Factor e Live Distillations – Part 5 – The CEB Story
Today’s video is full of footage on all our building adventures – from earthbag, to cordwood, to compressed earth bricks – where you can see the progress of starting from bare land to making human habitat. This is cluster development...
Sawmill Concept Update
The sawmill project has undergone some changes in design since the last concept. I have taken over development, and based on a comment on the previous concept we decided to pursue a different design, a dimensional sawmill. A dimensional sawmill is one...
Part 4: On a Technology Base for Evolving to Freedom
Here is the next episode of Factor e Live Distillations – on the technology base for evolving to freedom. After you view the video, if you want to support the 1000 True Fans – 1000 Global Villages campaign – take the red pill –...
Factor e Live Distillations – Part 3 – Towards an Open Source Tractor
I apologize for not posting the next video sooner, but a flurry of conversations following the debut of the 1000 True Fans – 1000 Global Villages campaign kept us busy. We already have 12 subscribers. Who will be next? To support our work, you can...
Steam Age meets the Digital Age: Open Source Steam Engine
No, this is not the steam engine that we’re working on… First off I should introduce myself, I’m Nick and I’ve been watching OSE’s efforts for the last year or so and thinking along tangential lines for a while longer. After...
Factor e Live – Distillations Part 2 – Product Ecologies
Today we continue with Episode 2 of Factor e Live Distillations – on the products and product ecologies of the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). You can listen to the video, and the supporting diagrams are shown below along with a transcript...
Towards 1000 Global Villages – Factor e Live Distillations – Part 1
Subscribe to the 1000 True Fans – 1000 Global Villages campaign: 2008 was a big year for us at Factor e Farm. Here is a review and the latest news.We were a little quiet for a couple weeks – our wireless internet went out in the cold weather...
A New Member of Factor e
HI, I’m Jeremy, another member of Factor E. I’ve been here for about a month now and I’d like to introduce myself and talk about how things are going. My background is in multimedia information technology, which I have an associates...
Lifetime Design Buildings at Forty Three Cents Per Square Foot
We have demonstrated $4/sq. ft. costs for lifetime building in the last post – based on using on-site earth as a low cost building material. When our CEB machine is optimized to 3000 bricks per day, this option becomes really attractive as a viable...
November Progress Report
With the roof on the CEB workshop addition – we can relax our pace and document progress. Our wireless internet is down – is works intermittently in winter – so we are in the process of installing a land line. It is useful to summarize...
