Open Source Ecology |
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Abbreviation | OSE |
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Formation | 2003; 10 years ago (2003) |
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Headquarters | Factor e Farm |
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Location | 745 SW Willow Road, Maysville, Missouri, USA.[1][2] |
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Region served | Worldwide |
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Chair | Marcin Jakubowski |
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Budget | $4,000 monthly |
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Website | Opensourceecology.org |
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Open Source Ecology: Practical post scarcity
The 50 machines that compose the
Global Village Construction SetOpen Source Ecology (OSE) is a network of farmers, engineers and supporters, whose main goal is the eventual manufacturing of the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). As described by Open Source Ecology "the GVCS is an open technological platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small civilization with modern comforts."[3] Groups in Oberlin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and California are developing blueprints, and building prototypes in order to pass them on to Missouri.[4][5][6] The devices themselves are built and tested on the Factor e Farm in rural Missouri.
History
Marcin Jakubowski, a physicist, founded the group in 2003.[7] In the final year of his doctoral thesis at the University of Wisconsin, he had the feeling that his career field was too closed off from the world's problems, and he wanted to go a different way. After graduation, he devoted himself entirely to OSE.
OSE made it to the world stage in 2011 when Jakubowski presented his Global Village Construction Set TED Talk.[8] Shortly after, the GVCS won Make magazine's Green Project Contest. The Internet blogs Gizmodo and Grist produced detailed features on OSE. Jakubowski has since become a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow (2012) and TED Senior Fellow (2012).
Open Source Ecology is also developing in Europe as OSE Europe.[9]
Factor e Farm
The Factor e Farm is the main headquarters, where the machines are prototyped and tested. The farm itself also serves as a prototype. The residents grow their own food, collect rainwater, and produce all their electricity by solar panels.[10]
Current progress
So far, twelve of the fifty machines have been designed, blueprinted, and prototyped, with four of those reaching the documentation stage.[11] On October 2011 a Kickstarter fundraising campaign collected 63,573 USD for project expenses and the construction of a training facility.[12] The project has been funded by the Shuttleworth Foundation[13] and is a semifinalist in the Focus Forward Film Festival.[14]
Powercube v7 Assembly video
Liberator Compressed Earth Brick Press v4 Assembly video
LifeTrac tractor - Design Rationale
LifeTrac tractor - Fabrication Report
LifeTrac tractor- Fabrication Drawings
Awards and recognition
- In 2011, the project won the Green Project Contest organized by the Make magazine.[15]
- It was also selected as one of the 21 semi-finalists for the Buckminster Fuller Challenge, among 162 participants.[16]
- TIME rated OSE's Civilization Starter Kit as a top invention of the year 2012.[17]
Daftar/Tabel -- machines
The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) comprises 50 industrial machines:[18][19]
Category | Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) |
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Habitat: | · CEB press v4 · Concrete mixer · Sawmill · Bulldozer · Backhoe |
Agriculture: | · Tractor: LifeTrac v3 · Seeder · Hay rake · Microtractor · Rototiller · Spader · Hay cutter · Trencher · Bakery oven · Dairy milking machine · Microcombine harvester · Baler · Well-drilling rig |
Industry: | · Multimachine · Ironworker · Laser cutter · Welder · Plasma cutter · Induction furnace · CNC torch table · Metal roller · Wire and rod mill · Press forge · Universal rotor · Drill press · 3D Printer · 3D Scanner · CNC circuit mill · Industrial robot · Woodchipper / Hammermill |
Energy: | · Power Cube: PowerCube v7 · Gasifier burner · Solar concentrator · Electric motor / generator · Hydraulic motor · Nickel–iron battery · Steam engine · Steam generator · Wind turbine · Pelletizer · Universal power supply |
Materials: | · Aluminium extractor · Bioplastic extruder |
Transportation: | · Car · Truck |
GVCS replication
During October, 2011 the first successful duplication of a Global Village Construction Set product by a third party group was completed. Jason Smith along with James Slade and his organization Creation Flame '[1] developed a functioning open source CEB press.[20] A group in Baltimore, Maryland, and a group in Dallas, Texas have also begun production of GVCS machines.[21]
See also
References
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Simple living |
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| Practices | - Barter
- DIY ethic
- Downshifting
- Forest gardening
- Freeganism
- Frugality
- Gift economy
- Intentional community
- Local currency
- Low-impact development
- No frills
- Off-the-grid
- Self-sufficiency
- Subsistence agriculture
- Sustainable living
- Thrifting
- Veganism
- War tax resistance
- WWOOF
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| Religious and spiritual | - Asceticism
- Aparigraha
- Cynicism
- Detachment
- Jesus movement
- Mendicant
- Monasticism
- New Monasticism
- Plain dress
- Plain people
- Quakers
- Rastafari movement
- Temperance
- Testimony of Simplicity
- Tolstoyan movement
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| Secular movements | - Back-to-the-land
- Car-free
- Compassionate Living
- Ecological
- Environmental
- Hippie
- Slow
- Small house
- Transition Towns
- Open Source Ecology
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| Notable writers | - Wendell Berry
- Ernest Callenbach
- Duane Elgin
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
- Richard Gregg
- Tom Hodgkinson
- Harlan Hubbard
- Satish Kumar
- Helen and Scott Nearing
- Peace Pilgrim
- Vicki Robin
- Nick Rosen
- Dugald Semple
- E. F. Schumacher
- Henry David Thoreau
- Leo Tolstoy
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| Modern-day adherents | - Mark Boyle
- Jim Merkel
- Suelo
- Thomas
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| Media | - Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral
- Escape from Affluenza
- The Good Life
- The Moon and the Sledgehammer
- Mother Earth News
- The Power of Half
- Small Is Beautiful
- Walden
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| Related topics | - Agrarianism
- Anarcho-primitivism
- Anti-consumerism
- Appropriate technology
- Bohemianism
- Deep ecology
- Degrowth
- Ecological footprint
- Food miles
- Green anarchism
- The good life
- Global warming
- Intentional living
- Itinerant
- Low-technology
- Nonviolence
- Peak oil
- Sustainability
- Work–life balance
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