Funding Proposal
Based on a breakthrough house build cost of $85k compared to an industry standard of $180k (just for the build, not land, profit, etc) - we are releasing documentation for the Seed Eco-Home, a modular, code-compliant house building system with included photovoltaics. We are extending the package to full PV-powered heating and cooling, such that the house requires no grid. We are releasing an entire curriculum, including house designer software, that allows anyone to design custom versions of the house and build them at the same cast as above. Photovoltaics, a high efficiency heat pump, and super-efficient appliances are part of the basic package at the $85k build cost. (to be released after full BOM/build documentation is obtained for the point of sale).
In order to solve for housing affordability at scale, we are releasing a technical school and 4 year college Civilization Construction training program of 4 year duration, with competency-based advancement. The training program is unique in that it aims to address housing at the high level of civilization reconstruction, with a new paradigm developed for the production of housing, and the technosphere in general. The new paradigm is collaborative, open design - with modular, lifetime-design product ecosystems that can grow or improve with time as innovation continues to flow into the open ecosystem. As such, we begin with empowering individuals to become ultimate design-builders of the world around them - starting with learning how to learn and the deep purpose of technology, which is to make life better for everyone - none excluded from its benefits. The 4 year curriculum consists of 1000 critical sessions where we explore how to build on all known human knowledge in order to build a better world. As such, this includes not only technology but philosophy, the natural sciences, and humanities approached from the standpoint of critical thinking skills and background knowledge to become an effective executive (builder) of the world around us.
We are collaborating with NoVo Foundation to release a 4 year college and trade school curriculum in Native American institutions. This is intended to be a springboard for Civilization Construction entrepreneurship, where a student can choose our immersive, interdisciplinary, integrated learning to augment their studies. The program consists of live online lectures presented to a global audience, plus a week-long spring break of immersion build in each year. This program will be offered as a selective program where indidividuals learn design-build techniques for solving housing affordability. The key is collaborative design, where students are expected to collaborate on a global basis to solve housing affordability - via effective builds, new design, and product ecosystem innovation that blends ancient wisdom with modern technology. We will have job openings at competitive pay in the design-build of the Seed Eco-Home product ecosystem based on competency-based performance. The ecosystem cosists of (1) Seed Eco-Homes built from off-the-shelf materials, (2), materials production from local and renewable resources, (3) supporting machines of production such as tractors and 3D printers, (4) and enterprise knowhow intended to generate distributed operations at scale.
This program will be released within 12 months of funding the necessary curriculum, which builds upon 17 years Open Source Ecology's extensive prototyping of appropriate technology, everything from open source tractors, 3D printers, aquaponic greenhouses, Seed Eco-Homes, and numerous other technologies. The intent is to create a large pool of design-builders capable of producing lifetime design, modular product ecosystems that transition the technosphere from a throwaway, consumer society to one based on open source blueprints empowering responsible industrial productivity in distributed, solar powered microfactories - where cities produce all that they need like in the Fab City concept. The goal is to balance trade, eradicate artificial resource scarcity and conflicts, and to provide a foundation for thriving with purpose in a more enlightened world.
Budget
- $600k - Seed Eco-Home Build Book, Design Guide, and
- $600k - Module desing automation of all house subsystems in FreeCAD for ready publishing of blueprints and design detail. This covers all plans and architectural detail and calculations necessary for submitting a package to a building department.