Archive for December, 2009

Friday, December 18th, 2009

Dear True Fans: Land Stewardship

Dear True Fans,

The next major step to take for Factor e Farm is to put the land in a trust – for creating a permanent site of human heritage.  The goal of creating the world’s first, replicable, post-scarcity resilient community is more clear than ever. See the last presentation from the H+ Summit if …

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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Open Source Induction Furnace

You may have heard us talk about recasting civilization from scrap metal. Metal is the basis of advanced civilization. Scrap metal in refined form can be mined in abundance from heaps of industrial detritus in junkyards and fence rows. This can help us produce new metal in case of any unanticipated global supply chain …

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Sunday, December 13th, 2009

Report From the Humanity+ Summit

You can view a video of my presentation on building post-scarcity, resilient communities from the Humanity+ Summit here. This is a short summary of applications of the Global Village Construction Set.

This blog post ended up being quite a collection of post-scarcity related videos, not just from the Summit. We begin with some other favorites …

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Thursday, December 10th, 2009

Bold Steps on Land Tenure

Introduction: At this time, we are developing the conceptual and legal structure for holding land, with a particular focus on post-scarcity, resilient communities. This applies immediately to Factor e Farm – to be preserved as a site of human heritage for all generations to come – along the lines of post-scarcity, resilient community creation. …

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Friday, December 4th, 2009

Humanity+ Summit

Greetings from sunny California. I’ve arrived for the Humanity+ Summit. I will be presenting on the Resilient Community Construction Set, this time emphasizing the technological aspects for a technophilic audience.

I think that the transhumanists generally diverge from general systems theory that we promote with the work of Open Source Ecology. At the same time, …

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