Open Source Ecology is a network of farmers, engineers, and supporters building the Global Village Construction Set -- a modular, DIY, low-cost, open source, high-performance platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different industrial machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts.
Their extensive wiki has been facilitating global collaboration on the toolset. They have been 100% crowd funded for the last 4 years.
The aim of the GVCS is to lower the barriers to entry into farming, building, and manufacturing. Its a life-size lego set that could create entire economies, whether in rural Missouri, where the project was founded, or in the developing world.
http://boingboing.net/2011/11/04/global-village-construction-set-towards-a-diy-civilization.html
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