Precious Plastic

https://preciousplastic.com/

Precious Plastic exists to reduce plastic waste.
Sometimes we do it through boosting recycling. Sometimes through new biodegradable materials. Some other time by adopting zero waste lifestyles.
Whatever works.

Our solutions see people as the key element to fix the plastic mess.
Precious Plastic approaches count on people to bring about the necessary change.
Small steps, multiplied by millions. That's where we can win our battle.
We don't believe in techno-utopian, fix-it-all, dream technology.

Precious Plastic is a combination of people, machines, platforms and knowledge to create an alternative global recycling system.

Everyone can join the Precious Plastic Universe (yes you too!).
You can go full in and start a Precious Plastic space or support when and how you can.

Peace,
Your Precious Plastic gang 🤙

Open Source Ecology's GVCS

https://www.opensourceecology.org/

An open source, libre economy is an efficient economy which increases innovation by open collaboration. To get there, OSE is currently developing a set of open source blueprints for the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) – a set of the 50 most important machines that it takes for modern life to exist – everything from a tractor, to an oven, to a circuit maker.

In the process of creating the GVCS, OSE intends to develop a modular, scalable platform for documenting and developing open source, libre hardware – including blueprints for both physical artifacts and for related open enterprises.

The current practical implementation of the GVCS is a life size LEGO set of powerful, self-replicating production tools for distributed production. The Set includes fabrication and automated machines that make other machines. Through the GVCS, OSE intends to build not individual machines – but machine construction systems that can be used to build any machine whatsoever. Because new machines can be built from existing machines, the GVCS is intended to be a kernel for building infrastructures of modern civilization.

DIY Book Scanner

https://www.diybookscanner.org/

More infos on the local Library thread.

PirateBox

https://piratebox.cc/

A PirateBox is a portable electronic device, often consisting of a Wi-Fi router and a device for storing information, creating a wireless network that allows users who are connected to share files anonymously and locally. By design, this device is disconnected from the Internet.

Confederika

More infos on the local Confederika thread.

Hackteria

https://www.hackteria.org/

Hackteria is an international network active since 2009 in the field of Open Source Biological Art. As a community platform, Hackteria tries to encourage the collaboration of scientists, hackers and artists to combine their expertise, write critical and theoretical reflections, share simple instructions to work with lifescience technologies and cooperate on the organization of workshops, temporary labs, hack-sprints and meetings. Hackteria is a network of people practicing DIY (Do It Yourself) and DIWO (Do It With Others) biology with an interest in art, design and interdisciplinary cooperation.

Hackteria operates on a global scale and is based on a web platform and a wiki for sharing knowledge, which enable anyone to learn but also test different ways of hacking living systems.

Hackteria is not based in a physical space and its goal is to allow artists, scientists and hackers to collaborate and test various biohacking and bioart techniques outside the official laboratories and art institutions, basically anywhere in the world.