Title: SolaRoofDIY
Location:
Global
Categories: Health
Environment
Education
Status:
In Planning
Timeline:
January 11 11 to November 11 11
Description:
SolaRoof DIY is the OpenSource movement to enable people everywhere to build solar greenhouses that produce abundant food, water and energy in all climates, providing secure food from the backyard. In the industrialized countries, where families are ever more dependent on ever less secure food supplies from great distance and where many consumers wish to be more self-reliant, the DIYFood Campaign is a backyard movement for "grow your own food". In developing countries that are specially challenged by Climate Change, DIYFood is a humanitarian initiative to plant the seed of sustainable, self-reliant living and support green growth that is a foundation for building resilient and prosperous families and communities.
Background:
Inventor, Richard Nelson has established the SolaRoof as an OpenSource collaborative community more than a decade ago. Under our Creative Commons Public License, the SolaRoof is FREE for non-commercial use - including DIY, education, research and humanitarian - and commercial users are asked to PayItForward by contribution to the DIYFood Campaign and humanitarian DIYFood projects for local, sustainable and nutritious fresh food.
Objectives:
1. Inspire individual action and family projects to build DIYFood projects all around the world.
2. Support collaboration and sharing of experience and best practices by DIYers as the global community is adopted in various cultures and climates.
3. Encourage local action and cooperation among the user community and the growth of a Social Enterprise Network formed by members who educate and train and provide services and technical support, and supporting sales of the DIYKit greenhouse produced by the SolaRoofCoop.
4. Collective action by members to establish COOP manufacturing by the SolaRoofCoop that empowers access to key components direct from wholesale manufacturers.
Milestones:
1. Establish 350 operational DIYFood sites that will participate in a global 11th Hour awareness event on 11.11.11
2. Viral growth of a global DIY community using OpenSource information and transformational social networks.
3. Establish the first activity of the Social Enterprise Network by forming cooperative clusters of EnterpriseMembers
4. Establish the first business activity of SolaRoofCoop for manufacture of key components of a DIYKit for backyard greenhouse projects and larger family farm and community based DIYFood.
Budget:
DIYFood is a technology based solution for abundant food that is grown continuously and harvested daily in all seasons and climate extreme. It requires capital investment that is reasonably low since our technology uses simple, cost-effective solutions that are within easy reach of DIY, where much of the labor of construction and assembly is contributed by the project owners.
Working with used and recycled material, it is possible to build a DIYFood project for $1000 to $2000 and the DIYKit that shall become available through the COOP will be all new material and cost about $2000. This is a current estimate that will be refined by feedback from the DIY community and our experience with current startup of the SolaRoofCoop in Quebec. About $10,000 will go into the first production model and then about $50,000 for the first 10 demonstration projects.
In America and Europe I expect DIYers will spent $5000 or more, especially considering the typical level of growing - such as aquaponic systems - that the enthusiast who wants the most from the investment of money and time.
Needs:
Primarily what is needed is participation:
1. Anyone can register to join the SolaRoof community.
2. The next step is more engagement, learning and participation which is available to all Members, for example:
This leads to action, which is to build or support for a group that is building a DIYFood project. This is a step that is transformational and require take a much time and learning and preparation. Seeing and using other DIYFood projects belonging to friends, other members and Enterprise Members and learning opportunities available to the SolaRoofDIY Members.
3. Community Members can also become COOPMembers and those who participate in the COOP will first teach and practice self-help to transition to self-reliant living, since this is a lifestyle challenge that builds new friends and skills. COOPMembers join a transformational social network - building a project is not an immediate requirement but COOP membership provides access to the DIYKit products and COOP services and support.
4. Any COOPMember can participate as an EnterpriseMember, after building a demonstration DIYFood project and obtaining certification from the COOP.
5. All DIYers and the COOP and other commercial SolaRoof users are invited to participate in delivering and supporting humanitarian DIYFood projects, through PayItForward contributions giving of our time and personal energy.
Contact Name: Richard Nelson
Contact Email Address: solaroof@gmail.com
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