InterShelter Domes Discount for Humanitarian Efforts and Detailed Info

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I'm going to keep this first note short and just copy you on some letters and material I hope you find informative. I hope we are able to work with you and your community to make this building so well suited for Alaska's climate, available for the overflow of Cheechocos expected this summer. We are hearing estimates of in excess of 600 people descending on your community. We could house them all very inexpensively. I know we would far exceed your highest expectations when you see our buildings perform. A building as mobile, portable and quickly assembled as a tent that once up will be there decades from now unless you have to move it, in which case you can dis-assemble in under an hour and throw in the back or your pickup.

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This is a remote mining camp in the extreme far north of Canada in Nunavik. The SurvivalSphere above is on skids like a dog sled and can be towed around by a snow machine or tracked vehicle for re-deployment or use a light lift chopper for longer distances like the one pictured above.  

The interiors can be done as Fancy or Spartan as the project calls for.  

We have responded in both Haiti and Japan and expect to play a large role in helping the many victims of these disasters with their transitional and permanent housing needs.

Japanese Tsunami dome piece

Council General Fugika Ambassador Ceda-San and relief workers in dome

The Mayor of Ofunato, the city hardest hit by the Great Tsunami

Japan's tsunami waves top historic heights - USATODAY.com

Japan’s quake recovery plan to build 100,000 temporary homes - The Globe and M

With President Martelly in Port au Prince the night before his inauguration.

Project Green Haiti

Again, Harry, thank you for taking the time to chat this morning and read this rather voluminous material, but I think we have quite a story to tell here and there could be some real synergy between our companies. InterShelter has 5 production plants and can produce in excess of 40,000 units over the next 12 months. I would very much like to continue our discussions about our mutual interests and with how we might work together to provide a new and innovative option for your remote arctic housing needs on many future projects. Please feel free to call me on my cell number which is embedded below. Best regards.

PS: As promised a "you send it file" will follow with a great deal of backup and support material. Feel free to use any of it you feel might be helpful in spreading the word about what we can do to help many of your business, industries and government. Thanks<Don

Most respectfully yours,

Capt. Don Kubley 

President/CEO 

InterShelter Inc. 

15945 Glacier Highway 

Juneau, Alaska 99801 

Ph: 907.789.9273/ Fax:907.789.0190 

Cell 907.321.1111 

Email: ***@***.***  

SKYPE: Capt. Don Kubley 

THINK OUT OF THE BOX!

Mr. President: It was a great privilege to meet you last night at the Lexington Radisson. All the Haitian leaders I have met with, the last several weeks, have mentioned their great appreciation for your tireless efforts to help their nation hit so hard by the recent quake. In fact, President Preval spoke passionately yesterday at his press conference about the fact that you have made 3 personal visits to the disaster zone. Made even more appreciated with your recent medical process during this same period of time. I would like to commend you on your tireless, Herculean efforts to help those around the world most in need, with your Clinton Foundation and many other entities and projects.  

In that regard, you know much better than I that one of the things needed most after disasters like Haiti or in the developing world, besides food and clean water, is adequate shelter and housing. We produce a building that for the first time has bridged the gap between tents and stick built houses. Our SolarDome is totally sustainable, off the grid, the most energy efficient prefab building on earth and leave a near "net zero carbon foot print". Our InterShelter SolarDomes are as portable and easily assembled as a tent, yet once erected are as strong as a stick built house and have even passed residential building codes in L.A.  

