Village OS: AI For Sustainable Living
What if a neighborhood could think, heal, and feed itself? We sit down with James Ehrlich of Stanford to unpack Village OS, a generative AI platform that designs resilient communities by starting with a simple question: what does the land want? From the urban edge of Riyadh to peri-urban sites worldwide, James shows how geospatial data, climate histories, hydrology, and cultural patterns come together to shape housing, farms, energy, and mobility as one living system.
We trace James’s path from early game design and digital effects into the world of eco-villages and permaculture, where taste…
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