• About Vinay Gupta

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

    http://hexayurt.com/plan

    EU to ban incandescent lightbulbs.

    by  • October 13, 2008 • The Global Picture • 5 Comments

    Four years ago, I said You know when I’ll say we’re taking environmentalism seriously as a people? When the government *BANS* incandescent lighting in general applications. Just flat out bans it, like they did with PCBs or lead-based paint or other hazardous substances. That’s how real change is effected. We have arrived.

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    The Gupta Option is Open for Business

    by  • October 11, 2008 • Hexayurt, Personal • 0 Comments

    The Biz.GuptaOption.Com site is now open for business. Anybody interested in commercializing my work, or meeting those others who are interested in commercializing my work, please drop me an email. The site is private, for the moment, although I will discuss opening it up fully with the key players once the site is up and [...]

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    Vandana Shiva in Iceland

    by  • October 10, 2008 • Iceland • 0 Comments

    Vandana Shiva is visiting in Iceland and I’d very, very, very much like to meet her to discuss things like the Global Swadeshi Network. Can anybody who’s reading this make the connection to let that happen? hexayurt@gmail.com you know where to call…

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    Food security shopping in Iceland

    by  • October 9, 2008 • Personal • 4 Comments

    Download the PDF here I spent $100 (ISK 10,000) to buy a two month basic food supply. Today, in Iceland, the Krona stopped trading on the international markets. People are talking about an Argentinean-style financial collapse. I do not think that Iceland will experience food security issues, but it would be deeply ironic for a [...]

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    Setting up a complimentary currency in Iceland?

    by  • October 9, 2008 • Iceland, Personal • 0 Comments

    Iceland’s currency has completely collapsed threatening things like an IMF bailout. Which, as you know, worked great for Argentina in 1999. I’m wondering about setting up a local exchange and trading system for Iceland to help people through what’s going on. I could use some technical resources inside of Iceland (for obvious reasons the servers [...]

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    New Hexayurt Project Blurb

    by  • October 7, 2008 • Hexayurt • 0 Comments

    Please post any feedback you have on the new blurb in the comments. Much appreciated, thank you. Download the PDF here. The Hexayurt Project in a nutshell. The Hexayurt is an extremely simple disaster relief shelter which is designed to replace tents in many applications. Its unique feature is that it can be mass produced [...]

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