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  1. Juliet Schor - discusses us in her book, Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth. See blog.
  2. Kevin Carson - The Homebrew Industrial Revolution - large section of chapter on OSE
  3. Foundation for Peer to Peer Alternatives
  4. Community for Tomorrow
  5. John Robb's Global Guerillas
  6. Hackerspaces - Provides general information and a directory of hackerspaces around the world. Cowtown Computer Congress - Local Kansas City hackerspace.
  7. Resource Based Earth Collective - A social network for free thinkers focused on creating a resource based economy of sustainable living and resilient communities.
  8. Resource Based Open Source Environment - "A collaboration platform for the development of open sourced solutions based on resource management and implementing them in our daily lives."
  9. Resource Based Economy Foundation - A foundation focused on using science and technology to produce an abundance of the critical resources relevant to human survival.
  10. Transition Network - Provides general information on Transition Towns and includes a global directory of initiatives.
  11. Global Guerrillas - John Robb's website on "networked tribes, systems disruption, and the emerging bazaar of violence. Resilient Communities, decentralized platforms, and self-organizing futures."
  12. Tamera - "Tamera’s aim is to develop an example of a model for a nonviolent co-existence of people and between people and nature."
  13. The New Z-Land Project - "The New Z-Land Project's mission is to create a prototype circular city and sustainable community in New Zealand which will subscribe to a Resource Sharing Society."
  14. Berkana - "Berkana and our partners share the clarity that whatever the problem, community is the answer. We prepare for an unknown future by creating strong and sustainable relationships, by wisely stewarding the earth’s resources, and by building resilient communities."
  15. Resilient Communities - Blog run by Bob Stilger that focuses on healthy and resilient communities.
  16. Atlas Initiative Group - "The mission of the Atlas Initiative Group is to design, plan and build Atlas City in America, providing a peaceful transition model from a monetary based system economy to a resource based system economy demonstrated through an advanced city which will maximize automation and provide the highest standard of living for its participants."
  17. Feb. 2011 - All Power Labs: Gasifier Experimenters Kit: http://www.gekgasifier.com/
  18. Jan. 2011 - Shareable
  19. Community of tomorrow
  20. Oooby
  21. 7.25.08 - Fabuntu
  22. 7.17.08 - A new country - http://wiki.aardsource.org/Main_Page
  23. 7.1.08 - Ephemerisle
  24. The Nature of Order - [1]
  25. 6.2.08 - another Tesla turbine thingy
  26. 6.2.08 - Kimmel Steam Power
  27. 6.2.08 - http://onthecommons.org/content.php?id=1917
  28. 6.1.08 - Collapse of US Empire
  29. 6.1.08 - Non Peak Oil
  30. 5.30.08 - Early OpenFarmTech
  31. 5.30.08 - BlogLines
  32. 5.29.08 - Open Farm Hardware
  33. 5.29.08 - Algal Turf Scrubber
  34. 5.24.08 - TED talk with Paul Stamets on mycelium
  35. 5.24.08 - Rodale Institute
  36. 4.9.08 - OS is antidote to planned obsolescence - [[2]]
  37. 4.9.08 - Design Club - http://opendesignclub.com/index.php/About.html
  38. True Fans - http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fans.php
  39. AIDG Business Incubation - http://www.aidg.org/incubation.htm
  40. Jeff Vail MeFab - http://www.jeffvail.net/2007/04/mefab-open-architecture-project.html
  41. Personal Sovereignty Foundation - http://EcoComics.org/personal%20sovereignty%20foundation.html
  42. Ripple peer money system - http://ripple.sourceforge.net/
  43. Euclides Mance - Brazil peer economy movement - http://www.solidarius.com.br/mance/index.php?lng=en
  44. Futurism - http://thevenusproject.com/resource_eco.htm
  45. Chris Anderson on {http://www.netvision.de/uk/dispatching/?event_id=5bb1b5e95afabb2e62d2b148ded47706&portal_id=369401748e8249f142a700d8098a3473 post scarcity economics]
  46. CEB books, click on Earth in left hand column - http://80.237.211.43/basin/publications/index.asp?A=1
  47. Project management - http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=000076&topic_id=1&topic=Ask%20E%2eT%2e
  48. Design for Disassembly - http://www.co-design.co.uk/design.htm

Fabrication

  1. OS metal depository, transaction system http://pktp.co.cc/
  2. FabFolk - http://www.fabfolk.com/
  3. Mobile Fab Lab - http://mobilefablab.blogspot.com/
  4. www.fablabinnova.blogspot.com
  5. Fab Lab Forum 4 - http://cba.mit.edu/events/07.08.fab/
  6. Norway FabLab
  7. Fab@Home - http://www.fabathome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Fab%40Home:Overview
  8. The Multimachine - http://opensourcemachine.org/

Food

  1. Growing Power, based in Chicago and Milwaukee. Educating people about local food systems. Aquaponics, beekeeping, wormeries.
  2. ArkFab. This seems to have an identical vision to OSE: to create a post-scarcity world thru open-source development of local food systems and digital fabrication.
  3. cd3wd. 13 gigabytes of information on development for the 3rd world
  4. Refarm the city
  5. www.permaculture.com
  6. 5.25.08 - Chaordic Permaculture Institute
  7. Organic Hydroponic Lettuce Production - http://www.organitech.com/index.php?goto=bep

Building

  1. Earthship Biotecture - With a background of 40 years of research and development of self-sufficient housing made from recycled materials, Earthship Biotecture focuses on development of Earth friendly and people friendly community living concepts that require little or no mortgage payment and no utility bills.
  2. http://hexayurt.com/ Vinay Gupta's Hexayurt
  3. Open Architecture Network - http://www.openarchitecturenetwork.org/

Open culture

  1. 6.15.08 - Model beyond copyright
  2. Open Source development theory - http://www.guptaoption.com/5.open_source_development.php
  3. 6.15.08 - Holonic Management
  4. 6.4.08 - Give Bank Open Source Product Design
  5. 6.4.08 - peer economy emergence - threat or boon?
  6. Berkeley Center for Open Innovation - http://openinnovation.haas.berkeley.edu/Home_COI.html
  7. P2P Foundation - Weblog of the Peer-to-Peer Foundation.


Ecovillages, ashrams and resilient communities

  1. Global Ecovillage Network - "The Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) is a growing network of sustainable communities and initiatives that bridge different cultures, countries, and continents. GEN serves as umbrella organization for ecovillages, transition town initiatives, intentional communities, and ecologically-minded individuals worldwide."
  2. The Farm - http://www.thefarm.org/lifestyle/index.html
  3. Vigyan Ashram - new education - http://vigyanashram.com/ - vapabal@gmail.com

Support

  1. Unreasonable Institute - "At Unreasonable Institute we give high-impact social entrepreneurs wings. We are an international accelerator and investor in early stage social ventures and we seek out 25 of the world's most brilliant and bold social entrepreneurs to attend our annual 6 week Institute. There we will unite these entrepreneurs (deemed Unreasonable Fellows) and pair them with personal and entrepreneurial skill training, daily guidance from over 50 expert mentors, as well as opportunities and access to the seed capital their ventures need to take flight. " (Nikolay: not sure whether this one can be of direct help, but is here just for the record).
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