Groundbreaking for Construction 2011
Dear True Fans and Supporters, the emergency construction crowd funding is a major success – $19.7k of $20k as of 2 PM, Sep. 15, 2011, a little under 7 days from emergency campaign start (the ChipIn at $5,209 as of this time reflects only a part...
Dear True Fans: Construction Shall Move Forward
. . Dear True Fans, thanks for your support. The Recovery Plan for continuing construction has yielded $15k in 3 days of crowd funding, and we are 75% of our goal. Chip in if you haven’t: (Others have made direct donations) There are 4 days left...
Recovery Plan
Recovery Plan from Open Source Ecology on Vimeo. Dear True Fans and Supporters – I vlogged about our plans in the last blog post, and the expected $60k construction grant did not arrive yet. Without this cash we will NOT deliver on our stated construction...
Dear True Fans and Supporters
Dear True Fans and Supporters, we have fallen into a general video and documentation blackhole over the last 4 months. People are asking for news. We haven’t been idle: Dear True Fans and Supporters from Open Source Ecology on Vimeo. You can read...
Steam Engine Update
Time for an update on the OSE Steam Engine project. In the past month, I’ve pretty much finished up the technical aspects of what I am now calling the “Arrowhead Bump Valve” design, to distinguish it from the ball valve approach, which...
VIDEO: The (Open-Source) Ecologist
News 21 from Berkeley, California visited Factor e Farm a few weeks back. They are currently producing The Ration, a food and health reporting project by UC Berkeley School of Journalism. Factor e Farm is the first feature in this series. This is an impressively...
Recruiting Fabrication Manager
I have pointed out two posts ago that we are recruiting a Fabrication Manager for Factor e Farm. This is our highest current priority. That will allow me to delegate the on-site production management duties as I move on to higher-level tasks. The context...
Dream Team Sixteen
The immediate goal of the Factor e Farm experiment is to produce the GVCS 50 – a set of 50 industrial machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts. To this end – we are currently building a team. In the...
Factor e Farm Team Requirements
In the last post, I discussed the general plan of Factor e Farm for the roll-out of the 50 Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) technologies – by January, 2013. Mark Norton took the initiative to summarize this lengthy post – please read...
Towards 50 GVCS Tools by 2013
This year, especially after my TED talk on the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS), we have been expanding rapidly. At this exciting juncture in the evolution of the OSE experiment, I would like to take time to regroup and reorganize. I would like...
