"This is the bigger picture," said John Kraintz, with a sweep of his arm, indicating the roughly two dozen remaining tents pitched around him on a muddy, pockmarked field between the city dump and the slow green waters of the American River. Kraintz is a thin man of 57, a former electrician who had lived in Sacramento's parks and riverside lots for seven years. His home had been right here--in Tent City.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090622/ehrenreich

Tent City Sacramento

A couple of months ago I built my own solar panel for about 300.00 dollars, It saving me a fortune. I cant beleve everyone is not doing this. I highly recommend this to anyone thinking of living off the grid or just trying to save money.This is also great idea for anyone building a emergency shelter.

World Leaders Gather at Green Energy Summit 2009 to Plug Bailout Scenarios
Clean Technology, Renewable Energy, and Sustainability as Sound Engines for Economic Growth

BANGALORE, November 14, 2008 -- Don't wait for a bailout. There is none. This deepening understanding is bringing together leading green energy experts, heads of state, top government officials, heads of large international organisations, policy makers, sustainability experts, environmentalists and global investors at Green Energy Summit 2009 (GES 2009), March 4-7, 2009 to be held at the Palace Grounds, Bangalore, India.

Manufacturing shell elements netted in a special machine-similar to the ribosome living cells.
For residents in the building- mobile phone and the Internet.
It is necessary to synthesis of knowledge about genetics, mechanics and architecture to create
fantastic architectural diversity and sustainable development.
Made mini "House-sphere ARK" (puppet theatre) for children with limited abilities.
Stability of the future - is to use the structure of DNA. I believe that
New technology will help solve the problems of housing and creation
a stable civil society.

In creating equality for all people, we need to address the question of basic needs for all of humanity, shelter, sanitation, communication, vocation, political representation, these among others are necessary for a planetary evolution from the money game to a growing society. I think that an artifact must be mass produced that enables each human to participate in the effective use of our planetary resources.

Ultra-low-cost jails are becoming the thing, sad as that is. This short article is very informative regardless of the context. For example, fire alarms are essential.

Dick

Tent City Awaits Final Approval

Aug 24, 2007 01:34 PM EDT

Reported By: Anabel Marquez

            Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio almost heard something he's been waiting on, for months: The approval of the Cameron County Tent Jail.

Is PODS the future of affordable housing?
by: steve webster
Fri Aug 03, 2007 at 08:45:00 AM EDT

CLEARWATER, Fla. --- TCPalm.com reported last week that Clearwater-based Portable On-Demand Storage (PODs) is now offering an emergency shelter POD that can be delivered ready-to-move-in in a matter of hours, the perfect natural disaster solution.

http://www.pods.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_On_Demand_Storage
http://www.floridaworkforcehousing.net/showDiary.do?diaryId=796

"In January(07), St. Petersburg gained national notoriety after city police cut up tents that some of the area's homeless were living in. Moving quickly, city officials raised more than $1-million for the homeless, and another tent city location was identified at the grounds of the St. Vincent de Paul Society along Fourth Avenue N."

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/03/12/Southpinellas/Church_offers_space_f.shtml

Hello!

Tim Tyler's ideas on ultra-low-cost shelter.

df-
I am very interested in ultra-low-cost shelter. Any and all ideas are
welcome about how to design and build these shelters.

tt-
"Ultra-low-cost shelters" conjours up images of tents and polytunnels
for me.

What could be done to improve those?

Insulation: perhaps twin-layer structures - or bubble coverings.
Insulation seems like an understudied area of cheap shelter to me.

Better ground mounts: I'm sure there's room for progress in this area;

Better fabrics: I'm fairly convinced fabric coverings should have

With vigalante's building their own border fences and being prepared to "shoot on sight" anyone crossing the border (a line in the sand), I would say that the time is ripe for an Emergency Shelter factory located just south of the border, the purpose being to save the potential murder victims by providing the means and opportunity to provide shelter and sanitary living conditions for their families, which is what most humans desire.

Pictures from the news services:

http://www.freewebtown.com/randome/Katrina/corrugatedslum.jpg
http://www.freewebtown.com/randome/Katrina/tentcamp.jpg
http://www.freewebtown.com/randome/Katrina/sidehillshelter.jpg
http://www.freewebtown.com/randome/Katrina/shack1.jpg
http://www.freewebtown.com/randome/Katrina/plasticshelter.jpg
http://www.freewebtown.com/randome/Katrina/corrugatedsluma.jpg

These are mislabled katrina, sorry. You get the idea. We live in the dark ages...

For no reason, too.

Dick Fischbeck

The creation of lightweight composite panels (fiberglass reinforced plastics FRP, or carbon-resin composites) makes for transportable, containerized, stackable, packable, air-liftable, nearly instantaneous building structures for temporary use.

Illustrations of assorted ways that two basic shapes can form hundreds of enclosure structurally self-supporting configurations are posted now for about 3 years.

These structural elements include the force transmission components usually provided by girders, rafters, posts, beams, trusses, joists, etc.

See images here:
http://www.ecosyn.us/Panels_01/Panels_01.html

The Pakistan 2005 earthquake occurred on October 8. It can be called 10/8 after the naming tradition of the 9/11 disaster.

BTW, the 2004 Tsunami happened on December 26. We can call it 12/26.

Here's an update on 10/8:

"First batch of quake survivors leave relief camp
Web posted at: 3/11/2006 2:1:37
Source ::: AFP Kashmiri earthquake survivors participating in Friday
prayers outside the destroyed Sayed Ahmed Jamia Mosque in Balakot, some
30km from Muzaffarabad, yesterday.

MUZAFFARABAD: More than 250 Pakistani quake survivors left a tent camp
to return to their village homes yesterday, the first major batch to do

CGI means corrugated galvanized iron. This material is a good one to experiment with for creating emergency shelters because it is often available in rural disaster locations, or at least it is brought in.

I'm going to track development and uses of CGI from news articles I find, an archive of corrugated metal shelter information.

For example:

January 18, 2006