe svartvann, og dermed er ikke bruken av inkubatorer (vanligvis) nødvendig. Isteden brukes vanlige "plantere" (planter brukt for å suge opp vann/næringsstoff). Når man bruker vanlige plantere i tillegg, kan ikke kjemiske såper eller vaskemidler brukes.

Området der VOM (vannorganiseringsmodulen), pumpepanel for gråvann, trykktank, (første sett med) batterier, og KOM (kraftorganiserende modul) er lagret i er et lite rom referert til som "systempakke".

==Elektrisitet==
Jordskip er designet til å samle og lagre energien sin fra flere kilder. Majoriteten av elektrisk energi er høstet fra solen og vinden. {{LinkLang|Solar Cells|Solcellepanel}} og {{LinkLang|Small Wind Turbine|vindturbiner}} plassert på eller nær Jordskipet genererer likestrøm som deretter blir lagret i flere typer {{LinkLang|deep-cycle batteries|dypsyklusbatterier}}. Rommet der batteriene holdes er vanligvis et spesialbygd rin plassert på taket. Ytterligere energi, hvis det trengs, kan fås fra bensindrevne generatorer eller ved å integreres i strømnettet.

I et Jordskip blir en Kraftorganiseringsmodul brukt for å ta lagret energi fra batterier gjøre det om til vekselstrøm. Kraftorganiseringsmodulen er et prefabrikert system levert av Earthship Biotecture som henges på en innvendig vegg av Jordskipet og koblet på vanlig måte. Det inkluderer det nødvendige utstyret som overbelastningsbrytere og voltkonverter. Energien som går gjennom Kraftorganiseringsmodulen kan bli brukt til å drive et hvilket som helst husholdningsapparat inkludert vaskemaskin, datamaskin, kjøkkenredskaper, printere, støvsugere, osv. Generelt blir ikke noe av den elektriske energien i et Jordskip brukt til oppvarming eller nedkjøling.<ref>[http://earthship.com/systems/energy.php] http://earthship.com/systems/energy.php}}</ref>

==Klima==
Jordskipet tar sikte på å vedlikeholde en komfortabel temperatur, dvs. uten å være avhengig av systemer som krever energi. Det gjør dette ved å maksimere effekten av termiskmasse og soloppvarming og ved å bruke byggematerialer som er tungt isolerte.

Vinduer på solvendte vegger gir tilgang til lys og varme. Bygningene er ofte hestesko-formede for å maksimere naturlig lys og solinntak i løpet av vintermånedene. Den tykke, tette indre veggen gir termisk masse som naturlig regulerer den interiøre temperaturen i løpet av både kalde og varme utsidetemperaturer.

Hovedsaklig prøver Jordskipet å benytte seg av egenskapene til termisk masse og passiv soloppvarming og kjøling. Eksempler er store frontvinduer med integrerte persienner, trombevegger og andre teknologier som takvinduer og solsporere (som også genererer elektrisitet).

Bæreveggen til et Jordskip gir en tett termisk masse som vil ta til seg varme i løpet av dagen og stråle varme i løpet av natten, noe som holder det interiøre klimaet relativt komfortabelt hele dagen.

I tillegg til høy termisk masse, kan noen Jordskip være jordskjermet. Fordelene med jordskjerming er todelt, fordi det tilfører til den termiske massen og, hvis Jordskipet er begravd dypt nok, tillater det strukturen å benytte seg av Jordens stabile temperatur.

Jordskipet er formet på en sånn måte at solen bidrar med varme, ventilasjon, og belysning. For å benytte seg av solen er et Jordskip plassert slik at dets viktigste vegg, som ikke er strukturell og lagd for det meste av glassplater, er rettet direkte mot ekvator. Denne posisjoneringen tillater optimal soleksponering.

For å tillate solen å varme Jordskipets masse, er den solorienterte veggen vinklet slik at den er vinkelrett til lyset fra vintersolen. Dette gir maksimal eksponering i vinteren, når varme er ønsket, og mindre eksponering om sommeren, når varmen gjerne vil unngås. Noen Jordskip, spesielt de som er bygd i kaldere klimaer, bruker isolerte persienner på den solorienterte veggen for å reduserer varmetap i løpet av natten (Reynolds 2000).

===Naturlig ventilasjon===
Jordskipet bruker vanligvis sitt egne naturlige ventilasjonssystem. Det består av at kald(ere) luft kommer inn fra et frontvindu, spesielt lagd for dette og flyter ut gjennom (et av) takvinduene som er plassert på jordskipet. Etter hvert som varm luft stiger, vedlikeholder systemet seg selv og fortsetter å suge inn (og ut), luft.

===Heating problems===
Bottle walls are used in earthships. Earthships rely on a balance between the solar heat gain and the ability of the tire walls and subsoil to transport and store heat. The design intends to require little if any auxiliary heat. Some earthships have suffered from overheating and some from over-cooling.

Some earthships appear to have serious problems with heat loss. In these cases heat appears to be leaking into the ground constantly during the heating season and being lost. This situation may have arisen from the mistaken belief that ground-coupled structures (building in thermal contact with the ground) do not require insulation. The situation may also be due to large climatic differences between the sunny, arid, and warm Southwest (of the USA) where earthships were first built and the cloudier, cooler, and wetter climates where some are now being built. [[Malcolm Wells]], an architect and authority on earth-sheltered design, recommends R-value 10 insulation between deep soils and heated spaces. Wells's insulation recommendations increase as the depth of the soil decreases.

In very limited and specific situations, uncommon during the heating season, thermal mass can marginally increase the apparent R-value of a building assembly such as a wall. Generally speaking, thermal mass and R-value are distinct thermodynamic properties and should not be equated. Thermal performance problems apparently seen in some earthship designs may have occurred because of thermal mass being erroneously equated to R-value. The R-value of soil is about 1 per foot.<ref>[http://www.engext.ksu.edu/ees/henergy/envelope/basement.html Kansas State University Extension Service]</ref>

The sloped glazing may be hard to keep watertight and in warm climates allows excessive solar gain in summer. In colder climates, the glazing itself, which has far poorer insulating properties than any other component, will obviously be the major conduit of heat loss in winter. New designs call for vertical windows with an overhang.

Uninsulated ground-coupled thermal mass presents a large potential for heat loss, especially in climates with a heating season. This varies to a degree with soil type and moisture content.

==History==
The history of the earthship was featured in the 2007 documentary [http://www.garbagewarrior.com/ "Garbage Warrior"]:
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The Earthship began to take shape in the 1970s. Designs were at first very experimental, but have been improved over time.

Currently, Earthships are in use in almost every state in the United States, as well as many countries in Europe. In 2000 Mike Reynolds and Daren Howarth launched Earthship Biotecture Europe to explore and evolve the concept of the Earthship in Europe. Two more directors were appointed to Earthship Biotecture Europe in July 2006 – Kevan Trott and Kirsten Jacobsen.

Earthship Biotecture has now finalized plans to build 16 Earthship homes in Brighton.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20071213144133/http://www.earthship.co.uk/earthship-homes.htm Earthship Homes development] (archived from [http://www.earthship.co.uk/earthship-homes.htm the original] on 2007-12-13).</ref>

Earthship Biotecture aims to build Earthships to house 32 people made homeless by the earthquake in Haiti [http://earthship.com/haiti-disaster-relief.html].

==Further reading==
* Schirber, Michael. [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21755230/ "Making Earthships Mainstream"] on ''Going Green at [[msnbc.com]]'', November 12, 2007.
* [http://www.earthshipfloridaproject.com Earthship Florida Project]

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A building guide is available on The Pirate Bay:
*[http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5561875/Michael_Reynolds__Earthship_Vol._1__How_to_build_your_own Volume 1]. This tells you how to make the rammed-earth tires and how to build walls out of them.
*[http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5599633/Michael_Reynolds__Earthship_Vol._2__Systems_and_components Volume 2]. Solar power, water systems, greywater, water heating systems, lighting, fireplaces, stairs, doors, cabinets, baths, showers, domes & vaults.
*[http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5569181/Michael_Reynolds__Earthship_Vol._3__Evolution_beyond_economics Volume 3]. This was written 3 years after Volume 1 and gives improvements over the methods of building described then. Also talks about toilets, refrigerators and improved water and ventilation systems.
* Hewitt, M. and Telfer, K. (2007). ''Earthships: building a zero carbon future for homes''. ISBN 9781860819728
* Klippel, James H. http://www.garrellassociates.com/EcoDesign.html, green page
* Reynolds, Mike. (2000). ''Comfort In Any Climate'', Taos: Solar Survival P. ISBN 0962676748

==Referanser==
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Et '''{{LinkLang|Earthship|Jordskip}}''' er en type hjem som tar vare på sine egne behov når det gjelder energi, vann, avfallshåndtering og noen ganger til og med matproduksjon. Det oppnår et høyt nivå av energieffektivitet ved å bruke varmen fra solen så mye som mulig, og har kraftig isolasjon. Ideen er å ha et hjem uten rør eller kabler inn og ut av det: ingen elektriske ledninger, kloakkrør, eller vannledninger.

Jordskip er ment å bygges av folk som ikke er opplærte byggearbeidere.

== Introduksjon ==
De originale Jordskipene er bygd av jord pakket tett inn i gamle blikkbokser eller bildekk. Dette betyr at mesteparten av byggematerialet er jord funnet på stedet og resten av det er resirkulert. Disse materialene er billige eller gratis, og kan bli brukt med veldig lite energiforbruk eller miljømessig påvirkning.

Jordskip er et påfunn av Mike Reynolds og er designet og markedsført av [http://earthship.com/ Earthship Biotecture] fra Taos, New Mexico.

