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    The Open Toolbox for Domestic Disaster Response – new company, new paper

    by  • October 14, 2008 • Hexayurt, Personal • 0 Comments

    The Open Toolbox for Domestic Disaster Response The Open Toolbox is our new brand. It’s a consulting company which is focussed on getting open source appropriate technology (OSAT) into commercial supply chains, using a “Red Hat” approach – consulting, custom engineering, service contracts, and all the other stuff that companies and governments need to have [...]

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    A Back-of-the-Envelope Master at work (on how to get renewable drinking water for 2m people.)

    by  • October 13, 2008 • Personal, Science, The Global Picture • 0 Comments

    Thomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson on Global Swadeshi fleshing out how to provide water security for the Canary Islands. I just love this post. This is exactly the kind of magic that I hoped that Global Swadeshi would produce. Now let’s build it! I’ll note that the same logic applies to the dry coastlines of Africa too. And [...]

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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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    Food security shopping in Iceland

    by  • October 9, 2008 • Personal • 4 Comments

    Download the PDF here I spent $100 (ISK 10,000) to buy a two month basic food supply. Today, in Iceland, the Krona stopped trading on the international markets. People are talking about an Argentinean-style financial collapse. I do not think that Iceland will experience food security issues, but it would be deeply ironic for a [...]

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    Setting up a complimentary currency in Iceland?

    by  • October 9, 2008 • Iceland, Personal • 0 Comments

    Iceland’s currency has completely collapsed threatening things like an IMF bailout. Which, as you know, worked great for Argentina in 1999. I’m wondering about setting up a local exchange and trading system for Iceland to help people through what’s going on. I could use some technical resources inside of Iceland (for obvious reasons the servers [...]

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    The End of Empire (Part 1 / 3)

    by  • October 2, 2008 • Personal • 4 Comments

    I want to do a little thinking about what the world will look like in a post-Imperial America scenario. Let me start by defining “Imperial.” Iraq and Afghanistan are occupied or protectorates or colonies depending on how you think about it. There’s no clearly defined exit timeline, nor is there a clear and absolute end [...]

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