Mr President, we agree with former Director of Emergency Preparedness for L.A., Mr. Stanley (letter attached), and strongly feel we are the answer to the post Haiti quake and Katrina like disasters. Our portable shelters can also be used for command posts for "first responders", communications centers for emergency services, or MASH style triage or hospital facilities. Because there is no metal used in the buildings all communications and satellite equipment can also be used and protected from the elements with absolutely no interference from the building materials. We have heard from FEMA and many other sources that, after a Hurricane Katrina, "trailers don't work", and "tents are simply not acceptable". When a family has just seen everything they own blown away or shaken down the last thing they need is to be taken from their property and what is left of their homes to a tent or trailer city on some military base somewhere. With our InterShelter "Force 5" domes relief organizations could drive down the streets of the devastated neighborhoods, give each family enough dome space to live in, very comfortably and in a matter of hours they have safe, secure living and storage shelters. They can remain together as a family unit, on their own property, near their neighbors and friends, protect what little property and belongings they have left from looters and begin the supervision of the rebuilding of their homes and lives. When their homes are repaired or rebuilt the "exit plan" couldn't be more simple. The domes can be broken down and stored or warehoused indefinitely until the next or manmade disaster, unlike the thousands of rusting and toxic trailers that now litter the Gulf Coast.  

If God forbid there is a follow up storm, bad weather, or aftershocks in the case of a bad earthquake, when anchored our buildings are hurricane and earthquake proof because of their shape and design. They will also protect urban earthquake victims from falling debris during the predictable aftershocks. Unlike tents that rot after being wet or used, the domes can be used year after year after year of storms or disasters. We estimate a minimum of 20 years of use with the ability to be erected or disassembled and stored innumerable times with no harm done to the buildings. Of course, we are a little bias here at InterShelter, but we sincerely believe we have the answer to natural or man made disaster emergency shelter needs.

We are very proud of our InterShelter buildings and truly feel we can help with many of the shelter needs be they disasters, wars or simply socio/economic situations. As you know there are over a billion folks sleeping under the stars tonight simply because they are homeless. We hope to help reduce that sad situation as quickly and dramatically as we can. We are also the only answer if there is another Pandemic either via Avian Flu or Terrorist biological attack. Unlike tents, The domes can be sealed for quarantine situations and moved around and erected in very short order. If there was a "hot plane" coming in from Hong Kong into San Francisco or Anchorage we could have a quarantine village set up on the airport tarmac or in a hanger, for double protection, before the plane load of infected people land and expose the rest of the people in the airport, community and nation. Because of their extremely compact shipping size we can put enough shelters in the back of a Herc or C5A to put up a village in a matter of hours. If the worse case scenario happens and the epidemic spreads to the streets there would be a catastrophic shortage of hospital quarantine beds. We could erect pods of dome villages in parking lots surrounding the hospitals, very economically, so the exposed and infected could be sealed off yet be close to doctors, medical facilities and services.

Photos of SolarDome Televillage Haiti Emergency Relief Project

In the same amount of space it takes to ship one FEMA type trailer, or CHU ,we can ship enough domes to house 30 families, at a fraction of the price, (please see attached picture of standard 20ft container load of domes). Instead of having to abandon or dispose of the units upon completion of a mission they can be dismantled in a matter of minutes and re-deployed, shipped home or warehoused for years of future missions. We have received overwhelming positive response from virtually every military person, and first responder current and retired, who have seen our buildings. They are as portable as tents and stronger than stick built houses, and provide vastly improved safety and comfort to those from mountain tops in Afghanistan to the deserts of Iraq, (Please see the letters attached from General Craig Campbell TAG of Alaska and General Caldwell TAG of Oregon). There is a new emergency and military shelter now available that will make current tents be recognized as the dinosaur it is and the same thing the Roman Legions used.

We think we can provide a new and innovative alternative to the tents and trailers that have such dismal records and limited uses.  

I assume this structure that has been used to houses soldiers for over 2,000 will look familiar to you. It's the same thing the Romans used to respond to the victims of Pompeii and now in Port au Prince.  We at InterShelter feel we have a new and innovative alternative to move forward with in 2010!! Of course we all know about the poor track record of FEMA type trailers.  

toxic trailers  

NEXT GENERATION OF EMERGENCY, MILITARY, REFUGEE SHELTERS 

This picture above is at the Israeli Defense Force's Head Quarters in Tel Aviv earlier this year. Outside temp was 99 degrees, inside was a comfortable 73. Our SolarDomes can be sustainable, self contained, off the grid, powered by the sun/wind and leave a "Net Zero Carbon Footprint".