About Eco-Libre Team

Eco-Libre was founded in 2023 to enfranchise sustainable communities' human rights with libre technology.

Tax-Deductible Donations (Raft Foundation)

We’re happy to announce that US donors can now make tax-deductible donations to Eco-Libre!

Eco-Libre Tax-Deductible 501(c)(3) Donations

Eco-Libre has partnered with the Raft Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit in NYC, to receive charitable contribution donations from US donors.

About Eco-Libre

Eco-Libre is a volunteer-run project that designs libre technology for sustainable communities.

Eco-Libre’s mission is to research, develop, document, teach, build, and distribute open-source technology that sustainably enfranchises communities’ human rights.

– Eco-Libre’s mission statement

We aim to provide clear documentation to build low-cost machines, tools, and infrastructure for people all over the world who wish to live in sustainable communities with others.

About Raft

Screenshot of the Raft Foundation page on Open Collective, showing many collectives, including Eco-Libre
Eco-Libre is one of 37 different collectives hosted by Raft Foundation

The Raft Foundation is a US-based 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor that brings communities together to support neighbors in need through:

  • collective care,
  • community technology,
  • movement infrastructure, and
  • societal transformation

As a fiscal sponsor, Raft provides administrative services to numerous projects (like us!). This, among other benefits, allows the projects that they sponsor to accept tax-deductible donations, if they align with Raft’s founding principles:

  • Resilience: ‘we will endure together and emerge stronger’
  • Autonomy: ‘each by our own choice’
  • Fullness: ‘toward dreams of abundance’
  • Transparency: ‘with nothing to hide’

We look forward to our partnership with Raft to build libre technology for communities that transform society, making them more resilient, autonomous, and sustainable.

Donate

You can make tax-deductible donations to Eco-Libre in your local fiat or preferred crypto-currency.

eco-libre.org/donate

You can also make tax-deductible cryptocurrency donations directly on raft’s website.

Join Us

If you’d like to help Eco-Libre reach our mission to enfranchise sustainable communities’ human rights with libre technology, please contact us to get involved 🙂

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Life-Line v2025.10 Released

We’re happy to announce the release of the Eco-Libre Life-Line version 2025.10.

Eco-Libre Release Announcement Life-Line v2025.10

This release concludes the manual merge of the contributions from volunteer Jack Nugent. It includes CAD designs for the self-cleaning, raw surface water intake and sphinx documentation.

🛈 Note: Just want to build it?

This article describes a historical "release" of this project (a snapshot in time of our CAD designs and documentation).

If you just want to know how to build it, see the project's documentation

• eco-libre.org/p/life-line

Introduction

Part of the difficulty in completing this merge was the fact that the Eco-Libre Life-Line’s intake system includes expanded metal as a support structure and a fine mesh for preventing debris from entering the raw water intake drum.

Modeling these materials in FreeCAD caused the MemSize to bloat, crashing FreeCAD. In the past month, Eco-Libre founder Michael Altfield published two articles that described the process to isolate these troublesome objects and how to optimize them with a Draft Hatch. These optimizations (as well as simplifying objects like threaded bolts pipes, valves, and steel angle) reduced the total MemSize from 114.8 MB to 1.02 MB.

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2024 Annual Report

This Eco-Libre 2024 Annual Report will discuss the state of the Eco-Libre project at the end of 2024 and the progress we made throughout the year 2024.

Eco-Libre 2024 Annual Report
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Vegan Communities in Ecuador

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This article will list many vegan communities in Ecuador.

[Vegan Communities Map of Ecuador]

If you’re backpacking through Ecuador or you’re looking to move to Ecuador and searching for a like-minded community, this article is for you.

Map of Veg*n Communities in Ecuador

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2023 Annual Report

This Eco-Libre 2023 Annual Report will discuss the state of the Eco-Libre project at the end of 2023 and the progress we made throughout the year 2023.

Eco-Libre 2023 Annual Report
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