Archive for 2010
Saturday, December 25th, 2010
MAKE Green Project Contest – Success!
We have been invited to submit the Global Village Construction Set to MAKE Magazine’s Tag Your Green Geen Project Contest.
See our submission and vote:
There are only 6 days left to vote – we’re way late in submission. Tweet, blog, Facebook, and spread this around y/our networks. The winner gets an all expense trip to …
4 Comments » - Posted in Awards and Competitions by Marcin
Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
Open Source Aluminum
I would like to report here on the most advanced component that we are developing within the context of the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS): Aluminum Extraction from Clay. Clay is aluminum silicate. Aluminum is the third most abundant element in the Earth’s crust behind silicon and oxygen, and iron is the next after …
15 Comments » - Posted in Aluminum Extraction From Clay,Global Village Construction Set by Marcin
Thursday, December 16th, 2010
TED Fellows
Friends – I am now officially a TED Fellow .
TED Fellows is a program of TED, a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. From yesterday’s press release -
… the TED Fellows program handpicks world-changing innovators from around the globe, and brings them to the TED stage – literally and figuratively – to …
4 Comments » - Posted in Press Release,TED Fellows by Marcin
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
California
Dear Readers – as a result of the California Tour, the project is exploding with growth. I am back in California for the winter to regroup and reorganize. Until April 1, I am keeping the fire with collaborators at the Trout Gulch Forest Village in Aptos, California. This is a magical place that I …
8 Comments » - Posted in Global Village Construction Set,GVCS Website,Project Management,Proposal 2012,Public Relations by Marcin
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
Early Adopters
Meet Dave Garrett, who is an early adopter and a True Fan. He dropped in for a surprise visit from 350 miles away – so we could finally meet in person while we were doing our modular CEB construction. Dave is supporting our work by a purchase order for a complete package of The …
6 Comments » - Posted in Organizational Development,Product Release,Production by Marcin
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
Modular CEB Construction: Prototype Structure Results for 2010
Here’s an update on our progress in modular CEB construction. In a previous post we’ve seen the beginning of CEB columns and foundations. These are part of an experimental modular CEB construction method.
Final Construction 2010 from Marcin Jakubowski on Vimeo.
In the 10 days that were left, we were able to demonstrate how a …
12 Comments » - Posted in CEB Modular Construction Units,Construction,Solar Village 2010 by Marcin
Monday, November 22nd, 2010
Update
I just got back from the OSE California Tour, and we have a number of updates to publish. This includes conclusion of our construction work, the California Tour, early investors, TED Fellows, and other news that we assure are worth the wait. My apologies for not publishing sooner, but there were just too many …
2 Comments » - Posted in Open Source Ecology by Marcin
Friday, November 5th, 2010
Construction Time
We have finally started construction after spending most of the year developing equipment. We finished the CEB press on Tuesday. The open source Tractor, CEB press, Power Cube, and Soil Pulverizer are now in action. The main obstacle of soil handling has been declared solved.
CEB Construction Time from Marcin Jakubowski on Vimeo.
We began building …
22 Comments » - Posted in CEB Modular Construction Units,Compressed Earth Block Press,Construction,LifeTrac II,Power Cube II,Soil Pulverizer II,The Liberator by Marcin
Sunday, October 24th, 2010
BFI Challenge & Global Village Construction Set in 2 Minutes
Here is the short Explainer Video about the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) that we promised – pure inspiration:
Global Village Construction Set in 2 Minutes from Open Source Ecology on Vimeo.
The quality is amazing. Credits go to Isaiah of Encyclopedia Pictura (video production company responsible for Björk’s Wanterlust animations), who is one of our …
34 Comments » - Posted in Collaboration Platform,Documentation,Explainer Video by Marcin
Thursday, October 21st, 2010
Report from Seattle
Continuing from the last blog post – the trip and Post-Scarcity Escape Velocity presentation (download here, 3.4M PDF) was breakthrough. The presentation was well-received – as the message of the Global Village Construction Set/Resilient Community Construction Set is coming through – as a potent solution to many pressing world issues. The Power Cube and …