Mange andre selvforsynte, hjem utenfor strømnettet som er Jordskip per definisjon er gjennomførbare. Et tradisjonelt eksempel er Mandan-jordhuset bygd av nordamerikanske indianere. Et moderne eksempel kan være et containerhjem. Dette er et glimrende eksempel fordi det å bruke gamle fraktcontainere skriver av fra ideen om resirkulering på en enorm måte. Et Jordskip fra en container resirkulerer mange tonn stål med veldig lite energiinput.
[http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=104266276286421&v=wall]

==Struktur==
===Dekk tettpakket med jord===
Jordskip er vanligvis lagd av resirkulerte gummidekk med jord pakket inn i dem. Enhver kompakt masse, som betong, leire eller stein kan imidlertid brukes. Dekk tettpakket med jord har følgende fordeler -
# Til forskjell fra materialer som betong, kan det brukes av hvem som helst. Ikke noe spesialutstyr kreves for å lage dem eller bruke dem. Skrapdekk er overalt rundt i verden og er enkelt å komme over; det er et anslag på 2 milliarder dekk i hele USA. I 1996, ble 253 millioner skrapdekk generert hvert år i USA, der 70% ble tilbakekalt av skrapdekkmarkedet (hvilket etterlater kanskje 75 millioner skrapdekk tilgjengelig til gjenbruk som hele dekk).<ref>Tom Verde, [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CE0DA133CF931A35751C1A960958260&n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FSubjects%2FT%2FTires At Heart of Dispute, Tires by the Acre] (December 2, 1996), The New York Times.</ref> Metoden skrapdekk blir konvertert til brukbare "murstein" er enkel og billig: jord pakkes inn i ved å bruke slegge.
#De har stor bærekapasitet. Gummidekkvegger har imidlertid en tendens til å mangle strukturell stivhet og kan kreve vertikale avstivningsribber.
#Fordi dekkene er fulle av jord, brenner det ikke når de blir utsatt for brann. I 1996, etter at en brann feiet gjennom mange konvensjonelle hjem i New Mexico, ble det i ettertid oppdaget et Jordskip som var relativt uskadet. Kun den sydvendte veggen og taket hadde brent bort, sammenlignet med den totale ødeleggelsen av de konvensjonelle hjemmene.

Et helt tettpakket dekk er omtrent 80 cm bredt. Dette er stort nok for å overgå konvensjonelle krav for strukturell vektdistribusjon til jorden. Veggene til et Jordskip er mye tykkere enn et konvensjonelt hjem, noe som gir en sterkere bygning med bedre isolering av lyd og varme.

====Arbeid====
De tettpakkede dekkene til et Jordskip er vanligvis satt sammen av lag på to personer som jobber som del av ett større konstruksjonslag. En person spar jorden fra byggeplassen inn i dekkene. Den andre står på dkket og bruker slegge for å pakke jorden inni. Den andre personen beveger seg i sirkel rundt dekket for å holde jorden jevn og for å unngå å deformere dekket. Dette er en veldig intensiv arbeidsprosess.'' 'The Earthship Manual: Vol. 1' ''sier at to personer som jobber sammen i en time kan lage fire jordpakkede dekk. Det tar rundt tusen dekk for å bygge et hus ([http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/apr2/eship.htm]), så dermed 500 arbeidstimer per hus. Rundt 40% av kostnaden til et ferdig Jordskip er assosiert med arbeid [http://www.reedconstructiondata.com/construction-forecast/news/2011/01/earthships-down-to-earth-homes/]

De tettpakkede dekkene blir laget på plassen fordi, når de er laget skikkelig, veier de opptil 140 kilo og kan være veldig vanskelig å flytte.

===Interne vegger===
Interne, ikke-bærende vegger er ofte lagd som en bikakestruktur av resirkulerte hermetikkbokser festet sammen av betong og blir kalt blikkboksvegger. Disse veggene er ofte tykt pusset med stukkatur.

===Strukturell form===
Jordskip er basert rundt en eller flere U-formede moduler. Hver av disse har en vegg av tettpakkede dekk flere fot tykt og et gulv som er under bakkenivå. Ved å være delvis nedsenket tillater det huset å utnytte fordelen med termiske lagringsegenskapene til jorden. Dette kan imidlertid forårsake problemer med at vann eller radongass lekker opp fra jorden.

===Tak===
Taket til et Jordskip er tungt isolert – ofte med jord eller leire – for økt energieffektivitet.

==Vann==
=== Høsting av regnvann ===
Vann brukt i et Jordskip er {{LinkLang|Harvested Rainwater|høstet fra regn]], snø eller kondens. Etter hvert som vannet samler seg på taket, blir det ledet gjennom en slamfangende enhet og inn i en brønn. Brønnene er plassert slik at de gravitasjons forer en VOM (VannOrganiseringsModul), som filtrerer ut bakterier og forurensninger, og gjør at vannet kan drikkes. VOM består av filtere og en DC-pumpe som er skrudd inn i et panel. Vannet blir deretter presset inn i en konvensjonell trykktant for å skape vanlig vanntrykk for husholdninger. Vann samlet på denne måten blir brukt til alle husholdningsaktiviterer bortsett fra nedspyling i toaletter på den konvensjonelle måten. Heller enn det, har vannet som brukes for å spyle ned i toalettet blitt brukt minst en gang allerede: ofte er det filtrert spillvann fra vasker og dusjer, og beskrevet som "Gråvann".

=== Gråvann ===
{{LinkLang|Gray Water|Gråvann}} er vann som har blitt brukt og som ikke er egnet for drikking, men som fortsatt kan brukes til ting som vasking. Før gråvannet blir gjenbrukt i et Jordskip, blir det ledet gjennom et fett- og partikkelfilter og inn i et 75-150cm dyp gummikledd {{LinkLang|Living Machines|levende maskin]], som er et biologisk vannfilter. Dette filteret kan inkludere planter som produserer mat mens det filtrerer vannet med røttene sine. Vannoksygenering, filtrering, transpirasjon, og bakterieoppstandelse skjer i cellen og hjelper å rense vannet (Reynolds 2000). Inni den botaniske cellen, blir filtrering oppnåd ved at vannet passerer gjennom en blanding av grus og planterøtter. Plantene tilfører oksygen til vannet og fjerner nitrogen. Vannet som tas opp gjennom plantene og siver gjennom toppen hjelper med å holde luften fuktig. I cellen vil bakterier vokse naturlig og hjelpe med å rense vannet.

Vann fra den lave enden av den botaniske cellen blir dermed ledet gjennom et torvmosefilter og samlet i et reservat eller en brønn. Dette gjenvunnede vannet passerer dermed enda en gang gjennom et gråvannsbord og brukt til å spyle ned i toaletter.

Ofte er gråvannet som dannes i jordskip ikke forurenset nok til å rettferdiggjøre behandling ("forurensningen er som regel bare såpe, som ofte ikke er miljømessig skadelig). I jordskip blir plantene plassert ved utløpene praktisert for å gjenvinne vannet og de tapte næringsstoffene (fra såpene, osv.)... Vanligvis blir en enkel plante plassert rett foran røret, men av og til brukes det også miniavløpsfelt. Røret er stort nok (5,08 cm) solik at dannelsen av undergrunnsgass (fra gråvannet) blir unngått. Dette blir gjort med kjøkken- og badvasker, og til og med dusjer, vaskemaskiner, og oppvaskemaskiner. Plantene plasseres som regel innendørs med vasken og utendørs med oppvask/vaskemaskiner og dusjer (for å unngå "flom" innendørs) Med det sistnevne blir det også plassert større avløpsfelt istedenfor en enkel plante.<ref>[http://melinathinks.wordpress.com/category/earthship-greywater-plantergreenhouse/ Planter plassert ved rør]</ref><ref>[http://www.greenhomebuilding.com/earthship.htm Planter plassert ved rør i jordskip]</ref>

===Svartvann===
Svartvann, vann som har blitt brukt i et toalett, ble vanligvis ikke dannet i mange av de tidligste jordskipene ettersom bruken av spylbare toaletter ble frarådet.<ref>Earthship Volume 2:Systems and components</ref> Istedenfor ble {{LangLink|Composting Toilet|komposterende toaletter]] anbefalt, som ikke brukte vann i det hele tatt. Men med det nye behandlingssystemet for gråvann (brukt i Nautilus, Helios, ...) skapt av Michael Reynolds, har nå spylbare toaletter fått en plass i jordskipet og det generelle vannsystemet har blitt redesignet i henhold til det nye "6-trinnsprosessen".<ref>[http://heliohouse.com/tech.htm Ny prosess for vannrensingssystem i Helios hus: overblikk med bilder]</ref><ref>[http://www.earthship.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=25 Spillvannsti]</ref>

Når spyletoaletter blir brukt, blir ikke svartvann gjenbrukt inne i Jordskipet. Istedet blir det sent til en solutvidet septikktank med lekkefelt og planterceller (helheten blir ofte referert til som “inkubatoren”). Den solutvidede septikktanken er en vanlig septikktank som blir varmet av solen og glassert med et vindu mot ekvator. Inkubatoren lagrer solens varme i betongmassen, og er isolert, for å hjelpe den anaerobe prosessen. Vann fra inkubatoren er ledet ut til et utenforliggende lekkefelt og dermed til landskapspleiende "planterceller" (områder omringet av betong der planter er plassert). Cellene ligner botaniske celler brukt i gråvannbehandling og er vanligvis plassert rett under vinduene til et jordskip.

I tilfeller der det ikke er mulig å bruke spyletoaletter operert på vann, anbefales nå tørre soltoaletter, istedenfor ''vanlige'' komposttoaletter. Hvis dette er tilfelle, vil det selvfølgelig ikke dannes noe svartvann, og dermed er ikke bruken av inkubatorer (vanligvis) nødvendig. Isteden brukes vanlige "plantere" (planter brukt for å suge opp vann/næringsstoff). Når man bruker vanlige plantere i tillegg, kan ikke kjemiske såper eller vaskemidler brukes.

Området der VOM (vannorganiseringsmodulen), pumpepanel for gråvann, trykktank, (første sett med) batterier, og KOM (kraftorganiserende modul) er lagret i er et lite rom referert til som "systempakke".

==Elektrisitet==
Jordskip er designet til å samle og lagre energien sin fra flere kilder. Majoriteten av elektrisk energi er høstet fra solen og vinden. {{LinkLang|Solar Cells|Solcellepanel}} og {{LinkLang|Small Wind Turbine|vindturbiner}} plassert på eller nær Jordskipet genererer likestrøm som deretter blir lagret i flere typer {{LinkLang|deep-cycle batteries|dypsyklusbatterier}}. Rommet der batteriene holdes er vanligvis et spesialbygd rin plassert på taket. Ytterligere energi, hvis det trengs, kan fås fra bensindrevne generatorer eller ved å integreres i strømnettet.

I et Jordskip blir en Kraftorganiseringsmodul brukt for å ta lagret energi fra batterier gjøre det om til vekselstrøm. Kraftorganiseringsmodulen er et prefabrikert system levert av Earthship Biotecture som henges på en innvendig vegg av Jordskipet og koblet på vanlig måte. Det inkluderer det nødvendige utstyret som overbelastningsbrytere og voltkonverter. Energien som går gjennom Kraftorganiseringsmodulen kan bli brukt til å drive et hvilket som helst husholdningsapparat inkludert vaskemaskin, datamaskin, kjøkkenredskaper, printere, støvsugere, osv. Generelt blir ikke noe av den elektriske energien i et Jordskip brukt til oppvarming eller nedkjøling.<ref>[http://earthship.com/systems/energy.php] http://earthship.com/systems/energy.php}}</ref>

==Klima==
Jordskipet tar sikte på å vedlikeholde en komfortabel temperatur, dvs. uten å være avhengig av systemer som krever energi. Det gjør dette ved å maksimere effekten av termiskmasse og soloppvarming og ved å bruke byggematerialer som er tungt isolerte.

