SODIS in Tanzania
by Vinay Gupta • May 24, 2008 • Hexayurt, The Global Picture • 0 Comments
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4786216.stm good article! http://www.msrc.sunysb.edu/news/Tanzania.html – more here.
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The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution
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Good article on STAR-TIDES from last year
by Vinay Gupta • May 23, 2008 • Hexayurt • 0 Comments
http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=169&sid=1296495
Read more →Big earthquake management
by Vinay Gupta • May 22, 2008 • Hexayurt • 0 Comments
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-quake22-2008may22,0,3753797.story yep. it’s about like that.
Read more →More pix from STAR-TIDES at FAHUM 08
by Vinay Gupta • May 14, 2008 • Hexayurt • 0 Comments
http://www.fa-humexpo.com/ I’m dog tired, but it’s been a *great* week.
Read more →nice “bottom of the pyramid” piece
by Vinay Gupta • May 10, 2008 • Hexayurt • 0 Comments
http://anand.typepad.com/datawocky/2008/05/removing-fricti.html focusses on urban slums… and flat panel TVs…
Read more →ah, words of wisdom
by Vinay Gupta • May 10, 2008 • Hexayurt • 0 Comments
Powerpoint will not keep you warm and dry at night – daimonos
Read more →El Salvador!
by Vinay Gupta • May 10, 2008 • Hexayurt • 2 Comments
Attending FAHUM Expo which is sort of a military-humanitarian trade show with STAR-TIDES. Here’s me and the guys from NDU at the AFRICOM Expo in Stuttgart. We talked to a lot of great people. The Netherlands are very flat as you leave them. This is why you should always fly KLM. The soup label says [...]
Read more →Refugee camp as educational institution
by Vinay Gupta • May 5, 2008 • Hexayurt, The Global Picture • 0 Comments
The story of how the Vietnamese fell into the nail industry is one of pure chance — of how 20 women who fled their war-torn country happened to meet a Hollywood starlet with beautiful nails. The women were former teachers, business owners and government officials who came to America in 1975 after the fall of [...]
Read more →the downsides of island life
by Vinay Gupta • May 4, 2008 • Hexayurt • 0 Comments
http://anewland.wikidot.com/living-on-tropical-islands
Read more →solar power bubbles
by Vinay Gupta • April 22, 2008 • Hexayurt, The Global Picture • 0 Comments
http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/04/concentrated-solar-power-balloons.html basically, it’s a parabolic solar collector made using an inflatable form. dunno what they’re using to convert the sunlight into power.
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