Open Source Ecology

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Open Source Ecology
File:Oselogo.png
Abbreviation OSE
Formation 2003; 21 years ago (2003)
Headquarters Factor e Farm
Location
  • 909 SW Willow Road, Maysville, Missouri, USA.[1][2]
Region served
 Worldwide
ED
 Marcin Jakubowski
Budget
 $4,000 monthly
Mission development of the Global Village Construction Set
Website Opensourceecology.org
Open Source Ecology: Practical post scarcity
The 50 machines that compose the Global Village Construction Set

Open Source Ecology (OSE) is a network of farmers, engineers, architects 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 are built and tested on the Factor e Farm in rural Missouri. Recently, 3D-Print reports[7] OSE has been experimenting with RepRap 3-D printers as suggested by academics for sustainable development.[8]

History

Marcin Jakubowski Ph.D. founded the group in 2003.[9] 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.

OSE made it to the world stage in 2011 when Jakubowski presented his Global Village Construction Set TED Talk.[10] 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).

In December 2013, Marcin married Catarina Mota. She co-chaired the Open Hardware Summit 2012, served on the board of directors of the Open Source Hardware Association, taught as an adjunct faculty member at ITP-NYU, and was a fellow of the National Science and Technology Foundation of Portugal.

Catarina finished her PhD dissertation on the social impact of open and collaborative practices for the development of physical goods and technologies. She was a visiting scholar at ITP-NYU, Research Chair at the Open Source Hardware Association, TED Fellow, and member of NYC Resistor.

Open Source Ecology is also developing in Europe as OSE Europe.[11]

In 2016, OSE and the Open Building Institute joined forces to make affordable, ecological housing widely accessible. The initiative has prototyped the Seed Eco-Home - a 1400 square foot home with the help of 50 people in a 5 day period - demonstrating that OSE's Extreme Manufacturing techniques can be apply to rapid swarm builds of large structures. Materials for the Seed Eco-Home cost around US$30,000. Further, OBI has prototyped the Aquaponic Greenhouse - which was also built in 5 days with 50 people:

Image: not letting me upload my own image at https://www.openbuildinginstitute.org/portfolio/aquaponic-greenhouse-workshop-2/ with caption Open source vertical growing towers with bok choi, lettuce, and other greens. Tilapia ponds under the towers provide nutrients as water circulates from the ponds to the towers. The ponds are 4 feet deep, making for a vertical biological zone 12 feet high to maximize productivity. The goal for the greenhouse is to experiment with the feasibility of producing a full diet for one person from only 800 square feet of space.


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. Utilizing the Open Source Ecology principles, Marcin and Catarina have built four prototype modules which comprise their home. An added greenhouse demonstrates how a family can grow their own fresh vegetables and fish. Outside there is also a large garden including fruit trees..[12]

Current progress

As of 2014, twelve of the fifty machines have been designed, blueprinted, and prototyped, with four of those reaching the documentation stage.[13][14] On October 2011 a Kickstarter fundraising campaign collected 63,573 USD for project expenses and the construction of a training facility.[15] The project has been funded by the Shuttleworth Foundation[16] and is a semifinalist in the Focus Forward Film Festival.[17]

  • Powercube v7 Assembly video

  • Liberator Compressed Earth Brick Press v4 Assembly video

  • LifeTrac tractor - Design Rationale

  • LifeTrac tractor - Fabrication Report

  • LifeTrac tractor- Fabrication Drawings

Awards and recognition

  • In 2011, the project won the Green Project Contest organized by the Make magazine.[18]
  • It was also selected as one of the 21 semi-finalists for the Buckminster Fuller Challenge, among 162 participants.[19]
  • TIME rated OSE's Civilization Starter Kit as a top invention of the year 2012.[20]

List of machines

The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) comprises 50 industrial machines:[21][22]

Category Global Village Construction Set (GVCS)
Habitat

Compressed earth block press v4  · Concrete mixer  · Sawmill  · Bulldozer  · Backhoe
Agriculture

Tractor: LifeTrac v3  · Seeder  · Hay rake  · Microtractor  · Rototiller  · Spader  · Hay cutter  · Trencher  · Bakery oven  · Dairy milking machine  · Microcombine harvester  · Baler  · Well-drilling rig
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: PowerCube v7  · Gasifier burner  · Solar concentrator  · Electric motor / generator  · Hydraulic motor  · Nickel–iron battery  · Steam engine  · Steam generator  · Wind turbine  · Pelletizer  · Universal power supply
Materials

Aluminium extractor  · Bioplastic extruder
Transportation

Car  · Truck

GVCS replication

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[23] developed a functioning open source CEB press.[24] A group in Baltimore, Maryland, and a group in Dallas, Texas have also begun production of GVCS machines.[25]

See also

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References

  1. ↑ Factor e farm information Accessed: 7/28/2011.
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ "Open Source Ecology", Accessed: 7-23-2011.
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  7. ↑ http://3dprint.com/10110/3d-printers-economy/
  8. ↑ J. M Pearce, C. Morris Blair, K. J. Laciak, R. Andrews, A. Nosrat and I. Zelenika-Zovko, "3-D Printing of Open Source Appropriate Technologies for Self-Directed Sustainable Development", Journal of Sustainable Development 3(4), pp. 17-29 (2010).
  9. ↑ "About" Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine, Accessed: 7-19-2011.
  10. ↑ "Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization", April 2011. Accessed: 7-19-2011.
  11. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  12. ↑ Factor e Farm Information Accessed 7-31-2011.
  13. ↑ Status Brief, Accessed: 2016-02-14
  14. ↑ GVCS Prototype Status, Accessed: 2016-02-14
  15. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  16. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  17. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  18. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  19. ↑ The 2011 Buckminster Fuller Challenge Semi-Finalists | The Buckminster Fuller Challenge Archived February 29, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  20. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  21. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  22. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  23. ↑ Creation Flame Main Page
  24. ↑ Creation Flame progress Archived 2012-02-16 at archive.today Accessed: 11/22/2011
  25. ↑ Other GVCS Replications Accessed: 11/22/2011

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