Some items of interest on the road to becoming super-empowered:
- DIY hydroponic window farms. Leveraging windows (which is of particular use in urban settings) for food production. An example Bruce Sterling calls favela chic -- an oxymoron that's an appropriate description of cultural methodologies that are essential to completely bypassing the impact of perpetual global depression/breakdown.
- Easy to use cutting machine for local fabrication (extremely slick commercialization of one of the tools needed):
- Rob Hopkins releases the initial results of a "Transition towns" analysis on the ability of a town to "feed" itself. Nice use of Google maps to map local arable land and food footprints.
- DIYbio. A DIY project to create a professional grade machine for Gel electrophoresis (a commonly used tool in microbiology) for only a couple hundred $$. (wonky -- merely an example of high end bio-engineering that can be done in a local setting for low $$).
- More en route.
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