Seeds + T: A Breathing Archive And Self-Producing Machines

The ancient wealth of rural India has been hidden in plain sight for decades. A lonely crusader, P.Sainath goes open source to collaborate with the many and has launched what could become the world's largest repository of ancient wisdom. To balance out Sainath, we feature Marcin Jakubowski, founder of Open Source Ecology, an ambitious initiative to take modern technology to the masses with Global Village Construction Set.

Pari: A living archive of the world's most diverse and complex countryside
In a country with hundreds of newspapers and magazines, and countless websites and blogs, very little of the villages where the overwhelming majority (about 833 million) lives is covered. After decades of being the lonely crusader in covering rural India, Palagummi Sainath has launched Pari: a living archive of the everyday lives of rural India in all its diversity. Driven by volunteers, the portal intends to usher an open source movement that has the potential to preserve and evolve the best that is still alive in one of the greatest countries in the world. Read Full Story »

Global Village Construction Set (GVCS): Machines that makes machines, open sourced.
GVCS is a life size LEGO set of powerful, self-replicating production tools for distributed production. The Set includes fabrication and automated machines that make other machines. This work of distributing raw productive power to people is not only a means to solving wicked problems – but a means for humans themselves to evolve. The creation of a new world depends on expansion of human consciousness and personal evolution – as individuals tap their autonomy, mastery, and purpose – bo Build Themselves – and to become responsible for the world around them. Read Full Story »


'Be the Change' Idea: Where do you come from? How deep does your personal history run? Find out one piece of your own culture, tradition, technology, practice or story from as far back as possible. And adapt it to your current life.