LifeTrac II Update
We are making good progress on LifeTrac – Prototype II of the open source tractor. We have managed to fund its completion via crowd funding. We’ve got just about all the parts in, including hydraulic components. We will use Power Cube Protype...
Technical Description of the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS)
We are hot on the pursuit of a powerful 2-minute Explainer Video about the GVCS, which may be used not only to clarify the concept in general, but which may also assist in: (1), our application to the Buckminster Fuller Challenge; (2), recruiting of 1000...
Buckminster Fuller Challenge
We are producing an application for the Buckminster Fuller Challenge this year. The Buckminster Fuller Challenge from Buckminster Fuller Institute on Vimeo. Brandin Watson, one of our collaborators, has volunteered to take the lead on writing the application...
100 More Fruit Trees and Update
We just planted out 100 more fruit trees – which we grafted back in spring. We upgraded the string trimmer to a chain, mowed down a path, planted, fertilized, and mulched heavily:Regarding the funding baskets deployed 2 weeks ago in our progress...
Solar Village 2010 Update
Construction should start at Factor e Farm on about September 1. Out of nowhere, one of our readers from Germany produced this 3D walk-through of the CEB house that Will and I drew up in Qcad in 2D: The 3D walkthrough is this: Solar Village 2010 in 3D...