Post-scarcity is the term coined by Open Source Ecology. This group, founded by Marcin Jacobowski, a Polish born Princeton educated physicist who wondered why elite American universities did not address urgent problems re: food, etc.) is creating a global village construction set at the Factor E Farm in Maysville, Missouri, and posting all the information free on their website to anyone who wants to build the machines. They created a compressed earth brick machine, a soil pulverizer, and tractor and then just built their fabrication lab out of the CEB. Marcin is showing that there is no crisis of scarcity - all we need is sun, rocks, air, dirt, and water. The GVCS includes a small foundry to melt down scrap metal, and all the tools to create whatever you need, including a small steam engine and a pelletizer to pellet anything you grow on the land to feed the steam engine, which generates electicity. The tractor and other machine have modular hydraulic power cubes which can be easily switched to another machine. A homemade 3-D printer prints out any spare parts needed for the machines. Marcin's idea is that any community can generate the infrastructure needed for it's food, energy, housing, etc. and have all modern conveniences while improving, and not harming, the environment. He is a TED fellow and also recently won the prestigious SHUTTLEWORTH Foudation grant which he has used to hire a farm manager and a video team to document everything.
http://vimeo.com/19950597
4 years in 4 minutes / Factor E Farm
I have also read reviews of a book called PLENITUDE that documents various endeavors along the line of OSE that show that it is toxic politics and not lack of resources that cause scarcity. I don't have the book yet.
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Patty
