Posts Tagged ‘open source’
Monday, August 16th, 2010
In this episode we are joined once again by Darren Doherty, permaculture designer and consultant, for the second half of a two part interview. We spend a good deal of time discussing a series of spreadsheets Darren has developed as part of his consultancy. These spreadsheets are tools available on Darren’s website that can be used to further increase the permaculture community’s capacity to develop and implement effective projects. We conclude by discussing permaculture’s failure to engage the agricultural industry, and discuss the role of permaculture and Holistic Management in the ongoing and worsening deflationary Depression.
Making Sense of the Financial Crisis in the Era of Peak Oil (Nicole Foss Lecture)
The Automatic Earth (Nicole Foss Blog)
Darren’s Spreadsheets and other useful documents
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Tags: darren doherty, Economics, great depression, open source, OSAT, Permaculture, transition-culture
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Monday, August 9th, 2010
In this 100th episode of the Agroinnovations Podcast we are joined by Darren Doherty, a permaculture designer and consultant who is an expert in keyline design, broadacre permaculture, and agroforestry. Topics of discussion include Australia as a source of innovation in agriculture, regenerative vs. sustainable agriculture, the life and work of P.A. Yeomans, the keyline orders or permanence, open source agricultural implements, and the Spanish Dehesa as a model for broadacre permaculture. This episode is a tour-de-force of many of the critical issues facing the permaculture movement.
Follow-up Blog Post (via the Agroinnovations Blog)
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Tags: Appropriate Technology, australia, broadacre permaculture, darren doherty, Holistic Management, keyline, open source, Permaculture
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Monday, January 25th, 2010
In this episode of the podcast, I speak with Chris Watkins of Appropedia.org. We start off by reviewing some of the highlights of Chris’ 18 month trip around the globe meeting with other Open Source Appropriate Technology (OSAT) pioneers, and then we move on to the discuss the utility of Appropedia, its growth, its role in connecting and building communities, differences between OSAT and Free Software, and how to get more people involved in OSAT.
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Tags: appropedia, Appropriate Technology, hardware, linux, open source, OSAT, reprap
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Marcin Jakubowski is one of the premier pioneers of open source appropriate technology and agricultural innovation. Guided by Gandhi’s principles of swadeshi, Marcin has made great strides in moving towards community-based development and local autonomy. One of his first great innovations is an open source compressed earth block press, which he discusses at length in this podcast.
Listen to this podcast to learn about his ideas and innovations, and visit his blog to follow developments on his farm as they occur.
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Tags: Appropriate Technology, Farmers, industry, open source, OSAT
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
This is part two of the Appropedia Roundtable with Lonny Grafman and Curt Beckmann. In this podcast, we discuss Open Source AT (OSAT) in a historical context, and look at some of the tensions and areas where Appropedia must improve if it is to truly have a lasting impact. Thanks for listening.
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Tags: appropedia, Appropriate Technology, open source, OSAT, roundtable
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
There’s a lot of synergy going in the open source appropriate technology (OSAT) world, and this podcast is a perfect example of that. On the same day that Agroinnovations posted a call for collaborators on the appropedia website, I spoke with Lonny Grafman and Curt Beckmann, founder and system administrator, respectively, of this premier open source AT wiki and online community. If you’re interested in OSAT, then THIS is the podcast to listen to. If you’ve never heard of OSAT, then listen and learn.
Stay tuned for part two, and also an upcoming podcast on ferrocement in Spanish.
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Tags: appropedia, Appropriate Technology, open source, OSAT, roundtable
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
The Full Belly Project has spent the last several years designing and deploying a simple and cost effective peanut sheller for use in developing countries. They are one of the first organizations to explicitly endorse and apply an Open Source model to appropriate technology.
In this interview, Jeff Rose tells us the history of the project, how it functions, and the service based model that is now emerging from applying Open Source to AT. I also read some listener’s comments. So listen and enjoy.
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Tags: africa, Appropriate Technology, nuts, open source, OSAT, sheller
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007
In this episode, we speak with Professor Anil Gupta of the Honey Bee Network. Professor Gupta is a true visionary in the field of appropriate technology and he has dedicated his life to furthering the cause of rural innovators and their inventions.
According to Dr. Gupta, rural innovators are solving problems at such a low cost, that we can no longer afford to ignore their hard work and creativity. His approach presents us with a new model of rural and market development that must be implemented if we are to overcome the obstacles that now face our civilization.
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Tags: Appropriate Technology, honeybee network, india, innovation, open source, OSAT
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