life boat

Gowanus Floating Gardens link

This & many other projects by Smout Allen 

AlgaeGarden and algae cocktails.

SF islands to offset rising water damage:

Marsh Arabs, or Mad'an, in Iraq

Energy Island is committed to developing all forms of energy available at sea, including wave, wind, sea currents, all forms of solar energy conversion, and particularly, ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC).

The Sponge Park™ design equally values the aesthetic, programmatic, and productive importance of treating contaminated water flowing into the Gowanus Canal, an EPA Superfund site.  The park is designed as a working landscape that improves the environment of the canal over time. This innovative plan proposes strategies to divert excess storm water run-off for use in the public park along the canal, reducing the input of rain water into the sewer system. The plants and engineered soils included in our design draw heavy metals and biological toxins out of contaminated water.  Proposed floating remediation wetlands incorporate a mixture of aquatic organisms that absorb or break down organic toxins, heavy metals, and biological contaminants from sewage.

  see also: http://www.greeneconomycoalition.org/glimpses/floating-gardens-mexico-bangladesh

In Aztec times, the farms were irrigated by an immense grid of miles of shallow canals, just wide enough for a canoe. The gardens produced a bounty: five or six crops a year, an abundance of chiles, greens, cactus and herbs. The canals were also exploited for crayfish, frogs, fowl, and fish.

Rising Tide Archival ink jet print of 12 scans on a flatbed scanner of blown film polyethylene plastic 2011 37" x 73"

The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, by David McQueen, is a re-presentation of the surface of the ocean. At once startlingly mechanical and natural, the 400+ motor driven cams work sequentially to undulate the tiled surface creating rolling swells and ideally calling to mind the same meditative qualities of the ocean itself.

"Frontier Mythology is a mobile, solar-powered environmental digital video and FM radio installation made of recycled shipping pallets. Three portable multimedia players inhabit a primitive, lean-to structure displaying videos of diverse contemporary environments while a transistor radio picks up a pirate radio transmission reciting quotations from classical works of U.S. literature that comment on the frontier myth informing American constructions of land, nature, and wilderness. Originally designed to be located along a remote section of the Appalachian Trail" - ecoarttech

SOS Peace Pentagon, 2010, Front view mockup of proposal at 339 Lafayette St., NY, NY

with more swimmers, than spaces for passengers, how do you choose passengers?