Cohabitat Gathering 2011 Report
Here is a report from the Cohabitat Gathering 2011, the first international natural building conference in Poland: Cohabitat Gathering 2011 from dobraidea on Vimeo. Here are some interviews, including Pawel Sroczynski, the lead organizer of the Cohabitat...
Cohabitat Gathering Trailer
Greetings from Poland. Here is a trailer for tomorrow’s Cohabitat Gathering conference:
Cohabitat Gathering
I will be speaking at the Cohabitat Gathering, a natural building conference in Poland on April 1, 2011. You can read the program here.
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,...
Economy in a Box: Reaching Post-Scarcity Escape Velocity
We have been invited to Seattle, Washingon, USA, to present at OpenUp – a new forum focusing on open source topics. We have dubbed OpenUp as the TED for Open Source in a previous post. Our thanks go to Thomas Becker, co-founder, for inviting us....
Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth
Our work focuses on the creation of open source, resilient, post-scarcity communities, which rely on resource-based economies as opposed to debt-based funnymoney systems. This has captured the attention of at least one mainstream author. Here is a short...
Economy in a Box Presentation Report
Two weeks ago we presented on the Economy in a Box at Noisebridge in San Francisco, California – organized by the Bay Area Community Exchange. This is the most up to date report on the thinking and progress of Factor e Farm and Open Source Ecology,...
