When Marcin Jakubowski finished his Phd in nuclear fusion, he realized he had nothing of value to offer anyone in society. So he became a farmer. In the course of solving his own dilemma as a startup sustainable grower with limited resources, he realized that his problems were the same as those faced by subsistence growers across the planet. There was no bottom rung for getting a foothold in a modern society without huge economic resources. So of course, he decided to build just that.
Enter, the Global Village Construction Set & Open Source Ecology, transcending artificial scarcity with a do-it-yourself civilization kit – the fifty most important machines that it takes for modern life to exist.
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Awesome! Don’t forget to mention that by the end of next year (2012) is should be finished, and include plans for a small farm-scaled wind turbine (50kw from memory), some bio-diesel processing, and even recycling busted up old solar PV panels to make workable ones.