Open Source Ecology
Overview
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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You had tools? How does a homeless homesteader do this? Until I can take this to the homeless and teach one guy, who can then teach another etc. Start with NOTHING. I don't see it working to the scale you present in your vision.
You had a garage, and tools, and the torches, and hoists. I'm a cardiac patient in the woods, trying to utilize a slab I found, and recycled materials. Building a compressed earth maker from salvaged parts, teach men how to do that. Then they can truly be sustainable.
Would love to learn how you got where you are. Ask you a ton of questions. Invite you to help me build a home with my bare hands. Bucket list that before my pacemaker runs out so my son has a home he can live in when I'm gone.
When a guy like me can start with nothing and do it. Then you'll have the answer. Got to be for the guy who doesn't know where to start/turn but wants to do better. This needs to work for the recovering drug addict, the single mom. The orphan who just aged out of foster care and adds to the #1 reason for homelessness in America. This has to be for that guy to find an abandoned piece of dirt and make it his Legacy!
I'd love to help make that a reality!
Marciiin: it's meeeee. Please answer my email. Pleeeease. - IMP from WD
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