Great TED talk from Marcin Jakubowski about his Open Source Ecology project. It’s just 4 minutes and well worth watching.
In the blog post “Open Source Ecology: Global Village Construction Set” the Climate Crocks blog said (of Jakubowski):
“In the course of solving his own dilemma as a startup sustainable grower with limited resources, he realized that his problems were the same as those faced by subsistence growers across the planet. There was no bottom rung for getting a foothold in a modern society without huge economic resources. So of course, he decided to build just that.
Enter, the Global Village Construction Set & Open Source Ecology, transcending artificial scarcity with a do-it-yourself civilization kit – the fifty most important machines that it takes for modern life to exist.”
(Thanks to Peter Bloch for sending me the link)
