Open Source Ecology Germany

What we did last week? accidentally met a maker in the train, who loved the OSE vision and wants to help OSE was well received in Wendland, a second meeting is in planning met with Frithjof Bergmann about developing unused land in South Africa the Wind Turbine project is developing, we need 500 Euros for […]

Frithjof Bergmann is working world-wide since 30 years on New Work New Culture with main vision the transformation from Industrial to small-scale community production creating a new self-determined and meaningful life-style and culture. At the end of this week he will go to South Africa to suggest how to develop a huge unused land area […]

I presented Open Source Ecology to few people in Wendland and they really liked it. Now we are planning a follow-up meeting with makers and companies. Wendland is known in Germany for the planned disposal of nuclear waste. Because of this problem many people here are very aware on sustainability topics. 25% of the produced […]

I, Nikolay, am in Berlin till the end of November, possibly longer. The main goals in Berlin are: 1) find the people who want to develop Open Source Technologies and/or an OSE Workshop (OpenEcoLab, the Open Source TechShop). 2) find the Organizations, who want to or are developing Open Source Technologies – cooperations, associations and […]

Our goal is unite as many people as possible in the development of Open Source Technologies. One part of this are the open communication platforms. As first step we want to create a common information channel to optimize the information flow about open source technologies in the German speaking countries – Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Lichtenstein. […]

One of the main goals of the Open Source Ecology Germany movement is to build the open network for collaborative development of the technologies. When we say open it means that everything in the network is accessible to everyone and everyone who wants to is able to participate. We believe that only through openness and […]

Dear Friends, it is high time for change and to start to work on what really matters. This is a 16 minutes comprehensive video introduction to the What, Why, Who and How of Open Source Ecology. Watch it, understand it better, spread it and participate! For English Subtitles: just click the “Captions” button of the […]

We are searching for a Media Designer: to create icons for the different technologies we are developing (like the GVCS 50 icons below). See our current projects like Yard Loader, Rolling Cultivator and others. Preferred are vector file formats like *.svg (with the Open Source Inkscape). to visualize with icons the different sectors of the […]

Wind Turbine We are extremely happy that the planraum e.V. from Regensburg, Germany, will help us with receiving the donations and forwarding them to the development. This means that you can receive donation receipts and possibly get 20% of your donation back from the tax office (Finanzamt). For OSEG this means that we will put […]

Markus Bergmann, Lamy and Dirk from Freiburg are working on an Open Source Bike Trailer, with which one can transport 50-150kg vegetables and other goods. The projects is aligned with the Open Source Ecology vision and can be supported on startnext.de. The roadmap is: Till February: organize money and sponsors, Crowdfunding, continue parallel 3D CAD […]

Saftstraße is a new German Wiki for Open Hardware Components for the utilization of fruits and the produciton of fruit juice. A Juice Press (JE60) (about 100l per hour) was already developed and documented. Next year they will develop pasteurizer (continuous-flow water heater on wood fire). You can register yourself on WikiWoods for the workshop.

The Open Ecology Economy Fair (Offenes Ökologie-Ökonomie-Festival) will be an open decentralized “Guerilla Festival” in Berlin Kreuzberg, near Moritzplatz and Oranienplatz, from 26. – 29. September 2013. We show, develop and test together ideas for an ecologically and economically sustainable future. Become an exhibitor and co-create the program Support and co-develop the fair! Become a […]

Our friends from the OYA magazine along with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ralf Otterpohl from TU Hamburg started a fundraising to open source a soilfeeder pot and a juice extractor. http://www.startnext.de/bodenfuttertopf-und-saftpresse You can see the working mechanism of the soilfeeder pot in Terra Preta Sanitation – 6. Highly productive organic farming. Its principle is introduced by the […]