Explainer Video

Start a popular description of the GVCS here.

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 turning ‘dirt and sticks’ into advanced civilization by building the necessary tools and technologies to create sustainable and resilient communities around the world. Utilizing local, low-cost resources we aim to provide a complete set of open-source tools we call the Global Village Construction Set or GVCS. The GVCS is meant to give a community control of its production in the face of our increasingly uncertain global systems. In fact, we need not make sacrifices in quality of life to move beyond our destructive industrial systems; all we need is the integration of existing resources in order to close loops and end 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.

For example...

CEB

Life-Trac

PowerCube

Etc...

By encompassing the production of housing, energy and food the open-source integration of the GVCS 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; we could then truly become creators of our own destiny rather than consumers of its ghostly shell.

Together we can make local communities work at only the cost of scrap metal, but it will take global knowledge and cooperation. The GVCS is applicable anywhere soil, sunshine, and water are found, which is just about everywhere. So please join us at openfarmtech.org —review our plans, see our progress, make comments, become a True Fan, or commit to a Dedicated Project Visit— we could always use your help. With all our hands and all our brains, we can create a more sustainable and equitable world for all.

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