as an introduction see green open hardware

I wouldn't like to dedicate too much time to discussing technical problems with monetary system majority of people cultivates nowadays, rather focus on various alternatives we have alerady available or under development. For 'big picture' overview of monetary system you can watch those documentaries, they somehow repeat same thing but in a different way:

NOTE: I definitely don't want to drift into talking about any conspiracy theories if someone gets impression any of those videos suggesting them, rather would encourage everyone to focus on issues with: fractional reserves, principal/interest, money 'creation' mechanisms etc.

The Money Fix

http://www.themoneyfix.org/

Money as Debt

http://www.moneyasdebt.net/

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5352106773770802849

Zeitgeist Addendum

I wouldn't like to dedicate too much time to discussing technical problems with monetary system majority of people cultivates nowadays, rather focus on various alternatives we have alerady available or under development. For 'big picture' overview of monetary system you can watch those documentaries, they somehow repeat same thing but in a different way:

NOTE: I definitely don't want to drift into talking about any conspiracy theories if someone gets impression any of those videos suggesting them, rather would encourage everyone to focus on issues with: fractional reserves, principal/interest, money 'creation' mechanisms etc.

The Money Fix

http://www.themoneyfix.org/

Money as Debt

http://www.moneyasdebt.net/

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5352106773770802849

Zeitgeist Addendum

http://zeitgeistmovie.com/

• HOMEGROWN-GEORGSWERDER Strategien zur Entwicklung einer autarken Siedlerstruktur - Diplomarbeit als städtebauliches Entwicklungskonzept einer autarken Wohnsiedlung

Introduction to sewage treatment, waste water wetland (WP)

• Put a chicken in your tank: "You just put about three buckets of manure into a sealed oil drum. Put a small oil heater under the drum to keep the manure at a steady 80 degrees. There are two microbes in the manure which, when heated, eat each other - this produces the gas. You can collect the gas in bottles or in plastic balloons for storage. Then all you do is feed the methane through an adapter into your carburetor - and you've got chicken power. I keep replenishing my manure supply.

There are some small scale companies offering to build up a wood pile for water heating and gas production in the german speaking area of austria, swiss and germany. The principle is to use the compost warmth and the produced methane during anaerobe digestion in the inside for heating, cooking and even to fuel your car if you wish.

http://zinelibrary.info/files/Marginal%20Notes-%20READ.pdf

Written in 1990 it mentions this event at Timisoara which I had not come across before:

http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/timisoara-massacre/

Pretty heavy. The last section of the Agamben essay - titled Tiananmen - is particularly interesting given the prescience he attributes to Debord throughout the text and given the backdrop of Occupy to the classes.

I enjoyed this class and would like to continue it at some stage.

English may be used in the course as well. I suggest we may read sth out of the following: