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Monthly Archives: May 2010

My new About Me page

Saturday, May 22, 2010

I’m Vinay Gupta. The following is a cross-section of my work. Hexayurt – the world’s cheapest, most durable emergency shelter. Free/open source. Small is Profitable – The Economist’s Book of the Year 2003, on decentralized energy economics. (editorial team) Winning the Oil Endgame – Pentagon-funded study on getting the US to zero oil consumption in [...]

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My old “About Me” page

Saturday, May 22, 2010

I’m about to do a new one. This is for the archives. I am best known as the creator of the Hexayurt free/open refugee shelter. I also act in a wide range of advisory and consulting tasks for clients across all sectors. If you would like to do some thinking together, write to me here. [...]

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The real face of the big society

Saturday, May 15, 2010
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Large hexayurt-style domes – a problem solved

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Edmund Harriss has solved a problem I’ve been working on off-and-on for nearly 15 years. This is splendid. Back in 1995 or so I was challenged with reducing the waste involved in making geodesic domes for Worldview Livingspace a nascent dome company. I couldn’t get the waste below about 25% because of the poor fit [...]

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The imperialists of the future are imperialists of the mind

Monday, May 3, 2010

in a page is a seven essay collection describing our global situation from different perspectives. Here’s a taste. We have a serious problem. Communism leads to genocide. But Capitalism leads to ecocide. Our models of wealth are so broken that high tech societies of all kinds are inoperable on the long scale. The robo-nano-bio revolution [...]

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Black Elephants and Skull Jackets – The Dark Mountain

Sunday, May 2, 2010

This is the interview with me that Dougald Hine did for the Dark Mountain book. Just hit “fullscreen” on the box below to read it. Dougald Hine | Black Elephants and Skull Jackets | A Conversation with Vinay Gupta This is the infamous skull jacket. You can see it in action at the Reykjavik Briefing. [...]

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