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.
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...
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...
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...
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,...
MAKE Green Project Contest – Success!
We have been invited to submit the Global Village Construction Set to MAKE Magazine’s Tag Your Green Green Project Contest – and we have succeeded in getting first place. The winner gets an all expense trip to the 2011 Maker Faire and a year...
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...
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...
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,...
Early Adopters
Meet Dave Garrett, who is an early adopter and a True Fan. He dropped in for a surprise visit from 350 miles away – so we could finally meet in person while we were doing our modular CEB construction. Dave is supporting our work by a purchase order...
