The creator tells his personal origin story, starting with how his PhD in fusion energy left him feeling practically useless. He recounts his journey of starting a farm, his tractor breaking, and his decision to build his own, which sparked the idea for Open Source Ecology. He explains his mission to create an open-source library of 50 essential machines for civilization, shows how the project has evolved to include building affordable eco-homes, and concludes with a call to action for 24 students to join his Builders Academy to learn these skills.
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If I did it, then you can too.
I started with 0 knowledge and now I believe we have built a path to rebuilding civilisation.
It all started with a broken tractor and now we're focussing on solving housing.
You don't have to do it alone like I started. I've shared everything on the Open Source Ecology Wiki for FREE with the help of experts all around the world.
If you want to join us, learn practical skills that will change not only your life but the soceity around you, check out our Builders Crash Course at learn.opensourceecology.org
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Transcript
I finished my tier with a PhD in fusion energy, and I discovered that I was useless. I couldn't grow a tomato. I couldn't build any real things. I think a lot of people can relate to this in the modern worse. So I did what every young person with big dreams wants to do. I bought some land and started a farm no I could live independently and free. I bought a tractor, then it broke. I paid to get it repaired, and it broke again. And pretty soon, I was broke too. So I decided to build my own tractor. Something that was low cost, robust, designed for a lifetime, not obsolescence. This was the moment that changed everything. I realized that if I could do this, then anybody could with the right information. So I built more and I posted the designs, instructional schematics on my website for free. I calculated that humanity needs just 50 machines in order to build a civilization. And I want everyone to have access to the information that allows anyone to build these themselves. So I started open source ecology. And then something unexpected happened. Other people started showing up. Experts and curious people from around the world started contributing to our knowledge base. We currently have prototypes of 17 of the 50 machines, but we are going a lot further than machines now. We realize that you can build an entire house in only five days for a fraction of the cost with 24 people. So I started doing that. Now I might sound like a mad scientist, and I probably am, but you don't need to figure all of this yourself because we paved the road for you. Now we're looking for 24 students to guide and train so they can do this themselves and build affordable eco homes all over America in a fraction of the time and worst that you're told it takes to build a home. You'll learn 20 trades in a time it takes to learn one with a cohort of supportive people that want to build the world in a different way. But our program is a mix of liberal arts and practical skills. You'll be learning how to learn and learn to solve pressing world issues for a living, starting with housing. But that is only the beginning. Because our goal is to rebuild all of civilization, technology and institutions best starting experimental prototype communities of tomorrow. And design out all the pitfalls with open global collaboration. That's what our Future Builders Academy is all about. Go to opensourceecology.org to learn more.
