{"id":133066,"key":"Eco-Libre","title":"Eco-Libre","latest":{"id":1263301,"timestamp":"2026-09-02T16:09:57Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"[[File:Eco-libre text-logo-2025.08 1600.png|alt=[Eco-Libre]|thumb|150x150px|Eco-Libre]]\n\n{{Organization data\n| founded = 2023\n| founders = User:Maltfield\n| website = https://www.eco-libre.org/\n| active = Yes\n| location = Quito, Ecuador\n}}\n\n'''Eco-Libre''' is a volunteer-run project that designs libre technology for sustainable communities.\n\n<blockquote>\nEco-Libre’s mission is to research, develop, document, teach, build, and distribute open-source technology that sustainably enfranchises communities’ human rights.\n</blockquote>\n\n== Projects ==\n\nEco-Libre publishes designs and build instructions for many different ''projects'' to help sustainable communities thrive.\n\n=== Life-Line ===\n\n[[File:Life-line-2025-10-released cad1.jpg|alt=Screenshot of a CAD diagram, showing a weir flowing into a blue drum cut in half with two screens ontop of it and two pipes coming out of it|left|thumb|200x200px|Eco-Libre Life-Line v2025.10]]\n\nDesigns for an off-grid community's water system.\n\n* https://eco-libre.org/p/life-line\n\n<br style=\"clear:both;\" />\n\n=== Launch-Nest ===\n\nDesigns for a 5-story building that's designed to house 30 people in a small, off-grid community.\n\n* https://github.com/Eco-Libre/launch-nest\n\n=== Treasure-Tower ===\n\nZero-waste recycling station with humanure dry composting toilets, urine collection, hand washing stations, and storage for anaerobic decomposition of human waste.\n\n* https://github.com/Eco-Libre/treasure-tower\n\n=== Genesis-Booth ===\n\nSimple storage shed with >1 kW of PV solar panels on the roof.\n\n* https://github.com/Eco-Libre/genesis-booth\n\n{{Page data\n| keywords = open hardware, eco-libre, life-line, water\n| description = Appropedia shares how Eco-Libre designs open-source appropriate technology to research, develop, document, teach, build, and distribute open-source technology that sustainably enfranchises communities’ human rights\n| authors = Maltfield\n}}\n\n[[Category:Sustainability organizations]]\n[[Category:Open hardware]]\n[[Category:Water treatment]]\n[[Category:Water filters]]\n[[Category:Technology]]\n[[Category:Ecuador]]\n[[Category:Latin America]]"}