• About Vinay Gupta

    Vinay Gupta is a consultant on disaster relief and risk management.

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    Factor e Farm update 10: taking dirt out of the ground, making bricks, hexayurts

    by  • October 17, 2008 • Hexayurt, The Global Picture • 0 Comments

    They’re financing this on a community supported model – we send them our money and they do the work that the Government should be funding. I really want to stress that: this is work that should be government funded, the most natural channel being university research funding. But universities have narrow cultural mandates, do not [...]

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    Shaking out the big ideas

    by  • October 16, 2008 • Personal • 0 Comments

    So this is one of those time periods during which I go through and cull things – what ideas are workable, which ideas are fail-laden monstrosities. There are a bunch of critical mass phenomena all heading in roughly the same direction at roughly the same speed, and now its a case of figuring out what [...]

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    The Open Toolbox for Domestic Disaster Response – new company, new paper

    by  • October 14, 2008 • Hexayurt, Personal • 0 Comments

    The Open Toolbox for Domestic Disaster Response The Open Toolbox is our new brand. It’s a consulting company which is focussed on getting open source appropriate technology (OSAT) into commercial supply chains, using a “Red Hat” approach – consulting, custom engineering, service contracts, and all the other stuff that companies and governments need to have [...]

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    A Back-of-the-Envelope Master at work (on how to get renewable drinking water for 2m people.)

    by  • October 13, 2008 • Personal, Science, The Global Picture • 0 Comments

    Thomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson on Global Swadeshi fleshing out how to provide water security for the Canary Islands. I just love this post. This is exactly the kind of magic that I hoped that Global Swadeshi would produce. Now let’s build it! I’ll note that the same logic applies to the dry coastlines of Africa too. And [...]

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    The First Annual Open Sustainability Network Conference – 18/19 of Oct, 2008

    by  • October 13, 2008 • Hexayurt, The Global Picture • 0 Comments

    http://www.appropedia.org/Open_Sustainability_Network And they’re having an event next week ======== OSNCamp is the gathering for all those interested in openness and knowledge sharing for a “just sustainability”. It is also the first gathering of the Open Sustainability Network. What’s it about? Thousands of organizations and millions of people are currently working to effectively tackle a set [...]

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