Very cool stuff  I could want one….

Not only has the entire country gone carbon neutral, educated all of their children in environmental science and furiously built retaining walls around every island, but the government is buying up land in nearby nations as a place to retreat to when the Maldives disappears. Now it appears that the intrepid Maldivians have come up with a new strategy to fight the rising tide: creating mini floating islands!

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“Operating on a scale never before attempted in this country, the city would demolish houses in some of the most desolate sections of Detroit and move residents into stronger neighborhoods. Roughly a quarter of the 139-square-mile city could go from urban to semi-rural.”

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photo credit:
United Nations Development Programme

I posted my original  comment on disaster relief requirements approximately ONE HOUR before the quake hit Haiti . You can see yesterday’s  repost  here …. so what are the relevant notes from today’s news? (quotes compiled from multiple wire stories.)

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rmatthendrick

A purely virtual rc tribe is not, and will not be, entirely useful in terms of disaster/collapse situations. This is partly for the reasons Andrew and Lance mention, but also from physical reality. Take Katrina as the example – without comms to outside, the value of the net is limited. Software developed freely and ad hoc for people locating was done rapidly, and with a minimal requirement for coordination, although the temporary creation of relief 2.0 (which I helped create and co-ordinate) allowed the software to be standardized.

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How have I missed this?

“What is “Seasteading”? Seasteading is creating permanent dwellings on the ocean – homesteading the high seas. A seastead, like in the picture to the right, is a structure meant for permanent occupation on the ocean.”

Read more on A Brief Introduction to the Seasteading Institute | Seasteading Institute…