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Dear True Fans: Land Stewardship

Dear True Fans, The next major step to take for Factor e Farm is to put the land in a trust – for creating a permanent site of human heritage.  The goal of creating the world’s first, replicable, post-scarcity resilient community is more...

Open Source Induction Furnace

You may have heard us talk about recasting civilization from scrap metal. Metal is the basis of advanced civilization. Scrap metal in refined form can be mined in abundance from heaps of industrial detritus in junkyards and fence rows. This can help us...

Report From the Humanity+ Summit

You can view a video of my presentation on building post-scarcity, resilient communities from the Humanity+ Summit here. This is a short summary of applications of the Global Village Construction Set. This blog post ended up being quite a collection of...

Bold Steps on Land Tenure

Introduction: At this time, we are developing the conceptual and legal structure for holding land, with a particular focus on post-scarcity, resilient communities. This applies immediately to Factor e Farm – to be preserved as a site of human heritage...

Humanity+ Summit

Greetings from sunny California. I’ve arrived for the Humanity+ Summit. I will be presenting on the Resilient Community Construction Set, this time emphasizing the technological aspects for a technophilic audience. I think that the transhumanists...

CEB Machine Production: Rocket Fuel for Post-Scarcity Economic Development?

We have our first sale of The Liberator CEB press. Maureen, one of our True Fans, will get her hands on an automated version of The Liberator – The Liberator Beta v2.0. We are expecting 8-12 bricks per minute for this machine. We’ve also discussed...

Free Press Free Enterprise

Abstract: We have achieved product release of a manually-controlled, high-performance, hydraulic Compresssed Eearth Brick (CEB) press, The Liberator. The initial version is selling for  $3500 – $5500. Our present state of development is automation,...

Lathe Build

The lathe is perhaps the most important machine tool in a workshop. In almost every kind of machining operation, either the work piece or the cutting tool turns. – link. Read more about the practical basics of a lathe from a master of documentation,...

Full Local Diet

In general, half of OSE technology work focuses on RepLab, and the other half focuses on open source agroecology. Both are connected, and one feeds the other. Effective food production is critical to post-scarcity, resilient communities. We are doing...

Freedom of Press

Subtitled: Fabrication Optimization. We are positioning The Liberator as the world’s best, free (libre) CEB press. We are also positioning it as the world’s best CEB press – meaning that the proprietary counterparts will have a serious...