The Factor E Farm Plywood Hexayurt
by Vinay Gupta • September 29, 2008 • Hexayurt • 0 Comments
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.
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The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution
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Archive for September, 2008
AKVO’s big, big, big world
by Vinay Gupta • 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.
Read more →On the global financial collapse
by Vinay Gupta • September 29, 2008 • The Global Picture • 1 Comment
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 [...]
Read more →Nice repurposing
by Vinay Gupta • September 29, 2008 • Trivia and Media • 0 Comments
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 [...]
Read more →Michael Kay on Mass Casualty Incidents
by Vinay Gupta • September 28, 2008 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments
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 [...]
Read more →Liberation by Internet at Mises
by Vinay Gupta • September 25, 2008 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments
Liberation by Internet discusses the Internet’s role in creating and maintaining human liberty, with some very interesting analysis. Thanks Arto
Read more →Google’s Project 10^100 – the Hexayurt Project entries
by Vinay Gupta • September 25, 2008 • Hexayurt • 1 Comment
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 [...]
Read more →The Reykjavik Briefing – now with added streaming goodness
by Vinay Gupta • September 25, 2008 • Hexayurt, Personal • 3 Comments
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.
Read more →oh-my-god beautiful short film
by Vinay Gupta • September 23, 2008 • Trivia and Media • 0 Comments
Reverie shot as a tech demonstrator for the EOS 5D MKII. Shockingly amazing.
Read more →Thomas Jefferson – Light and Liberty – and notes on Gandhi
by Vinay Gupta • September 23, 2008 • Personal, Trivia and Media • 11 Comments
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 [...]
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