Un kit libre pour démarrer une civilisation !

Dans un récent billet intitulé Open Source Ecology ou la communauté Amish 2.0 nous nous faisions l’écho d’un projet assez extraordinaire consistant à placer sous licence libre les spécifications d’une cinquantaine de machines agricoles permettant théoriquement à un village d’accéder à l’autosuffisance. Un projet qui méritait bien les honneurs d’une conférence TED que nous avons choisi de vous reproduire ci-dessous. Soit dit en passant, les conférences Ted, au format court caractéristique et de plus en plus souvent sous-titrées en français, constituent avec le temps une véritable mine d’or pour tout internaute curieux de mieux comprendre et appréhender les enjeux d’aujourd’hui et de demain. Je suggère fortement à tout enseignant d’indiquer cette ressource à leurs étudiants et de leur en montrer quelques unes en classe (les interventions sont placées sous licence Creative Commons By-Nc-Nd). Leur slogan est : « des idées qui méritent d’être diffusées ». Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% Transcript Merci.

Global Village Construction Set by Marcin Jakubowski Open Source Ecology is a network of farmers, engineers, and supporters building the Global Village Construction Set - a modular, DIY, low-cost, open source, 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 aim of the GVCS is to lower the barriers to entry into farming, building, and manufacturing. Its a life-size lego set that can create entire economies, whether in rural Missouri, where the project was founded, or in the developing world. So Far we’ve prototyped 8 of the 50 Machines and we’ve been expanding rapidly. We are 100% crowd-funded. We have 400 True Fans that support our work monthly. Please watch these videos if you are new to the project: What Makes the Global Village Construction Set so special? Why should I help fund this project? The library of instructional material that we produce will make replication a straightforward task. Absolutely!

raised garden beds: hugelkultur instead of irrigation raised garden bed hugelkultur after one month raised garden bed hugelkultur after one year raised garden bed hugelkultur after two years raised garden bed hugelkultur after twenty years It's a german word and some people can say it all german-ish. I learned this high-falootin word at my permaculture training. Hugelkultur is nothing more than making raised garden beds filled with rotten wood. I do think there are some considerations to keep in mind. Another thing to keep in mind is that wood is high in carbon and will consume nitrogen to do the compost thing. Pine and fir will have some levels of tanins in them, but I'm guessing that most of that will be gone when the wood has been dead for a few years. In the drawings at right, the artist is trying to show that while the wood decomposes and shrinks, the leaves, duff and accumulating organic matter from above will take it's place.