Allied Organizations

Authors and Academics

• Juliet Schor - discusses us in her book, Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth. See blog.
• Kevin Carson - The Homebrew Industrial Revolution - large section of chapter on OSE

Comprehensive Programs

• Community for Tomorrow
• Vinay Gupta

General

The Venus Project - An organization focused on moving away from the monetary system and creating a sustainable resource based economy. Many people from the Venus Project support OSE.

The Zeitgeist Movement - A global movement dedicated to promoting and actualizing the vision of The Venus Project.

Hackerspaces - Provides general information and a directory of hackerspaces around the world. Cowtown Computer Congress - Local Kansas City hackerspace.

Resource Based Earth Collective - A social network for free thinkers focused on creating a resource based economy of sustainable living and resilient communities.

Resource Based Open Source Environment - "A collaboration platform for the development of open sourced solutions based on resource management and implementing them in our daily lives."

Resource Based Economy Foundation - A foundation focused on using science and technology to produce an abundance of the critical resources relevant to human survival.

Transition Network - Provides general information on Transition Towns and includes a global directory of initiatives.

Global Guerrillas - John Robb's website on "networked tribes, systems disruption, and the emerging bazaar of violence. Resilient Communities, decentralized platforms, and self-organizing futures."

Tamera - "Tamera’s aim is to develop an example of a model for a nonviolent co-existence of people and between people and nature."

The New Z-Land Project - "The New Z-Land Project's mission is to create a prototype circular city and sustainable community in New Zealand which will subscribe to a Resource Sharing Society."

Berkana - "Berkana and our partners share the clarity that whatever the problem, community is the answer. We prepare for an unknown future by creating strong and sustainable relationships, by wisely stewarding the earth’s resources, and by building resilient communities."

Resilient Communities - Blog run by Bob Stilger that focuses on healthy and resilient communities.

Atlas Initiative Group - "The mission of the Atlas Initiative Group is to design, plan and build Atlas City in America, providing a peaceful transition model from a monetary based system economy to a resource based system economy demonstrated through an advanced city which will maximize automation and provide the highest standard of living for its participants."

Global Ecovillage Network - "The Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) is a growing network of sustainable communities and initiatives that bridge different cultures, countries, and continents. GEN serves as umbrella organization for ecovillages, transition town initiatives, intentional communities, and ecologically-minded individuals worldwide."

Earthship Biotecture - With a background of 40 years of research and development of self-sufficient housing made from recycled materials, Earthship Biotecture focuses on development of Earth friendly and people friendly community living concepts that require little or no mortgage payment and no utility bills.

P2P Foundation - Weblog of the Peer-to-Peer Foundation.

Other Approaches

• The Orion Project - "A not-for-profit corporation created to transform the current energy, environmental and social crisis into a world of sustainability and enlightened abundance." Organization to deploy 'new energy technologies'. This is not consistent with OSE's viewpoint that solar energy is already abundant, and that to achieve absolute energy abundance, it is sufficient to lower the cost of solar electric power via open-sourcing of solar concentrator and biomass-electric technologies.