Turn Up the Heat
Vinay just informed me today of a great post on our work on BoingBoing, a Directory of Wonderful Things. Sam found another link about us at the Wired magazine blog. A few days ago, Steve Bosserman wrote a great post on how open source products can make...
Solar Cows
A friend of ours stops in from time to time unannounced, often with a technical question on his mind. Before the weather turned so cold, he asked if we had any ideas for keeping his pond open for the winter. We had nothing intriguing to offer; just a...
Turn On the Heat
When I was eight years old or so, my mom took us to the local lake. It was a particularly hot day and I put on sunscreen. After hours of fun in the lake, we came in for a picnic lunch. I was crispy. The swim suit straps had saved only a narrow stripe...
Ubuntu Booted
Yesterday, Ubuntu failed to meet our expectations as an operating system for my Mac iBook. A little research showed that indeed the airport and dimmer capacities, among other features, are rendered useless under Ubuntu. As I use these features frequently,...
Visiting Sam Rose
I’m now in Lansing, Michigan, visiting with Sam Rose. We’re having fiery discussion on putting the P2P Economy into practice, starting with the collaborative open source product development platform. While we’re discussing the CEB press,...
How it all (could) work
“When solar cell companies develop cheaper panels, then we’ll switch to solar power.” Did you ever hear someone say this? Instead of waiting around for solar panels to become affordable, why don’t we collaborate and make them ourselves....
Open Engineering: Better Than Sliced Bread
We are presently struggling with explaining a general open source product development method to others. We are talking about developing a large-scale, parallel effort of world-class, optimal product development to address the needs of the emergent, peer-based,...
Quality of Life Poll
Today, Dave Pollard of How to Save the World Blog wrote an interesting formula for how each day should be spent, which I copy here: 9 hours a day for sleeping and personal hygiene 2 hours a day for physical exercise — running, meditation, working...
A Letter to the Concerned Denizen
We have been busy on refining our funding method for open product development, and in particular, for the open source Compressed Earth Block (CEB) press. Our present strategy is to recruit social network leaders to spread our collaborative funding request...
Super Productive
When I initially began learning about organics, I had mixed feelings about the terms “super-weeds” and “super-bugs”. I understood the concept that weeds and insects could evolve until strains developed that would withstand the...
