Open Source Prototypes …
videos :
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=factor+efarm&search_type=&aq=f
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These video episodes help explain the concept of Open Source Ecology:
Factor E Distillations Episode 1 – Introduction
Factor E Distillations Episode 2 – Product Ecologies
Factor E Distillations Episode 3 – Towards an Open Source Tractor
Factor E Distillations Episode 4 – On a Technology Base for Evolving to Freedom
” we keep telling everybody to drop what they are doing now – and participate in producing the option of a viable, highly productive, open source economic system – which helps those with higher aspirations than a 9 to 5 to pursue their dreams. This has be be done once – and then the tools become available. So subscribe to this work – and put your money where your mouth is on realizing these ideals. “
Factor E Distillations – Episode 5 – The CEB Story
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http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
” is a movement dedicated to the collaborative development of the world’s first replicable, open source, modern off-grid “global village.” By using permaculture and digital fabrication together to provide for basic needs and open source methodology to allow cheap replication of the entire village, we hope to empower anyone who desires to move beyond the struggle for survival and “evolve to freedom.”
By our analysis, most of the technologies needed for a sustainable and pleasant standard of living could be reduced to the cost of scrap metal + labor. There is immense potential for social transformation once this technology is fully developed for building interconnected self-sufficient villages, since people will be freed from material constraints and able to seek self-actualization.
We understand that this is an ambitious task, but we have accomplished much and are making rapid progress. Factor e Farm is the land-based facility where we are putting this theory into practice. Our means of achieving these goals are meticulously detailed in the “Global Village Construction Set” and the OSE Proposal. ”
and also see 41 technologies
http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Global_Village_Construction_Set