An Eco-Building Toolkit

2016-07-21T02:33:00-04:00

**I'm truly impressed that Mr Open Source Ecology & Ms Open Building Institute got married and built a house...Of course it's an open-source house that's all makered-up from straw, wood and brick from their neighborhood - Bruce Sterling

Kelly McCartney highlights the work of Marcin Jakubowski and Catarina Mota, who decided to reinvent the home-building wheel a few years back.

For more check out the Open Building Institute and/or contribute to their Kickstarter

h/t @Bruce Sterling

Relocation or Adaptation: Building a DIY Civilization

2014-06-26T17:47:00-04:00

How do you build a civilization from scratch? According to Open Source Ecology (OSE), the first step is building the right machines.

Started by Marcin Jakubowski in 2003, OSE is a network of farmers, architects, and engineers based in rural Missouri with branches in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and California. According to their website, their mission is “to create a collaborative economic platform that optimizes development, production, and distribution – via open source collaboration – to accelerate innovation to unprecedented levels.”

Basically, the idea is that a self-sufficient community requires proper tools and equipment, which within our current economy are prohibitively expensive both to purchase and maintain. By developing open source industrial machines, OSE hopes to reduce such expenses to a fraction of their current cost while simultaneously eliminating reliance on global corporations.

The eventual goal of OSE is to manufacture the Global Village Construction Set (GVSE), ...

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An Eco-Building Toolkit

Relocation or Adaptation: Building a DIY Civilization