This is a novel idea. It seems reasonable that a form of inter-ngo cooperation is useful, but aligning it towards the viability of service offerings in this United Laboratories type approach is very targeted and it must have been simpy over looked in the past!
It'll have systemic effects, helping many other projects.
Possibly, the most obvious is "resilience when facing economic disruption", which is when poverty jumps upon us, so we can learn from people who are already poor, while helping them help themselves.
Everybody talks about building resilient systems, community gardens and what not. But what works? And, more importantly, what works when put together?
Permaculturists, transition towners, and many others, want to create complex designs. But complex designs are made of simple pieces put together. Now, you're the one who will be putting them together, so the question becomes What will work for me?
appropedia.org and akvo.org provide the information. We could say that's the theory. We need the practice.
The question is not Why do this. The question is How long until it happens?
One aspect of the proposal struck me as especially important: building strategic partnerships with other open source appropriate technology projects. Mr. Gupta's project would be an excellent complement to what Open Source Ecology is doing at the Factor E Farm demo site. The two together would create synergies, providing each other with additional components for their respective village development packages.
In the past Mr. Gupta has made inestimable contributions in designing open-source packages of life support technology for refugees and dwellers in shantytowns and tent cities: the hexayurt, solar cooker, and solar water purifier, so I know an investment in his fertile mind will pay off many times over.
And this sort of thing is absolutely essential. John Robb of Global Guerrillas blog writes on the "resilient communities" that will weather the current "perfect storm" of terminal crises--Peak Oil, the Great Recession, and all the rest of it. Mr. Gupta's proposal and the existing OS Ecology projects are both engaged in prototyping such resilient communities and creating a virally replicable package that may play the same role in the current collapse of state capitalism that the villa did in the collapse of the Western Roman Empire.
It is, I repeat, absolutely essential to get as much of the technology as possible prototyped and in the process of replication. This work is, as the Wobbly slogan puts it, "Building the structure of the new society within the shell of the old."
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This is a novel idea. It seems reasonable that a form of inter-ngo cooperation is useful, but aligning it towards the viability of service offerings in this United Laboratories type approach is very targeted and it must have been simpy over looked in the past!
It'll have systemic effects, helping many other projects.
Possibly, the most obvious is "resilience when facing economic disruption", which is when poverty jumps upon us, so we can learn from people who are already poor, while helping them help themselves.
Everybody talks about building resilient systems, community gardens and what not. But what works? And, more importantly, what works when put together?
Permaculturists, transition towners, and many others, want to create complex designs. But complex designs are made of simple pieces put together. Now, you're the one who will be putting them together, so the question becomes What will work for me?
appropedia.org and akvo.org provide the information. We could say that's the theory. We need the practice.
The question is not Why do this. The question is How long until it happens?
One aspect of the proposal struck me as especially important: building strategic partnerships with other open source appropriate technology projects. Mr. Gupta's project would be an excellent complement to what Open Source Ecology is doing at the Factor E Farm demo site. The two together would create synergies, providing each other with additional components for their respective village development packages.
In the past Mr. Gupta has made inestimable contributions in designing open-source packages of life support technology for refugees and dwellers in shantytowns and tent cities: the hexayurt, solar cooker, and solar water purifier, so I know an investment in his fertile mind will pay off many times over.
And this sort of thing is absolutely essential. John Robb of Global Guerrillas blog writes on the "resilient communities" that will weather the current "perfect storm" of terminal crises--Peak Oil, the Great Recession, and all the rest of it. Mr. Gupta's proposal and the existing OS Ecology projects are both engaged in prototyping such resilient communities and creating a virally replicable package that may play the same role in the current collapse of state capitalism that the villa did in the collapse of the Western Roman Empire.
It is, I repeat, absolutely essential to get as much of the technology as possible prototyped and in the process of replication. This work is, as the Wobbly slogan puts it, "Building the structure of the new society within the shell of the old."
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