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| About Open Source Ecology |
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Office of the Executive Director
A Polish-American who is starting a new civilization -- from scratch -- in the Midwestern US. Marcin came to the U.S. from Poland as a child. He graduated with honors from Princeton and earned his PhD in fusion physics from the University of Wisconsin. Frustrated with the lack of relevance to pressing world issues in his education, he founded Open Source Ecology in 2003 in order to make closed-loop manufacturing a reality. He began development on the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) (see his 2011 TED Talk), an open source DIY tool set of 50 different industrial machines necessary to create a small civilization with modern comforts.
His work has recently been recognized in his acceptance as a 2012 TED Senior Fellow, a 2012 Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow, and his TED Talk was named the top 6th in the Huffington Post Best of TED 2011. His goal is to create the open source economy - an economy that optimizes both production and distribution - while providing environmental regeneration and social justice. To this end, Marcin is currently building a team of global collaborators and on-site builders for his land-based facility - to take this from concept to reality. He believes that the open source economy is a prerequisite to autonomy that allows people to pursue mastery - consistent with higher purpose.
Global Village Construction Set - Machine Development
The Global Village Construction Set is a modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that enables fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts. See Key Features
Fundraising
The fundraising team develops revenue opportunities to further the mission of Open Source Ecology.
Agriculture
The agriculture team manages agricultural operations at Factor e Farm.
Global Village Construction Set - Documentation
The documentation team creates replication materials to assist independent builders of the Global Village Construction Set.
Information Technology
The IT team manages our web sites and supports online operations.
Volunteers
Open Source Ecology is fortunate to attract volunteers from all over the world.
Past Participants
July - September, 2012
These are previous contributors who lived and worked at Factor e Farm.