Open Source Manufacturing Bibliography
From P2P Foundation
A collection of general resources selected by Eric Hunting.
This is a companion page to the directory of Open Source Manufacturing Tools
Contents |
Articles
Selection by Kevin Carson:
- Plowboy Interview," Mother Earth News, March-April 1974: Ralph Borsodi discusses comparative efficiency of household vs. factory production
- Robert Williams, "Bologna and Emilia Romagna: A Model of Economic Democracy," paper presented to the annual meeting of the Canadian Economics Association, University of Calgary. May/June 2002.
- Jed, "Capitalists vs. Entrepreneurs," Anomalous Presumptions, February 26, 2007.
- Charles Johnson, "Dump the rentiers off your back," Rad Geek People's Daily, May 29, 2008: Extremely valuable when read together with Jed. On lower entry costs when many small units of capital can be aggregated with low transaction costs
- Jonathan Rowe, "Entrepreneurs of Cooperation," Yes!, Spring 2006: On direct production for barter during Depression
Also:
- Craig DeLancey, "Openshot," Analog, December 2006, pp. 64-74. Fictional depiction of open-source moon mission
Books
Theory
Books in with favourable arguments and material for distributing production, selected by Kevin Carson:
- Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (Boston, New
York, London: Little, Brown and Company, 1999): Chapter on lean production relevant to networked local economies
- Michael H. Shuman, The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses are Beating the Global Competition (San Francisco: Barrett-Koehler Publications, Inc., 2006, 2007).
- Colin Ward, Anarchy in Action (London: Freedom Press, 1982): Material on community workshops
- Karl Hess, Community Technology (New York, Cambridge, Hagerstown, Philadelphia, San Francisco, London, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Sydney: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1979), pp. 96-98. Material on community workshops
- Keith Paton, The Right to Work or the Fight to Live? (Stoke-on-Trent, 1972). Material on community workshops
- Ralph Borsodi, Flight From the City: On small-scale electrical machinery for household production
- Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization. Ditto, under heading of "neotechnic phase"
Practice
Selected by Eric Hunting:
- Bolo`Bolo - P.M.
- Cohousing - Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett
- How to Survive Without a Salary: Learning How to Live the Conserver Lifestyle - Charles Long
- The Velvet Monkeywrench - John Muir and Peter Aschwanden
- How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive - Muir, Gregg, and Aschwanden
- The Septic System Owner's Manual - Kahn, Allen, Jones, and Aschwanden
- How To Make Your Own Living Structures - Ken Isaacs
- The Box Beam Sourcebook - Richard Jergensen
- Nomadic Furniture 1 & 2 - Hennessey and Papanek
- High-Tech: The Industrial Style and Source Book For the Home - Joan Kron and Suzanne Slesin
- Original Whole Earth Catalog, Special 30th Anniversary Issue - Peter Warshall and Stewart Brand
- Foxfire 1, 2, and 3 - Eliot Wigginton
- The Findhorn Garden - The Findhorn Community and William Irwin Thompson
- Permaculture One and Two - Bill Mollison , David Holmgren
- Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability - David Holmgren
- The Owner-Built Home - Ken Kern
- The Timeless Way of Building - Christopher Alexander
- Ceramic Houses and Earth Architecture: How to Build Your Own - Nader Khalili
- Emergency Sandbag Shelter - Nader Khalili
- Building With Earth - Paulina Wojciechowska
- Earth Construction Handbook: The Building Material Earth in Modern Architecture - Gernot Minke
- Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter - Lloyd Kahn
- Earth Building and the Cob Revival: A Reader - The Cob Cottage Company
- The Cob Builders Handbook - Becky Bee
- The Craft of Modular Post & Beam: Building log and timber homes affordably - James Mitchell
- Low-Cost Pole Building Construction - Ralph Wolfe
- Measure and Construction of the Japanese House - Heino Engel
- Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings - Edward S. Morse
