MAKE Green Project Contest – Success!
We have been invited to submit the Global Village Construction Set to MAKE Magazine’s Tag Your Green Green Project Contest – and we have succeeded in getting first place. The winner gets an all expense trip to the 2011 Maker Faire and a year...
Open Source Aluminum
I would like to report here on the most advanced component that we are developing within the context of the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS): Aluminum Extraction from Clay. Clay is aluminum silicate. Aluminum is the third most abundant element...
TED Fellows
Friends – I am now officially a TED Fellow . TED Fellows is a program of TED, a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. From yesterday’s press release – … the TED Fellows program handpicks world-changing innovators from around...
California
Dear Readers – as a result of the California Tour, the project is exploding with growth. I am back in California for the winter to regroup and reorganize. Until April 1, I am keeping the fire with collaborators at the Trout Gulch Forest Village in Aptos,...
Early Adopters
Meet Dave Garrett, who is an early adopter and a True Fan. He dropped in for a surprise visit from 350 miles away – so we could finally meet in person while we were doing our modular CEB construction. Dave is supporting our work by a purchase order...
Modular CEB Construction: Prototype Structure Results for 2010
Here’s an update on our progress in modular CEB construction. In a previous post we’ve seen the beginning of CEB columns and foundations. These are part of an experimental modular CEB construction method. Final Construction 2010 from Marcin...
Update
I just got back from the OSE California Tour, and we have a number of updates to publish. This includes conclusion of our construction work, the California Tour, early investors, TED Fellows, and other news that we assure are worth the wait. My apologies...
Construction Time
We have finally started construction after spending most of the year developing equipment. We finished the CEB press on Tuesday. The open source Tractor, CEB press, Power Cube, and Soil Pulverizer are now in action. The main obstacle of soil handling...
BFI Challenge & Global Village Construction Set in 2 Minutes
Here is the short Explainer Video about the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) that we promised – pure inspiration: Global Village Construction Set in 2 Minutes from Open Source Ecology on Vimeo. The quality is amazing. Credits go to Isaiah...
Report from Seattle
Continuing from the last blog post – the trip and Post-Scarcity Escape Velocity presentation (download here, 3.4M PDF) was breakthrough. The presentation was well-received – as the message of the Global Village Construction Set/Resilient Community...
