We all can see the remarkable positive effect on well being that fresh air brings, by going outside or opening a window.  In winter we can briefly see this by opening a window or stepping outside.  It's quite significant - we can talk about CO2 levels and VOCs and pariticulates, pthalates, allergens and bioeffluents.  And this is very important, to have the science, to be sure, to notice things we can't observe directly easily.

But the sum of it all can be observed, on one level, very easily; there is no need to actually wait for science to tell us clean air is important to our well being.  The quality of the air we breathe clearly and quite significantly, compared to other factors in our lives, affects sleep quality, concentration, and many other aspects of well-being, and the science agrees well with this observation.

We cannot continue to just burn vast amounts of fossil fuel to heat clean incoming air and then just expel this heat into the great outdoors all winter.

Based in the tiny town of Cornwall, Ontario, OpenERV is a radical departure from conventional approaches to engineering and business in several ways.  We have embarked on trying something really different - localized, micro scale production of high quality equipment to directly improve quality of life.  Buckminster Fuller called this "livingry", and I am a big fan of Bucky.  I'm also a big fan of Carl Sagan's ideas, and that whole crowd.

We are inspired by companies like Prusa and Farmbot, as well as undertakings like the Laseraur project, and the Raspberry Pi Foundation.  So much great stuff is being done, and the world is ready for change.  I am a veteran of Open Source Ecology.

About 20% of all global greenhouse gas emissions are caused by the ventilation of buildings.  Theoretically, most of that can be saved with energy recovery ventilators.

We are committed to offering truly sound propositions, free of planed obsolescence, which empower our customers on a level that in unparalleled and unachievable through conventional means.  We embrace not only Open Source, but also a different production approach, a different business approach, a different strategy.

  Gravity is extremely weak, and yet rules the cosmos - because it always adds up. Open source is similar. It's very slow to get rolling, but it has great power.  Let us be wise and steer well, be kind, explore and stay open. 

-Anthony Douglas, Founder.