I was born in 1972. I live in London. I occasionally teach meditation.
I am working on a massively collaborative book,
The Future We Deserve, which is about the role of collaboration in creating the future of the human species.
I am a partner at
Buttered Side Down - a historic risk management consultancy focusing on systemic risks like state failure and economic collapse.
You can
contact me by email. The following is a cross-section of my work.
Enabling Survival
Hexayurt - the world's cheapest, most durable emergency shelter. Free/open source.
Six Ways To Die - a simple, easy to remember model for managing personal risk. Used by the STAR-TIDES program.
STAR-TIDES - US National Defense University humanitarian technology program. (founding member)
Defense Horizons #70 - "STAR-TIDES and Starfish Networks: Supporting Stressed Populations with Distributed Talent" on decentralized disaster response for the prestigious US National Defense University Center for Technology and National Security Policy series. (co-author)
Networked domestic disaster response - rehousing after "whole city" disasters like nuclear terrorism. Well reviewed by relevant authorities.
Severe Pandemic Flu Strategies - the only non-classified work done on dealing with H5N1 bird flu if it goes pandemic at its full (
60%) case fatality rate.
Access to Resources
Global Swadeshi - the world's largest social network for appropriate technology activists. The Guardian newspaper recently
featured me as a Swadeshi advocate in a video interview. (I appear about half way through)
Small is Profitable - The Economist's Book of the Year 2003, on decentralized energy economics. (editorial team)
Winning the Oil Endgame - Pentagon-funded study on getting the US to zero oil consumption in 20 years. (co-editor)
The Future of Poverty/
Ending Poverty with Open Hardware/
Soft Development Paths - a local infrastructure and networked education plan for global poverty alleviation.
Managing States
Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps - a simple and coherent model for mapping critical situations, from individual survival to state failure.
Hexayurt Country - a national reconstruction plan for Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.
State in a Box: Identity Services Architecture/
CheapID - a genocide resistant biometrics standard particularly suitable for implementation in failed states. Focuses on providing identity services to combat poverty, not just security. Written for the Office of the Secretary of Defense with National Security Agency oversight.
The Living City - urban resilience models and philosophy, commissioned by Arup.
Institute for Collapsonomics - a working group on the theory and practice behind managing massive economic contractions. (founding member)