Bill McKibben on Kerala from a few years ago. So… Kerala. Avg income of, what, $300 a year, with long life, high literacy, and general decency. Why does it work? I’m not sure this article has the core of the thing. I’m not sure anybody does. Needs further analysis.
Read more →Kris Vagner writing on Burning Man for the Reno News and Review This year, the Sugar Cubers are taking a break from building demos, but expect to see examples of the gleaming Hexayurt. It looks like a cross between a solar oven and a space-age yurt. It’s designed by a Scottish-Indian-Icelandic architect named Vinya Gupta [...]
Read more →The Hexayurt they built on the playa (pic from Tonx, click for origional) They did a really nice job on it – wish I’d been there! If you’re wondering what a hexayurt is and why it won the Treehugger Prize the answer is simple: it’s a cheap shelter for refugees that would cost about $100 [...]
Read more →Slate on Operational Research in a medical environment The road to reform is called “open access” (or “advanced access” or “same-day scheduling”). Dozens of papers have been published showing how practices around the country have done it, starting in 2000, when Dr. Mark Murray and colleague Catherine Tantau wrote about their experience of reducing the [...]
Read more →Here it is. Solar Vacuum Glass Tubes Now, what this is, you see, is a tube that looks a lot like a fluorescent light tube. But, actually, it’s double walled. The inside wall is black, the outside wall is clear, and there’s a vacuum between the two. It’s a big flask, but clear rather than [...]
Read more →Lifestraw is a water purifier. It’s a plastic tube filled with magic. You suck on one end, and out comes clean drinking water from the other. Just one problem: kids younger the five, the elderly, some kinds of disabled people, people who are really sick cannot use one. And, hello, that’s actually your most vulnerable [...]
Read more →This guy caused us no end of inconvenience. The Hexayurt was in the pavilion because we won the Treehugger contest, and the Pavilion was closed all week because somebody, Addis allegedly, set the Man on fire. That was a big deal. Far fewer people got exposed to the technology, and to the hope it offers, [...]
Read more →STANDARRD which is a group of sustainable technology people including most of Appropedia, Mel from OLPC, Smari from Fablabs, Andy from Sleepbreeze, the folks from TIDES (national defense university), and Lindsey and myself from the Hexayurt project, of course. Should be fairly low volume, mainly dedicated to personal and project updates, and that mostly by [...]
Read more →Another horrible immigration disaster a lot like mine, goddammit.
Read more →The Hexayurt Project home page has a link to this page so that you can comment and discuss the hexayurt and associated ideas. Enjoy, Vinay PS: comments are moderated and I can’t figure out how to turn it off so you can see your post immediately for just this post, so I’ll keep an eye [...]
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