Archive for March, 2010
Monday, March 29th, 2010
OSE Swadeshi Dialogues
This is part one of a discussion on important issues related to resilient communities. Swadeshi means ‘own land’ when translated from Sanskrit – and it indicated self-reliance, or extended further – responsibility. This series, produced at least once per month, is related to the Global Swadeshi Dialogs. Let’s discuss whether the Global Village Construction …
4 Comments » - Posted in Open Source Ecology,Swadeshi Dialogues by Marcin
Sunday, March 28th, 2010
Solar Village 2010
William and I have been hashing out the details of construction for the coming year. Our plan is at this wiki page and further details on techniques to be used are here. We are currently planning on a CEB-straw bale hybrid – a double CEB brick wall with straw bale inside. We expect the …
8 Comments » - Posted in Construction,Global Village Construction Set,LifeTrac,Open Source Sawmill,Power Cube,Solar Village 2010 by Marcin
Friday, March 26th, 2010
Windpower
Just ten miles from Factor e Farm – 100 windmills of 2.1 megawatt capacity were installed over the last two years – with 100 more forthcoming. It’s quite a sight. I asked a couple of local farmers about them – and they told me that don’t like the new sights and slight noise. Apparently, …
24 Comments » - Posted in Open Source Economic Development,Wind Turbine by Marcin
Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Resource Development Professional
Our strategy for supporting the development of the Global Village Construction Set is threefold: (1), crowd funding methods, (2) sales from products, and (3) standard non-profit sector fund-raising. We have been demonstrating $1500-$2000 monthly budgets generated from crowd donations, including the True Fans (70 in number at present) since over a year now. This …
1 Comment » - Posted in Community Supported Manufacturing,Corporate Welfare,Crowd funding,Funding,Open Source Ecology,Production,Resource Development by Marcin
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
Documentary Work
We will be doing a 3 minute promotional video for the 1000 True Fans – 1000 Global Villages campaign this summer, and a 15 minute documentary on OSE this fall. Sean Church – a student at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, Film Program – will be taking this on as part of his …
12 Comments » - Posted in 1000 True Fans - 1000 Global Villages,Documentation,Global Village Construction Set,Open Source Ecology by Marcin
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
CEB Press: Building on RepRap and Arduino
The CEB automation for the Liberator Beta 2.0 open source CEB press builds on other open source projects. We are using: (1), power drivers from the RepRap project for driving the solenoid valves; (2), Arduino as the controller-brain for the brick-pressing logic; and (3), a Ubuntu 8.04 Linux laptop for programming the logic. The …
9 Comments » - Posted in Arduino,Automation,CEB Press Automation,Industrial Swadeshi,Permafacture,RepRap by Marcin
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Bootstrapping and Dedicated Project Visits
We are currently in the phase of fabrication optimization for the high performance, open source, Compressed Earth Brick (CEB) press. This is our route to financial bootstrapping of the research and development efforts. We are looking for people interested in Dedicated Project Visits on flexible fabrication.
Flexible fabrication is a blend of a generally-equipped workshop …
8 Comments » - Posted in 1000 True Fans - 1000 Global Villages,Dedicated Project Visits,Infrastructure,Open Source Economic Development,Organizational Development,Post-scarcity by Marcin
Monday, March 1st, 2010
Plant Propagation Workshop 2010
We will be holding our annual Plant Propagation Workshop on March 20. See the documentation from last year’s workshop – blog post and announcement.
This year, our workshop will feature more raspberry propagation, plus grafting of apple, pear, peach, apricot, plum, and cherry. We will be using root stocks and scionwood from our nursery plantings. …
