Funding the revolution:SavagedEdenDesigns mission statment.

There is a lot of data that has been collected over the last 30+ years on the advantages of organics vs conventional farming. A lot of this information remained buried in an ocean of research; often these only contain pieces of the puzzle. What is needed is to gather an unprecedented amount of data, and present it in a useful way that will serve the layman and scientist equally.

One if the issues I have felt was an obstacle to my plans has been ensuring funding, without the risk of selling out. Becoming contaminated by money from corporate sources that might pressure the team to skew the research. The initial expense will of course be the land itself. Followed by living expenses for the research team and their families. Also the cost of computers, power, net access, and other equipment can not be forgotten. 

My previous idea was to start off with a small market garden that could bring in capitals with a modest investment. This would allow for a mushroom lab. Once the mushroom lab is up and running it will create a new market, at the same time. Using the proceeds from mushroom farming investments in aquaponics greenhouses provide enough revenue to facilitate larger scale projects such as food forests. 

Now in order to facilitate gathering of data a network of wifi cameras can take time laps pictures and if it detects motion, full video. This will help to show any animal interactions tracing their movements through the system. It will also ensure wifi coverage for researchers devices so they can record their actions and notes on site.

Now we get to the new factor that will help to accelerate this whole program. Forming a non-profit organization creates digital of overlays of the research properties so that people can see the gardens grow and have access to all the scientific data. This way we can proof once in for all that permaculture really does work. Such overlays would allow multiple revenue streams coming from online sources scientific data would be free but the full on 3d live feed can be accessed for a small fee or possibly AD space or internal commodity could provide needed funding. This would allow not only spectators or immersion meeting places ala second life, but also allow users to create simulations of what they would do with an area of the properties mapped. From there the best land use could be implemented or the designer given grants/start up/buy in opportunities to come out and build their fleshed out dreams and take part in this culture building experience. The internal economy can be driven by upgrades in avatars abilities suck as flight run or mounts to move around the digital system, higher storage capacity, and more detailed simulations.

As mentioned before studying animal interactions will be an integral part of this process. GPS radio tagging of some specimens would allow them to have a solid presence in the online world. Whereas animal interactions from those not tagged,but detected on camera would be more less solid and more wrath like as they move from gamers grid to camera grid.

Additionally we could sell drones and networking equipment to expand to new nodes. This equipment could be subsidized by the online project with an agreement that they honour commitments to the ideas of the networks. Such an arrangement would allow for as much data as possible to be gained quickly.

If you have read this far you must have some interest in this project. If you would like to be included in the project from the ground up please email me@ or comment below. This is a long term project in the early planning stages. I expect at minimum five years of planning and development before we can begin coding.
Namaste
   Adam Overman</p>