TED Day 4
That’s Salman of the Khan Academy speaking on the left. Camille (in the rightmost picture) is a TED Fellow and polar photographer, shown with Al. The Global Village Construction Set was mentioned in Inc. Magazine as one of the start-ups bubbling...
TED Day 2
Meet some of the TED Fellows 2011. These are pictures from some of our talks: I met Lesa from Kauffman Foundation. She told me that Kauffman Foundation is interested in DIY, relocalization, and bringing production back to America. They are in Kansas City...
TED: The Day After
It is my second day as a TED Fellow at the TED Conference – and it is the day after my talk. It went very well, and it was well received. It will go online as soon as it’s processed by the TED media people. So far I have seen an amazing opportunity...
Approaching the TED Conference
The TED Conference is coming up in a week in Long Beach, California. As one of the TED Fellows selected from around the globe for presenting ideas worth spreading – I’ll be speaking about the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) on Feb....
4 Years of Factor e Farm
Factor e Farm, our land-based facility for Global Village Construction Set development, has now been alive for 4 years. We encountered the place as an empty soybean field abused by commercial agriculture. This video shows in 4 minutes what has happened...
Factor e Farm Documentary Forthcoming
Sean will publish his short documentary on Factor e Farm in a couple of weeks. These are some of the sights from summer 2010 as preview. OSE: Timelapse Reel from Sean Church on Vimeo.
Oberlin Videos
Here is a followup from Brad Masi from the Oberlin lecture tour, who videotaped an interview and the Oberlin lecture. These are decent overviews of the latest progress, and the 30 minute Oberlin lecture shows a good flavor of our present status. I’ve...
Report from Oberlin, Ohio
The Oberlin College event went extremely well. My presentation was at the Oberlin College Environmental Center, which features a Living Machine for processing its waste, earth berming for geothermal design, and fruit trees all around. It also happens...
Report from Cleveland
We are currently reorganizing the work of Open Source Ecology to rapid parallel development of the remaining 50 technologies of the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). Our goal is to have the entire set ready for replication within 2 years, and we...
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! Over the holidays, I got a chance to meet Juliet Schor (author of Plenitude) in New York City. Juliet teaches at Boston College, and she co-founded the Center for the New American Dream. She wrote about Factor e Farm in her recent book,...
