Open Ecological Technology is a multidisciplinary field of design practice and philosophy curated by Melanie Allen (goldfishlaser) in response to today's social and environmental ecological challenges.
Strengthening the commons of technology that promotes healthy ecosystems and liberated beings, with a focus on low-cost, locally-sourced, decentrally-manufactured solutions.
- We have all the materials we need to ensure no one goes without - scarcity is a distribution problem
- We have all the knowledge we need to make the world better - we should build openness into systems
- It is possible to provide everything a community needs within the community, and everything a community wants through cooperation - however, it involves a fundamental change in how we do things
- We have the right to completely own our tools
- We have the responsibilty to not exploit others
- We have reached a point where we have many catastrophes ongoing and can expect additional catastrophes. Everyone is encouraged to participate to face them head-on according to their resources and abilities; since some we may avert, others we will need to ameliorate the damage as much as possible
Materials & Manufacturing
- Pultrusion
- Bioplastics
- 3D Printed Motor
- 3D Printer
- Casting & Foundry
- EDM (Wire / Plunge)
- HDPE Plastic Recycling
- Lathe
- Mill
- Metal Forge / Blacksmithing
- PET Pultrusion
- Fiber Arts
Building & Shelter
- Cob Build
- Greenhouse Build
- Huegelkultur
- Natural Plaster & Finish
- Passive Solar Design
Energy & Thermal
- Biogas Digester
- Photovoltaic / Solar Array
- Rocket Stove Kiln
- Solar Thermal / Water Heating
- Wind Generation
Water Systems
- Catchment Cistern / Tank
- Greywater Recycling
- Rainwater Harvesting
- Water Catchment System
- Water Filtration
Soil & Growing
- Bioreactor / Compost Tea Brewer
- Food Forest Design
- Fermentation
- Hugelkultur
- Kelp Harvesting
- Mycology / Mushroom Cultivation
- Olla / Subsurface Irrigation
- Soil Science
- Seed Saving & Processing
Food & Fermentation
- "Cheese"making / Mylk Cultures
- Fermentation
- Grain Milling & Processing
- Natto / Koji Production
- Nut & Seed Processing
- Solar Dehydration
Hardware Security
Stationary and Print
Lab & Science
- Chemistry Lab
- Electronics Bench / PCB Fabrication
- Soil Science Lab
- Fab Lab
- Open Source Lab
Documentation and Modelling
- Docs-as-Models-as-Code
- Continuous Documentation
- Library
Management and Marketing
- OETPM
- DfODM
- Resume Model
- Proposal Model
- Lean Six Sigma
Check out my Ecology Stars
Open Hardware & Fabrication
- Open Source Hardware Association
- DOF Initiative (Mach30)
- Open Source Ecology
- Eco-Libre
- RepRap
- Recreator3D
- TetraBio
- Precious Plastic
- HardwareX
- Creative Commons
- DiHG
- Open Collective
- FUTO
- Buckminster Fuller Institute
- P2P Foundation
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Appropedia
- Internet Archive
- Project Gutenberg
- Wikipedia
- https://opensustain.tech/
- Open Practice Library
- Code for Science & Society
Open Source, IP & Digital Commons
- The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom | Benkler, Yochai
- Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software | Eghbal, Nadia
- Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version 2.0 | Lessig, Lawrence
- Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity | Lessig, Lawrence
- Intellectual Property and Open Source: A Practical Guide to Protecting Code | Lindberg, Van
- Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World | Menn, Joseph
- The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary | Raymond, Eric S.
- Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World | Tapscott, Don
- Craphound
Technology & Making
- The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto | Carson, Kevin
- Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing | Lipson, Hod
- Towards a Liberatory Technology (essay in Post-Scarcity Anarchism) | Bookchin, Murray (as Lewis Herber)
- Technics and Civilization | Mumford, Lewis
- Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition | Regis, Ed
- Architecting Spacecraft with SysML: A Model-based Systems Engineering Approach | Friedenthal, Sanford
- The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer | Swade, Doron
Permaculture & Homesteading
- JADAM Organic PEST and DISEASE CONTROL | Cho, Youngsang
- Rocket Mass Heaters: Superefficient Woodstoves YOU Can Build (Internet Archive — not in OL) | Evans, Ianto
- Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability | Holmgren, David
- The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure | Jenkins, Joseph C.
- Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands (Vol. 1) | Lancaster, Brad
- Permaculture: A Designers' Manual | Mollison, Bill
- The Vegan Book of Permaculture (WorldCat — not in OL) | Burnett, Graham
Philosophy, Science & Political Economy
- Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds | Escobar, Arturo
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | Kuhn, Thomas S.
- How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method | Pólya, George
- What We Owe to Each Other | Scanlon, T.M.
- Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered) | Schumacher, Ernst F.
- The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society | Wiener, Norbert
- You're a bit early since I'm still working on building the organization. Feel free to reach out to me personally to discuss.
