#project kamp

[idasecoliving]

Cool use of aluminium cans as a roofing material! I'll be keen to see how it works in the long term - I can imagine possum claws in Australia making holes, but perhaps not. Very cool design process and beautiful execution!

[sumpix]

Project Kamp

https://projectkamp.com/index.html

https://projectkamp.com/support.html

Our mission (something like that👆)

We humans have developed many incredible things that have become part of our daily lives. But in the last decade we became very aware of the impact that all our development has had on the planet.  Minerals mined,  forest chopped down, oceans over fished and our stable climate is changing. The ecosystem on earth is showing the consequences. 
Many of us are aware of the problems. We are even aware of the painful truth that we personally contribute to them. Just living our daily lives in our developed system, makes us part of the problem. And generally the more developed countries obtain the more resources they need to sustain. It feels nearly impossible to try and find a solution for this complex issue. That said. We have faith in mankind's ability to learn and improve.

We are going to prototype another way of living. Stuff like building houses from natural materials and eating local food. But one core fundamental difference with today's world is that we are going to build life around a community, not an individual. This makes it easier to share utilities and resources. As a result, owning less stuff. It provides stronger social connection, deeper bonds and less depression. And united together in a  community we can take on bigger missions, like regenerating or protecting land.  

We believe the future of mankind is in communities, but we are not sure. That's why we are going to give it a try. We bought a piece of land and are turning it into a big research centre to explore this topic. And now we are documenting everything we learn Open Source. So if we find a model that works, it could scale globally.

It’s a big mission, and we are just getting started. :)

All our electricity is generated off grid

we focus on local food supplies grown in the right way

We prototype new technology in our workspace

we document everything open source. So others can replicate

we build with biodegradable and recycled materials

We live and work together to build a future world

[baathos]

Project Kamp - 20-10-25

[unreversedumbrella]

i was showing a project kamp video to my father because i thought it was a mildly interesting thing beeing done here in portugal and we see a guy talking about planning car trips to buy stuff so they can try to use less fuel and reduce their carbon footprint. as soon as we see the guy get in the car the first thing my father said was "that is one of the most polluting cars you can have"

[ranocchiasimpatica]

ok, so i wanted to do the follow up to my first precious plastic post in an amazing way, written super well, in perfect english etc etc etc but i realized that i really wanted to talk about it as a project because i think it's really cool and i also realized that i'm not a journalist or whatever and this is a tumblr post so i can write however i want because there are no expectations yuhu so here i come

Precious Plastic:

as i have already mentioned it is a project to increase plastic recycling. i don't know how to put it well into words so here are some of the best videos that explain what they do:

This is the launch video for the version 4 of their machines. Basically, the project started in 2013 with Dave Hakkens form the Netherlands designing some machines to recycle plastic "at home" - what i mean is that they're pretty affordable and can be operated by one person meaning that anyone with a relatively small investment can set up a small workshop where they make their own recycled products. The machines were upgraded many times and the last version was version 4, that was announced at the end of 2020.

This one is the video they made for their 10 years anniversary. It contains a better recap of their history (what i just wrote about) and it's a nice introduction to their work i'd say.

BUT! -you will ask me- what do they have that is special? we hear about plastic recycling all the time. why do you think they are worth our attention?? why do you put the solarpunk tag when talking about them?

i think it's the principles and the values that guide the project that make it different, and this is shown in the best part of the precious plastic designs: they are totally OPEN SOURCE!

this means that all of the work that they did is up on the internet, accessible to everybody, FOR FREE! and well to make it pretty simple free stuff is the opposite of capitalism.

for example, this is the link with all the instructions to build a plastic shredder:

https://community.preciousplastic.com/academy/build/shredder

and no, it's not just the designs. they also made tutorials and clear instructions, plus they have info on how to create a business, and a lot more.

this is also a project that is helped by the members of the community themselves, the small recyclers (i don't know how it is called, maybe bottom-up participation???): on the community page, anybody can share how they built their own machines, or share a new mould they deigned for a product. The knowledge is shared by everybody, for everybody.

https://community.preciousplastic.com/how-to (community page)

for the casual enjoyers/supporters there is a discord community:

https://discord.com/invite/wMJHykrk4k

and obviously the youtube channel, where they post weekly videos visiting all of the workshops around the world (the last ones were in italy, but they visited workshops in south and central america, in kenya, in indonesia, and many other places).

https://www.youtube.com/@Precious_Plastic

Realistically, i personally do not believe that small sale recycling can be the final solution to the plastic pollution problem. I haven't fully elaborated an opinion on it, but in general i think that the solution would come by starting to consider plastic waste as a resource, almost like a prime source, and ditch oil completely, so that we can keep using plastic where it is necessary (sanitary field for hygene, other examples don't come to mind) but using only recycled one (is it possible? i should educate myself a bit more and then i'll tell you), and this change has to happen on a big industrial level.

But you know what i also think? this kind of change can happen only if we perceive recycled plastic as a valuable material, as the normal kind of plastic, and that's precisely what Precious Plastic does. by making the recycling accessible and making it a tangible experience (there are TONS of educational project that were born from their machines), it creates a virtuous cycle in which we consider recycling the norm, and using virgin plastic the weird thing.

So yeah, i think that's it for today. obviously the precious plastic team is amazing in any possible way aand is part of a bigger project that tackles creating a sustainable world in general called one army (a big lovely peaceful solidal community), and project kamp is another of their cool things they are doing, but i'll talk about that another time. i hope this was a readable post and that it made sense. cheers!