Michel, without having read all of the article, it seems to focus on two things: - power usage - material consumption We are spoiled with (more or less) cheap energy from big power utilities, so we have become dependent on them. A P2P-oriented society in my opinion should focus a lot on distributed sustainable energy (I know this is somehow obvious to most here but needs to be re-stated in order to address the issues in the article). Also, power should be devoted to things we want, and waste minimized. With that in mind I think the power problem can be addressed. For materials, there are two tackling strategies I like a lot: - Additive 3D printing, which doesn't generate a lot of waste - Biodegradable materials. This is something I am personally very interested, and I am dreaming of a project which would produce biodegradable source material (probably PLA) for 3D printers. This could be researched in emerging bioeconomy processes. Just a few ideas (nothing new really) about how to steer digital manufacturing to sustainable paths. 2014-05-07 9:32 GMT-05:00 Michel Bauwens <[email protected]>:
this is a must read for our community:
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2014/03/how-sustainable-is-digital-fabricatio...
Kevin, could you print this out for me, I want to give this a serious read ?
Michel
-- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..*
P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net
<http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens
#82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/
_______________________________________________ P2P Foundation - Mailing list http://www.p2pfoundation.net https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation