Clip from http://files.howtolivewiki.com/reykjavik_briefing/ – recommend watching it over there where there’s a proper picture of the diagram, and also a link to download the whole one hour briefing. Enjoy.
Read more →http://tinyhouseblog.com/yurts/the-hexayurt Really nice piece, thank you!
Read more →Here’s the plan, in it’s simplest form: deploy medical expert systems using the cell phone network to help people make medical decisions. Use the ability to integrate data from each user into broad statistical patterns to improve the models and plot the progression of epidemics, for example. Then add bicycle-riding computer-aided pharmacists who prescribe basic [...]
Read more →http://www.igf-online.org/fileadmin/Images/Menue/Pdf-Dateien/RE_SunventionSept06_engl.pdf Looks GREAT. Several devices, well-explored design synergies and so on. Cutting edge work from the Tamera Ecovillage in Portugal. Amazing stuff, well done folks.
Read more →Via http://tommylegba.livejournal.com/.
Read more →http://www.citiesgogreen.com/component/content/article/45-the-tech-fix/183-hexayurt Really an excellent piece, captures more of the big picture than anything else done so far. Thank you!
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Read more →Really quite a nice article. http://progressivebuildingsolutions.com is the main site for commercial hexayurt activity right now, of course.
Read more →Originally designed as refugee housing, a Hexayurt can be built for $200 from fire-safe insulation boards and industrial tape. The Hexayurt Project follows a free and open source model; plans can be downloaded at the project’s website. I visited two of these innovative shelters last year at Burning Man. One belonged to Lindsey Darby, a [...]
Read more →In 2003, Gerald Pollack and his colleagues at the University of Washington, Seattle, discovered a process known as the “particle-exclusion phenomenon”. They found that particles dissolved in water naturally move away from a hydrophilic, or water-loving, surface, leaving pure water behind. What was really surprising was quite how far the particles would move – up [...]
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