The OSE Experiment Feb 2022
From Open Source Ecology
What?
- The world's first regenerative village.
- 200 people, 2 hours of work per day, prosperity
- Mixed class
- Lifelong learning contract, starting with 'fixing oneself' to 'fix the world'
- Replicable
- Borrowed from the OSE League:
- Open source design - products used are created by import substitution of proprietary hardware with open source, collaboratively developed hardware
- Autonomy of site - achieved on site so 200 people produce all that they need with zero imports using open source technology and collaborative design
- Distributed market substitution - products like in Technological Transformation
- Renewable energy - 100% fueled by renewables, and scalable to the world
- Open materials - silicon, steel, hydrogen, cement, and common industrial materials are abundant and produced with 100% renewable energy
- Regenerative housing - autonomous housing that regenerates the environment with renewable energy, food production, and work-life integration
- People learning to become Integrated Humans
Why
- An experiment to reinvent the world, today - not requiring any new technological breakthroughs but only appropriate use of existing technology.
- First 100% renewable energy community that includes fuel. Solves oil economy conflicts within a few years after the OSE Experiment concludes.
- First society that thrives without inflicting violence on others or on nature.
- First and clearly visible example of open enterprise leading to a trillion dollar unicorn that distributes wealth to its agents, not its parasites.
- First example that rapid learning of critical interdisciplinary knowledge is possible so that people become interdisciplinary stewards.
- First community where people have an opportunity to build all that they use, efficiently with effective training and infrastructure
- First example of an economic system with full, open collaboration of products and services.
- First example of a community that produces all that it needs, up to microchips
- Solar concrete, steel, bioplastic, hydrogen, silicon, and other key meterial feedstocks are produced on site with zero pollution
- 2 hours of work per day requirement to meet needs, rest is self-determined work of peoples' choosing.
- Demonstrates a will of civilization to grow up to stewardship of the rest of the world as a point of light and example for others.
- Demonstrates limits of human potential of average individuals to transform themselves and to transform the world.
- Enterprise Community Contract - determines roles of people to fill economic duties.
- Retirement community for village elders
- Local currency and fiat currencies are in use.