Edmund Harriss has solved a problem I’ve been working on off-and-on for nearly 15 years. This is splendid. Back in 1995 or so I was challenged with reducing the waste involved in making geodesic domes for Worldview Livingspace a nascent dome company. I couldn’t get the waste below about 25% because of the poor fit [...]
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Large hexayurt-style domes – a problem solved
by Vinay Gupta • May 15, 2010 • Everything Else • 13 Comments
The imperialists of the future are imperialists of the mind
by Vinay Gupta • May 3, 2010 • Everything Else • 3 Comments
in a page is a seven essay collection describing our global situation from different perspectives. Here’s a taste. We have a serious problem. Communism leads to genocide. But Capitalism leads to ecocide. Our models of wealth are so broken that high tech societies of all kinds are inoperable on the long scale. The robo-nano-bio revolution [...]
Read more →Black Elephants and Skull Jackets – The Dark Mountain
by Vinay Gupta • May 2, 2010 • Everything Else • 3 Comments
This is the interview with me that Dougald Hine did for the Dark Mountain book. Just hit “fullscreen” on the box below to read it. Dougald Hine | Black Elephants and Skull Jackets | A Conversation with Vinay Gupta This is the infamous skull jacket. You can see it in action at the Reykjavik Briefing. [...]
Read more →Sam Bloch of Grassroots United discusses Hexayurts for Haiti
by Vinay Gupta • April 27, 2010 • Everything Else • 0 Comments
Click to Play http://www.grassrootsunited.org/ is Sam Bloch’s organization. http://www.scienceforhumanity.net/ is raising money to for the research to design a hexayurt we can *prove* will withstand the winds and other conditions in Haiti. http://hexayurt.com is the main site for the free/open source hexayurt shelter. A basic unit is $100, about 1/4 the price of a relief [...]
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by Vinay Gupta • April 15, 2010 • Everything Else • 0 Comments
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by Vinay Gupta • April 15, 2010 • Everything Else • 0 Comments
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by Vinay Gupta • April 15, 2010 • Everything Else • 1 Comment
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by Vinay Gupta • March 24, 2010 • Everything Else • 1 Comment
Click to Play Donate to Science for Humanity‘s hexayurt fund here. Thanks to Don’t Panic for the film!
Read more →The Smart Money – invest in changing how we approach disaster
by Vinay Gupta • February 14, 2010 • Everything Else • 1 Comment
TL;DR we’re raising money to do the science required to put hexayurts on the ground in Haiti. you can help by giving Science for Humanity the cash for the research drive. click here ======= THE DETAILS ======= If you prefer, a Spanish translation from Lucas Gonzalez The Hexayurt Project is not a charity. It is [...]
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