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Summer residency? | |||
Others to contact? | |||
*http://www.aidboston.org/contact.asp | *http://www.aidboston.org/contact.asp | ||
*http://web.mit.edu/asb/www/ | *http://web.mit.edu/asb/www/ | ||
*http://stuff.mit.edu/people/ssharari/jobs/internshipprograms.html | |||
Mel King | |||
Contact: mhking@mit.edu | Contact: mhking@mit.edu | ||
*http://www.tech-center-enlightentcity.tv/contactus.html | |||
Recommended by Amatul Hannan '95-'95 Community Fellows Program | Recommended by Amatul Hannan '95-'95 Community Fellows Program | ||
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What we want: | What we want: | ||
Individuals who want to come to our research and development center to help develop open source self-sufficiency technology. This includes designing and implementing "permanent agriculture" and agricultural machines. | |||
link to video | link to video | ||
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Who we're looking for: | Who we're looking for: | ||
We are looking for people that you know would be interested in short term or long term residency and development of physical technology for the benefit of all people. Involves physical work, philosophical work, community building work. | We are looking for people that you know would be interested in short term or long term residency and development of physical technology for the benefit of all people. Involves physical work, philosophical work, community building work. | ||
Ideally we are looking for | |||
Revision as of 20:00, 19 February 2009
Summer residency?
Others to contact?
- http://www.aidboston.org/contact.asp
- http://web.mit.edu/asb/www/
- http://stuff.mit.edu/people/ssharari/jobs/internshipprograms.html
Mel King
Contact: mhking@mit.edu
Recommended by Amatul Hannan '95-'95 Community Fellows Program
What we want: Individuals who want to come to our research and development center to help develop open source self-sufficiency technology. This includes designing and implementing "permanent agriculture" and agricultural machines.
link to video
Who we're looking for: We are looking for people that you know would be interested in short term or long term residency and development of physical technology for the benefit of all people. Involves physical work, philosophical work, community building work.
Ideally we are looking for
What our interests are:
Our areas of interest include but are not limited to:
Low Cost Housing from local materials
Permanent Agriculture - food forests
DIY Agricultural tools and implements - tractor, spader, tiller, grain combine, hammer mill, hay baler,
Low cost off grid energy systems - heat, hot water, lighting,
Low cost water systems - water wells, catchment systems
Metal work - melting, casting, cutting, forming
These are elements of the Global Village Construction Set - everything needed to create advanced civilization on a small scale.
What we offer:
A place where you can put philosophy of sustainability into action. We are a physical experiment in building a post industrial global village - a space for all people to learn and grow.
About our place:
We have 30 acres in rural Missouri.
We are off grid with
solar panels
forklift battery
dsl internet
Begun with orchard
About us:
Our completed Projects: Some of our completed projects include:
- Open Source Tractor made from raw rolled steel pieces.
- Compressed Earth Brick Press from scratch - Produced 6000 bricks - used to build 40 ft by 20 ft building
our future projects: