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Introduction by Brittany Gill: I’d like to introduce you to Open Source Ecology. Our goal is to develop a global village construction set, and to replicate it. The GVCS is about creating sustainable communities. Sustainability is about being self-sufficient, but it isn’t about being isolated. Rather, the Global Village concept is about people and communities networked world-wide, sharing knowledge and trading goods.

So, what makes the Global Village concept unique?

Local people are producing the essential needs of the regional community. In the global village, people are not dependent on foreign oil reserves or slave goods from China.

The global village requires producers of local goods. For example, if you want to “eat locally”, you need local farmers.

It is about much more than food. There is no reason why all the essentials that people use every should not be produced locally. It could include hybrid cars, biofuels, solar energy, medicines – all the basics - and possibly up to advanced technologies such as solar cells, computer chips, and aluminum extracted from clay.

If there is point that you walk away with today, we hope it is “Be a Producer” of local goods.

In order for people to become effective producers of goods for the local market, we need tools and information that enable local producers to be competitive on the global market. Otherwise, most people will continue to choose globalization.

That’s where the Construction Set comes in.

The Construction Set is a combination of tools and knowledge that makes local production feasible. It’s full of everything from saving and growing seeds that are adapted to the local climate to designing and building equipment that will last a lifetime, freeing communities from the bonds of planned obsolescence, expensive, specialized parts and equipment junkyards.

I would now like to introduce Dr. Marcin Jakubowski who will tell you more about the tools needed for this construction set and how they can serve rather than enslave the local community.

Presentation:

Title Slide: Thank you Brittany. I will talk about the GVCS – a set of tools for building communities based on Local Sustainability. I will get into formulating a new economic pattern based on open source economic development – and indicate how these new economics could lead to an unprececented quality of life for everybody.