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Open Source Ecology (project)

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Open Source Ecology (OSE) is a network of farmers, engineers and supporters, whose main goal is the eventual manufacturing of the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). As described by Open Source Ecology "the GVCS is an open technological platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small civilization with modern comforts."[3] Groups in Oberlin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and California are developing blueprints, and building prototypes in order to pass them on to Missouri.[4][5][6] The devices themselves are built and tested on the Factor e Farm in rural Missouri.

Open Source Ecology

Contents
1 History 2 Factor e Farm 3 Current progress 4 Awards and recognition 5 List of machines 6 GVCS replication 7 See also 8 References 9 External links
Abbreviation OSE Headquarters Factor e Farm, 745 SW Willow Road, Cameron, Missouri, United States . [1][2] Leader Budget Website Marcin Jakubowski $4,000 monthly Opensourceecology.org (http://opensourceecology.org)

History
Marcin Jakubowski, a physicist, founded the group in 2003.[7] In the final year of his doctoral thesis at the University of Wisconsin, he had the feeling that his career field was too closed off from the world's problems, and he wanted to go a different way. After graduation, he devoted himself entirely to OSE.
The 50 machines that compose the OSE made it to the world stage in 2011 when Jakubowski presented his Global Village Construction Set Global Village Construction Set TED Talk.[8]Shortly after, the GVCS won Make magazine's Green Project Contest. The Internet blogs Gizmodo and Grist produced detailed features on OSE. Jakubowski has since become a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow (2012) and TED Senior Fellow (2012).

Open Source Ecology is also developing in Europe as OSE Europe. [9]

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Factor e Farm
The Factor e Farm is the main headquarters, where the machines are prototyped and tested. The farm itself also serves as a prototype. The residents grow their own food, collect rainwater, and produce all their electricity by solar panels.[10]

Current progress
So far, eight of the fifty machines have been designed, blueprinted, and prototyped. [11][12] On October 2011 a Kickstarter fundraising campaign collected 63,573 USD for project expenses and the construction of a training facility.[13]

Awards and recognition

In 2011, the project won the Green Project Contest organized by the Make magazine.[14]. It was also selected as one of the 21 semi-finalists for the Buckminster Fuller Challenge, among 162 participants.[15]. TIME rated OSE's Civilization Starter Kit as a top invention of the year 2012. [16]

List of machines
The set comprises 50 industrial machines:[17][18] Habitat CEB press Concrete mixer Sawmill Agriculture Tractor Bulldozer Seeder Hay rake Backhoe Microtractor Rototiller Spader Hay cutter Trencher Bakery oven Dairy milking machine Microcombine harvester Baler Well-drilling rig
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Industry Multimachine Ironworker Laser cutter Welder Plasma cutter Induction furnace CNC torch table Metal roller Wire and rod mill Press forge Universal rotor Drill press 3D Printer 3D Scanner CNC circuit mill Industrial robot Woodchipper / Hammermill Energy Power Cube Gasifier burner Solar concentrator Electric motor / generator Hydraulic motor Nickeliron battery Steam engine Steam generator Wind turbine Pelletizer Universal power supply Materials Aluminium extractor Bioplastic extruder Transportation Car Truck

GVCS replication
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During October, 2011 the first successful duplication of a Global Village Construction Set product by a third party group was completed. Jason Smith along with James Slade and his organization Creation Flame '[2] (http://www.CreationFlame.org) developed a functioning open source CEB press.[19] A group in Baltimore, Maryland, and a group in Dallas, Texas have also begun production of GVCS machines.[20]

See also
Transition Towns a grassroots network of communities that are working to build resilience in response to peak oil, climate destruction, and economic instability. Fab lab List of open source hardware projects

References
1. ^ Factor e farm information (http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Factor_e_Farm) Accessed: 7/28/2011. 2. ^ Google Maps Factor e Farm location (http://maps.google.com/maps/ms? ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=105613177309411485244.00046566d85d9fb56693f&ll=39.865297,-94.374259&s pn=0.00722,0.005482&t=h&source=embed) 3. ^ "Open Source Ecology" (http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs.php) , Accessed: 7-23-2011. 4. ^ Rohan Pearce (2011-12-14). "Can open source save the planet?" (http://www.computerworlduk.com/indepth/open-source/3325167/can-open-source-save-planet/) . Techworld Australia. http://www.computerworlduk.com/in-depth/open-source/3325167/can-open-source-save-planet/. 5. ^ Leah Messinger (Mar 23, 2011). "A Mad Scientist's 50 Tools for Sustainable Communities" (http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/03/a-mad-scientists-50-tools-for-sustainable-communities/72900/) . The Atlantic. http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/03/a-mad-scientists-50-tools-for-sustainablecommunities/72900/. 6. ^ Ashlee Vance (November 01, 2012). "The Post-Apocalypse Survival Machine Nerd Farm" (http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-01/the-post-apocalypse-survival-machine-nerd-farm) . Bloomberg Businessweek. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-01/the-post-apocalypse-survivalmachine-nerd-farm. 7. ^ "About" (http://opensourceecology.org/about.php) , Accessed: 7-19-2011. 8. ^ "Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization" (http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/marcin_jakubowski.html) , April 2011. Accessed: 7-19-2011. 9. ^ [1] (http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/OSE_Europe) 10. ^ Factor e Farm Information (http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Factor_e_Farm) Accessed 7-31-2011. 11. ^ "Crash course on OSE" (http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Crash_course_on_OSE) Accessed 7-19-2011. 12. ^ GVCS Prototype Status (http://opensourceecology.org/wiki-gvcs.php) , Accessed: 7-23-2011 13. ^ Fundraising on Kickstarter (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/622508883/global-village-construction-set) 14. ^ Make: Online | Open Source Ecology: Interview with Founder Marcin Jakubowski (http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/02/open-source-ecology-interview-with-founder-marcin-jakubowski.html) 15. ^ The 2011 Buckminster Fuller Challenge Semi-Finalists | The Buckminster Fuller Challenge (http://challenge.bfi.org/2011Semi_Finalists) 16. ^ "TIME Tech Best Inventions 2012" (http://techland.time.com/2012/11/01/best-inventions-of-the-year2012/slide/the-civilization-starter-kit/) . http://techland.time.com/2012/11/01/best-inventions-of-the-year2012/slide/the-civilization-starter-kit/. 17. ^ http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs.php 18. ^ http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Global_Village_Construction_Set 19. ^ Creation Flame progress (http://www.creationflame.org/2011/06/eco-friendly-development/) Accessed: 11/22/2011
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20. ^ Other GVCS Replications (http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Replication) Accessed: 11/22/2011

External links
Open Source Ecology: Website (http://opensourceecology.org/) Open Source Ecology: Wiki (http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Main_Page) Open Source Ecology: Blog (http://blog.opensourceecology.org/) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Open_Source_Ecology_(project)&oldid=528946713" Categories: Environmental organizations based in the United States Open hardware organizations and companies

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