Bioneers East Conference 2011

Connecting for Change http://www.marioninstitute.org/connecting-for-change

Video of Speech

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIIzogiUHFY&feature=g-all-u

Marcin's Bio

A farmer, technologist and ambitious entrepreneur who is starting a new civilization from scratch in Midwestern US, Marcin came to the U.S. from Poland as a child. He graduated with honors from Princeton and earned his PhD in Fusion Physics from the University of Wisconsin but was left feeling disillusioned at the end of it.

Frustrated with the lack of relevance to pressing world issues in his education, he founded Open Source Ecology in 2003 and began development on the Global Village Construction Set, a DIY tool-set of 50 different industrial machines, from tractors, to cement mixers to bread ovens, all of which he aims to open-source, so that anyone - from the remote villages in Third World countries to the rural farms of Missouri, can have access to these meaningful tools to create a better life for themselves.

Marcin says his goal is to create the Open Source Economy; an efficient economy that optimizes both production and distribution, while providing environmental regeneration and social justice; an economy that affords people an opportunity to thrive, and pursue mastery and autonomy.

Also see Bioneers Script