Vinduer på solvendte vegger gir tilgang til lys og varme. Bygningene er ofte hestesko-formede for å maksimere naturlig lys og solinntak i løpet av vintermånedene. Den tykke, tette indre veggen gir termisk masse som naturlig regulerer den interiøre temperaturen i løpet av både kalde og varme utsidetemperaturer.

Hovedsaklig prøver Jordskipet å benytte seg av egenskapene til termisk masse og passiv soloppvarming og kjøling. Eksempler er store frontvinduer med integrerte persienner, trombevegger og andre teknologier som takvinduer og solsporere (som også genererer elektrisitet).

Bæreveggen til et Jordskip gir en tett termisk masse som vil ta til seg varme i løpet av dagen og stråle varme i løpet av natten, noe som holder det interiøre klimaet relativt komfortabelt hele dagen.

I tillegg til høy termisk masse, kan noen Jordskip være jordskjermet. Fordelene med jordskjerming er todelt, fordi det tilfører til den termiske massen og, hvis Jordskipet er begravd dypt nok, tillater det strukturen å benytte seg av Jordens stabile temperatur.

Jordskipet er formet på en sånn måte at solen bidrar med varme, ventilasjon, og belysning. For å benytte seg av solen er et Jordskip plassert slik at dets viktigste vegg, som ikke er strukturell og lagd for det meste av glassplater, er rettet direkte mot ekvator. Denne posisjoneringen tillater optimal soleksponering.

For å tillate solen å varme Jordskipets masse, er den solorienterte veggen vinklet slik at den er vinkelrett til lyset fra vintersolen. Dette gir maksimal eksponering i vinteren, når varme er ønsket, og mindre eksponering om sommeren, når varmen gjerne vil unngås. Noen Jordskip, spesielt de som er bygd i kaldere klimaer, bruker isolerte persienner på den solorienterte veggen for å reduserer varmetap i løpet av natten (Reynolds 2000).

===Naturlig ventilasjon===
Jordskipet bruker vanligvis sitt egne naturlige ventilasjonssystem. Det består av at kald(ere) luft kommer inn fra et frontvindu, spesielt lagd for dette og flyter ut gjennom (et av) takvinduene som er plassert på jordskipet. Etter hvert som varm luft stiger, vedlikeholder systemet seg selv og fortsetter å suge inn (og ut), luft.

===Heating problems===
Bottle walls are used in earthships. Earthships rely on a balance between the solar heat gain and the ability of the tire walls and subsoil to transport and store heat. The design intends to require little if any auxiliary heat. Some earthships have suffered from overheating and some from over-cooling.

Some earthships appear to have serious problems with heat loss. In these cases heat appears to be leaking into the ground constantly during the heating season and being lost. This situation may have arisen from the mistaken belief that ground-coupled structures (building in thermal contact with the ground) do not require insulation. The situation may also be due to large climatic differences between the sunny, arid, and warm Southwest (of the USA) where earthships were first built and the cloudier, cooler, and wetter climates where some are now being built. [[Malcolm Wells]], an architect and authority on earth-sheltered design, recommends R-value 10 insulation between deep soils and heated spaces. Wells's insulation recommendations increase as the depth of the soil decreases.

In very limited and specific situations, uncommon during the heating season, thermal mass can marginally increase the apparent R-value of a building assembly such as a wall. Generally speaking, thermal mass and R-value are distinct thermodynamic properties and should not be equated. Thermal performance problems apparently seen in some earthship designs may have occurred because of thermal mass being erroneously equated to R-value. The R-value of soil is about 1 per foot.<ref>[http://www.engext.ksu.edu/ees/henergy/envelope/basement.html Kansas State University Extension Service]</ref>

The sloped glazing may be hard to keep watertight and in warm climates allows excessive solar gain in summer. In colder climates, the glazing itself, which has far poorer insulating properties than any other component, will obviously be the major conduit of heat loss in winter. New designs call for vertical windows with an overhang.

Uninsulated ground-coupled thermal mass presents a large potential for heat loss, especially in climates with a heating season. This varies to a degree with soil type and moisture content.

==History==
The history of the earthship was featured in the 2007 documentary [http://www.garbagewarrior.com/ "Garbage Warrior"]:
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The Earthship began to take shape in the 1970s. Designs were at first very experimental, but have been improved over time.

Currently, Earthships are in use in almost every state in the United States, as well as many countries in Europe. In 2000 Mike Reynolds and Daren Howarth launched Earthship Biotecture Europe to explore and evolve the concept of the Earthship in Europe. Two more directors were appointed to Earthship Biotecture Europe in July 2006 – Kevan Trott and Kirsten Jacobsen.

Earthship Biotecture has now finalized plans to build 16 Earthship homes in Brighton.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20071213144133/http://www.earthship.co.uk/earthship-homes.htm Earthship Homes development] (archived from [http://www.earthship.co.uk/earthship-homes.htm the original] on 2007-12-13).</ref>

Earthship Biotecture aims to build Earthships to house 32 people made homeless by the earthquake in Haiti [http://earthship.com/haiti-disaster-relief.html].

==Further reading==
* Schirber, Michael. [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21755230/ "Making Earthships Mainstream"] on ''Going Green at [[msnbc.com]]'', November 12, 2007.
* [http://www.earthshipfloridaproject.com Earthship Florida Project]

----

A building guide is available on The Pirate Bay:
*[http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5561875/Michael_Reynolds__Earthship_Vol._1__How_to_build_your_own Volume 1]. This tells you how to make the rammed-earth tires and how to build walls out of them.
*[http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5599633/Michael_Reynolds__Earthship_Vol._2__Systems_and_components Volume 2]. Solar power, water systems, greywater, water heating systems, lighting, fireplaces, stairs, doors, cabinets, baths, showers, domes & vaults.
*[http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5569181/Michael_Reynolds__Earthship_Vol._3__Evolution_beyond_economics Volume 3]. This was written 3 years after Volume 1 and gives improvements over the methods of building described then. Also talks about toilets, refrigerators and improved water and ventilation systems.
* Hewitt, M. and Telfer, K. (2007). ''Earthships: building a zero carbon future for homes''. ISBN 9781860819728
* Klippel, James H. http://www.garrellassociates.com/EcoDesign.html, green page
* Reynolds, Mike. (2000). ''Comfort In Any Climate'', Taos: Solar Survival P. ISBN 0962676748

==References==
<small><references/></small>

Earthship/no

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Knut Brekken:

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[[File:Earthship2.jpg|400px|right|Designet brukt på de fleste jordskip. En rekke vinduer, og bruken av bildekk karakteriserer den jordskjermede bygningen]]

Et '''{{LinkLang|Earthship|Jordskip}}''' er en type hjem som tar vare på sine egne behov når det gjelder energi, vann, avfallshåndtering og noen ganger til og med matproduksjon. Det oppnår et høyt nivå av energieffektivitet ved å bruke varmen fra solen så mye som mulig, og har kraftig isolasjon. Ideen er å ha et hjem uten rør eller kabler inn og ut av det: ingen elektriske ledninger, kloakkrør, eller vannledninger.

Jordskip er ment å bygges av folk som ikke er opplærte byggearbeidere.

== Introduksjon ==
De originale Jordskipene er bygd av jord pakket tett inn i gamle blikkbokser eller bildekk. Dette betyr at mesteparten av byggematerialet er jord funnet på stedet og resten av det er resirkulert. Disse materialene er billige eller gratis, og kan bli brukt med veldig lite energiforbruk eller miljømessig påvirkning.

Jordskip er et påfunn av Mike Reynolds og er designet og markedsført av [http://earthship.com/ Earthship Biotecture] fra Taos, New Mexico.

Mange andre selvforsynte, hjem utenfor strømnettet som er Jordskip per definisjon er gjennomførbare. Et tradisjonelt eksempel er Mandan-jordhuset bygd av nordamerikanske indianere. Et moderne eksempel kan være et containerhjem. Dette er et glimrende eksempel fordi det å bruke gamle fraktcontainere skriver av fra ideen om resirkulering på en enorm måte. Et Jordskip fra en container resirkulerer mange tonn stål med veldig lite energiinput.
[http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=104266276286421&v=wall]

==Struktur==
===Dekk tettpakket med jord===
Jordskip er vanligvis lagd av resirkulerte gummidekk med jord pakket inn i dem. Enhver kompakt masse, som betong, leire eller stein kan imidlertid brukes. Dekk tettpakket med jord har følgende fordeler -
# Til forskjell fra materialer som betong, kan det brukes av hvem som helst. Ikke noe spesialutstyr kreves for å lage dem eller bruke dem. Skrapdekk er overalt rundt i verden og er enkelt å komme over; det er et anslag på 2 milliarder dekk i hele USA. I 1996, ble 253 millioner skrapdekk generert hvert år i USA, der 70% ble tilbakekalt av skrapdekkmarkedet (hvilket etterlater kanskje 75 millioner skrapdekk tilgjengelig til gjenbruk som hele dekk).<ref>Tom Verde, [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CE0DA133CF931A35751C1A960958260&n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FSubjects%2FT%2FTires At Heart of Dispute, Tires by the Acre] (December 2, 1996), The New York Times.</ref> Metoden skrapdekk blir konvertert til brukbare "murstein" er enkel og billig: jord pakkes inn i ved å bruke slegge.
#De har stor bærekapasitet. Gummidekkvegger har imidlertid en tendens til å mangle strukturell stivhet og kan kreve vertikale avstivningsribber.
#Fordi dekkene er fulle av jord, brenner det ikke når de blir utsatt for brann. I 1996, etter at en brann feiet gjennom mange konvensjonelle hjem i New Mexico, ble det i ettertid oppdaget et Jordskip som var relativt uskadet. Kun den sydvendte veggen og taket hadde brent bort, sammenlignet med den totale ødeleggelsen av de konvensjonelle hjemmene.

Et helt tettpakket dekk er omtrent 80 cm bredt. Dette er stort nok for å overgå konvensjonelle krav for strukturell vektdistribusjon til jorden. Veggene til et Jordskip er mye tykkere enn et konvensjonelt hjem, noe som gir en sterkere bygning med bedre isolering av lyd og varme.

