By weaving open source permacultural and technological cycles together, Open Source Ecology intends to provide basic human needs while being good stewards of the land, using resources sustainably, and pursuing right livelihood. With the gift of openly shared information, OSE can produce industrial products locally using open source design and digital fabrication. This frees the persons involved from the need to participate in the wasteful resource flows of the larger economy by letting them produce their own materials and components for the technologies they use. They see small, independent, land-based economies as means to transform societies, address pressing world issues, and evolve to freedom.