The Findhorn ecovillage is a synthesis of the very best of current thinking on sustainable human settlements. It is a constantly evolving model providing solutions to human and social needs, while at the same time working in partnership with the environment to offer an enhanced quality of life for all.
Bradford: Solar power is empowering. All things being equal, people like to control the resources upon which they rely. That’s why I spend time thinking about solar technologies rather than centralized, easily controlled technologies. At the end of the day, sustainability includes distributed power and democratization.
P2P能源
Last January, in discussion the OSCAR open source car project, we posed the important issue of the linkage between the design phase and the construction phase, assuming that the deep linkages between designing and actually making are vital for the success of open source production models in the physical world.
OSCAR - 將open source概念運用在汽車製造的例子
Marcins goal is to link the two issues of ecological farming and open source in a new and radical way. He plans to establish working prototypes of locally operating production units, based on a kind of apprenticeship model that empowers people with little or no experience in farming, crafts and other essential everyday skills to run through a process of hands-on experience - meaning they can then decide to run their own local businesses and experience centers.
將Open Source概念運用在生態農業的案例