====Arbeid====
De tettpakkede dekkene til et Jordskip er vanligvis satt sammen av lag på to personer som jobber som del av ett større konstruksjonslag. En person spar jorden fra byggeplassen inn i dekkene. Den andre står på dkket og bruker slegge for å pakke jorden inni. Den andre personen beveger seg i sirkel rundt dekket for å holde jorden jevn og for å unngå å deformere dekket. Dette er en veldig intensiv arbeidsprosess.'' 'The Earthship Manual: Vol. 1' ''sier at to personer som jobber sammen i en time kan lage fire jordpakkede dekk. Det tar rundt tusen dekk for å bygge et hus ([http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/apr2/eship.htm]), så dermed 500 arbeidstimer per hus. Rundt 40% av kostnaden til et ferdig Jordskip er assosiert med arbeid [http://www.reedconstructiondata.com/construction-forecast/news/2011/01/earthships-down-to-earth-homes/]

De tettpakkede dekkene blir laget på plassen fordi, når de er laget skikkelig, veier de opptil 140 kilo og kan være veldig vanskelig å flytte.

===Interne vegger===
Interne, ikke-bærende vegger er ofte lagd som en bikakestruktur av resirkulerte hermetikkbokser festet sammen av betong og blir kalt blikkboksvegger. Disse veggene er ofte tykt pusset med stukkatur.

===Strukturell form===
Jordskip er basert rundt en eller flere U-formede moduler. Hver av disse har en vegg av tettpakkede dekk flere fot tykt og et gulv som er under bakkenivå. Ved å være delvis nedsenket tillater det huset å utnytte fordelen med termiske lagringsegenskapene til jorden. Dette kan imidlertid forårsake problemer med at vann eller radongass lekker opp fra jorden.

===Tak===
Taket til et Jordskip er tungt isolert – ofte med jord eller leire – for økt energieffektivitet.

==Vann==
=== Høsting av regnvann ===
Vann brukt i et Jordskip er {{LinkLang|Harvested Rainwater|høstet fra regn]], snø eller kondens. Etter hvert som vannet samler seg på taket, blir det ledet gjennom en slamfangende enhet og inn i en brønn. Brønnene er plassert slik at de gravitasjons forer en VOM (VannOrganiseringsModul), som filtrerer ut bakterier og forurensninger, og gjør at vannet kan drikkes. VOM består av filtere og en DC-pumpe som er skrudd inn i et panel. Vannet blir deretter presset inn i en konvensjonell trykktant for å skape vanlig vanntrykk for husholdninger. Vann samlet på denne måten blir brukt til alle husholdningsaktiviterer bortsett fra nedspyling i toaletter på den konvensjonelle måten. Heller enn det, har vannet som brukes for å spyle ned i toalettet blitt brukt minst en gang allerede: ofte er det filtrert spillvann fra vasker og dusjer, og beskrevet som "Gråvann".

=== Gråvann ===
{{LinkLang|Gray Water|Gråvann}} er vann som har blitt brukt og som ikke er egnet for drikking, men som fortsatt kan brukes til ting som vasking. Før gråvannet blir gjenbrukt i et Jordskip, blir det ledet gjennom et fett- og partikkelfilter og inn i et 75-150cm dyp gummikledd {{LinkLang|Living Machines|levende maskin]], som er et biologisk vannfilter. Dette filteret kan inkludere planter som produserer mat mens det filtrerer vannet med røttene sine. Vannoksygenering, filtrering, transpirasjon, og bakterieoppstandelse skjer i cellen og hjelper å rense vannet (Reynolds 2000). Inni den botaniske cellen, blir filtrering oppnåd ved at vannet passerer gjennom en blanding av grus og planterøtter. Plantene tilfører oksygen til vannet og fjerner nitrogen. Vannet som tas opp gjennom plantene og siver gjennom toppen hjelper med å holde luften fuktig. I cellen vil bakterier vokse naturlig og hjelpe med å rense vannet.

Vann fra den lave enden av den botaniske cellen blir dermed ledet gjennom et torvmosefilter og samlet i et reservat eller en brønn. Dette gjenvunnede vannet passerer dermed enda en gang gjennom et gråvannsbord og brukt til å spyle ned i toaletter.

Ofte er gråvannet som dannes i jordskip ikke forurenset nok til å rettferdiggjøre behandling ("forurensningen er som regel bare såpe, som ofte ikke er miljømessig skadelig). I jordskip blir plantene plassert ved utløpene praktisert for å gjenvinne vannet og de tapte næringsstoffene (fra såpene, osv.)... Vanligvis blir en enkel plante plassert rett foran røret, men av og til brukes det også miniavløpsfelt. Røret er stort nok (5,08 cm) solik at dannelsen av undergrunnsgass (fra gråvannet) blir unngått. Dette blir gjort med kjøkken- og badvasker, og til og med dusjer, vaskemaskiner, og oppvaskemaskiner. Plantene plasseres som regel innendørs med vasken og utendørs med oppvask/vaskemaskiner og dusjer (for å unngå "flom" innendørs) Med det sistnevne blir det også plassert større avløpsfelt istedenfor en enkel plante.<ref>[http://melinathinks.wordpress.com/category/earthship-greywater-plantergreenhouse/ Planter plassert ved rør]</ref><ref>[http://www.greenhomebuilding.com/earthship.htm Planter plassert ved rør i jordskip]</ref>

===Svartvann===
Svartvann, vann som har blitt brukt i et toalett, ble vanligvis ikke dannet i mange av de tidligste jordskipene ettersom bruken av spylbare toaletter ble frarådet.<ref>Earthship Volume 2:Systems and components</ref> Istedenfor ble {{LangLink|Composting Toilet|komposterende toaletter]] anbefalt, som ikke brukte vann i det hele tatt. Men med det nye behandlingssystemet for gråvann (brukt i Nautilus, Helios, ...) skapt av Michael Reynolds, har nå spylbare toaletter fått en plass i jordskipet og det generelle vannsystemet har blitt redesignet i henhold til det nye "6-trinnsprosessen".<ref>[http://heliohouse.com/tech.htm Ny prosess for vannrensingssystem i Helios hus: overblikk med bilder]</ref><ref>[http://www.earthship.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=25 Spillvannsti]</ref>

Når spyletoaletter blir brukt, blir ikke svartvann gjenbrukt inne i Jordskipet. Istedet blir det sent til en solutvidet septikktank med lekkefelt og planterceller (helheten blir ofte referert til som “inkubatoren”). Den solutvidede septikktanken er en vanlig septikktank som blir varmet av solen og glassert med et vindu mot ekvator. Inkubatoren lagrer solens varme i betongmassen, og er isolert, for å hjelpe den anaerobe prosessen. Vann fra inkubatoren er ledet ut til et utenforliggende lekkefelt og dermed til landskapspleiende "planterceller" (områder omringet av betong der planter er plassert). Cellene ligner botaniske celler brukt i gråvannbehandling og er vanligvis plassert rett under vinduene til et jordskip.

I tilfeller der det ikke er mulig å bruke spyletoaletter operert på vann, anbefales nå tørre soltoaletter, istedenfor ''vanlige'' komposttoaletter. Hvis dette er tilfelle, vil det selvfølgelig ikke dannes noe svartvann, og dermed er ikke bruken av inkubatorer (vanligvis) nødvendig. Isteden brukes vanlige "plantere" (planter brukt for å suge opp vann/næringsstoff). Når man bruker vanlige plantere i tillegg, kan ikke kjemiske såper eller vaskemidler brukes.

Området der VOM (vannorganiseringsmodulen), pumpepanel for gråvann, trykktank, (første sett med) batterier, og KOM (kraftorganiserende modul) er lagret i er et lite rom referert til som "systempakke".

==Elektrisitet==
Jordskip er designet til å samle og lagre energien sin fra flere kilder. Majoriteten av elektrisk energi er høstet fra solen og vinden. {{LinkLang|Solar Cells|Solcellepanel}} og {{LinkLang|Small Wind Turbine|vindturbiner}} plassert på eller nær Jordskipet genererer likestrøm som deretter blir lagret i flere typer {{LinkLang|deep-cycle batteries|dypsyklusbatterier}}. Rommet der batteriene holdes er vanligvis et spesialbygd rin plassert på taket. Ytterligere energi, hvis det trengs, kan fås fra bensindrevne generatorer eller ved å integreres i strømnettet.

I et Jordskip blir en Kraftorganiseringsmodul brukt for å ta lagret energi fra batterier gjøre det om til vekselstrøm. Kraftorganiseringsmodulen er et prefabrikert system levert av Earthship Biotecture som henges på en innvendig vegg av Jordskipet og koblet på vanlig måte. Det inkluderer det nødvendige utstyret som overbelastningsbrytere og voltkonverter. Energien som går gjennom Kraftorganiseringsmodulen kan bli brukt til å drive et hvilket som helst husholdningsapparat inkludert vaskemaskin, datamaskin, kjøkkenredskaper, printere, støvsugere, osv. Generelt blir ikke noe av den elektriske energien i et Jordskip brukt til oppvarming eller nedkjøling.<ref>[http://earthship.com/systems/energy.php] http://earthship.com/systems/energy.php}}</ref>

==Klima==
Jordskipet tar sikte på å vedlikeholde en komfortabel temperatur, dvs. uten å være avhengig av systemer som krever energi. Det gjør dette ved å maksimere effekten av termiskmasse og soloppvarming og ved å bruke byggematerialer som er tungt isolerte.

Vinduer på solvendte vegger gir tilgang til lys og varme. Bygningene er ofte hestesko-formede for å maksimere naturlig lys og solinntak i løpet av vintermånedene. Den tykke, tette indre veggen gir termisk masse som naturlig regulerer den interiøre temperaturen i løpet av både kalde og varme utsidetemperaturer.

Hovedsaklig prøver Jordskipet å benytte seg av egenskapene til termisk masse og passiv soloppvarming og kjøling. Eksempler er store frontvinduer med integrerte persienner, trombevegger og andre teknologier som takvinduer og solsporere (som også genererer elektrisitet).

Bæreveggen til et Jordskip gir en tett termisk masse som vil ta til seg varme i løpet av dagen og stråle varme i løpet av natten, noe som holder det interiøre klimaet relativt komfortabelt hele dagen.

I tillegg til høy termisk masse, kan noen Jordskip være jordskjermet. Fordelene med jordskjerming er todelt, fordi det tilfører til den termiske massen og, hvis Jordskipet er begravd dypt nok, tillater det strukturen å benytte seg av Jordens stabile temperatur.

Jordskipet er formet på en sånn måte at solen bidrar med varme, ventilasjon, og belysning. For å benytte seg av solen er et Jordskip plassert slik at dets viktigste vegg, som ikke er strukturell og lagd for det meste av glassplater, er rettet direkte mot ekvator. Denne posisjoneringen tillater optimal soleksponering.

