Organizational Strategy

Introduction

Deployment of on-demand replicable right livelihood communities happens in 3 Phases:

1. Pioneering life with deep exploration of useful technologies, to distill the essential from chaff. Status - in progress
2. Replication as a 12 person, Buy Out At the Bottom (BOAB) Right Livelihood enterprise community (RLEC), where our notion of right livelihood includes priciples of open source economic development. This is an extension of the Hexayurt concept from the scale of emergency self-sustaining shelter to the scale of a landed, autonomous, small community with a sound economic base as part of the package. See details of the BOAB RLEC below.
3. Internships at tha RLEC designed for immersion study to train others to replicate RLECs as a novel form of social organization.

Technology Base

Prerequisite technology for Phase 2 involves

1. Necessary hardware for living - energy, food, housing, mobility, internet, workshop, orchard, etc.
2. Social technology of gathering 12 people
3. Land acquisition strategy built into the social technology.

The hardware for living includes:

Priorities:

• Open Source Solar turbine, potential components
  • Babington burner - http://www.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/babington/default.htm
  • Flash boiler -
  • Solar concentrators - similar to http://www.redrok.com/images/hdsolar.jpg but mounted on flat panels for simplicity; check pricing estimates from http://www.hdsolar.com/ and compare to $100/KW thermal capture predictions by OSE
  • Boundary Layer Turbine - http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Solar_Turbine_CHP_System#Component_Design_-_Boundary_Layer_Turbine_.28BLT.29
  • Generator heads - not much available, but check out http://www.scoraigwind.com/axialplans/index.htm

Outcomes:

• commercial product via open source, distributed, flexible fabrication, at absolute lowest cost, $1/W

Means:

• fabrication optimization, and product in kit for user assembly

Other priorities:

• CEB
• Sawmill
• Multimachine - http://opensourcemachine.org/
• CNC control
• Electric motor