Economy in a Box: Reaching Post-Scarcity Escape Velocity
We have been invited to Seattle, Washingon, USA, to present at OpenUp – a new forum focusing on open source topics. We have dubbed OpenUp as the TED for Open Source in a previous post. Our thanks go to Thomas Becker, co-founder, for inviting us....
OSE Swadeshi Dialogues
This is part one of a discussion on important issues related to resilient communities. Swadeshi means ‘own land’ when translated from Sanskrit – and it indicated self-reliance, or extended further – responsibility. This series,...
Documentary Work
We will be doing a 3 minute promotional video for the 1000 True Fans – 1000 Global Villages campaign this summer, and a 15 minute documentary on OSE this fall. Sean Church – a student at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, Film Program...
CEB Automation Strategy
Currently, we are still working on getting our first order of The Liberator high performance, open source, Compressed Earth Brick (CEB) press out the door. We are now upgrading the automatic controls. We have published a technical paper on the automation...
RepTab – Open Source Torch Table in MAKE Zine
RepTab, our open source torch table – was featured in the January edition of MAKE Zine. Read the full article online at MAKE. You can follow the history of this development in former blog posts. Read more about RepLab – the Open Source Fab...
Greetings from Sunny Sweden
Sweden is not exactly sunny at this time of the year, but the Nordic people are lovely. So far, it’s been a mind-blowing experience at the Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit (FSCONS 2009). One cannot explain it in writing – not even...
Factor e Farm in Five Minutes
Thanks to Mathew, one of our True Fans, we now have a publicity 4-pager for anyone who wants a quick overview of Factor e Farm. This is useful for spreading the word, and I’ll be taking copies with me to any presentation that I give. You can download...