For å tillate solen å varme Jordskipets masse, er den solorienterte veggen vinklet slik at den er vinkelrett til lyset fra vintersolen. Dette gir maksimal eksponering i vinteren, når varme er ønsket, og mindre eksponering om sommeren, når varmen gjerne vil unngås. Noen Jordskip, spesielt de som er bygd i kaldere klimaer, bruker isolerte persienner på den solorienterte veggen for å reduserer varmetap i løpet av natten (Reynolds 2000).

===Natural ventilation===
The earthships usually use their own natural ventilation system. It consists of cold(er) air coming in from a front ("hopper") window, especially made for this purpose and flowing out through (one of) the skylights that are placed on the earthship. As hot air rises, the system maintains itself and keeps sucking in (and out), air.

===Heating problems===
Bottle walls are used in earthships. Earthships rely on a balance between the solar heat gain and the ability of the tire walls and subsoil to transport and store heat. The design intends to require little if any auxiliary heat. Some earthships have suffered from overheating and some from over-cooling.

Some earthships appear to have serious problems with heat loss. In these cases heat appears to be leaking into the ground constantly during the heating season and being lost. This situation may have arisen from the mistaken belief that ground-coupled structures (building in thermal contact with the ground) do not require insulation. The situation may also be due to large climatic differences between the sunny, arid, and warm Southwest (of the USA) where earthships were first built and the cloudier, cooler, and wetter climates where some are now being built. [[Malcolm Wells]], an architect and authority on earth-sheltered design, recommends R-value 10 insulation between deep soils and heated spaces. Wells's insulation recommendations increase as the depth of the soil decreases.

In very limited and specific situations, uncommon during the heating season, thermal mass can marginally increase the apparent R-value of a building assembly such as a wall. Generally speaking, thermal mass and R-value are distinct thermodynamic properties and should not be equated. Thermal performance problems apparently seen in some earthship designs may have occurred because of thermal mass being erroneously equated to R-value. The R-value of soil is about 1 per foot.<ref>[http://www.engext.ksu.edu/ees/henergy/envelope/basement.html Kansas State University Extension Service]</ref>

The sloped glazing may be hard to keep watertight and in warm climates allows excessive solar gain in summer. In colder climates, the glazing itself, which has far poorer insulating properties than any other component, will obviously be the major conduit of heat loss in winter. New designs call for vertical windows with an overhang.

Uninsulated ground-coupled thermal mass presents a large potential for heat loss, especially in climates with a heating season. This varies to a degree with soil type and moisture content.

==History==
The history of the earthship was featured in the 2007 documentary [http://www.garbagewarrior.com/ "Garbage Warrior"]:
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The Earthship began to take shape in the 1970s. Designs were at first very experimental, but have been improved over time.

Currently, Earthships are in use in almost every state in the United States, as well as many countries in Europe. In 2000 Mike Reynolds and Daren Howarth launched Earthship Biotecture Europe to explore and evolve the concept of the Earthship in Europe. Two more directors were appointed to Earthship Biotecture Europe in July 2006 – Kevan Trott and Kirsten Jacobsen.

Earthship Biotecture has now finalized plans to build 16 Earthship homes in Brighton.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20071213144133/http://www.earthship.co.uk/earthship-homes.htm Earthship Homes development] (archived from [http://www.earthship.co.uk/earthship-homes.htm the original] on 2007-12-13).</ref>

Earthship Biotecture aims to build Earthships to house 32 people made homeless by the earthquake in Haiti [http://earthship.com/haiti-disaster-relief.html].

==Further reading==
* Schirber, Michael. [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21755230/ "Making Earthships Mainstream"] on ''Going Green at [[msnbc.com]]'', November 12, 2007.
* [http://www.earthshipfloridaproject.com Earthship Florida Project]

----

A building guide is available on The Pirate Bay:
*[http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5561875/Michael_Reynolds__Earthship_Vol._1__How_to_build_your_own Volume 1]. This tells you how to make the rammed-earth tires and how to build walls out of them.
*[http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5599633/Michael_Reynolds__Earthship_Vol._2__Systems_and_components Volume 2]. Solar power, water systems, greywater, water heating systems, lighting, fireplaces, stairs, doors, cabinets, baths, showers, domes & vaults.
*[http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5569181/Michael_Reynolds__Earthship_Vol._3__Evolution_beyond_economics Volume 3]. This was written 3 years after Volume 1 and gives improvements over the methods of building described then. Also talks about toilets, refrigerators and improved water and ventilation systems.
* Hewitt, M. and Telfer, K. (2007). ''Earthships: building a zero carbon future for homes''. ISBN 9781860819728
* Klippel, James H. http://www.garrellassociates.com/EcoDesign.html, green page
* Reynolds, Mike. (2000). ''Comfort In Any Climate'', Taos: Solar Survival P. ISBN 0962676748

==References==
<small><references/></small>

Earthship/no

2011-05-10T19:28:12Z

Knut Brekken: /* Dekk tettpakket med jord */

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{{Breadcrumb|Housing and construction}}
{| align="left"
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[[File:Earthship1.jpg|400px|right]]
[[File:Earthship2.jpg|400px|right|Designet brukt på de fleste jordskip. En rekke vinduer, og bruken av bildekk karakteriserer den jordskjermede bygningen]]

Et '''{{LinkLang|Earthship|Jordskip}}''' er en type hjem som tar vare på sine egne behov når det gjelder energi, vann, avfallshåndtering og noen ganger til og med matproduksjon. Det oppnår et høyt nivå av energieffektivitet ved å bruke varmen fra solen så mye som mulig, og har kraftig isolasjon. Ideen er å ha et hjem uten rør eller kabler inn og ut av det: ingen elektriske ledninger, kloakkrør, eller vannledninger.

Jordskip er ment å bygges av folk som ikke er opplærte byggearbeidere.

== Introduksjon ==
De originale Jordskipene er bygd av jord pakket tett inn i gamle blikkbokser eller bildekk. Dette betyr at mesteparten av byggematerialet er jord funnet på stedet og resten av det er resirkulert. Disse materialene er billige eller gratis, og kan bli brukt med veldig lite energiforbruk eller miljømessig påvirkning.

Jordskip er et påfunn av Mike Reynolds og er designet og markedsført av [http://earthship.com/ Earthship Biotecture] fra Taos, New Mexico.

Mange andre selvforsynte, hjem utenfor strømnettet som er Jordskip per definisjon er gjennomførbare. Et tradisjonelt eksempel er Mandan-jordhuset bygd av nordamerikanske indianere. Et moderne eksempel kan være et containerhjem. Dette er et glimrende eksempel fordi det å bruke gamle fraktcontainere skriver av fra ideen om resirkulering på en enorm måte. Et Jordskip fra en container resirkulerer mange tonn stål med veldig lite energiinput.
[http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=104266276286421&v=wall]

==Struktur==
===Dekk tettpakket med jord===
Jordskip er vanligvis lagd av resirkulerte gummidekk med jord pakket inn i dem. Enhver kompakt masse, som betong, leire eller stein kan imidlertid brukes. Dekk tettpakket med jord har følgende fordeler -
# Til forskjell fra materialer som betong, kan det brukes av hvem som helst. Ikke noe spesialutstyr kreves for å lage dem eller bruke dem. Skrapdekk er overalt rundt i verden og er enkelt å komme over; det er et anslag på 2 milliarder dekk i hele USA. I 1996, ble 253 millioner skrapdekk generert hvert år i USA, der 70% ble tilbakekalt av skrapdekkmarkedet (hvilket etterlater kanskje 75 millioner skrapdekk tilgjengelig til gjenbruk som hele dekk).<ref>Tom Verde, [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CE0DA133CF931A35751C1A960958260&n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FSubjects%2FT%2FTires At Heart of Dispute, Tires by the Acre] (December 2, 1996), The New York Times.</ref> Metoden skrapdekk blir konvertert til brukbare "murstein" er enkel og billig: jord pakkes inn i ved å bruke slegge.
#De har stor bærekapasitet. Gummidekkvegger har imidlertid en tendens til å mangle strukturell stivhet og kan kreve vertikale avstivningsribber.
#Fordi dekkene er fulle av jord, brenner det ikke når de blir utsatt for brann. I 1996, etter at en brann feiet gjennom mange konvensjonelle hjem i New Mexico, ble det i ettertid oppdaget et Jordskip som var relativt uskadet. Kun den sydvendte veggen og taket hadde brent bort, sammenlignet med den totale ødeleggelsen av de konvensjonelle hjemmene.

Et helt tettpakket dekk er omtrent 80 cm bredt. Dette er stort nok for å overgå konvensjonelle krav for strukturell vektdistribusjon til jorden. Veggene til et Jordskip er mye tykkere enn et konvensjonelt hjem, noe som gir en sterkere bygning med bedre isolering av lyd og varme.

====Arbeid====
De tettpakkede dekkene til et Jordskip er vanligvis satt sammen av lag på to personer som jobber som del av ett større konstruksjonslag. En person spar jorden fra byggeplassen inn i dekkene. Den andre står på dkket og bruker slegge for å pakke jorden inni. Den andre personen beveger seg i sirkel rundt dekket for å holde jorden jevn og for å unngå å deformere dekket. Dette er en veldig intensiv arbeidsprosess.'' 'The Earthship Manual: Vol. 1' ''sier at to personer som jobber sammen i en time kan lage fire jordpakkede dekk. Det tar rundt tusen dekk for å bygge et hus ([http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/apr2/eship.htm]), så dermed 500 arbeidstimer per hus. Rundt 40% av kostnaden til et ferdig Jordskip er assosiert med arbeid [http://www.reedconstructiondata.com/construction-forecast/news/2011/01/earthships-down-to-earth-homes/]

De tettpakkede dekkene blir laget på plassen fordi, når de er laget skikkelig, veier de opptil 140 kilo og kan være veldig vanskelig å flytte.

===Interne vegger===
Interne, ikke-bærende vegger er ofte lagd som en bikakestruktur av resirkulerte hermetikkbokser festet sammen av betong og blir kalt blikkboksvegger. Disse veggene er ofte tykt pusset med stukkatur.

===Strukturell form===
Jordskip er basert rundt en eller flere U-formede moduler. Hver av disse har en vegg av tettpakkede dekk flere fot tykt og et gulv som er under bakkenivå. Ved å være delvis nedsenket tillater det huset å utnytte fordelen med termiske lagringsegenskapene til jorden. Dette kan imidlertid forårsake problemer med at vann eller radongass lekker opp fra jorden.

===Tak===
Taket til et Jordskip er tungt isolert – ofte med jord eller leire – for økt energieffektivitet.

