Blog Update Feb 2015

To review the progress of the Open Source Ecology project over the last 4 years, I'd like to point out the main accomplishments and their significance. The project focuses on the development of the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS):

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The importance of the GVCS is that it's a set of machines that can go a long way to provide material security - food, energy, housing, fabrication, energy, and other needs.

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Because the set is open source, the machines are intended to be replicated freely to create impact on any global grand challenges that are related to material security. While many people think about Africa when they hear about the GVCS - the set is intended to fix our own backyards before we take it anywhere else.

So far, 104 machines have been built in total - most being heavy equipment like the brick press and tractors, and also a few small ones like the micro Power Cube or 3D printer.