(2010-07-30) Robb Open Farm Tech Resilience

John Robb notes some Open Farm Tech (Open SourceEcology) projects that could provide local Resilience: Open Source DrillPress, CEB (Compressed Earth Brick), Soil Pulverizer.

Their home page says: *By using PermaCulture and digital fabrication (Desktop Fab+) together to provide for basic needs and open source methodology to allow low cost replication of the entire operation, we hope to empower anyone who desires to move beyond the struggle for survival and "evolve to freedom."

By our analysis, most of the technologies needed for a sustainable and pleasant standard of living could be reduced to the cost of scrap metal + labor. There is immense potential for social transformation once this technology is fully developed for building interconnected self-sufficient communities, since people will be freed from material constraints and able to seek self-actualization.*

Dec31 update: this group is winning a popularity contest at Make Mag.