Thanks for these pointers! I’m glad to see ALLFED’s work in resilience/​recovery of industrial civilization.
I’m curious whether ALLFED has interest or plans to expand into practical work on non-food needs—building prototypes, testing ideas, etc. (Please don’t take this as criticism—I know there’s a lot to do and we need to prioritize.) Are we mainly limited by people, by funding, by ideas, by organization, or by something else?
As an example of practical work, one of your links refers to Open Source Ecology, which is working toward prototypes of low-dependency machines—though their vision seems to also include other philosophy that goes beyond a recovery strategy.
So far, we have been mostly leveraging other people’s experiments. But once we find the holes, with additional funding, we do want to do more experimental work. Since that nonfood need paper was published, we have started a project on seeing if it is feasible to build a lot of wood gasifiers in a catastrophe, which were used to convert gasoline/​petrol/​diesel vehicles to wood power in World War II. Indeed, Open Source Ecology has looked into wood gasification, but they are not really focused on the scenario of global catastrophe.
ALLFED also works on resilience (or at least recovery) of industrial civilization, such as here and here.
Thanks for these pointers! I’m glad to see ALLFED’s work in resilience/​recovery of industrial civilization.
I’m curious whether ALLFED has interest or plans to expand into practical work on non-food needs—building prototypes, testing ideas, etc. (Please don’t take this as criticism—I know there’s a lot to do and we need to prioritize.) Are we mainly limited by people, by funding, by ideas, by organization, or by something else?
As an example of practical work, one of your links refers to Open Source Ecology, which is working toward prototypes of low-dependency machines—though their vision seems to also include other philosophy that goes beyond a recovery strategy.
So far, we have been mostly leveraging other people’s experiments. But once we find the holes, with additional funding, we do want to do more experimental work. Since that nonfood need paper was published, we have started a project on seeing if it is feasible to build a lot of wood gasifiers in a catastrophe, which were used to convert gasoline/​petrol/​diesel vehicles to wood power in World War II. Indeed, Open Source Ecology has looked into wood gasification, but they are not really focused on the scenario of global catastrophe.