Coming of the Corporate Biomass Stoves – Mass Manufacturing to Save the Day? For the last year or three there has been a huge amount of activity in what I call “corporate stoving” – it is not as if corporations of one kind or another have not always had wares for sale (certainly in the [...]
Read more →Working on infrastructure. Seriously putting some dents in my head, looking at the systems around me right now keeping me cosy, wondering how on earth it all works. Fundamental realization – most infrastructure was designed by and for cold countries. With tons of consistent solar energy you can do a whole new class of things [...]
Read more →from http://twitpic.com/54k4 (twitter from Golden Phoenix) Smari said, on sight, “Hahahahaha New Headquarters?”
Read more →Much better video to follow – this is what I shot with my Xacti E1 from a tripod in the back of the room! Discussion here and HQ video and talk slides here.
Read more →http://ambidextrousmag.org/issues/09/ is the magazine link, and you can read our piece here (pdf): I’m very pleased with this piece. It really encapsulated a lot of what we wanted to say at a fairly minimalist length.
Read more →Not perfect, but much improved, audio synch. Turns out that Google Video preserves synch much better on uploaded .mov files than on uploaded .mp4 files. Basically this is an hour of Marcin of Open Source Ecology and I discussing the long term prospects for long term economic and political freedom driven by free and open [...]
Read more →http://bbs.fobshanghai.com/thread-1150820-1-1.html discussing using hexayurts in China.
Read more →Click here for the main interview discussion: http://www.globalswadeshi.net/forum/topic/show?id=2097821%3ATopic%3A501 Here are the supporting links: 1. Global Village Construction Set (and weblog): http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=198 2. Open Source Technology pattern language: http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Pattern_Language 3. Development page: http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=CEB_Press and overview: http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Overview 4. Year 1 of our Life at Factor e Farm http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=First_Year_at_Factor_e_Farm 5. Economic model: http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/steve_bosserman/2008/02/09/giving_it_away_making_money.htm
Read more →Great explanation of STAR-TIDES. This was shot at the FAHUM expo. It’s a little noisy for the first half, but it clears up at the 24 minute mark, and there’s a lot of great content past that point. Enjoy.
Read more →Word to Jonathan who’s been my video guru these many months. Here are my five notes (most of which he won’t approve of ) 1> The only thing that’s worse than bad video is no video at all. 2> Properly synchronizing sound and images is nearly bloody impossible, and, worse, even if it’s right on [...]
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