Open Source Ecology

Inga is learning to build walls, vaults, domes with earth bricks

Do you want to watch me? Yes you can! Sunday, June 14th at 5:30 a.m. Austrian time Erich Schneider and I take off in his mobile home for the University in Kassel, Germany for another adventure in Inga’s already colorful life. If you have not watched...

Invitation to Participate in the Planning of a Solar Village

Dear friends, This goes in particular to some architects and planners, but also to the Global Villages list in general because I hope we do not leave anybody out who might be interested. In a nutshell, this is about the attempt to opensource a whole village...

Criss crossing Austria with Marcin part II

Marcin “paper brain” did supply some information on what happened on May 20th. You remember, after Marcin very successful talk at the University of Klagenfurt, Carinthia, we did not get to sleep till 1 a.m. again. Michaela & Erich had...

CEB Building Phase 2 – Site Analysis

We are doing preparatory work for our second phase of CEB construction – Inga’s House. Over the winter, we built the first CEB structure – our workshop addition. We’re moving on to building under optimal conditions – dry...

Inga the English Trainer

Inga and I have fused since she arrived to translate at one of the events on the trip through Austria. Meet Inga. She’ll be joining us at Factor e Farm, and this is growing to be a bigger story than expected. Click To Play Right now, we are begining...

Marcin Jakubowski at the University of Klagenfurt

Last weekend we took Marcin Jakubowski (http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Marcin_Jakubowski) from the Subversive Fair in Linz (http://subversivmesse.net/) to Carinthia. On Tuesday evening we had the event “Open Source Ecology & mobility”...

Subversiv Messe Day 1

Day one of Subversiv Messe in Linz, Austria. Linz is selected this year as the cultural capital of Europe. The European Union has funded the “subversive fair” (subversiv messe) to showcase diverse ideas  that “subvert” and innovate...

OSE Tour in Austria

As already mentioned in this blog, Open Source Ecology will have a booth in the Subversive Fair event in Linz. This was arranged during the Invisible Intelligence conference organized by Peter Weibel and Franz Nahrada in November 2008 in Graz , where...

Moving Forward: Solar Village

Jeremy and I had some serious discussion on the goals for this year, and here are our conclusions for the Core Team from the conversation: CEB Press and LifeTrac taken to product release by end of 2009 – led by Marcin Hexahatch taken to product...

Facility Sanitation Improvement (by a factor of ‘e’)

To our colonic relief, we added a second composting toilet, a public outhouse with privacy. Now no one needs to wonder who is going to enter the vestibule while performing defecation maneuvers. Albeit temporary, it satisfies our immediate needs. Thanks...