• Hexayurt

    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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    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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    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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    The New Mandate: Tent Cities -> Hexayurt Cities

    by  • October 3, 2008 • Hexayurt • 2 Comments

    The Hexayurt can be made in plywood for $132 plus paint for a long-life, durable dwelling, or a rapid deployment unit using folding components can be made. There is no reason that we cannot provide acceptable housing to people unlucky enough to wind up in tent cities. These shelters can be cheaper than tents, for [...]

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    AKVO’s big, big, big world

    by  • September 29, 2008 • Hexayurt, The Global Picture • 0 Comments

    Thomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson does a short presentation at World Water Week. Really worth watching. Particularly is that it is at heart a discussion of scale as a primary challenge in global change. Worth remembering the world is a big, big, big place… 6,000,000,000 is 20 Americas, six Chinas, 120 Britains… it’s a big, big, big world.

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