Monday, September 29, 2008
Well, it’s actually OSB, but it cost $132 for panels and flashing and rocks very, very hard. Great work! Read the whole story here.
Monday, September 29, 2008
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.
Monday, September 29, 2008
We should have given individuals money to pay their mortgages. That was the real answer here. As it is, the banks still wind up owning the empty houses, the people still wind up homeless, and the crash is still coming. Why the bad debt of the banker can be bought by the state, and not [...]
Monday, September 29, 2008
Hot tub built into a dumpster via BB. What I particularly like about this is the practicality of it. Yes, it could use some insulation, but actually the idea of a hot tub you can roll around the place, transport, deploy where needed… nice. Also plenty deep which is unusual for hot tubs. Somebody should [...]
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Unlike a surge of isolated medical emergencies that occur within a particular jurisdictional area, a MCI is marked by the characteristic that the causal agent is the same and that the injured are normally initially located within one (relatively small) contained area. Michael is one of the Masters of Disaster, and the rest of the [...]
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Liberation by Internet discusses the Internet’s role in creating and maintaining human liberty, with some very interesting analysis. Thanks Arto
Thursday, September 25, 2008
May those who help most win so they say. I made three entries – the hexayurt, the infrastructure package, and the low cost medical care. The Hexayurt The hexayurt is a reasonably well tested next generation disaster relief shelter built on free/open source principles and industrial supply chains. It comes from work done at the [...]
Thursday, September 25, 2008
If you have the time, this is the best presentation of my fundamental ideas about the world and how to save it that I’ve ever done. Please take the time if you’re interested in disaster relief, development, infrastructure or resilience. Enjoy! PS: HQ video and the slides for download here.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Reverie shot as a tech demonstrator for the EOS 5D MKII. Shockingly amazing.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Last week, I attended a splendid talk by Eric Peterson, editor of “Light and Liberty – reflections on the pursuit of happiness” on Jefferson and his ways. I recorded the talk, and you can download the audio here. Quality is pretty good, the room was well set up. Thanks to Svanur for the picture! As [...]