OSE Swadeshi Dialogues
This is part one of a discussion on important issues related to resilient communities. Swadeshi means ‘own land’ when translated from Sanskrit – and it indicated self-reliance, or extended further – responsibility. This series,...
Perspectives on Local Economic Power
Here’s something to think about regarding our recent refocus on locally produced fuel and steam engines at Factor e Farm. Energy is slave labor without the slaves. At Factor e Farm, doomsday peak oil scenarios are not particularly threatening because...
Solar Power Generator Update
Today, someone passed on an important link. The Swiss company Nolaris is building a solar concentrator power system that matches the Factor e Farm Solar Power Generator very closely. In particular – both systems use flat mirrors in a linear fresnel...
Factor e Live Distillations – Part 10 – Community Supported Production
This episode covers the basic economic model of Factor e Farm. It is Community Supported Production (CSP) with two parts: Manufacturing (CSM) and Agriculture (CSA). It is permaculture and permafacture in one. We’re a replicable, vertically integrated,...
Factor e Live Distillations – Part 3 – Towards an Open Source Tractor
I apologize for not posting the next video sooner, but a flurry of conversations following the debut of the 1000 True Fans – 1000 Global Villages campaign kept us busy. We already have 12 subscribers. Who will be next? To support our work, you can...
CEB Proposal – Community Supported Manufacturing
We have released v0.1 of the OSE CEB Proposal, which is a summary of our product release plan for the CEB press. This helps put the entire CEB project in perspective to supporters. The abstract reads: Herein we provide a short overview of the Open Source...
Crowdsource Funding
We finally kicked off our crowdsource funding yesterday – or online donations. You can chip in to our project here. We are migrating towards full direct support by such small online donations. The bottom line is – with the collected resources,...
