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| Abbreviation | OSE |
|---|---|
| Formation | 2003 |
| Headquarters | Factor e Farm |
| Location | |
Region served | Worldwide |
ED | Marcin Jakubowski |
| Website | www |
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 types of 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 test them on the Factor e Farm in rural Missouri.[4][5][6] 3D-Print.com reports[7] that OSE has been experimenting with RepRap 3-D printers, as suggested by academics for sustainable development.[8]
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- ^ "Google Maps Factor e Farm location". Retrieved 2016-04-05.
- ^ "Open Source Ecology", Accessed: 7-23-2011.
- ^ Rohan Pearce (2011-12-14). "Can open source save the planet?". Techworld Australia.
- ^ Leah Messinger (2011-03-23). "A Mad Scientist's 50 Tools for Sustainable Communities". The Atlantic.
- ^ Ashlee Vance (2012-11-01). "The Post-Apocalypse Survival Machine Nerd Farm". Bloomberg Businessweek. Archived from the original on November 3, 2012.
- ^ "Village in a Box: Open Source Ecology Project Uses 3D Printers to Build the Next Economy". 24 July 2014.
- ^ 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).