==Vann==
=== Høsting av regnvann ===
Vann brukt i et Jordskip er {{LinkLang|Harvested Rainwater|høstet fra regn]], snø eller kondens. Etter hvert som vannet samler seg på taket, blir det ledet gjennom en slamfangende enhet og inn i en brønn. Brønnene er plassert slik at de gravitasjons forer en VOM (VannOrganiseringsModul), som filtrerer ut bakterier og forurensninger, og gjør at vannet kan drikkes. VOM består av filtere og en DC-pumpe som er skrudd inn i et panel. Vannet blir deretter presset inn i en konvensjonell trykktant for å skape vanlig vanntrykk for husholdninger. Vann samlet på denne måten blir brukt til alle husholdningsaktiviterer bortsett fra nedspyling i toaletter på den konvensjonelle måten. Heller enn det, har vannet som brukes for å spyle ned i toalettet blitt brukt minst en gang allerede: ofte er det filtrert spillvann fra vasker og dusjer, og beskrevet som "Gråvann".

=== Gråvann ===
{{LinkLang|Gray Water|Gråvann}} er vann som har blitt brukt og som ikke er egnet for drikking, men som fortsatt kan brukes til ting som vasking. Før gråvannet blir gjenbrukt i et Jordskip, blir det ledet gjennom et fett- og partikkelfilter og inn i et 75-150cm dyp gummikledd {{LinkLang|Living Machines|levende maskin]], som er et biologisk vannfilter. Dette filteret kan inkludere planter som produserer mat mens det filtrerer vannet med røttene sine. Vannoksygenering, filtrering, transpirasjon, og bakterieoppstandelse skjer i cellen og hjelper å rense vannet (Reynolds 2000). Inni den botaniske cellen, blir filtrering oppnåd ved at vannet passerer gjennom en blanding av grus og planterøtter. Plantene tilfører oksygen til vannet og fjerner nitrogen. Vannet som tas opp gjennom plantene og siver gjennom toppen hjelper med å holde luften fuktig. I cellen vil bakterier vokse naturlig og hjelpe med å rense vannet.

Vann fra den lave enden av den botaniske cellen blir dermed ledet gjennom et torvmosefilter og samlet i et reservat eller en brønn. Dette gjenvunnede vannet passerer dermed enda en gang gjennom et gråvannsbord og brukt til å spyle ned i toaletter.

Ofte er gråvannet som dannes i jordskip ikke forurenset nok til å rettferdiggjøre behandling ("forurensningen er som regel bare såpe, som ofte ikke er miljømessig skadelig). I jordskip blir plantene plassert ved utløpene praktisert for å gjenvinne vannet og de tapte næringsstoffene (fra såpene, osv.)... Vanligvis blir en enkel plante plassert rett foran røret, men av og til brukes det også miniavløpsfelt. Røret er stort nok (5,08 cm) solik at dannelsen av undergrunnsgass (fra gråvannet) blir unngått. Dette blir gjort med kjøkken- og badvasker, og til og med dusjer, vaskemaskiner, og oppvaskemaskiner. Plantene plasseres som regel innendørs med vasken og utendørs med oppvask/vaskemaskiner og dusjer (for å unngå "flom" innendørs) Med det sistnevne blir det også plassert større avløpsfelt istedenfor en enkel plante.<ref>[http://melinathinks.wordpress.com/category/earthship-greywater-plantergreenhouse/ Planter plassert ved rør]</ref><ref>[http://www.greenhomebuilding.com/earthship.htm Planter plassert ved rør i jordskip]</ref>

===Svartvann===
Svartvann, vann som har blitt brukt i et toalett, ble vanligvis ikke dannet i mange av de tidligste jordskipene ettersom bruken av spylbare toaletter ble frarådet.<ref>Earthship Volume 2:Systems and components</ref> Istedenfor ble {{LangLink|Composting Toilet|komposterende toaletter]] anbefalt, som ikke brukte vann i det hele tatt. Men med det nye behandlingssystemet for gråvann (brukt i Nautilus, Helios, ...) skapt av Michael Reynolds, har nå spylbare toaletter fått en plass i jordskipet og det generelle vannsystemet har blitt redesignet i henhold til det nye "6-trinnsprosessen".<ref>[http://heliohouse.com/tech.htm Ny prosess for vannrensingssystem i Helios hus: overblikk med bilder]</ref><ref>[http://www.earthship.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=25 Spillvannsti]</ref>

Når spyletoaletter blir brukt, blir ikke svartvann gjenbrukt inne i Jordskipet. Istedet blir det sent til en solutvidet septikktank med lekkefelt og planterceller (helheten blir ofte referert til som “inkubatoren”). Den solutvidede septikktanken er en vanlig septikktank som blir varmet av solen og glassert med et vindu mot ekvator. Inkubatoren lagrer solens varme i betongmassen, og er isolert, for å hjelpe den anaerobe prosessen. Vann fra inkubatoren er ledet ut til et utenforliggende lekkefelt og dermed til landskapspleiende "planterceller" (områder omringet av betong der planter er plassert). Cellene ligner botaniske celler brukt i gråvannbehandling og er vanligvis plassert rett under vinduene til et jordskip.

I tilfeller der det ikke er mulig å bruke spyletoaletter operert på vann, anbefales nå tørre soltoaletter, istedenfor ''vanlige'' komposttoaletter. Hvis dette er tilfelle, vil det selvfølgelig ikke dannes noe svartvann, og dermed er ikke bruken av inkubatorer (vanligvis) nødvendig. Isteden brukes vanlige "plantere" (planter brukt for å suge opp vann/næringsstoff). Når man bruker vanlige plantere i tillegg, kan ikke kjemiske såper eller vaskemidler brukes.

Området der VOM (vannorganiseringsmodulen), pumpepanel for gråvann, trykktank, (første sett med) batterier, og KOM (kraftorganiserende modul) er lagret i er et lite rom referert til som "systempakke".

==Elektrisitet==
Jordskip er designet til å samle og lagre energien sin fra flere kilder. Majoriteten av elektrisk energi er høstet fra solen og vinden. {{LinkLang|Solar Cells|Solcellepanel}} og {{LinkLang|Small Wind Turbine|vindturbiner}} plassert på eller nær Jordskipet genererer likestrøm som deretter blir lagret i flere typer {{LinkLang|deep-cycle batteries|dypsyklusbatterier}}. Rommet der batteriene holdes er vanligvis et spesialbygd rin plassert på taket. Ytterligere energi, hvis det trengs, kan fås fra bensindrevne generatorer eller ved å integreres i strømnettet.

I et Jordskip blir en Kraftorganiseringsmodul brukt for å ta lagret energi fra batterier gjøre det om til vekselstrøm. Kraftorganiseringsmodulen er et prefabrikert system levert av Earthship Biotecture som henges på en innvendig vegg av Jordskipet og koblet på vanlig måte. Det inkluderer det nødvendige utstyret som overbelastningsbrytere og voltkonverter. Energien som går gjennom Kraftorganiseringsmodulen kan bli brukt til å drive et hvilket som helst husholdningsapparat inkludert vaskemaskin, datamaskin, kjøkkenredskaper, printere, støvsugere, osv. Generelt blir ikke noe av den elektriske energien i et Jordskip brukt til oppvarming eller nedkjøling.<ref>[http://earthship.com/systems/energy.php] http://earthship.com/systems/energy.php}}</ref>

==Climate==
The Earthship aims to maintain a comfortable temperature passively i.e. without reliance on systems that require energy. It does this by maximizing the effect of thermal mass and solar heating and by using building materials that are heavily insulated.

Windows on sun-facing walls admit light and heat. The buildings are often horseshoe-shaped to maximize natural light and solar-gain during winter months. The thick, dense inner walls provide thermal mass that naturally regulates the interior temperature during both cold and hot outside temperatures.

Mainly, the Earthship tries to take advantage of the properties of thermal mass and passive solar heating and cooling. Examples are large front windows with integrated shades, trombe walls and other technologies such as skylights or solar trackers (which also generate electricity).

The load-bearing walls of an Earthship provide a dense thermal mass that will soak up heat during the day and radiate heat during the night, keeping the interior climate relatively comfortable all day.

In addition to high thermal mass, some Earthships may be earth-sheltered. The benefits of earth-sheltering are twofold because it adds to the thermal mass and, if the Earthship is buried deep enough, allows the structure to take advantage of the Earth's stable temperature.

The Earthship is designed in such a way that the sun provides heating, ventilation, and lighting. To take advantage of the sun, an Earthship is positioned so that its principal wall, which is nonstructural and made mostly of glass sheets, faces directly towards the equator. This positioning allows for optimum solar exposure.

To allow the sun to heat the mass of the Earthship, the solar-orientated wall is angled so that it is perpendicular to light from the winter sun. This allows for maximum exposure in the winter, when heat is wanted, and lesser exposure in the summer, when heat is to be avoided. Some Earthships, especially those built in colder climates, use insulated shading on the solar-orientated wall to reduce heat loss during the night (Reynolds 2000).

===Natural ventilation===
The earthships usually use their own natural ventilation system. It consists of cold(er) air coming in from a front ("hopper") window, especially made for this purpose and flowing out through (one of) the skylights that are placed on the earthship. As hot air rises, the system maintains itself and keeps sucking in (and out), air.

===Heating problems===
Bottle walls are used in earthships. Earthships rely on a balance between the solar heat gain and the ability of the tire walls and subsoil to transport and store heat. The design intends to require little if any auxiliary heat. Some earthships have suffered from overheating and some from over-cooling.

Some earthships appear to have serious problems with heat loss. In these cases heat appears to be leaking into the ground constantly during the heating season and being lost. This situation may have arisen from the mistaken belief that ground-coupled structures (building in thermal contact with the ground) do not require insulation. The situation may also be due to large climatic differences between the sunny, arid, and warm Southwest (of the USA) where earthships were first built and the cloudier, cooler, and wetter climates where some are now being built. [[Malcolm Wells]], an architect and authority on earth-sheltered design, recommends R-value 10 insulation between deep soils and heated spaces. Wells's insulation recommendations increase as the depth of the soil decreases.

In very limited and specific situations, uncommon during the heating season, thermal mass can marginally increase the apparent R-value of a building assembly such as a wall. Generally speaking, thermal mass and R-value are distinct thermodynamic properties and should not be equated. Thermal performance problems apparently seen in some earthship designs may have occurred because of thermal mass being erroneously equated to R-value. The R-value of soil is about 1 per foot.<ref>[http://www.engext.ksu.edu/ees/henergy/envelope/basement.html Kansas State University Extension Service]</ref>

The sloped glazing may be hard to keep watertight and in warm climates allows excessive solar gain in summer. In colder climates, the glazing itself, which has far poorer insulating properties than any other component, will obviously be the major conduit of heat loss in winter. New designs call for vertical windows with an overhang.

