Greens for Good

Help us deliver important content about decentralized food production, peer production and collaborative entrepreneurship!

Your contributions will sustain content producers to translate our decade-long experience with (material) peer production, with collaborative entrepreneurial practices, into inspiring stories. We will show how all this is applied to food production.

We hope that our stories will inspire you and thousands of other people to take initiative and join a glocal decentralized food production network, to build regenerative and sustainable economies. We also hope to influence developers of p2p technologies to build infrastructure in support of such economic practices.

A portion of your kind contributions will be used for technical development of food processing devices. More details below…

If you cannot support this effort financially, you may want to join the Greens for Good venture, become a content producer yourself or contribute to technical development.

Why this matters?

Open-source software based on open standards has forever changed the world. There is something about the innovation process and the design patterns that are used in open source software development that makes it better, in some sense, than what corporations or universities can produce. Somehow, the crowd got better than a group of carefully selected and well paid top-of-the-class engineers, working in an institutional setting. This is a fact! Most of the Internet runs on open source software and Linux is the only operating system on Mars. This is an inconvenient truth. If innovation is the gold of the knowledge economy and corporations cannot innovate better than the crowd, what is the remaining reason for the existence of corporations? Wait… Bitcoin is not a corporation, it is an open (as in permisisonless) network, and it provides the most secure digital service (at global scale!) the world has ever seen.

So large scale digital services can be offered by open networks. What else open networks can do? It all started with writing software (ex. Linux) and writing an encyclopaedia (ex. Wikipedia). At the turn of the millennium the open source culture spilled into the physical realm and in 2005 the crowd created the first consumer grade 3D printer (RepRap). In 2008 the crowd cleaned up Estonia (see Lets Do it!), which is a country, not a park. In 2011, 3 years after Bitcoin, Sensorica was launched to build the economic foundation for open networks in material peer production.

Greens for Good is an open venture nested within the Sensorica open value network (OVN) environment. It is the latest iteration of Sensorica’s methodology for permissionless collaboration, leveraging social intelligence and stigmergy. But our methodology is still largely based on web2. We are now bridging our tools and methods with web3 and hope to bring Sensorica’s peer production model to the mainstream.

You can be part of this history making journey by supporting the development of Greens for Good. We are using a portion of the funds generated in this campaign to help sustain those involved in the development of hardware (the Greens for Good extruder), as well as in the development of IT infrastructure to support our operations (integration of DeFi and DeCo tools, merging DAO with OVN). Everything we do, hardware and software, is distributed under open source licenses with no restrictions for commercialization.

In fact, by donating to this campaign you are first and foremost supporting the production of content here on Mirror.xyz, which will dive into 3 large topics, projecting our decade long experience with p2p economics.

Greens for Good

Greens for Good, a permissionless enterprise with the mission to develop and disseminate hardware solutions for food sovereignty and sustainability. It runs on seed funding, a pretty good size community around it, and a tested and proven economic model to sustain it in the future.

Imagine a world without hunger. Is this possible in a world where poverty and hunger are systemic? We develop technology to extract proteins from indigenous plants or byproducts of agricultural processes, which we see as a latent nutrient capacity, to bridge current protein demand deficits or during catastrophes. To widely disseminate this food crisis solution, we embed the function of protein extraction into a more generic and extensible food processing hardware platform, which can simultaneously address various labor intensive and repetitive food processing activities (grinding, juice and oil extraction, etc.). This useful and versatile device will be adopted by local communities for sustainable operations, carrying with it the function of leafy biomass protein extraction, which constitutes a latent response capacity in case of a food shortage. We use the extruder design pattern, which is easily extendable to other applications and can be adapted to various economic and entrepreneurial models.

WHY US?

Greens for Good takes a commons-based peer production (CBPP) approach to providing hardware solutions for food processing. More explicitly, the hardware is designed not as a commodity but rather as a commons. In other words, it is not destined as a product to be exchanged on the market, but rather as an open source, DIY device, empowering the poor & underprivileged communities, putting them in control of their food processing means. To sustain the adoption and the use of the Greens for Good hardware solution, we are also implementing ecosystem services to help people around the world find the design of the hardware, learn about how to fabricate it, use and maintain it. These services are built using collaborative entrepreneurship models.

Greens for Good is part of Sensorica, the organization that pioneered the open value network (OVN) model, which is our flavor of CBPP. Sensorica came online in February 2011, and for over a decade has tested and refined its model. Many communities around the world have taken inspiration from Sensorica and many have written about it.

TRANSPARENCY

• Real time data about the venture’s operations are found at Dashboard.
• All knowledge is shared under C.C. license, see document repository.

Token distribution

In exchange for your contribution to this campaign you get $greens, which are tokens that will grant you access to the decision making process for the allocation of the funds that we gather here. You can always join Greens for Good and contribute in other ways, and be part of the governance of the entire venture. Remember, Greens for Good is an open venture :)

20% of all tokens will be minted for contributors to the crowdfunding campaign, which we call Donors or “investors”. Another 20% will be airdropped to partners, 5% to all Sensorica affiliates (contributors to various ventures, projects and small activities) and 35% will be kept in the treasury by the Custodian of the Sensorica OVN, a non-profit organization under the control of network affiliates, to be distributed to contributors to Greens for Good for future work, which is another incentive to develop the food processing extruder and the IT infrastructure. See table below for more details.