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Transition Engineering is a key part of smoothing the transition from a high speed, high energy, high impact economy to a slower, lower energy, low impact economy.
Transition engineering enables change from unsustainable existing systems to more sustainable ones. Sustainability is built into all stages of the engineering process. Transition engineering is a cross-disciplinary field that addresses the issues of future resource availability and identifies solutions which promote resilience and design simplicity.
As described by Open Source Ecology "the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is an open technological platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small civilization with modern
"Open licensing allows others to replicate, reuse, adapt, improve, adopt, bring to scale, write about, talk about, remix, translate, digitize, redistribute and build upon what we have done." - Shuttleworth Foundation.