Uninsulated ground-coupled thermal mass presents a large potential for heat loss, especially in climates with a heating season. This varies to a degree with soil type and moisture content.

==History==
The history of the earthship was featured in the 2007 documentary [http://www.garbagewarrior.com/ "Garbage Warrior"]:
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The Earthship began to take shape in the 1970s. Designs were at first very experimental, but have been improved over time.

Currently, Earthships are in use in almost every state in the United States, as well as many countries in Europe. In 2000 Mike Reynolds and Daren Howarth launched Earthship Biotecture Europe to explore and evolve the concept of the Earthship in Europe. Two more directors were appointed to Earthship Biotecture Europe in July 2006 – Kevan Trott and Kirsten Jacobsen.

Earthship Biotecture has now finalized plans to build 16 Earthship homes in Brighton.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20071213144133/http://www.earthship.co.uk/earthship-homes.htm Earthship Homes development] (archived from [http://www.earthship.co.uk/earthship-homes.htm the original] on 2007-12-13).</ref>

Earthship Biotecture aims to build Earthships to house 32 people made homeless by the earthquake in Haiti [http://earthship.com/haiti-disaster-relief.html].

==Further reading==
* Schirber, Michael. [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21755230/ "Making Earthships Mainstream"] on ''Going Green at [[msnbc.com]]'', November 12, 2007.
* [http://www.earthshipfloridaproject.com Earthship Florida Project]

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A building guide is available on The Pirate Bay:
*[http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5561875/Michael_Reynolds__Earthship_Vol._1__How_to_build_your_own Volume 1]. This tells you how to make the rammed-earth tires and how to build walls out of them.
*[http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5599633/Michael_Reynolds__Earthship_Vol._2__Systems_and_components Volume 2]. Solar power, water systems, greywater, water heating systems, lighting, fireplaces, stairs, doors, cabinets, baths, showers, domes & vaults.
*[http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5569181/Michael_Reynolds__Earthship_Vol._3__Evolution_beyond_economics Volume 3]. This was written 3 years after Volume 1 and gives improvements over the methods of building described then. Also talks about toilets, refrigerators and improved water and ventilation systems.
* Hewitt, M. and Telfer, K. (2007). ''Earthships: building a zero carbon future for homes''. ISBN 9781860819728
* Klippel, James H. http://www.garrellassociates.com/EcoDesign.html, green page
* Reynolds, Mike. (2000). ''Comfort In Any Climate'', Taos: Solar Survival P. ISBN 0962676748

==References==
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Et '''{{LinkLang|Earthship|Jordskip}}''' er en type hjem som tar vare på sine egne behov når det gjelder energi, vann, avfallshåndtering og noen ganger til og med matproduksjon. Det oppnår et høyt nivå av energieffektivitet ved å bruke varmen fra solen så mye som mulig, og har kraftig isolasjon. Ideen er å ha et hjem uten rør eller kabler inn og ut av det: ingen elektriske ledninger, kloakkrør, eller vannledninger.

Jordskip er ment å bygges av folk som ikke er opplærte byggearbeidere.

== Introduksjon ==
De originale Jordskipene er bygd av jord pakket tett inn i gamle blikkbokser eller bildekk. Dette betyr at mesteparten av byggematerialet er jord funnet på stedet og resten av det er resirkulert. Disse materialene er billige eller gratis, og kan bli brukt med veldig lite energiforbruk eller miljømessig påvirkning.

Jordskip er et påfunn av Mike Reynolds og er designet og markedsført av [http://earthship.com/ Earthship Biotecture] fra Taos, New Mexico.

Mange andre selvforsynte, hjem utenfor strømnettet som er Jordskip per definisjon er gjennomførbare. Et tradisjonelt eksempel er Mandan-jordhuset bygd av nordamerikanske indianere. Et moderne eksempel kan være et containerhjem. Dette er et glimrende eksempel fordi det å bruke gamle fraktcontainere skriver av fra ideen om resirkulering på en enorm måte. Et Jordskip fra en container resirkulerer mange tonn stål med veldig lite energiinput.
[http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=104266276286421&v=wall]

==Struktur==
===Dekk tettpakket med jord===
Jordskip er vanligvis lagd av resirkulerte gummidekk med jord pakket inn i dem. Enhver kompakt masse, som betong, leire eller stein kan imidlertid brukes. Dekk tettpakket med jord har følgende fordeler -
# Til forskjell fra materialer som betong, kan det brukes av hvem som helst. Ikke noe spesialutstyr kreves for å lage dem eller bruke dem. Skrapdekk er overalt rundt i verden og er enkelt å komme over; det er et anslag på 2 milliarder dekk i hele USA. I 1996, ble 253 millioner skrapdekk generert hvert år i USA, der 70% ble tilbakekalt av skrapdekkmarkedet (hvilket etterlater kanskje 75 millioner skrapdekk tilgjengelig til gjenbruk som hele dekk).(leaving perhaps 75 million scrap tires available for reuse as whole tires).<ref>Tom Verde, [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CE0DA133CF931A35751C1A960958260&n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FSubjects%2FT%2FTires At Heart of Dispute, Tires by the Acre] (December 2, 1996), The New York Times.</ref> Metoden skrapdekk blir konvertert til brukbare "murstein" er enkel og billig: jord pakkes inn i ved å bruke slegge.
#De har stor bærekapasitet. Gummidekkvegger har imidlertid en tendens til å mangle strukturell stivhet og kan kreve vertikale avstivningsribber.
#Fordi dekkene er fulle av jord, brenner det ikke når de blir utsatt for brann. I 1996, etter at en brann feiet gjennom mange konvensjonelle hjem i New Mexico, ble det i ettertid oppdaget et Jordskip som var relativt uskadet. Kun den sydvendte veggen og taket hadde brent bort, sammenlignet med den totale ødeleggelsen av de konvensjonelle hjemmene.

Et helt tettpakket dekk er omtrent 80 cm bredt. Dette er stort nok for å overgå konvensjonelle krav for strukturell vektdistribusjon til jorden. Veggene til et Jordskip er mye tykkere enn et konvensjonelt hjem, noe som gir en sterkere bygning med bedre isolering av lyd og varme.

====Arbeid====
De tettpakkede dekkene til et Jordskip er vanligvis satt sammen av lag på to personer som jobber som del av ett større konstruksjonslag. En person spar jorden fra byggeplassen inn i dekkene. Den andre står på dkket og bruker slegge for å pakke jorden inni. Den andre personen beveger seg i sirkel rundt dekket for å holde jorden jevn og for å unngå å deformere dekket. Dette er en veldig intensiv arbeidsprosess.'' 'The Earthship Manual: Vol. 1' ''sier at to personer som jobber sammen i en time kan lage fire jordpakkede dekk. Det tar rundt tusen dekk for å bygge et hus ([http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/apr2/eship.htm]), så dermed 500 arbeidstimer per hus. Rundt 40% av kostnaden til et ferdig Jordskip er assosiert med arbeid [http://www.reedconstructiondata.com/construction-forecast/news/2011/01/earthships-down-to-earth-homes/]

De tettpakkede dekkene blir laget på plassen fordi, når de er laget skikkelig, veier de opptil 140 kilo og kan være veldig vanskelig å flytte.

===Interne vegger===
Interne, ikke-bærende vegger er ofte lagd som en bikakestruktur av resirkulerte hermetikkbokser festet sammen av betong og blir kalt blikkboksvegger. Disse veggene er ofte tykt pusset med stukkatur.

===Strukturell form===
Jordskip er basert rundt en eller flere U-formede moduler. Hver av disse har en vegg av tettpakkede dekk flere fot tykt og et gulv som er under bakkenivå. Ved å være delvis nedsenket tillater det huset å utnytte fordelen med termiske lagringsegenskapene til jorden. Dette kan imidlertid forårsake problemer med at vann eller radongass lekker opp fra jorden.

===Tak===
Taket til et Jordskip er tungt isolert – ofte med jord eller leire – for økt energieffektivitet.

==Vann==
=== Høsting av regnvann ===
Vann brukt i et Jordskip er {{LinkLang|Harvested Rainwater|høstet fra regn]], snø eller kondens. Etter hvert som vannet samler seg på taket, blir det ledet gjennom en slamfangende enhet og inn i en brønn. Brønnene er plassert slik at de gravitasjons forer en VOM (VannOrganiseringsModul), som filtrerer ut bakterier og forurensninger, og gjør at vannet kan drikkes. VOM består av filtere og en DC-pumpe som er skrudd inn i et panel. Vannet blir deretter presset inn i en konvensjonell trykktant for å skape vanlig vanntrykk for husholdninger. Vann samlet på denne måten blir brukt til alle husholdningsaktiviterer bortsett fra nedspyling i toaletter på den konvensjonelle måten. Heller enn det, har vannet som brukes for å spyle ned i toalettet blitt brukt minst en gang allerede: ofte er det filtrert spillvann fra vasker og dusjer, og beskrevet som "Gråvann".

=== Gråvann ===
{{LinkLang|Gray Water|Gråvann}} er vann som har blitt brukt og som ikke er egnet for drikking, men som fortsatt kan brukes til ting som vasking. Før gråvannet blir gjenbrukt i et Jordskip, blir det ledet gjennom et fett- og partikkelfilter og inn i et 75-150cm dyp gummikledd {{LinkLang|Living Machines|levende maskin]], som er et biologisk vannfilter. Dette filteret kan inkludere planter som produserer mat mens det filtrerer vannet med røttene sine. Vannoksygenering, filtrering, transpirasjon, og bakterieoppstandelse skjer i cellen og hjelper å rense vannet (Reynolds 2000). Inni den botaniske cellen, blir filtrering oppnåd ved at vannet passerer gjennom en blanding av grus og planterøtter. Plantene tilfører oksygen til vannet og fjerner nitrogen. Vannet som tas opp gjennom plantene og siver gjennom toppen hjelper med å holde luften fuktig. I cellen vil bakterier vokse naturlig og hjelpe med å rense vannet.

Vann fra den lave enden av den botaniske cellen blir dermed ledet gjennom et torvmosefilter og samlet i et reservat eller en brønn. Dette gjenvunnede vannet passerer dermed enda en gang gjennom et gråvannsbord og brukt til å spyle ned i toaletter.

