Factor e Live - Distillations Part 1 - Towards 1000 Global Villages

Friends: 2008 was a big year at Factor e Farm. Here is an update - with a review of progress for 2008 and exciting plans to accelerate the pace of development. We've got to move on - after the Gl...

Started by Marcin Jakubowski 7 hours ago.

A Village To Heal The Planet: A Practical Whole-Systems Showcase Village 2 Replies

So here's the idea in a nutshell: take a patch of land in some low-cost-of-living area, probably a developing world country, and set up a profusion of different OSAT (open source appropriate techno...

Started by Vinay Gupta. Last reply by Fabio Barone 1 day ago.

Specific Ideas and Steps, within the Context 2 Replies

[I wrote this in my Spanish blog. Thought I'd share it here too, slightly adapted. My thinking is not as solid as it sounds. :-P] A wide context is we will all die some day. Some folks consider an...

Started by Lucas. Last reply by Lucas Jan 3.

Vela Creations - directory of off the grid resources and how-tos

http://www.velacreations.com/ == quote begins == Vela Creations is a documentation of our experiences and projects living off the grid. We are a young couple striving to fulfill our lifestyles thr...

Started by Vinay Gupta Jan 3.

Global Food Swadeshi Business Models 29 Replies

I started looking at the idea of offering patches of land, for rent, with some services. So that people may grow their own food, maybe starting on a part-time basis. [Not because I have land mysel...

Started by Lucas. Last reply by David Braden Jan 1.

Seed Saving for Local Food Security 1 Reply

Here is version 1.0 of a guide to Seed Saving for Local Food Security: http://mindspinner.net/docs/SeedSaving1-0.pdf Use share, and adapt!

Started by Lisa. Last reply by Vinay Gupta Jan 1.

Notes from Foundations of Gandhian Economics 2 Replies

Here are my raw notes from _Foundations of Gandhian Economics_ by Amritananda Das NY: St Martin's Press, 1979 ISBN 0-312-30005-0 There's a lot in Gandhian economics that is immediately useful. It ...

Tagged: satyagraha, Gandhi, development, economics

Started by gmoke. Last reply by Vinay Gupta Dec. 29, 2008.

We need to run the numbers about everything 1 Reply

PLACE HOLDER for quantities of all kinds, from watts per square meter to calories per acre to appropedia users per million people, to any other interesting or useful or vital quantity we need to lo...

Started by Lucas. Last reply by Vinay Gupta Dec. 29, 2008.

Appropriate Technology for Small and Subsistence Farms 2 Replies

http://www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/LTRAS/itech/ Skylight insulation * Protecting trees from nutria damage * Farm-Scale Food Dehydrator * Hand-held Narrow Flame Propane Weed Burner * A Propane We...

Started by Vinay Gupta. Last reply by Chris Watkins Dec. 26, 2008.

Open Source Appropriate Technology - too little too late? Agroblogger's question 12 Replies

http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/12/16/too-little-t question: "what are 3 things that we could do to unfold OSAT fast enough?". Go there, write anywhere, let's spread the questions and collect the ...

Started by Lucas. Last reply by Lucas Dec. 23, 2008.