Global Village Construction Set: An open source project for sustainable communities

For a growing amount of people, the need for sustainable communities is clear and obvious and has been for a long time. You’ll be waiting a long time for governments to act and implement real sustainable communities. Governments are put into power by powerful business and lobby groups who don’t have an interest in sustainable communities. So the answer at hand right now is to do it yourself. 

One group, Open Source Ecology (OSE), are coming up with the tools and knowledge to be able to create sustainable communities. Whats better, is as the name suggests, their work can be accessed as they release what they do open source.

An amazing project from OSE is the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). The GVCS is a modular, DIY, low cost, high performance platform the enables fabrication of 50 different industrial machines to be used to build and run sustainable communities from scratch.

Giving the project its modular foundation, motors, parts and assemblies for the machines can be used in other the machines. The project states, that on average the cost of the machines is 8 times less than if you were to buy the machines commercially.

Lathes, cement mixers, cutting tables, routers, 3D printers, sawmills, laser cutters, compressed earth block presses, tractors and electrical power generators are just some of the machines that make up part the GVCS.

Many of the machines have already been built and the project has received funding from Kickstarter projects to be able to build the complete set of machines to be able to be demonstrated.

We urge those who are good with their hands and those who want to be to explore and contribute to this exciting project. Through sustainable communities that don’t rely on the powers that be, we can all enjoy the abundance that nature offers.

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