Explainer Video

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Suggestion: rename to GECK. Garden Eden Creation Kit. Easy to pronounce and remember.

Gee-Vee-Cee-Ess isn't that hard to pronouce. While I usually like Biblical references, I don't think it works all that well here. We can't recreate Eden and that image isn't exactly what Marcin is working toward (let me know if I'm wrong). --MatthewMetzger 17:47, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Second that. Maybe another acronym might work, but for now GVCS is OK. -Adam

Video Script Scratch-board:

Here at Open Source Ecology we are building the necessary tools and technologies to create sustainable and resilient communities around the world. Our aim is to provide a complete set of open-source tools using local, low-cost resources, which we call the Global Village Construction Set or GVCS. The GVCS is meant to give a community control of its manufacturing and food production in the face of our increasingly uncertain global systems. It is a fundamental break from our atomized thinking. We need not make sacrifices in quality of life to move beyond our destructive industrial system, all we need is full integration, closing resource loops and ending waste. Nevertheless, the GVCS is not about generating new technologies, it is about refining existing ones to meet the needs of people rather than corporations.

Open-sourcing the production process has allowed us to quickly develop solutions through online collaboration and support.

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The open-source integration of the GVCS including computers, communications, energy production, fabrication, and food production, will lead to greater self-suffciency and improved quality of life for all. But openness is more than just a process for us, we believe in openness as an ideology of transformation. Imagine the knowledge necessary for sustaining advanced civilization available to everyone, not just a limited technical elite.

Together we can make local economies work, but it will take global cooperation. Please join us —review our plans, make comments, become a supporter, pick some vegetables, or help us build— we’re ready for guests. With all our hands and all our brains, we can make a more sustainable and equitable world.

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-global knowledge, local implementation -realistic and proven model for living and working in a more healthy, balanced, integrated, and meaningful lifestyle -as few as 4 people to attain prosperity -build from scratch -applicable anywhere soil, sunshine, and water are found -turning ‘dirt and sticks’ into advanced civilization -creators instead of consumers -evolving to freedom -individuals are empowered to take responsibility for the world around them -close the divide / connect the world

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reliable, simple, low-impact, empowering, freedom, advanced technology, responsibility, connect, renewable energy