In the News

Here are various news stories, features, blogs, and other articles about Open Source Ecology's work from other sources:

3.27.09 - Arthur Magazine: Homegrown Counterculture - "The mind-blowing thing about this project is that anybody who wants to start a similar community can do so virtually for free on the outskirts of many cities in the United States... I say to all those who are actually taking up this opportunity, all the power to you. The idea is, if you can generate the money to create the system, you will reap the benefits forever."

3.6.09 - United Diversity - "Factor E Farm is quite possibly the most important project in the world."

3.5.09 - Victor Keegan in The Guardian UK - "Other interesting initiatives include openfarmtech.org where they are developing open source ecology including building eco-villages"

2.15.09 - Mutualist Blog, by Kevin Carson - "In "The Unplugged," Vinay Gupta wrote of a movement of people "buying out at the bottom" by using "Buckminster Fuller's means to promote Gandhi's ends." This is the largest and most advanced single project I'm aware of for putting that philosophy into practice."

11.27.08 - Greg Landua, Global Village Institute at The Farm - "This is the bright iridescent future of a global sustainable village, un-tethered by the soul sucking vacuum of neoliberal globalization. Combining ecology and open source ideas, the folks at Open Source Ecology seem to have hit the nail on the head...a well articulated vision for enabling communities all over the planet to partake in global trade of information goods and services, but not be forced into the prisoner's delima of globalized corporate capitalism."

12.14.08 - Pamela McLean’s informative article on Learn By Doing UK - "If people see that (OSE) is relevant to Africa as well as USA it could make (this) work even more attractive to givers. Most people recognise that "something needs to be done" in rural Africa to address issues of poverty."