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!

Read more on Floating Islands for the Maldives…

So they’re sitting on a deposit about 100 times the size of annual global production. The “possible shortage” isn’t from lack of ore – it’s because no one wants to build out the processing. Oh, and wait to see if what they really want to do is stripmine for it.

Read more on U.S. Sitting on Mother Lode of Rare Tech-Crucial Minerals – Yahoo! News…

Guerrilla Gardening and more.

http://www.designundersky.com/dus/2010/2/25/ludic-guerrilla-gardening-drone-warfare.html

“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.”

Read more on Urban Downsizing – will it happen?…

“We may not see millions of new factories in the short run, but I would bet we will see thousands.”

I don’t necessarily agree with everything he’s saying, but a lot of it makes great sense.

Read more on CNC vs 3D – one take on the “revoluion”…