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ENTROPY LAND
Babington burner
Post Industrial Economy
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REGENERATIVE
ENVIRONMENT
MATERIALS ORGANIC MATTER
Heavy lathe prototype
source: John Tillman Lyle, Regenerative Design for Sustainable Development
Soybean field that became Factor E Farm Volunteers building up the farm
ware. Open source is already materials and labor, linking our closed. Organic matter and
proving itself in the commercial users to us and breaking the nutrients will be in complete
computer hardware world with standard “consumer” and “pro- cycles, enriching our soil rath-
products such as Arduino and ducer” dichotomy. er than mining it. This means
MechMate. Instead of working This vision inspires us, but you integrating wild animals, tra-
in obscurity, our plans receive don’t need to take our word for ditional animal husbandry, pe-
the feedback of experts and in- it. In the near term, our suc- rennial crops, tree crops, and
terested amateurs as they hap- cess will not be measured in our raised bed gardening. While
pen. As a result we make fewer abundance of intangibles such documenting our progress,
mistakes, and recover quickly as happiness and self-worth. we will also be building a gene
from the ones we do make. We are making real products bank of regionally appropriate
But openness is more than just that can compete in the market plants, animals, and fungi. We
a process for us, we believe in are busy planting a permacul-
“Not seeing the real face
openness as an ideology of trans- ture forest garden, where the
of industrial technology is
formation. Imagine the knowl- trees and bushes will produce
among the factors that make
edge necessary for sustaining nuts, berries, tubers, and other
it possible to ignore its pres-
advanced civilization available edibles, as well as forage for our
ence until its effects become
to everyone, not just a limited animals, all in a self-sustaining
overwhelming.”
technical elite. An Open Source forest ecology.
—John Tillman Lyle
Ecology integrating computers, This summer we will conduct
communications, energy pro- and we will capture market share a combined agriculture/aqua-
duction, fabrication, and food because our products are a good culture experiment using fish,
production will lead to greater value. Our project is not just a chickens, and raised vegetable
self-sufficiency and improved dream, it is a practical plan for beds in a system designed af-
quality of life. A community in an alternative economic model ter the Mexico Basin Chinampa
control of its manufacturing and that can and will compete. system. Originally created to
food production will be resilient To demonstrate and develop feed the 250,000 residents of
in the face of our increasingly this new system, we are scaling Tenochtitlán (modern day Mex-
uncertain global system. up, adding collaborators on-site ico City). Chinampa is one of the
As our designs come together, and online, and receiving dona- oldest integrative agriculture
we are tooling up for commu- tions from our community. techniques in the world. Fertile
nity supported manufacturing, agricultural runoff (in our case
where people collaborate to Agriculture from chickens) is directed into
fund our facility, and we repay While our methods will be ponds, triggering algal blooms
them by selling at the cost of open, our resource cycles will be that feed fish, whose waste in
turn feeds lettuce and other
vegetables grown in beds sur-
rounded by water. Waste from
the vegetable garden is then fed
to worms, who are fed to the
chickens. In this way we can
intensively cultivate a protein-
rich diet in a small space, grow- Biofuel heated greenhouse Volunteers cordwood building
ing the soil while producing
food for sale. “By attempting merely to im-
When whole systems are put prove and modify the familiar
together, their efficiency is as- ways of designing and build-
tounding. What was once waste ing you will succeed only in
is suddenly a resource. Too perpetuating original errors
often in our current economy and limitations. So do not be
we make decisions in isolation afraid of radical methods.”
Solar cubicle modular housing —R. Buckminster Fuller
from any greater system. The
Global Village Construction Set
is a fundamental break from at-
omized thinking. We need not
make sacrifices in quality of life
to move beyond our destructive
industrial system, all we need is
full integration, closing resource
loops and ending waste. We
can make local economies work, Photovoltaic array First sawmill prototype
Links:
Our website, the Open Source Ecology Wiki and blog:
http://www.openfarmtech.org
Audio Interview with founder Marcin Jakubowski, PhD :
http://agroinnovations.com/component/option,com_mojo/Itemid,182/p,39/lang,en/
Citations:
73, “Ecological Design- 10th Aniversary Edition” Sim Van Der Ryn & Stuart Cowan, Island Press,
Washington D.C. 2007
289, “Design For the Real World” Victor Papanek, Pantheon Books, New York 1971
5,6, 46 “Regenerative Design for Sustainable Development” John Tillman Lyle, John Wiley &
Sones, Inc. New York 1994
1, “Designing a New Industry: A composite o a series of talks by R. Buckminster Fuller 1945-1946”
Fuller Research Institute, Witchita, Kansas.