Sustainability : Solar Floating Island



GLOBAL WARMING : The Sustainable Floating Island sets good example in the Maldives.


The tiny island nation of the Maldives is under serious threat from rising sea levels caused by climate change. No part of the 1200 islands which make up the Maldives is more than six feet above sea level, so as sea-levels rise (as they will if rampant climate change is not stopped), the entire nation will be under water. 

Because of this, the Maldives government is pulling out all the stops in the fight against climate change. 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 Floating Islands! 

Based on the above, Italian Designer Michele Puzzolante (MPD Designs) has come up with a new concept named the Sustainable Floating Island that is totally self-sufficient energy generator and use solar energy as sole source of power. Moreover, the entire resort is constructed on floating pontoons to resolve the problem of sea rising. 

Michele Puzzolante has received full support from the Government of the Maldives and a first development will happen in a few months.





























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