2024 Product Release of Seed Eco-Home 4
We are close to starting our 4 year immersion programs in Builder Science, Construction Management, and Civilization Construction – with the Seed Eco-Home 4 as the product. We are on our way to bootstrap GVCS development to completion by 2028. Take...
2022 Product Release of the Seed Eco-Home 2
Development work always takes longer than one thinks – and only now we’re finishing off the product release of Seed Eco-Home 2. You can see about a 1000 pictures of the process taken over the last year. Now we’re finalizing the full...
Back to Compressed Earth Blocks
It is an interesting convergence – lumber prices shooting through the roof – and Compressed Earth Block being some of the most robust building material known to humankind. After all, the Smithsonian did claim that sophisticated buildings will...
Getting Involved in 2020
We are getting ready for ambitious plans post-COVID 19. Next year we are releasing the Seed Eco-Home as a turnkey product that you can build with a friend in one week – for US$50k. And as I say, that is only the beginning. You can sign up for announcements...
Downloading and Viewing OSE’s Wiki Offline
November 25, 2019: You can now download an archive of the entire Open Source Ecology Wiki! Now our blueprints-for-a-civilization available as a file on an SD card, viewable off-grid from any off-the-shelf Android phone. The OSE Wiki is our primary source...
OSEmail – October 2019 Update
Things are heating up for winter with several updates: Open Source Microfactory Startup Camp – first ever enterprise development immersion Nov 9-30, 2019 at the OSE Headquarters. Open Source Microfactory STEAM Camp – Hong Kong and Belgium...
Limits to Distributed Manufacturing
I asked Dr. Joshua Pearce from the Michigan Tech’s Lab in Open Sustainability Technology: What kind of reception have you gotten on your 3D Printers Save You Money paper? Dr. Pearce is a leader in open source 3D printer research. The question remains:...
Scaling Open Source Product Development
We do collaborative design – for a transparent and inclusive economy of abundance. We talked about creating a scalable platform for open source product development since 2008 – when we first formulated the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS)...
Moving to Open Source Email List Software
Published March, 2019 We just took another small step on our path to creating the open source economy. We are pleased to announce that we have installed the free, libre open source (FLOSS) email list software on OSE servers – phpList. We are now...
OSE Clubs
Open Source Ecology’s goal is to create the open source economy. What does that mean? It means simply an economy where collaboration is the norm – where access to knowledge, informaiton, and design is free and public – as opposed to...
