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Build a Village Project

On February 9, 2009 - we've succeeded in historic clarification of our approach after several days of in-depth debate among core team members. Jeremy, Marcin, and Joseph Zarr arrived at the following.

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We are clarifying our path to building the world's first, replicable post-industrial village. Has one already been made? If so, please tell us about it.

We are calling this the Build a Village Project.

What is our goal? It's a fully-functioning village, with a built-in economy, of about 30 people living a real life setting, in an off-grid community of about 30 acres. Our goal is abundance and high quality of life.

Our means to this are the Global Village Construction Set as an inftrastructure base for this village - a basic set of 40 or so open source technologies for integrated, regenerative living. Our social approach to this is gathering a group of Integrated Humans to subject their lives to this experiment. While we are clarifying the Build a Village Project here, and actively seeking participants, the group who is going to make it happen is largely self-selecting.

Social Technology Approach

Last year, we have proven that we could build technology - with successful deployment of the open source tractor, LifeTrac, and of a high-performance CEB press.

We have also demonstrated that we could fund open source product development work via crowd funding methods.