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Network Dynamics Group (ndg.asc.upenn.edu)

This website by Dr. Damon M. Centola with the Annenberg School for Communication has a lot of interesting information and scientific research on topics related to spreading information and creating change.

Costa Rica's Carbon-Neutral Future - Solarpunk inspired data visualization. (www.rand.org)

I found this somewhat recent report from RAND that highlights Costa Rican leadership in mitigating CO2 emissions. The notable thing is the artist who interpreted the data was explicitly inspired by solarpunk ideas and art....

Potential Sister Community (Home Made Renewable Energy Systems) (lemmy.world)

Happy to link swap.

3d printing of homes is a reality. How can we do better? (www.alquist3d.com)

The technology is here now. This house is a boring square cracker box, which you would expect from Habitat for Humanity and a proof of concept. However, the freedom of 3-D printing allows you to make almost any shape that you can imagine that is physically possible....

I’ve been introduced to OSE. Now what do we talk about?

Really it’s an amazing project and the linked resources are great at explaining what Open Source Ecology is. Thank you for introducing it....

D3D Giga - Open Source Ecology (wiki.opensourceecology.org)

The D3D Giga is a 6x6x6 ft 3D Printer based on theD3D Universal 3D Printer....

Ten Lessons I learned from Peter Drucker (www.jimcollins.com)

I noticed some updates to the open source ecology wiki for a book called The Effective Executive....

The Right to Repair Is Law in Minnesota. California Should Be Next (www.eff.org)

Last week, Minnesota governor Tim Walz signed an omnibus bill that includes a comprehensive right to repair law requiring manufacturers to make spare parts, repair information, and tools available to consumers and repair shops. This law builds on smaller, but still significant, wins in Colorado, Massachusetts, and New York....

Hi! Welcome to the Open Source Ecology community (slrpnk.net)

As the current steward of this space, I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself....

Description

Open Source Ecology is Network of Farmers, Engineers, and Supporters Building the Global Village Construction Set.

The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts.

The goal of Open Source Ecology is to create an open source economy – an efficient economy which increases innovation by open collaboration.

Key Features of the GVCS

Open Source - we freely publish our 3d designs, schematics, instructional videos, budgets, and product manuals on our open source wiki and we harness open collaboration with technical contributors.

Low-Cost - The cost of making or buying our machines are, on average, 8x cheaper than buying from an Industrial Manufacturer, including an average labor cost of $15 hour for a GVCS fabricator.

Modular - Motors, parts, assemblies, and power units can interchange, where units can grouped together to diversify the functionality that is achievable from a small set of units.

User-Serviceable - Design-for-disassembly allows the user to take apart, maintain, and fix tools readily without the need to rely on expensive repairmen.

DIY - (do-it-yourself) The user gains control of designing, producing, and modifying the GVCS tool set.

Closed Loop Manufacturing - Metal is an essential component of advanced civilization, and our platform allows for recycling metal into virgin feedstock for producing further GVCS technologies - thereby allowing for cradle-to-cradle manufacturing cycles

High Performance - Performance standards must match or exceed those of industrial counterparts for the GVCS to be viable.

Flexible Fabrication - It has been demonstrated that the flexible use of generalized machinery in appropriate-scale production is a viable alternative to centralized production.

Distributive Economics - We encourage the replication of enterprises that derive from the GVCS platform as a route to truly free enterprise - along the ideals of Jeffersonian democracy.

Industrial Efficiency - In order to provide a viable choice for a resilient lifestyle, the GVCS platform matches or exceeds productivity standards of industrial counterparts.