Archive for December, 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 …
