Open Source Ecology
Introduction of 2015
Open Source Ecology is a concept, and Open Source Ecology, Inc., is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to realization of the principles of the Open Source Ecology concept.
The Open Source Ecology concept refers to a world where human and natural ecosystems exist in a harmonious balance. This balance is based on the principles of open source - or transparancy regarding the design and functioning of these sytems. A practical outcome of such a system is the open source economy - an economy that is based on open collaboration towards addressing pressing world issues. Since many pressing world issues are based on scarcity - specifically - material scarcity - and even more specifically - artificial material scarcity - Open Source Ecology's initial work revolves around open-sourcing critical productive infrastructures of civilization - the Global Village Construction Set. However, a better future cannot be based solely on technology - but on the choice it gives for people to begin pursuing their own evolution, according to the principles of Self-Determination Theory. OSE's goal is thus to promote human evolution, by means of the open source economy - which increases innovation and provides for everyone's needs - based on abundant material resources.
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Open Source Ecology is developing and testing the Global Village Construction Set
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By weaving open source permacultural and technological cycles together, we intend to provide basic human needs while being good stewards of the land, using resources sustainably, and pursuing right livelihood. With the gift of openly shared information, we can produce industrial products locally using open source design and digital fabrication. This frees us from the need to participate in the wasteful resource flows of the larger economy by letting us produce our own materials and components for the technologies we use. We see small, independent, land-based economies as means to transform societies, address pressing world issues, and evolve to freedom.
Factor e Farm is the land-based facility where we are putting this theory into practice. Here we are testing the prototypes of of Global Village Construction Set, working piece by piece towards self sufficiency. Ultimately, our goal is to make this self sufficiency available to all. To this end, the GVCS is designed to be self-replicable. After the first set is complete, it will be used to fabricate copies of itself from raw materials (for the cost of scrap metal). At that point we will shift to begin developing networks of interconnected self-sufficient villages and homes.
Taken literally, open source means that the goods and knowledge for reproducing the complete product (the "source") is freely accessible (open), and ecology is the study of living interactions between organisms and their natural environment. From a human perspective, we seek to push our vision of ecology beyond ecological crisis and into ecological harmony and human productivity.
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