- Independent Builder: Designing & Building a House Your Own Way (Real Goods Independent Living Books) - Sam Clark
- Growing Clean Water : Nature's Solution to Water Pollution - John D. Wolverton and B. C. Wolverton
- How to Grow Fresh Air: 50 House Plants that Purify Your Home or Office - B. C. Wolverton
- Application of vascular aquatic plants for pollution removal, energy and food production in a biological system
(NASA technical memorandum) - B. C Wolverton
- Aquatic plant/microbial filters for treating septic tank effluent - B. C Wolverton
- Aquatic plants for ph adjustment and removal of toxic chemicals and dissolved minerals from water supplies - B. C Wolverton
- Envisioning Information - Edward R. Tufte
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition - Edward R. Tufte
- Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative - Edward R. Tufte
- Structure in Nature is a Strategy for Design - Peter Pearce
- Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop--from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication - Neil Gershenfeld
- Shaping Things - Bruce Sterling
- Design Like You Give a Damn - Architecture for Humanity, Kate Stohr, and Cameron Sinclair
- Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century - Alex Steffen, Al Gore, and Stephan Sagmeister
Magazines
- Make - http://makezine.com/
- Ready Made - http://readymademag.com/blog/
- Desktop Engineering - http://www.deskeng.com/
- NASA Tech Briefs - http://www.techbriefs.com/
- Dwell - http://www.dwell.com/
- Growing Edge - http://www.growingedge.com/magazine/
- Mother Earth News - http://www.motherearthnews.com/
- Robot Magazine - http://www.botmag.com/
Web Sites
Blogs
- Make Blog - http://blog.makezine.com/
- Instructibles - http://www.instructables.com/
- Ready Made Blog - http://readymade.com/blogs/rmblog
- Finkbuilt - http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/
- DIY Life - http://www.diylife.com/
- Fab Prefab - http://www.fabprefab.com/
- BldBlog - http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/
- Apartment Therapy - http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/
- Inhabitat - http://www.inhabitat.com/
- Dezeen - http://www.dezeen.com/
- Design.nl - http://design.nl/
- NotCot - http://www.notcot.org/
- Design Zen - http://designzen.wordpress.com/
- MocoLoco - http://mocoloco.com/
- Treehugger - http://www.treehugger.com/index.php
- Metaefficient - http://www.metaefficient.com/
- Eco-Geek - http://www.ecogeek.org/
- Life @ Arcsanti - http://arcosanti.wordpress.com/
- KurzweilAI.net - http://www.kurzweilai.net/
- Technovelgy - http://www.technovelgy.com/
- Afrigadget - http://www.afrigadget.com/ - A blog showcasing the practical tinkerers, makers, and inventors of Africa.
Other
- Greenpages - http://www.eco-web.com/
- OIKOS Green Building Sources - http://oikos.com/
- Global Eco-Village Network - http://gen.ecovillage.org/
- Earthship Biotecture - http://www.earthship.net/
- Earth-Auroville Labs - http://www.earth-auroville.com/
- Cal-Earth - http://www.calearth.org/
- Arcosanti - http://www.arcosanti.org/
- Foresight Institute - http://www.foresight.org/index.html
- MIT Center for Bits and Atoms - http://cba.mit.edu/
- Biomimicry Institute - http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org/
- Buckminster Fuller Institute - http://bfi.org/
- DaVinci Institute - http://www.davinciinstitute.com/
- Institut für Baubiologie + Oekologie Neubeuern (IBN) - http://www.baubiologie-ibn.de/
- Dave Gingery Publishing (legendary Gingery Machines) - http://www.lindsaybks.com/dgjp/index.html
- Lindsay Technical Books (legendary DIY tech publications) - http://www.lindsaybks.com/index.html
- Small Parts (popular inventors/researcher's supply) - http://www.smallparts.com/
- American Science & Surplus (legendary tech surplus store) - http://www.sciplus.com/
- GripClips - http://shelter-systems.com/gripclips/index.html
- Wood Central woodworker's on-line portal - http://www.woodcentral.com/
- How-To Hydroponics kit plans - http://www.howtohydroponics.com/
- Hydroponics free DIY plans - http://members.mailaka.net/norm34/
- Garden of Delights exotic fruit plants supply - http://www.gardenofdelights.com/default.htm
