Open Source Ecology / Open Source Ecology Distillations

This episode covers the basic economic model of Factor e Farm. It is Community Supported Production (CSP) with two parts: Manufacturing (CSM) and Agriculture (CSA). It is permaculture and permafacture in one. Were a replicable, vertically integrated, open source, community-supported flexible fabrication model - for short.

See blog at http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=510 for a transcript.


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Factor e Live Distillations Episode 9 - Open Collaborative Development

See http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=508 for more information.

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Here is a program for what it takes to achieve a $1/watt solar thermal concentrator electric generator, better than solar panels! Critique it on the weblog - at http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=507


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This is our strategy for creating open source permaculture local food systems including plants and open source technology for low cost high appropriate tech self-sufficiency.

See http://blog.opensourceecology.org/?p=506 for the transcript and more information.


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This is part of our explanatory series on Open Source Ecology. This episode covers personal fabrication.

We are looking for people who are interested in building the world's first replicable open source self-sufficient decentralized permaculture village - to transcend survival and evolve to freedom.

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Here we describe our adventures with building to date, as we are developing open source equipment for all the tasks. This is towards creating the world's first replicable, post-industrial village.

http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=485


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I was going to talk about the CEB press today, but I need to back up a little bit - to put our work more into context so that future episodes will make more sense.This discussion stems from a comment on a very important topic of appropriate technology comment #9 in the Distillations Part 1 blog post. The comment dealt with what was perceived as Factor e Farms overly high reliance on technology for solutions to sustainability issues.This gets into several points worth exploring. Bear with me here, please.

See the blog for more into - http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=484

Todays episode covers the open source tractor Lifetrac. We have built a first prototype, with very encouraging results. We start with a brief description of LifeTrac and what weve done and where were going and why this could be really important to you.

See supporting text and links at http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=480


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Today we continue with Episode 2 of Factor e Live Distillations - on the products and product ecologies of the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS).

See the diagrams discussed in the video at

http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=462

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Here is a more general overview of the work of Factor e Farm. We are also kicking off the 1000 True Fans - 1000 Global Villages campaign. We are gathering the support of 1000 people, who commit $10 per month for the next 2 years - to support rapid deployment of the entire Global Village Construction Set. Support our work at

http://openfarmtech.org/support.html

and check the blog for updates:

http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/


We are looking for people who are interested in building the world's first replicable open source self-sufficient decentralized permaculture village - to transcend survival and evolve to freedom.

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