OSE Design Rationale

What is it

Open Source Ecology is a movement dedicated to building the world's first open source high tech off-grid resilient community.

Why

• We believe that resilient communities are superior to non-resilient communities due to their ability to adapt to a changing world where complex interdependent systems can break down due to myriad factors.

• Due to the scale of global economic and governmental systems in the world today they inherently lack accountability.

• Local economies and governments are more accountable to the people and the environment because the effects are closer and more apparent.

• Resilient communities are robust, sustainable, and accountable. They take what is good about the current economic system and change what is not working.

How

The RCCS

Who

Marcin Jakubowski PhD. Brittany Gill

When

Founded in 2003, Factor e Farm in 2007

Where

Factor e Farm, Missouri