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March 2nd, Port Au Prince

Today I’m feeling much better.  Evidently I picked up an upper respiratory bug on an airplane.  By the time I got to Haiti Communitere compound I was sick.  Yesterday I spent almost all day in bed.  I got up this … Continue reading

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My Reply to Notre Dame’s Shelters for All Contest rejection

 SheltersForAll Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:37 PM harvey lacey  <ubuntublox@gmail.com> Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 2:42 PM To: SheltersForAll <info@sheltersforall.org> Reply | Reply to all | Forward | Print | Delete | Show original It might interest you to know that Ubuntu-blox passed an earthquake simulation of 8.3 Monday. … Continue reading

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Shelters for All Contest rejected Ubuntu-blox

On 3/1/12, SheltersForAll <info@sheltersforall.org> wrote: > Dear Participant, > > We regret to inform you that your submission did not comply with the > Competition requirements. > > We asked that each submission includes *all *of the following: – Hide … Continue reading

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Soar like an Eagle, flop like a fish

That was my reply when asked what would happen with the Ubuntu-blox house in the tests at http://www.nts.com/locations/plano  We would either do well or we would find out what we had done wrong.  I will let you make up your own … Continue reading

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March 1st, and so much to do

Probably the most noticeable thing this time of morning here at the Haiti Communitere compound is the lack of battling boom boxes.  As I recall Thursdays were before daylight religious PA systems were doing their best to wake up the … Continue reading

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I will be in Haiti 2/29 thru 4/3

I will try to keep a daily blog with pictures etc.  This is going to be fun.

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Evidence of progress in recycling plastic bottles

The man in the picture is collecting plastic bottles embedded in a layer of foam and film plastic trash floating on an open sewer.  Look at his feet and you will see foam pads that work like snowshoes to help … Continue reading

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Back from Haiti and we have a PR person!!! Cathy Caplener

http://www.becausepr.com/beliefs.aspx

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We are in Haiti as Aug 11th

You can follow our adventures on facebook  “ubuntu-blox (project)”

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D Magazine Story

If you are here because of the D Magazine story by Zac Crain you can ignore this If you want to read the D Magazine story by Zac Crain you can click on this In the story Zac mentions the … Continue reading

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