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 [...]
Read more →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. [...]
Read more →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 [...]
Read more →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 [...]
Read more →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. [...]
Read more →Click to Play http://www.grassrootsunited.org/ is Sam Bloch’s organization. http://www.scienceforhumanity.net/ is raising money to for the research to design a hexayurt we can *prove* will withstand the winds and other conditions in Haiti. http://hexayurt.com is the main site for the free/open source hexayurt shelter. A basic unit is $100, about 1/4 the price of a relief [...]
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