Kris Vagner writing on Burning Man for the Reno News and Review

This year, the Sugar Cubers are taking a break from building demos, but expect to see examples of the gleaming Hexayurt. It looks like a cross between a solar oven and a space-age yurt. It’s designed by a Scottish-Indian-Icelandic architect named Vinya Gupta and made of insulated silver panels and tape. It’s light enough to be carried by two people but sturdy and efficient enough that it’s being taken seriously by the American Red Cross and the Department of Defense as a form of emergency shelter.

Awwwww.

D. Brian Burghart for the Chico News and Review

Sending a good message at the Silicon Village camp were representatives of PlayaTech and HexaYurt.

HexaYurt is nothing short of fantastic.

And they go on to say lots more nice things, as well as discussing the Playatech furniture and interviewing Sunshine.

Anyway, I was really pleased with these pieces – very nice things said, and they got the general picture right.

I’m still waiting for somebody to pick up the Networked Domestic Disaster Response plan, for doing mass evacuation, earthquake, flood, terror etc. response using the existing building supplies sitting on loading docks all over America to house maybe up to half a million Americans per day in the even of a massive crisis. It’s not a scheme that works abroad because of the way our building industry works, but here it’s a very plausible plan.