Archive for January, 2011
Friday, January 21st, 2011
Factor e Farm Documentary Forthcoming
Sean will publish his short documentary on Factor e Farm in a couple of weeks. These are some of the sights from summer 2010 as preview.
OSE: Timelapse Reel from Sean Church on Vimeo.
7 Comments » - Posted in Dedicated Project Visits,Documentation by Marcin
Sunday, January 16th, 2011
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 taken a few steps to keep us stewing on the open source …
2 Comments » - Posted in Interviews,Open Source Economic Development,Presentations by Marcin
Sunday, January 9th, 2011
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 that Mr. Hall of the famous namesake invented the Hall process for electrolytic refining of aluminum …
4 Comments » - Posted in Presentations,Proposal 2012 by Marcin
Saturday, January 8th, 2011
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 think we can do that with a $2.4M budget over …
3 Comments » - Posted in Collaborators,Post-scarcity,Presentations by Marcin
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
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, Plenitude: The Economics of True Wealth. She recently got …
