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 [...]
Read more →Burning Man’s green focus raises concerns of corporate contracts Out at the Green Man Pavilion – a 30,000-square-foot tent directly beneath the Man that many longtime attendees had feared would become a marketing expo – attitudes were divided on the controversy over corporate contracts. The pavilion – which had been closed for three days while [...]
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Read more →WIND WARNING. . . Reposted from Arcana in LA Burners…. Greetings from the playa where I am happy and well and holded up in my car. I dont want this to deter anyone from coming, as it’s still a blast – but..batten down the hatches kids, cause the wind is the worst I’ve seen in [...]
Read more →http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44869 Hi. My name is Vinay Gupta, of the Hexayurt project, a FOSS-style organization aimed at radically improving the lot of refugees and the poor. We’ve had some luck, recently, and we need help coping. Here’s the technology – we call it “Disastr” – a simple approach to using the network to reinforce efforts to [...]
Read more →In Mississippi, Gov. Haley Barbour and Federal Emergency Management Agency officials warned more than 13,000 families living in FEMA trailers since Hurricane Katrina nearly two years ago that they must evacuate if Dean hits the area. Barbour said people should think about where they will go if an evacuation is ordered and how they’ll travel. [...]
Read more →Matthew suggests sending me to Peru. I replied on Treehugger: Oh, I’d be up for it but we need these tested – I mean **really** tested – before we start putting other people’s lives on the line. Give us a year or two of well-funded practice runs, then we’ll talk about *really* being able to [...]
Read more →Hexayurt country Hexayurts are cheap buildings for slums and refugees and Burning Man.
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Read more →Gandhi remains today the only complete critique of advanced industrial society. Others have criticized its totalitarianism but not its productive apparatus. He is not against science and technology, but he places priority on the right to work and opposes mechanization to the extent that it usurps this right. Large-scale machinery, he holds, concentrates wealth in [...]
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