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4 Years of Factor e Farm

Factor e Farm, our land-based facility for Global Village Construction Set development, has now been alive for 4 years. We encountered the place as an empty soybean field abused by commercial agriculture. This video shows in 4 minutes what has happened in the last 4 years – and points to the plans for the next 2 years. These are exciting times indeed.

4 Years oif Factor e Farm in 4 Minutes from Open Source Ecology on Vimeo.

The current plan is 50/2/2 – the entire set of 50 Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) technologies to be completed in 2 years within a $2.4M budget in a scenario of rapid, parallel development. By year-end 2012, we want to be done with the basic GVCS shown above, so we can move on to applications – such as the infrastructure for a real community. This is a big, hairy, audacious goal. It requires that a large parallel development team is recruited, that a scalable development process is realized, and that the organizational infrastructure to support this task is established.

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5 Comments

  1. julia

    WOW! What an accomplishment! Informative and inspiring. Keep up the good work.

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  3. Rosa

    Marvelous

  4. Miquel

    Cool video, very well done!

  5. rob

    Keep pushing forward even on days when it feels like all your dreams are pushing you back down the mountain! Nothing earth-shattering ever happened easily, and lord knows what you’re doing ain’t easy!