Open Source Ecology
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.
Links
Site: https://www.opensourceecology.org/ Wiki: https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@marcinose
Key Features of the GVCS
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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.
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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.
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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.
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User-Serviceable - Design-for-disassembly allows the user to take apart, maintain, and fix tools readily without the need to rely on expensive repairmen.
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DIY - (do-it-yourself) The user gains control of designing, producing, and modifying the GVCS tool set.
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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
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High Performance - Performance standards must match or exceed those of industrial counterparts for the GVCS to be viable.
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Flexible Fabrication - It has been demonstrated that the flexible use of generalized machinery in appropriate-scale production is a viable alternative to centralized production.
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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.
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Industrial Efficiency - In order to provide a viable choice for a resilient lifestyle, the GVCS platform matches or exceeds productivity standards of industrial counterparts.
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Those are great. Since this is on a solarpunk instance, I’d go so far as to say this could be a good community for ‘practical solarpunk’ discussions. Anything about how to actually build a solarpunk world, the nitty gritty stuff.
After all the OSE is the ultimate ’how-to’ project. It has themes of self-sufficiency and sustainability, as well as a dirty-fingernails approach. Renewable energy topics, especially DIY, small-scale and innovative grid concepts and tools would be things I’d definitely engage with.
Exactly!