We should have given individuals money to pay their mortgages. That was the real answer here. As it is, the banks still wind up owning the empty houses, the people still wind up homeless, and the crash is still coming. Why the bad debt of the banker can be bought by the state, and not [...]
Read more →Hot tub built into a dumpster via BB. What I particularly like about this is the practicality of it. Yes, it could use some insulation, but actually the idea of a hot tub you can roll around the place, transport, deploy where needed… nice. Also plenty deep which is unusual for hot tubs. Somebody should [...]
Read more →Unlike a surge of isolated medical emergencies that occur within a particular jurisdictional area, a MCI is marked by the characteristic that the causal agent is the same and that the injured are normally initially located within one (relatively small) contained area. Michael is one of the Masters of Disaster, and the rest of the [...]
Read more →Liberation by Internet discusses the Internet’s role in creating and maintaining human liberty, with some very interesting analysis. Thanks Arto
Read more →May those who help most win so they say. I made three entries – the hexayurt, the infrastructure package, and the low cost medical care. The Hexayurt The hexayurt is a reasonably well tested next generation disaster relief shelter built on free/open source principles and industrial supply chains. It comes from work done at the [...]
Read more →If you have the time, this is the best presentation of my fundamental ideas about the world and how to save it that I’ve ever done. Please take the time if you’re interested in disaster relief, development, infrastructure or resilience. Enjoy! PS: HQ video and the slides for download here.
Read more →Reverie shot as a tech demonstrator for the EOS 5D MKII. Shockingly amazing.
Read more →Last week, I attended a splendid talk by Eric Peterson, editor of “Light and Liberty – reflections on the pursuit of happiness” on Jefferson and his ways. I recorded the talk, and you can download the audio here. Quality is pretty good, the room was well set up. Thanks to Svanur for the picture! As [...]
Read more →The Gupta Option is the result of five years of operations from a one man think tank operating in much the same general spirit as Buckminster Fuller: how much impact can a single person have on global issues. The Superstruct crisis runs right into the Gupta Option predictive framework with results that could change everything. [...]
Read more →Whoah. It’s a freaking open source tractor / rototiller / biodiesel generator…. working… running… for real. CHECK IT OUT! http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=329 – and they need to raise some money to keep the work going, so send them some cash.
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