Ofte er gråvannet som dannes i jordskip ikke forurenset nok til å rettferdiggjøre behandling ("forurensningen er som regel bare såpe, som ofte ikke er miljømessig skadelig). I jordskip blir plantene plassert ved utløpene praktisert for å gjenvinne vannet og de tapte næringsstoffene (fra såpene, osv.)... Vanligvis blir en enkel plante plassert rett foran røret, men av og til brukes det også miniavløpsfelt. Røret er stort nok (5,08 cm) solik at dannelsen av undergrunnsgass (fra gråvannet) blir unngått. Dette blir gjort med kjøkken- og badvasker, og til og med dusjer, vaskemaskiner, og oppvaskemaskiner. Plantene plasseres som regel innendørs med vasken og utendørs med oppvask/vaskemaskiner og dusjer (for å unngå "flom" innendørs) Med det sistnevne blir det også plassert større avløpsfelt istedenfor en enkel plante.<ref>[http://melinathinks.wordpress.com/category/earthship-greywater-plantergreenhouse/ Planter plassert ved rør]</ref><ref>[http://www.greenhomebuilding.com/earthship.htm Planter plassert ved rør i jordskip]</ref>

===Svartvann===
Svartvann, vann som har blitt brukt i et toalett, ble vanligvis ikke dannet i mange av de tidligste jordskipene ettersom bruken av spylbare toaletter ble frarådet.<ref>Earthship Volume 2:Systems and components</ref> Istedenfor ble {{LangLink|Composting Toilet|komposterende toaletter]] anbefalt, som ikke brukte vann i det hele tatt. Men med det nye behandlingssystemet for gråvann (brukt i Nautilus, Helios, ...) skapt av Michael Reynolds, har nå spylbare toaletter fått en plass i jordskipet og det generelle vannsystemet har blitt redesignet i henhold til det nye "6-trinnsprosessen".<ref>[http://heliohouse.com/tech.htm Ny prosess for vannrensingssystem i Helios hus: overblikk med bilder]</ref><ref>[http://www.earthship.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=25 Spillvannsti]</ref>

Når spyletoaletter blir brukt, blir ikke svartvann gjenbrukt inne i Jordskipet. Istedet blir det sent til en solutvidet septikktank med lekkefelt og planterceller (helheten blir ofte referert til som “inkubatoren”). Den solutvidede septikktanken er en vanlig septikktank som blir varmet av solen og glassert med et vindu mot ekvator. Inkubatoren lagrer solens varme i betongmassen, og er isolert, for å hjelpe den anaerobe prosessen. Vann fra inkubatoren er ledet ut til et utenforliggende lekkefelt og dermed til landskapspleiende "planterceller" (områder omringet av betong der planter er plassert). Cellene ligner botaniske celler brukt i gråvannbehandling og er vanligvis plassert rett under vinduene til et jordskip.

I tilfeller der det ikke er mulig å bruke spyletoaletter operert på vann, anbefales nå tørre soltoaletter, istedenfor ''vanlige'' komposttoaletter. Hvis dette er tilfelle, vil det selvfølgelig ikke dannes noe svartvann, og dermed er ikke bruken av inkubatorer (vanligvis) nødvendig. Isteden brukes vanlige "plantere" (planter brukt for å suge opp vann/næringsstoff). Når man bruker vanlige plantere i tillegg, kan ikke kjemiske såper eller vaskemidler brukes.

Området der VOM (vannorganiseringsmodulen), pumpepanel for gråvann, trykktank, (første sett med) batterier, og KOM (kraftorganiserende modul) er lagret i er et lite rom referert til som "systempakke".

==Elektrisitet==
Jordskip er designet til å samle og lagre energien sin fra flere kilder. Majoriteten av elektrisk energi er høstet fra solen og vinden. {{LinkLang|Solar Cells|Solcellepanel}} og {{LinkLang|Small Wind Turbine|vindturbiner}} plassert på eller nær Jordskipet genererer likestrøm som deretter blir lagret i flere typer {{LinkLang|deep-cycle batteries|dypsyklusbatterier}}. Rommet der batteriene holdes er vanligvis et spesialbygd rin plassert på taket. Ytterligere energi, hvis det trengs, kan fås fra bensindrevne generatorer eller ved å integreres i strømnettet.

I et Jordskip blir en Kraftorganiseringsmodul brukt for å ta lagret energi fra batterier gjøre det om til vekselstrøm. Kraftorganiseringsmodulen er et prefabrikert system levert av Earthship Biotecture som henges på en innvendig vegg av Jordskipet og koblet på vanlig måte. Det inkluderer det nødvendige utstyret som overbelastningsbrytere og voltkonverter. Energien som går gjennom Kraftorganiseringsmodulen kan bli brukt til å drive et hvilket som helst husholdningsapparat inkludert vaskemaskin, datamaskin, kjøkkenredskaper, printere, støvsugere, osv. Generelt blir ikke noe av den elektriske energien i et Jordskip brukt til oppvarming eller nedkjøling.<ref>[http://earthship.com/systems/energy.php] http://earthship.com/systems/energy.php}}</ref>

==Climate==
The Earthship aims to maintain a comfortable temperature passively i.e. without reliance on systems that require energy. It does this by maximizing the effect of thermal mass and solar heating and by using building materials that are heavily insulated.

Windows on sun-facing walls admit light and heat. The buildings are often horseshoe-shaped to maximize natural light and solar-gain during winter months. The thick, dense inner walls provide thermal mass that naturally regulates the interior temperature during both cold and hot outside temperatures.

Mainly, the Earthship tries to take advantage of the properties of thermal mass and passive solar heating and cooling. Examples are large front windows with integrated shades, trombe walls and other technologies such as skylights or solar trackers (which also generate electricity).

The load-bearing walls of an Earthship provide a dense thermal mass that will soak up heat during the day and radiate heat during the night, keeping the interior climate relatively comfortable all day.

In addition to high thermal mass, some Earthships may be earth-sheltered. The benefits of earth-sheltering are twofold because it adds to the thermal mass and, if the Earthship is buried deep enough, allows the structure to take advantage of the Earth's stable temperature.

The Earthship is designed in such a way that the sun provides heating, ventilation, and lighting. To take advantage of the sun, an Earthship is positioned so that its principal wall, which is nonstructural and made mostly of glass sheets, faces directly towards the equator. This positioning allows for optimum solar exposure.

To allow the sun to heat the mass of the Earthship, the solar-orientated wall is angled so that it is perpendicular to light from the winter sun. This allows for maximum exposure in the winter, when heat is wanted, and lesser exposure in the summer, when heat is to be avoided. Some Earthships, especially those built in colder climates, use insulated shading on the solar-orientated wall to reduce heat loss during the night (Reynolds 2000).

===Natural ventilation===
The earthships usually use their own natural ventilation system. It consists of cold(er) air coming in from a front ("hopper") window, especially made for this purpose and flowing out through (one of) the skylights that are placed on the earthship. As hot air rises, the system maintains itself and keeps sucking in (and out), air.

===Heating problems===
Bottle walls are used in earthships. Earthships rely on a balance between the solar heat gain and the ability of the tire walls and subsoil to transport and store heat. The design intends to require little if any auxiliary heat. Some earthships have suffered from overheating and some from over-cooling.

Some earthships appear to have serious problems with heat loss. In these cases heat appears to be leaking into the ground constantly during the heating season and being lost. This situation may have arisen from the mistaken belief that ground-coupled structures (building in thermal contact with the ground) do not require insulation. The situation may also be due to large climatic differences between the sunny, arid, and warm Southwest (of the USA) where earthships were first built and the cloudier, cooler, and wetter climates where some are now being built. [[Malcolm Wells]], an architect and authority on earth-sheltered design, recommends R-value 10 insulation between deep soils and heated spaces. Wells's insulation recommendations increase as the depth of the soil decreases.

In very limited and specific situations, uncommon during the heating season, thermal mass can marginally increase the apparent R-value of a building assembly such as a wall. Generally speaking, thermal mass and R-value are distinct thermodynamic properties and should not be equated. Thermal performance problems apparently seen in some earthship designs may have occurred because of thermal mass being erroneously equated to R-value. The R-value of soil is about 1 per foot.<ref>[http://www.engext.ksu.edu/ees/henergy/envelope/basement.html Kansas State University Extension Service]</ref>

The sloped glazing may be hard to keep watertight and in warm climates allows excessive solar gain in summer. In colder climates, the glazing itself, which has far poorer insulating properties than any other component, will obviously be the major conduit of heat loss in winter. New designs call for vertical windows with an overhang.

Uninsulated ground-coupled thermal mass presents a large potential for heat loss, especially in climates with a heating season. This varies to a degree with soil type and moisture content.

==History==
The history of the earthship was featured in the 2007 documentary [http://www.garbagewarrior.com/ "Garbage Warrior"]:
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The Earthship began to take shape in the 1970s. Designs were at first very experimental, but have been improved over time.

Currently, Earthships are in use in almost every state in the United States, as well as many countries in Europe. In 2000 Mike Reynolds and Daren Howarth launched Earthship Biotecture Europe to explore and evolve the concept of the Earthship in Europe. Two more directors were appointed to Earthship Biotecture Europe in July 2006 – Kevan Trott and Kirsten Jacobsen.

Earthship Biotecture has now finalized plans to build 16 Earthship homes in Brighton.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20071213144133/http://www.earthship.co.uk/earthship-homes.htm Earthship Homes development] (archived from [http://www.earthship.co.uk/earthship-homes.htm the original] on 2007-12-13).</ref>

Earthship Biotecture aims to build Earthships to house 32 people made homeless by the earthquake in Haiti [http://earthship.com/haiti-disaster-relief.html].

==Further reading==
* Schirber, Michael. [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21755230/ "Making Earthships Mainstream"] on ''Going Green at [[msnbc.com]]'', November 12, 2007.
* [http://www.earthshipfloridaproject.com Earthship Florida Project]

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A building guide is available on The Pirate Bay:
*[http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5561875/Michael_Reynolds__Earthship_Vol._1__How_to_build_your_own Volume 1]. This tells you how to make the rammed-earth tires and how to build walls out of them.
*[http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5599633/Michael_Reynolds__Earthship_Vol._2__Systems_and_components Volume 2]. Solar power, water systems, greywater, water heating systems, lighting, fireplaces, stairs, doors, cabinets, baths, showers, domes & vaults.
*[http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5569181/Michael_Reynolds__Earthship_Vol._3__Evolution_beyond_economics Volume 3]. This was written 3 years after Volume 1 and gives improvements over the methods of building described then. Also talks about toilets, refrigerators and improved water and ventilation systems.
* Hewitt, M. and Telfer, K. (2007). ''Earthships: building a zero carbon future for homes''. ISBN 9781860819728
* Klippel, James H. http://www.garrellassociates.com/EcoDesign.html, green page
* Reynolds, Mike. (2000). ''Comfort In Any Climate'', Taos: Solar Survival P. ISBN 0962676748

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