Towards Radical Sustainabilty

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  • Bridges to Brandenburg

    This is an experiment towards a new internet based mode of establishing organic (real world) growth and engagement of social networks. Our approach nurtures independent nodes in making opportunistic connections via search and discovery of one another via online “bridges.” EOTL is currently prototyping a model in Berlin and the surrounding countryside of Brandenburg. While we have a few more aspects that we hope to incorporate in the coming months, for now this initiative consists of the two simple components: ... Read More

  • 1.5 Years Later, The Toughie Bag

    It has been very long time since our last update. It would be easy to assume EOTL was defunct and to relegated to that great archive.org in the ether. We are happy to report this is not the case. We are alive, and overall well. Apologies for our silence. Since our last update, we have been busy, very busy in so many ways it would be hard to recap here.. Some of this is evidenced on other websites, projects, and in physical world. ... Read More

  • Happy Birthday Toughie

    On this day five years ago the Toughie frog, who has kind of become our mascot, breathed his last breath. Identificator In the book The Sun Is Also a Star the author beautifully paraphrases Carl Sagan’s famous quite: “if you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe” with the following words: “If you want to make an apple pie from nothing at all, you have to start with the Big Bang and expanding universes, neutrons, ions, atoms, black holes, suns, moons, ocean tides, the Milky Way, Earth, evolution, dinosaurs, extinction- level events, platypuses, Homo erectus, Cro- Magnon man, etc. ... Read More

  • We Have a Cloud

    In order to make collaborating over the internet easier Go to EOTL Cloud If you could make use of cloud space and want to collaborate with EOTL, get in touch: chat@eotl.supply Read More

  • Zero-Waste Neighbors & Herbie Unverpackt

    If you’ve tried living zero-waste with any serious commitment for any length of time, you have probably encountered that it is difficult. For many people it is more time consuming and laborius than normal shopping. Convenience culture For Neighbors & Friends EOTL was conceived with the idea of making zero-waste living easier. Have cargo bike, help your neighbors Collective Bulk Ordering Read More

  • Hackthons.Architecture.Code

    As 2020 nears the longest day of the year, it is important to document where the software systems we have been working on are at and our next steps for getting to an alpha version of a functioning radically sustainable logistics operation. The following is flow-chart of roughly what we envision. To explain the numbers in the image above- consider this one sustainable logistics cycle for the use case of food and household item delivery. ... Read More

  • We Have a Wiki

    After discussing ideas like urban farming, DIY water filtration systems, tortilla manufacturing, and ways to deal with the upcoming economic hardship brought on by the coronavirus- a computer-inclined friend of EOTL suggested establishing a wiki and graciously offered to set it up and pay for hosting server. Check out the wiki: See the EOTL Wiki The wiki will used as a place to collect various ideas, documentation, links, and tutorials for our local (Berlin) community, as well as hopefully help the broader global zero-waste movement. ... Read More

  • Establishing our Verein

    Since early 2019 many discussions have been had between programmers, designers, artists, bike couriers, tax advisors, restaurants, cafes, and other sustainability minded folks. In order to take EOTL to the next level of existence so it can achieve its goals we have decided to establish a German organization known as a eingetragener Verein (e.V.) or a Registered Association in English. When December 2, 2019 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM Where The location of our founding meeting will be at a community garden close to the iconic Berlin landmark Checkpoint Charlie. ... Read More

  • A Zero-Waste Catering Experiment

    Our friends who run the fantastic Disruption Network Lab were throwing a small office opening party. We proposed doing a zero-waste catering experiment for the event and they were open to the idea. What is zero-waste catering you ask? Well, the concept is very simple and like normal catering, except at the end of the night there is zero-waste to take out except alcohol bottles. More specifically, the steps we followed was: ... Read More

  • Software Demo For FoodFairies

    As a follow up to last months platform cooperatives meetup, we wanted to demonstrate the current state of our software to the newly forming courier collective the Food Fairies. Many restaurants require printers to hand off receipts of orders to their kitchens. Given our mission of sustainability, Christopher hacked together this solution that repurposed an old tablet and printer that a restaurant had previously used when working with Deliveroo. The solution worked quite well. ... Read More

  • Platform Coops Meetup At Supermarkt

    Towards our goal of developing open source tools to empower groups and individuals to collaborate in radically sustainable ways, we were curious to hear the news that corporate owned food delivery company Deliveroo suddendly shuttered it’s Berlin branch a couple months previously. With Deliveroo’s departure, multiple food courier collectives started forming. When analyzing the various courier collectives and how they operate, each has different needs and concerns- cramming everyone under the same roof of one software configuration feels wrong. ... Read More

  • ZER0-WASTE Kitchen

    Along with your bathroom and laundry room, your kitchen is likely the most trash generating room in your house. Thus is it perhaps the important thing to focus on while transitioning to a ZER0-WASTE lifestyle. Thus, we have created this poster to hang on your door or wall of your kitchen to let people who come to your house know that you are commited to living sustainably and stopping mass extinction. ... Read More

  • Five Essential Items Survey

    To better understand what food and household items people need regulary which produce waste, we created this brief five question survey. We distributed this in person during conversations, as well as leaving at various community spaces like cafes, bars, hackerspaces, etc… This survey has been running via in person paper forms since July, 2019. It has been very helpful to our understanding of the zero-waste problem space. You can view a live visualization of the results below: ... Read More

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If you find radically sustainable logistics and creating systems for non-traditional economic activity an interesting endeavour- we'd love to talk and have you on board. We accept volunteer effort, but also have some budget for hiring contractors.

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We host all our open-source code for our software, designs, and other creative output on the Berlin based Git forge Codeberg which is a non-profit registered organization and is finanally supported by it's userbase.

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