Student internships

summer residency

• http://www.aidboston.org/contact.asp

• http://web.mit.edu/asb/www/

• http://stuff.mit.edu/people/ssharari/jobs/internshipprograms.html

• http://www.tech-center-enlightentcity.tv/contactus.html

Contact: mhking@mit.edu

Mel King

Recommended by Amatul Hannan '95-'95 community fellows

What we want: Invite students or individuals to come to our research and development center of open source self-sufficiency hardware technology.

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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.

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

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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: