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- HABITAT: CEB Press - Sawmill - Living Machines - Modular Housing Units
- AGROECOLOGY: LifeTrac Multi Purpose Tractor - MicroTrac - Power Cube - Agricultural Spader - Agricultural Microcombine - Hammer Mill - Well Drilling Rig - Organoponic Raised Bed Gardening - Orchard and Nursery - Modular Greenhouse Units - Bakery - Dairy - Energy Food Bars - Freeze Dried Fruit Powders
- ENERGY: Pyrolysis Oil - Babington Burner - Solar Combined Heat Power System - Steam Engine Construction Set - Solar Turbine - Electric Motors/Generators - Inverters & Grid Intertie - Batteries
- FLEXIBLE INDUSTRY: Lathe - Torch Table - Multimachine & Flex Fab - Plastic Extrusion & Molding - Metal Casting and Extrusion
- TRANSPORT: Open Source Car
- MATERIALS: Bioplastics
Introduction
This wiki is dedicated to the open, collaborative development of a basic and robust infrastructure for a New Village economy, as embodied in the list of the 28 of the above products and services. Such a village is by design
- one which promotes the highest autonomy and freedom
- grounded in self-sufficiency
- dedicated to voluntary pursuits, right livelihood, and quality of life
The basic assumption for a New Village economy is that humans are capable of transcending struggle for survival and resource conflicts, where this preoccupation is replaced by higher pursuits, as indicated by Maslow's pyramid.
The selection of 28 products is based on
- Availability of a land or facility base
- Essential contribution to an infrastructure for living and working
- Essential goods and services of wide use and large markets
- Provision of a robust village economy
- Generative nature of the product, thus enabling self-replication of the village
- Selection of a limited but highly comprehensive set of technologies, such that a sufficient, but not complete, range of economic activity can take place
- Viability of a community on a village scale, perhaps 100 people, but as few as 2 or as many as sustained by the land base
Economy creates culture and culture creates politics. Politics sought are ones of freedom, voluntary contract, and human evolution in harmony with life support systems.
Furthermore, it should be noted that this is a real experiment, in which the main authors are implementing such an economy, and populating land with productive agents - to define a new form of social organization where it is possible to create advanced culture, largely autonomous, on the scale of a village.