Contributions
Louis-David Benyayer
OPEN MODELS FOR SUSTAINABILITY

OPEN MODELS FOR SUSTAINABILITY

Challenge

By Louis-David Benyayer 2004 days ago

Contributors links

http://www.poc21.cc/
POC21 is an international innovation community, that started as an innovation camp. The camp brought together 100+ makers, designers, engineers, scientists and geeks. Late summer 2015, we have joined forces in a stunning french castle to prototype the fossil free, zero waste society. Our ultimate goal was to overcome the destructive consumer culture and make open-source, sustainable products the new normal. Over the course of 5 weeks we developed 12 sustainable lifestyle technologies and built an international community of innovators and supporters, that continues to grow.
http://opensourceecology.org/
Open Source Blueprints for DIY Civilization. We’re developing open source industrial machines that can be made for a fraction of commercial costs, and sharing our designs online for free. The goal of Open Source Ecology is to create an open source economy – an efficient economy which increases innovation by open collaboration.

What if open business models fostered ecological transition ?

What are we talking about

In many sectors or industries, open models gain traction, with positive consequences in terms of innovation and access to knowledge. However, the positive environnemental effects of such models are taken for granted without considering the negative effects (open source SUV) or rebound effects.

This project will :

analyse the open models that explicitly target positive ecological effects
identify the main contribution of open models to sustainability and the conditions for their scalability