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Illumine Lingao aka Morning Star of Lingao, is a Chinese time travel novel.
In the story, more than 500 people from early-21st-century China intentionally travel back in time to the late Ming dynasty in 1628 AD. Settling in Lingao County on the island of Hainan, the time travelers set out to establish an industrialized society and change the course of history.
The work is crowd-authored by hundreds of netizens and praised for its realistic depictions of how to bootstap an industrial civilization from scratch.
ALLFED also works on resilience (or at least recovery) of industrial civilization, such as here and here.
Thanks for these pointers! I'm glad to see ALLFED's work in resilience/recovery of industrial civilization.
I'm curious whether ALLFED has interest or plans to expand into practical work on non-food needs - building prototypes, testing ideas, etc. (Please don't take this as criticism - I know there's a lot to do and we need to prioritize.) Are we mainly limited by people, by funding, by ideas, by organization, or by something else?
As an example of practical work, one of your links refers to Open Source Ecology, which is working toward prototypes of low-dependency machines - though their vision seems to also include other philosophy that goes beyond a recovery strategy.
So far, we have been mostly leveraging other people's experiments. But once we find the holes, with additional funding, we do want to do more experimental work. Since that nonfood need paper was published, we have started a project on seeing if it is feasible to build a lot of wood gasifiers in a catastrophe, which were used to convert gasoline/petrol/diesel vehicles to wood power in World War II. Indeed, Open Source Ecology has looked into wood gasification, but they are not really focused on the scenario of global catastrophe.