Microhouse Update
From Chris, our construction manager: During the last few days of September and the first week of October we will be constructing a prototype house, using prototype machines, and using a prototype process: swarming construction. Numerous volunteers, with...
Declare Your OSE Wish
Hello Open Source Ecology Fans and Friends. I will be presenting this week at the Glimpses Conference on human potential. Here is my Glimpses Presentation in Prezi plus script. In my presentation, I will give a few examples of what people hope to do...
6 Years’ Spring Cleaning at Factor e Farm
Open Source Ecology is entering a new era – scaling up and laying foundations for major growth in the coming years. After 6 years of starting from raw land – and hosting countless visitors, builds, and prototyping sessions – Factor e...
Rev Up Change Win Powers Documentation Initiative
The Feast and NBCUniversal have announced the results of the Rev Up Change Challenge, and the grand prize winner is … Open Source Ecology! Thanks to all who voted. Literally, we couldn’t have done it without you! Jerri Chou, Co-Founder of The Feast,...
Introducing the OSE Core Team 2013
We have batches of good news to share about what’s going on with Open Source Ecology. The most important news of all, as a foundation for everything else, has to be our bringing on board a full-time core team, including our Operations Manager, Katie...
First OSE Annual Report + Team for 2013
We’ve been quiet but very busy lately – and we have a lot of good news to share with you. First, here is Open Source Ecology’s first ever Annual Report for download. Thanks to Aaron Makaruk for doing a great job putting the report...
Fan Creates Anthem for Open Source Ecology
It is always immensely encouraging to know that we have supporters world over who are looking for ways to get involved in our mission. Lonnie Ray Atkinson is one such supporter, who personally made and gifted us a song (with accompanying music video by...
The Story of HabLab
We have built our 3,000 square foot living unit – HabLab – in 2012 using bricks from our open source Compressed Earth Brick (CEB) press. Here is a summary of the process that began in 2011 with the Global Village Construction Set Kickstarter...
The First Open Source Hardware Documentation Jam – New York City
The power of open source hardware lies in the ability to build upon others’ work and good documentation is the key to making this happen. We believe that documentation best practices can increase contributions to open source hardware projects significantly....
Assembly Videos – Power Cube and Brick Press
Those of you who’ve been following OSE over the years know how seriously we take documentation – it’s in keeping with our open-source principles and we believe it moves our work forward, while also being key to independent replication....
