On a farm in deepest rural Missouri, the heartland of the American midwest, a village is emerging from the soil. It’s the base camp for the Open Source Ecology (OSE) movement, founded in 2007 to search for innovative answers to the world’s mounting sustainability problems. Here a Princeton educated Polish physicist and a growing band of DIY devotees have embarked on an ambitious project – to redesign the basic elements of civilization, making them cheaper, greener and smarter. Marcin Jubowski believes he has identified the 50 machines necessary to create a sustainable village – “a civilization starter kit”.
1:23 pm - Sun, Mar 31, 2013 41 notes We can’t get enough pallet-ness these days, evidently. The pallet pendant shade is made from…….you guessed it pallets.
<img src="http://makezineblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/palletgarden.jpg?w=600&h=209" alt="Pallet Garden" title="Pallet Garden" width="600" height="209" class="alignright size-full wp-image-97804" /> At MAKE, we’ve featured our fair share of skid-based projects, but I really like this particularly green pallet project by Fern at Life on the Balcony.
